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Three Michigan cities stand out nationally for care models
This article was originally published in the Bay City Times on May 25, 2025. “The collaborative care model is the gold standard for delivering mental health in primary care settings because mental health is, at its…
Housing Forward’s Street-to-Home Initiative Sees Decline in Homelessness
This article was originally published in People Newspapers on May 23, 2025. A People Newspapers article discussed how the Meadows Institute’s partnership with the North Texas Behavioral Health Authority has been instrumental in developing critical interventions that…
Finalists Announced: D CEO’s Nonprofit and Corporate Citizenship Awards 2025
The Meadows Institute was named as a finalist for the 2025 D CEO Nonprofit and Corporate Citizenship Awards in the category of Organization of the Year. Winners will be announced on July 24. Read more and see the full list of finalists here:…
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…
Mom’s mental health: The hidden crisis this Mother’s Day Weekend
Quianta Moore, the executive director of The Hackett Center for Mental Health at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, spoke with Houston’s KPRC to discuss Mental Health Awareness Month and the important work of The…
Celebrating one year anniversary providing mental health to the High Plains
The Executive Director of the Meadows Institute – Panhandle, Amanda Mathias, PhD, appeared live on KAMR 4’s Studio 4 television show on April 4, 2025 to discuss the one-year anniversary of the Meadows Institute-Panhandle and…
Behavioral health center in West Texas needs support from Austin
In an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News, Miriam Pearsall, the chief of staff for policy and population health at the Meadows Institute, tells the story of her late cousin, Daryl, who died at the age of…
The ‘gold standard’ therapy program to keep troubled kids out of jail is now in Tarrant Co.
This article was published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on April 4, 2025. “It’s about the people in Texas understanding that mental illness is an illness of childhood and that we need to get ahead…
Malliotakis introduces bipartisan bill to improve seniors’ mental healthcare
This article was published in Staten Island Live on April 3, 2025. “America is facing an unprecedented behavioral health crisis, and we can only address the magnitude of the needs if we make mental health…
Communities Foundation of Texas awards $6 million grant to the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
This article was published in the DFW501c Nonprofit Business Journal on April 2, 2025. Communities Foundation of Texas has awarded a $6 million multi-year grant through the W.W. Caruth, Jr., Fund to the Meadows Mental…
If You Are Paralyzed by Change, You Are Missing the Opportunity to Lead the Change
This opinion piece was authored by the Meadows Institute’s Chief Innovation Officer, Kacie Kelly, and Chief Policy Officer, John Snook. It was published in Behavioral Health Tech’s “Industry Insights” on March 13, 2025. Every consequential…
Mental Health Treatment and Advocacy for Service Members, Veterans and their Families
This podcast episode was released by PsychArmor on February 14, 2025. On PsychArmor’s “Behind the Mission” podcast, the Meadows Institute’s Senior Director for Strategy and Innovation, Tempa Sherrill, discusses how her lived experience as the wife…
Harris County contends with shortage of mental health workers despite landmark state investment
This article was originally published in Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Research’s Urban Edge on January 27, 2025. “The Texas Legislature has made historic, life-saving investments in mental health over the last decade,” Andy Keller,…
6 Tips for Helping Children Manage Anticipatory Grief
This column was authored by the executive director of the Meadows Institute’s Trauma and Grief Center, Julie Kaplow, PhD and was published in Psychology Today on January 15, 2025. Grief doesn’t begin only after the death…
Mental health advocates ask Texas lawmakers to replace expiring COVID-19 relief funding
This article was published in The Texas Tribune on January 2, 2025. “The Texas Legislature has made historic, life-saving investments in mental health over the last decade,” said Andy Keller, president and CEO of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…