Making Progress

In 2023, the Meadows Institute expanded its commitment to ensure that everyone has access to quality mental health care. In Texas our efforts helped drive the largest investment in history by a state legislature in mental health, and our team worked with other states as well as leaders in Congress to increase access to evidence-based care across the country.

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Mental health statistics
GROUP:
Adults
Adults
Children
Veterans
REGION:
Texas
Texas
National
An estimated nearly 1 million Texans had a past-year serious mental illness.*
4,368
Texans died by suicide in 2022 - the highest number since data was routinely collected starting in 1999**
*2021; Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
**Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
How we work

The Meadows Institute is committed to helping Texas become a national leader in treating all people with mental health needs

Systems Transformation

We support the implementation of state policies and programs that bring together diverse mental health resources, services, and communities to drive change. See the partnerships we’ve established and the change we’ve helped create in communities across Texas.

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Policy Guidance

We provide independent, non-partisan, and trusted behavioral health policy and program guidance to legislators, state agency executives, and their staffs, moving toward a goal of ensuring all Texans can obtain effective, efficient behavioral health care when and where they need it.

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Putting Policy into Practice®

The Hackett Center for Mental Health

The Hackett Center is a catalyst for change in Greater Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast: incorporating behavioral and mental health care policies in schools, involving key lawmakers to secure $100 million for children’s mental health integration, and expanding research affecting workplace education on mental health.

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Driving Change

How we're building a brighter future for Texas

Case Study Highlight

COVID-19 White Paper Series

SUMMARY – In the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Meadows Institute emerged as a trusted source for data-driven projections regarding the outbreak’s effect on our economy and the resulting mental health impacts. White papers detailing the recession’s impact on suicide and drug overdose deaths helped frame a national discussion and kept federal, state, and local policy makers informed.

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Recent Projects

Updated on:
May 1, 2023

Trellis Foundation Postsecondary Mental Health & Wellbeing Learning Community

This first-of-its-kind, two-year collaborative for innovative institutions of higher education in Texas is reshaping how they support student and staff mental health. Made possible...

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Updated on:
March 1, 2023

City of Abilene Multidisciplinary Community Response Team Study

The City of Abilene launched a multidisciplinary Community Response Team to improve justice system performance in responding to mental health crisis 911 calls. The...

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Priority areas

All people deserve to obtain the health care they need.

Adults
Children & Youth
Schools & Education
Justice & Health
Veterans
COVID-19

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