May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and Honolulu teen Raphael Stark has been awarded the Mental Health Awareness Scholarship from the National Society of High School Scholars Foundation.
Stark founded a nonprofit organization to share resources and provide support to middle and high school students in Hawaiʻi with speech challenges.
“ To be awarded this mental health scholarship just means so much, just showing that you can do so much to help others, and I am only 18, and being able to help so many others is such an honor,” Stark told HPR…