Free Mental Health Services in Greater Houston Given a Life Saving Boost
$600,000 and the Faith to Make a Difference
BY Shelby Hodge
Ben & Wendy Moreland, Dr. Vikram Patel, Lee & Marnie Hogan at the Hope and Healing Center & Institute luncheon.
What: The Hope and Healing Center & Institute‘s Chrysalis Award luncheon
Where: Royal Sonesta Hotel
PC Moment: The organization that provides free, faith-based mental health services throughout the greater Houston area drew a house of more than 500 supporters. Keynote speaker Dr. Vikram Patel, Harvard’s professor of global health and social medicine, talked about his work on reducing the treatment gap for mental disorders in low resource countries.
A brief video covered HHCI’s Gateway to Hope program which is part of the global movement to reimagine how mental health care can be delivered by equipping faith communities throughout Houston to be “open doors” to life saving mental health resources.
Dr. Matt Stanford, HHCI CEO, introduced honoree Ed Emmett, a prominent advocate for those suffering from mental health disorders who spearheaded the Mental Health Jail Diversion program, a community-based alternative for people with mental illness who have been detained for non-violent offenses.
Ben Moreland chaired the luncheon that raised close to $600,000, thanks in part to luncheon underwriter the John M. O’Quinn Foundation.
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PC Seen: Board chair Lee Hogan and wife Marnie, emcee Tom Koch of KTRK Channel 13, Kay and Ed Holmes, Flo McGee, Wendy Moreland, Laura and the Rev. Russ Levenson, Rob Wilson, Gwen Emmett, Joan and David Dunlap, Julie Stanford, Kristi and David Lumpkins, Susie and Ira Green, Beth and Bobby Reeves, and Polly and Murray Bowden.
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