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Press Release: Senator Jane Nelson Honored with First Tom Luce Award for Mental Health
AUSTIN – Senator Jane Nelson, whose contributions to better mental health policy, particularly for children, have helped Texas vastly improve its mental health care systems, was named the first recipient of The Tom Luce Award…
Press Release: Paso del Norte Health Foundation & Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute Announce Paso del Norte Center
A Regional Mental Health Policy Center to support initiatives in the Paso del Norte region, fight stigma of mental illness The Paso del Norte Health Foundation and the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute today announced…
Announcing the Paso del Norte Center at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
The Paso del Norte Health Foundation and the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute have announced the launch of the Paso del Norte Center at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, a regional mental health policy…
Press Release: Meadows Institute Named Recipient of $10 Million Lone Star Prize
Today, the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute was named the recipient of the $10 million Lone Star Prize, awarded by Lyda Hill Philanthropies and Lever for Change, a Texas-based competition launched in early 2020. The…
Meadows Institute Named Recipient of $10 Million Lone Star Prize
On June 15, the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute was named the recipient of the $10 million Lone Star Prize, a Texas-based competition launched in early 2020 to find and fund bold solutions focused on…
Great progress, challenges mark Mental Health Awareness Month 2021
Mental Health Awareness Month is a time when we turn our attention toward the importance of improving mental health care while reducing the stigma associated with it. The mental health needs of people across the…
Black History Month 2021
It has been 101 years since Francis Sumner, the first black doctoral student, was awarded a PhD in psychology from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. While the occasion was a momentous one, racism and pervasive…
Primary Care Is Key to Reversing COVID-Related Suicide, Overdose Trends
The post below by the Meadows Institute’s Andy Keller, PhD, was originally posted by American Communities Project on January 22, 2021. Even as we were in the process of projecting them, the numbers were sobering….
Collaborative Care Model
Providing access to mental health care through primary care is the single most important step health systems can take to address the worsening mental health crisis Texas and the nation are facing. The Collaborative Care…