Tag: Child and Youth
New program helps Utah children process trauma and grief before it follows them into adulthood
March 31, 2026 – The Meadows Institute was featured in local and national coverage of a partnership to strengthen care for children between Intermountain Health Primary Children’s Hospital in Utah and the Trauma and Grief…
Foster Care for Mental Health Treatment: Parents Surrender Thousands of Kids Each Year In Search of Help
March 31, 2026 – The Meadows Institute was featured in an article in The Imprint regarding children with mental health needs and the foster care system. The Imprint is a daily news site that covers…
Supporting Children Through Grief and Trauma
November 14, 2025 – The Meadows Institute was recently featured on Building Pathways to Healthy Minds, a ChildBuilders podcast. In the episode, Dr. Julie Kaplow, the executive director of the Meadows Institute’s Trauma and Grief Center,…
The program bringing mental health care straight to Texas kids
October 10, 2025 – The Dallas Morning News published the following article featuring the Meadows Institute’s chief medical officer, Roshni Koli, MD. The editorial spotlights the Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine (TCHATT) program, which…
How to Talk to Children After a Natural Disaster
July 21, 2025 – As part of the Meadows Institute’s ongoing response to the devastating floods in Central Texas, Julie Kaplow, PhD, the executive director of the Trauma and Grief Center at The Hackett Center…
Supporting child development: Brain Builders Program is free for young moms in Texas
Quianta Moore, the executive director of The Hackett Center for Mental Health, spoke with KPRC’s Haley Hernandez about the impact of the Brain Builders program, a free, online initiative aimed at mothers to help support the brain development of…
The ‘gold standard’ therapy program to keep troubled kids out of jail is now in Tarrant Co.
This article was published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on April 4, 2025. “It’s about the people in Texas understanding that mental illness is an illness of childhood and that we need to get ahead…
Communities Foundation of Texas awards $6 million grant to the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
This article was published in the DFW501c Nonprofit Business Journal on April 2, 2025. Communities Foundation of Texas has awarded a $6 million multi-year grant through the W.W. Caruth, Jr., Fund to the Meadows Mental…
Meadows Institute Launches Financial Toolkit to Support Texas School Mental Health Programming
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health and child advocacy experts raised concerns about the state of children’s mental health. Nationally, one in six children experiences a mental illness challenge each year—a figure that rises…
6 Tips for Helping Children Manage Anticipatory Grief
This column was authored by the executive director of the Meadows Institute’s Trauma and Grief Center, Julie Kaplow, PhD and was published in Psychology Today on January 15, 2025. Grief doesn’t begin only after the death…
Crystal Charity Ball to Take Dallasites on ‘New York Holiday’
This article was published in People Newspapers on November 26, 2024. Excess funds will be committed to the Crystal Charity Ball’s 70th Anniversary Project, Action Before Crisis. The collaboration between Children’s Health and the Meadows Mental…
The Meadows Institute Spotlights Integrated Behavioral Health Care on “Health Uncensored With Dr. Drew.”
Dr. Drew brought national attention to integrated behavioral health care on an episode of his Fox Business program that aired on May 5, 2024. Andy Keller, the president and CEO of the Meadows Institute, and Roshni…
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute’s Center for Child and Family Wellness Unveils Innovative New Higher Education Initiative
On April 10, members of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute’s Center for Child and Family Wellness introduced the innovative “Minding College Minds™ Postsecondary Mental Health Learning Community,” a first-of-its-kind effort to support the mental…
Excellence In Community Service Award 2023 Award Winner
This article was published by the Texas Hospital Association on February 15, 2024. Children’s Health was awarded THA’s Excellence in Community Service Award for their Behavioral Health Integration and Guidance (BHIG) Initiative, a proactive program…
Lessons from Uvalde: Meadows Institute Leaders Share Advice, Learnings at Congressional Roundtable Discussion
By Geoffrey Melada | May 26, 2023 Today, on the one-year anniversary of the school shooting that occurred at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, Meadows Institute leaders participated in a roundtable discussion on Capitol Hill…
Resources, Relationships, & Vulnerability: A Convening of the Trellis Foundation Postsecondary Mental Health & Wellbeing Learning Community
Last summer, Trellis Foundation and the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute launched the Trellis Foundation Postsecondary Mental Health and Wellbeing Learning Community as part of an innovative strategy to strengthen support for student mental health…
North Texas kids need mental health support. A new initiative is closing the gaps
This article was published by KERA News on May 2, 2023. Since it began in 2022, a partnership between Children’s Health and Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute has trained 75 health professionals in Dallas-Fort Worth…
Texas House Select Committee on Youth Health & Safety – HB 1537
SUMMARY - On April 17, Chief Medical Officer Roshni Koli, MD, provided invited testimony before the House Select Committee on Youth Health and Safety in support of House Bill 1537. HB 1537, by Representative...
Texas House Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY - On February 15, President and CEO Andy Keller, PhD, provided invited testimony before the Texas House Appropriations Committee in a hearing on behavioral health funding for the 2024-25 biennium.
Texas Senate Finance Committee
SUMMARY – On June 28, President and CEO Andy Keller, PhD, provided invited testimony before the Senate Finance Committee as the committee reviewed opportunities for additional mental health investments in advance of the 88th...