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December 7, 2024

North Texas is coordinating homeless and mental health response

This article was published by The Dallas Morning News on December 7, 2024 and is co-authored by Meadows Institute President and CEO, Andy Keller PhD.   Dallas and Collin counties are breaking down the barriers between…

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December 7, 2024

Orli’s Gift, in Her Life and Death

This letter-to-the-editor was authored by Julie Kaplow, PhD, the executive director of the Trauma and Grief Center at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute. It was in response to Sarah Wildman’s opinion guest essay If My…

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November 26, 2024

UTSW’s $4 Million Cancer Scholar and Medical City’s Magnet Designation

This article was published by D Magazine on November 26, 2024.  The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, in collaboration with West Health and Northwestern Medicine, launched the Northwestern Medicine West Health Accelerator to integrate mental…

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November 26, 2024

Crystal Charity Ball to Take Dallasites on ‘New York Holiday’

This article was published in People Newspapers on November 26, 2024.  Excess funds will be committed to the Crystal Charity Ball’s 70th Anniversary Project, Action Before Crisis. The collaboration between Children’s Health and the Meadows Mental…

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November 21, 2024

Could Texas do for Alzheimer’s research what it did for cancer?

This article was published in The Texas Tribune on November 21, 2024.  News of a fund for dementia being made possible next year has been praised by health advocates. Andy Keller, president and CEO of the…

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November 13, 2024

How to Support Grieving Children During the Holidays

This column was authored by the executive director of the Meadows Institute’s Trauma and Grief Center, Julie Kaplow, PhD and published in was published in Psychology Today on November 13, 2024.  For many of us,…

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November 12, 2024

Courts Must Reduce Impact Of Parental Incarceration On Kids

This op-ed was originally published by Law360 and was co-authored by the Meadows Institute’s executive vice president for justice and health, Yolanda L. Lewis on November 1, 2024.  When the two of us — a…

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October 29, 2024

‘There Are Still People Outside And We’ve Got to Keep Going’: Dallas Reduces Unsheltered Homelessness by 24%

This article was originally published on CandysDirt.com on October 29, 2024.  Darilynn Belier, vice-president of Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, said a large percentage of Dallas’ unsheltered population is experiencing mental illness, substance use disorder,…

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October 7, 2024

How a New Tech Resource Aims to Help Student Well-Being

This article was originally published by Education Week on October 7, 2024.  A group of three mental health organizations has launched a free, web-based resource to help school districts across the country select and use…

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