Heath Holt Hayes

Heath Holt Hayes resides in Oklahoma City and serves as the Chief Communications Officer for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. Heath’s responsibilities are focused on leading a cross-functional team engaged with strategic initiatives that include policy implementation, program development, and service delivery, as well as community organizing, governmental affairs, and public relations. Heath is a nationally recognized leader helping others embrace lived experience with mental health and has successfully integrated recovery-oriented, holistic, and person-driven continuums of care at the local, state, and national levels.

In addition, Heath is a member of the American Psychiatric Association’s Policy Advisory Board, Co-Chairs the National Association State Mental Health Program Directors’ Division of Recovery Support Services, and is alumni of the National Council for Behavioral Health’s Addressing Health Disparities Leadership program. Heath received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Central Oklahoma and several graduate degrees from the University of Oklahoma in Human Relations, Administrative Leadership, and a Women’s and Gender Studies.

Bonnie Campo joins the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuses Services after serving at the Office of Management and Enterprise Services where she worked as the Public Information Manager and later the Senior Director of Communications at Service Oklahoma.

Throughout her career, Bonnie has coordinated public-private partnerships to find innovative technological solutions that deliver better outcomes for citizens and make government more accessible, transparent, and cost-effective. 

Prior to public relations, Campo developed a passion for public service working as an investigative reporter at the national and state levels. Most recently, her reporting career ended in Oklahoma City at News 9.

Bonnie cares deeply about the people of Oklahoma and wants to help them any way she can. Media members can reach her through email.

Katie Lenhart

Katie Lenhart graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations and minor in English Literature. She worked at multiple advertising agencies out of college, handling social media, digital strategy, event planning, project management, email marketing and more. She joined the ODMHSAS Communications division in 2019 as Communications Coordinator and grew to Digital Media Manager within the last year. Since 2021 she has served as lead for many statewide marketing campaigns, including the 988 Mental Health Lifeline campaign. She is passionate about mental health, podcasts, movies, Cherry Coke Zero and her dogs.

Rebecca Sheppard

Rebecca Sheppard graduated in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in Business Management. She started doing social media and managing digital ads shortly after college at a marketing agency. She refers to herself as the department's “social media gal” and has been recognized as Oklahoma's NextGen 30 Under 30. She likes being outdoors, taking her adorable cat, Aioli, on walks, playing trivia and board games, writing and having difficult and meaningful conversations to grow and strengthen relationships. She has served at ODMHSAS since December 2021. She was drawn to DMH to help spread the message of what services and programs we offer in hopes that more people get the help they and their families need.

Cole Rachal

Cole Rachal has been with ODMHSAS for more than 10 years. He started as Video Production Specialist making short-form PSAs and online training materials. Since then, he has become involved with supporting a multitude of programs across the agency with work in graphic and web design, printed materials and video production. Cole is currently the Web Administrator and oversees the department’s web initiatives. He spends his time playing volleyball, board games and antagonizing his various pets to no end.

Santiago Solano

Santiago Solano, also known as Santi, graduated in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in Sports Media Production. He worked within the sports field throughout his college career, and as an intern at the OSU libraries as their video producer. Through his experience with OSU libraries, he realized he could apply the skills he’d learned for more than just sports. After college, he worked as a freelancer and created video for content creators on social media. He was hired this year in the Comms division and after just a couple of weeks of work it was made clear to him that this is what he wanted to do! He feels great about the work we do and is excited to grow his skills at ODMHSAS. He enjoys being outside with friends, cooking, playing board games and being active.