May 2022 Winners

Our video is meant to show what others think hope is or what they are hoping for. We hope that people will feel encouraged by this to share their hope ...

My entry is about my friend called Ava who’s been stressing out about her school work and extracurriculars. I want her to know that I will always be by her ...

People who really know me know just how hopeful I am about everything. From having hope that I will do a good job on the test to believing I can ...

I made visual art to encourage young people to find hope by being outside in nature. Whenever I feel stressed or in a challenging time, being in nature can help ...

Love is being held by trees, hoping to rise above everything else. Despite the pain there is still a sky.

I allow myself to display my anger through my art. I remind myself I am more than a mental illness by telling myself I am creative, artistic and inventive. I ...

The bubble with words provides what gives that person hope to move forward. No matter how hard life got, those were their inspiration to keep going. The door represents the ...

This paint reflects what my mind was going through while I was sick.

Our submission is about ideas to give you hope while going through a though time. We provided a few tips with tangible actions to take. The idea was to ensure ...

My entry is about what I do to get through hard times in life and what I believe will help you get through those dark times. I also provide examples ...

A Cup of Tea’ depicts how one can carry the weight of being cast out in society. However, sometimes all you need is a little push from yourself to realize ...

I decided to create this piece to represent the feelings of letting go. I have faced many situations where I have to stop and let go to move on and ...

My painting is based on when I had cancer when I was about five or six years old with Ewing’s Sarcoma. I was in the hospital for a week every ...

Over quarantine, I developed feelings of shyness and I found it hard to open up to people and new things. I felt very out of place, as if I was ...

Personally, I really struggled with my mental health for awhile. But ‘they’ were always there. They were my light. My guide. They helped me out of that hole, that darkness, ...

Our entry is a painting with a quote about hope on it. We wanted to show that people can help others find hope instead of just showing ways of how ...

“I am a first-generation Latino who will be attending The University of Irvine this fall. It’s cool to say that I will be the first in my family to attend ...

I wanted to make a piece focusing on the recent events of the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court. I wanted to make a piece ...

This entire entry is based on climate change and global warming. Now we are reaching points where we are worsening the amount of carbon in our air by deforestation, we ...

I chose this category because it is something that I feel very strongly about. I want peace and justice in the world. I want everyone to be treated equally and ...

I an an Indian and I feel a social and emotional struggle while trying to balance 2 different lifestyles/ethnicities and how society portrays me and how that can affect me.

My entry expresses my anxiety about the environment. Fear should not be seen as a weakness but strength because without fear there is no bravery. By painting this I expressed ...

We showed how people may not know others’ backgrounds and what they could be feeling and not to judge them for it.

I chose this category because I felt that there was so much injustice in our world. I decided to make a social media post, sharing a few bullet points on ...

“Dear Me, What If” is about the power of having dreams, and making them come true. Right now we are young, but all of us can accomplish great things if ...

My film gives people the perspective of what it is like to be someone who thinks that their future is all that matters. It shows how much time I put ...

My drawing represents an image of me reading and drinking water which shows how I am taking care of myself to cope with mental health. I have a dog named ...

The piece “Dear Me” depicts how I currently take care of my mental health–journaling and writing down my worries and stressors. I hope that one day, I can look back ...

Kaylie created this drawing to show who she is now, and who she plans to be in the future. Her 2022 self holds the green ribbon of mental health to ...

Dear Future Max,
Don’t forget to take some time out to care for yourself! You can care for yourself when you lose yourself in music, when you are a ...

Dear Future Ava,
You should encompass your hobbies of painting, meditation and healthy cooking into daily habits so you could always feel self love!
Love,
Ava

I wanted to show myself as I am now, holding the lime green ribbon representing mental health. For my future, I thought about action statements that would help me become ...

My entry is about the job I want to have in the future. I hope to become an architect and create many buildings in this world. It would be fun ...

We created a film around the idea of self-love and the journey that it can take to get there. The film follows a teenage girl who speaks to her future ...

I decided to use my little sister to represent my younger self to show my growth as a person. This was to show how I was able to persevere and ...

I wrote an email to my future self in which I share some ways to cope with stress.

Dear Jane shows that life gets better, and even the happiest people struggle, everyone does. Your future self is rooting for you and would give you a big hug if ...

“‘I Know’ is a personal poem about what I know my future self will do eventually, because my present and future self are both trying to be the best version ...

I chose this category because it really connects to me since I can get easily stressed. Writing a letter to my future self really allowed to me understand that there ...

My piece is a letter to my future self. I chose this prompt to self reflect.

My entry is a letter to myself in the future, describing the events that I have gone through in the past year. It encourages my future self to reaffirm to ...

My entry talks about my goals for the next five years during high school and my first year of college. It focuses on the things I want to learn and ...

I chose the monthly prompt because I felt I could express my heart and my soul in words on the page, and be something that I would want to look ...

My entry is about me,10 years from now. I want it to show how much someone can change, and has goals to change. I chose this category because it shows ...

I choose this category because I wanted to reflect on the future.