Policy Update Tag: Collaborative Care
89th Texas Legislature Regular Session Wrap-Up
SUMMARY – The 89th Texas Legislature marked a decade of bipartisan commitment to mental health at the Texas Capitol, leveraging both budget and legislative...
Senate Health and Human Services Committee
SUMMARY—On September 18, 2024, Andy Keller, the president and CEO of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, provided invited testimony before the Senate Health...
Texas House Select Committee on Youth Health & Safety
SUMMARY - On July 31, Andy Keller, the president and CEO of the Meadows Mental Health Public Policy Institute, provided invited testimony before the...
88th Texas Legislature Regular Session Wrap-Up
SUMMARY – The 88th Legislature delivered a record $11.68 billion for behavioral health, an increase of more than 30% from the previous session. Senator...
House Select Committee on Youth Health & Safety
SUMMARY - During his invited testimony, President and CEO Andy Keller, PhD, discussed the dramatic increase in mental health needs and pediatric ER visits...
87th Texas Legislature Regular Session Wrap-Up
SUMMARY - Throughout what was a challenging and, at times, divisive legislative session, one area of full agreement among state leaders was that mental...
U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
SUMMARY - During his invited testimony, President and CEO Andy Keller, PhD, discussed the mental health impacts of COVID-19 and how lessons learned in...
Texas Senate Committee on Health & Human Services – SB 672
SUMMARY - Meadows Institute CEO Andy Keller, PhD, was invited testimony before the committee on SB 672. Senate Bill 672, relating to Medicaid...
Texas House Committee on County Affairs – Mental Health Landscape & COVID-19
SUMMARY – Meadows Institute CEO Andy Keller, PhD, was invited to testify before the committee on the mental health impacts of COVID-19.
Texas House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Article II
SUMMARY – On March 4, 2021, Andy Keller, PhD, President and CEO of the Meadows Institute, was invited testimony at the Texas House Appropriations...
Texas Senate Committee on Health & Human Services – Mental Health Impact of COVID-19
SUMMARY – On December 8, 2020, Andy Keller, PhD, President and CEO of the Meadows Institute, was invited testimony at the Texas Senate Committee...
Texas House Committee on Public Health – Interim Charge 3
SUMMARY – During the 86th Legislative Interim, in October 2020, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute provided the Texas House Committee on Public Health with...