Policy Updates
Ensuring lawmakers and their staffs have data-based information is crucial to helping elevate and improve the mental health care system in Texas. The Meadows Institute helps lawmakers make informed policy decisions through non-partisan data, research, and invited committee testimony, with the goal of improving care and access to mental health and substance use disorder treatments.
Policy list
87th Texas Legislature Regular Session Wrap Up
SUMMARY - Throughout what was a challenging and, at times, divisive legislative session, one area of full agreement among state leaders was that mental...
U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
SUMMARY - During his invited testimony, President and CEO Andy Keller, PhD, discussed the mental health impacts of COVID-19 and how lessons learned in...
Texas House Committee on County Affairs – Mental Health Landscape & COVID-19
SUMMARY – Meadows Institute CEO Andy Keller, PhD, was invited to testify before the committee on the mental health impacts of COVID-19.