Children & Families

How to Support Children and Families After the Central Texas Floods

The devastating flooding in Central Texas will have a lasting impact on families and communities across Texas. As recovery continues after this tragic event, the mental health needs of the people affected will become increasingly important — especially children experiencing trauma and grief. This webinar presentation offers practical insights into how to support your loved ones and help build trauma- and grief-informed communities.

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Mental health statistics
GROUP:
Adults
Adults
Children
Veterans
REGION:
National
National
Texas
22.5 million adults had a past-year major depressive episode*
39%
of adults with a past-year major depressive episode receive no treatment*
*National Survey on Drug Use and Health (2022)
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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Multidimendional Grief Therapy Author Julie Kaplow-Kline-Kline (small)
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:
April 23, 2025

Texas Blue Chip Program

SUMMARY – The Texas Blue Chip Program provides no-cost resources that support the mental health of police officers. Resources include counseling and office visits...

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Updated on:
May 19, 2025

National Trends in the Adoption of the Collaborative Care Model

SUMMARY – In a first-of-its-kind report, the Meadows Institute commissioned Milliman, an independent global data analysis firm, to conduct a study of the nationwide...

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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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