Policy Update Tag: Multisystemic Therapy

June 18, 2025

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...

August 8, 2024

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...

June 30, 2023

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...

October 18, 2021

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...

July 7, 2021

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...

July 18, 2018

Texas Senate Select Committee on Violence in Schools and School Security Interim Report to the 86th Legislature

SUMMARY – In the wake of the Santa Fe school shooting, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick appointed a bi-partisan Select Committee, headed by Senate Education...