Tag: Public Safety
Spectrum In Focus: Peer Support
May 4, 2026 – The Meadows Institute’s health and public safety work was featured on Spectrum News outlets across Texas. In the segment, executive director for health and public safety, BJ Wagner, highlighted progress being made by the Texas Legislature to support the mental…
Healthcare Briefs: CFT Awards Grant to Meadows Institute to Operate Caruth Police Institute
March 3, 2026 – The Meadows Institute was featured in a recent D Magazine story highlighting our operation of the Caruth Police Institute (CPI). Communities Foundation of Texas awarded the Meadows Institute a grant to lead…
The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute announces new leadership and executive board of the Caruth Police Institute
Communities Foundation of Texas awarded a grant to the Meadows Institute to operate the Caruth Police Institute to continue to advance public safety innovation in North Texas and across the country Pictured from left: Chief…
Austin mental health team speeds crisis response downtown
December 1, 2025 – The Meadows Institute was featured in a story in the Austin American-Statesman regarding the launch of FIRST, or “Field Integrated Response Support Team,” a pilot program in Austin that is modeled after…
Texas law enforcement suicides can be stopped if officers get the help they need
September 18, 2025 – The Meadows Institute was featured in a Dallas Morning News editorial on preventing deaths by suicide among members of law enforcement. In addition, B.J. Wagner, executive vice president for Health and…
Texas law empowers first responders with peer mental health support
September 15, 2025 – The Meadows Institute was featured in a story on the Texas Peer Support Network for First Responders by KVUE. B.J. Wagner, the executive vice president of Health and Public Safety, is…
Community Paramedics Bring Mental Health Support to Rural Texas, but Funding Is a Challenge
July 9, 2025 – The Meadows Institute was featured in Public Health Watch in an article about community health paramedic teams’ response to emergent mental health crises in rural Texas communities. Executive Vice President for Health and Public Safety…
Fort Bend County could create council to explore behavioral health of incarcerated individuals
This article was originally published in Community Impact on May 16, 2025. The Meadows Institute has partnered with Fort Bend County to create the Behavioral Health Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, which would extend crisis services to incarcerated individuals to further divert them…