The 2025 recipient of the Leadership Excellence Award for the USA is Mental Health America.

Across the United States, leadership is closing the gap between awareness and action. Guided by people with lived experience, Mental Health America ensures that mental health support is accessible, equitable, and timely on a national scale.

Since 2014, their free, confidential online screening programme, the largest in the world, has delivered over 25 million evidence-based self-assessments. These tools help people understand what they are experiencing and direct them to the next step, whether that is peer support, culturally responsive providers, crisis help such as 988, or local services.

The journey does not end with a score. Users receive tailored resources, and insights from anonymised data are transformed into real-time public health intelligence, policy-shaping tools, and widely trusted reports such as The State of Mental Health in America.

For transforming digital tools into a trusted lifeline and helping people move from self-identification to support, Mental Health America exemplifies leadership, innovation, and meaningful impact in mental health care.

Congratulations to Mental Health America.