The Hackett Center for Mental Health
Established by a transformative gift from Maureen and Jim Hackett, The Hackett Center is the Meadows Institute’s first regional center, focused on the unique needs of Greater Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast. Starting with its inaugural effort to help heal communities traumatized by Hurricane Harvey, The Hackett Center has advanced mental health initiatives – primarily focused on children, youth, and families – to improve lives across the region.
Putting Policy Into Practice®
With a focus on “Putting Policy into Practice,” The Hackett Center engages in and supports the development and dissemination of best-practice mental health care, research, and implementation among health care leaders, organizations, and systems in the Greater Houston region and beyond.
The Hackett Center for Mental Health Strategic Priorities
- Increase evidence-based mental health prevention and care for children and families through implementation, evaluation, and scaling of innovative programs.
- Improve women’s behavioral health through knowledge dissemination and systems leadership.
- Realize more effective behavioral health systems, programs, and practices by engaging and leveraging the voice of communities and families.
- Act as a strategic partner of the Meadows Institute to bring its expertise to the Houston and Gulf Coast areas to pilot and scale projects.
Knowledge for Impact Brief
This brief summarizes findings and recommendations from a 2024 study aimed at understanding the experiences of Harris County residents navigating the local behavioral health system.
Learn More2025 Annual Report
In 2025, The Hackett Center advanced its work at a critical time for behavioral health, helping turn new state investments into real improvements for children, families, and communities by focusing on four major areas of impact: policy and systems change, school and youth systems, women’s behavioral health, and early relational health.
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About The Hackett Center
The Hackett Center’s mission is to provide independent, non-partisan, and trusted policy and program guidance in Greater Houston and the Gulf Coast region to improve services and systems so that all Texans can obtain effective mental health care.
2024 Annual Report
In 2024, under the leadership of Dr. Quianta Moore, The Hackett Center identified solutions to the most pressing behavioral health challenges for children and families by supporting the implementation of best practices among systems, organizations, and policymakers.
2023 Annual Report
In 2023, The Hackett Center advanced its role as a regional leader in mental health by deepening strategic partnerships and bringing together experts, community voices, and decision-makers to tackle complex policy and programmatic challenges.
2022 Annual Report
In 2022, The Hackett Center for Mental Health highlighted the results of its fifth year of “Putting Policy into Practice” by focusing on four strategic priorities to improve mental health for youth and their families.
2021 Annual Report
In 2021 Quianta Moore, MD, JD, became the new Executive Director of The Hackett Center for Mental Health.
2020 Annual Report
In 2020, a global pandemic tested our resolve and laid bare an emerging mental health crisis. The Hackett Center continued its growth, becoming home to the Trauma and Grief Center, and preparing to meet these increasing needs both close to home and far beyond.
2019 Annual Report
2019 was a year of significant growth. This report highlights key accomplishments and the importance of “putting policy into practice” in Greater Houston, the Gulf Coast Region, across Texas, and throughout the nation.
Women's Behavioral Health
Women experience biological events and transitions throughout the life-span that can impact their mental health. Poor mental health among women has far-reaching consequences that extend beyond individual well-being. Undiagnosed, underdiagnosed, and untreated mental health needs can negatively impact individual wellbeing, family dynamics, and community conditions. Addressing women’s behavioral health is a societal imperative with profound implications for the health and success of multiple generations.
Our Approach
Our organization works across and within systems at the community, local, state, and federal levels to pilot approaches and advance policies that support women’s behavioral health.
Our approach focuses on the periods when a woman is at greatest risk for behavioral health concerns. We have developed and are advancing comprehensive strategies that involve various stakeholders and levels of intervention during these unique developmental periods.
Collective action, coupled with targeted investments and a commitment to addressing the unique needs of women, can pave the way for a future where behavioral health is prioritized, stigma is reduced, and women receive the support they need to thrive.
Learn MoreIf you would like to discuss how The Hackett Center can help advance your mission and goals, please contact:
Quianta Moore, MD, JD
Executive Director,
The Hackett Center for Mental Health
To learn about how you can support the work of The Hackett Center through a philanthropic gift, please contact:
Jeremy Edwards
Senior Director of Philanthropy
Newsletter Updates
- The Hackett Center News, October 2024
- The Hackett Center News, May 2024
- The Hackett Center News, February 2024
- The Hackett Center News, September 2023
- The Hackett Center News, June 2023