On October 10, 2025, World Mental Health Day, The Trevor Project announced that it had named Megan Thee Stallion its Mental Health Champion of the Year. The award, given by the nonprofit best known for crisis-intervention and suicide-prevention work with LGBTQ young people, recognizes public figures who use their platform to fight stigma, and the organization pointed to a body of advocacy rather than a single gesture.
The rapper, born Megan Pete, places her advocacy in the hardest part of her own biography. She lost both of her parents, and in 2022 she launched the Pete and Thomas Foundation, named for her late father, Joseph Pete Jr., and her late mother, Holly Thomas. The foundation's work spans education, health and wellness, and housing, with mental health sitting squarely inside its wellness mission.
Alongside the foundation, The Trevor Project cited a free online resource she created for fans, a wellness hub that collects therapy directories and crisis hotlines in one place. The idea is deceptively simple: a young person moved by an artist they trust can, in the same moment, be handed a direct route to actual help rather than just a sympathetic lyric.
The honor placed her in a specific lineage. The Trevor Project described Megan as the fifth recipient of the award, following Dua Lipa in 2024, Dylan Mulvaney in 2023, Janelle Monae in 2022 and Lil Nas X in 2021. The organization's leadership framed her as a role model in particular for Black LGBTQ young people, a group the nonprofit's research has repeatedly flagged as facing elevated risk.
What makes the recognition more than a celebrity accessory is the consistency behind it. Megan has spoken candidly in interviews and public-service campaigns about therapy, grief and the pressure, especially acute for Black women, to perform strength at all times. The message she has returned to, that vulnerability is not weakness, is the same one the nonprofit works to normalize.
An award like this is also strategic for the organization giving it. Associating its name with an artist who commands a young, online audience extends the reach of its core service, a free and confidential crisis line, far beyond the people who would otherwise seek out a nonprofit's website.
Readers who want the full citation, or who need support themselves, should go to The Trevor Project directly; its site carries the award announcement and, more importantly, its crisis resources. Details of Megan's own initiatives are best confirmed through the Pete and Thomas Foundation rather than secondhand.
Source date: October 10, 2025. Contextual photograph; it does not depict the people or the specific event described in this article. Photo: E911a, CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗.
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