Calling all Investors & Innovators: Help Texas Solve the Youth Mental Health Crisis

Texas is well-positioned to become a global leader in youth mental health through demonstrating effective strategies for increasing access to care and improving outcomes. The right business and investment environment for fostering rapid innovation exists, making the state an ideal incubator for mental health technology companies to develop and scale leading-edge products and services.

Children and youth in Texas are facing a growing mental health crisis with profound human, societal, and economic tolls, and Texas is uniquely suited to respond.

The largest challenges underpinning this crisis are barriers to accessing effective care, insufficient behavioral health workforce, and systemic problems that delay early detection of mental illness and intervention.

The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute partnered with GreyMatter Capital to research Texas’s readiness to become a global leader in youth behavioral health by demonstrating effective strategies to increase access to better care. The resulting report highlights the state’s unique ecosystem for innovators and investors and key data-driven opportunities for driving impactful improvements to address the youth mental health crisis and increase positive outcomes.