Tag: Coordinated Specialty Care
The Meadows Institute Empowers Parents with School-Age Children Who Show Signs of Anxiety or Depression
Chief medical officer Roshni Koli discusses practical and effective ways parents and caregivers can support students on “Health Uncensored With Dr. Drew.” September 30, 2024 On an episode of the national television program “Health Uncensored…
Texas lawmakers consider expanding access to treatment for people experiencing hallucinations or hearing voices
This article was published by Houston Public Media on April 3, 2023. Content warning: this story talks about suicide and severe mental illness. When Ca’Sonya Thomas was 45 years-old, she started hearing voices. It was…
Setting the Record Straight on Mental Health & Texas
Ongoing criticisms that Texas is lagging behind the rest of the country in mental health, and that our leaders haven’t taken it seriously enough and made it a priority, are not only wrong, they are…
School shooters and mental health. What is Texas actually doing?
This article was originally published by the Dallas Morning News on June 5, 2022. The day after a gunman slaughtered 19 fourth-graders and two teachers at their elementary school in Uvalde, the father of one…
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 can be used nationally to address mental health and...
Coordinated Specialty Care
Each year, about 3,000 Texas adolescents and young adults ages 12-35 experience a first episode of psychosis (FEP).Many have access to health insurance through their parents (up to age 26), Medicaid or CHIP, but they…