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March 20, 2023

How Meadows Is Diversifying Crisis Response in Texas

This article was published by D Magazine on March 20, 2023. Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute is helping other cities launch teams that can respond to mental health crises and divert individuals experiencing psychiatric episodes…

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February 21, 2023

In the Hill Country, a new state psychiatric unit stays empty while waitlists swell

This article was published by the Houston Chronicle on February 21, 2023. KERRVILLE – Overlooking the Guadalupe River in this bucolic city northwest of San Antonio, the sleek new facility at the Kerrville State Hospital…

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January 21, 2023

Ibn Sina Foundation Receives Grant

This article was published by Business Fortnight on January 21, 2023. Ibn Sina Foundation continues to provide services to low-income and underserved Texans through their healthcare clinics. Here, Congressman Al Green presents a check for…

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December 19, 2022

When People Face a Mental Health Crisis, What’s the Best Response?

This article was published by PEW Trust Magazine on December 19, 2022. A black SUV pulls up to an empty storefront in Abilene, Texas, where a man is sleeping on the sidewalk. He looks to…

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December 16, 2022

How to support grieving children over the holidays: 5 tips from a child psychologist

This article was published by USA Today on December 16, 2022 and is authored by Julie Kaplow, PhD. For many of us, the holiday season is a happy and joyful time that we look forward…

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December 1, 2022

Grief and trauma training is unexpectedly healing for school district staff in Texas

This interview was released by NPR on December 1, 2022. At a school district in Texas, mental health professional training to address grief and trauma is healing for school-based therapists and social workers who lost…

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November 7, 2022

Setting the Record Straight on Mental Health & Texas

This article was originally published by the Texas Tribune on November 7, 2022 and is authored by Meadows Institute President and CEO, Andy Keller, PhD. Ongoing criticisms that Texas is lagging behind the rest of…

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October 19, 2022

Chicago Mental Health Crisis Pilot Promising, Small — and Still Using Police

This article was originally published by Bloomberg News on October 19, 2022. A Chicago pilot program that dispatches mental health clinicians and emergency medical responders to some 911 calls has connected 385 people to care…

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October 13, 2022

Galena Park ISD launches ‘Handle with Care’ program to help kids coping with trauma

This article was originally published by the Houston Chronicle on October 13, 2022. Educators are teaming up with law enforcement to launch a program at a Houston-area school district that aims to quickly link students…

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