Tag: Justice & Health
Texas Blue Chip Program
SUMMARY – The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute administers the Texas Blue Chip Program, which provides no-cost clinical resources that support the mental health of police officers. Clinical resources include counseling and office visits...
Meeting Crisis With Care: Transforming Mental Health and Justice
This podcast episode was originally published by The Pew Charitable Trusts on October 4, 2024. In this episode of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ “After the Fact” podcast, the Meadows Institute’s Executive Vice President for Justice…
Annual Report
The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute worked diligently to address the nation’s ongoing mental health crisis in 2023, and this annual report demonstrates the progress we made toward our goal to expand access to evidence-based…
‘A Paradigm Shift’
Meadows Institute leaders call for expanding the crisis care continuum into pretrial detention From left: Yolanda Lewis, executive vice president for justice and health at the Meadows Institute, Tim Bray, vice president for justice and…
‘The trauma you don’t transform, you transmit’
Early intervention is key to promoting brain health and avoiding the criminal justice system, Institute’s Yolanda Lewis tells Brain³ Summit Yolanda Lewis addresses the Brain³ Summit held Feb. 21-22 at the Center for BrainHealth in…
‘A Crisis is not a Crime’
Institute’s Yolanda Lewis discusses transforming the culture of crisis response at Chicago Bar Association
Meadows Institute’s Yolanda Lewis and Timothy Bray featured in NAMI’s Ask the Expert Series
Pretrial detention is a high-risk time for individuals with mental illness, and suicide remains one of the leading causes of death in U.S. jails. “Over half of the people in jails are detained on a…
New Study Finds Grief Therapy May Reduce Violent Behavior Among Incarcerated Youth
A new research study published in the American Psychological Association’s journal, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, and co-authored by Dr. Julie Kaplow, executive director of the Trauma and Grief Center at the Meadows Mental…
Galveston’s mental health unit making a difference, officials say
This article was published by Galveston County Daily News on May 4, 2023. The woman had tried to commit suicide Wednesday night. On Thursday afternoon, she was sitting in the alley behind a gas station…
Galveston Launches Mental Health Crisis Response Teams
GALVESTON – Galveston city and county officials, in partnership with the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and other Galveston foundations today announced the launch of a…
City of Galveston COAST Multidisciplinary Response Program
SUMMARY - COAST is a multidisciplinary, comprehensive response program to improve 9-1-1 mental health emergency call response in the Galveston area designed by the Meadows Institute in partnership with Galveston city and county officials,...
New jail program would help mentally ill inmates get well enough to stand trial
This article was published by the San Antonio Report on April 3, 2023. Some of the roughly 300 inmates in Bexar County’s jail who have been deemed incompetent to stand trial could benefit from a…
MST Payment Options for Harris County Juvenile Probation Department
SUMMARY - This report outlines ways the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department could expand its Multisystemic Therapy (MST) services by obtaining Medicaid revenues for eligible youth who are accessing the program. MST is an...