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 from returning to the county’s jail…
This podcast episode was originally published by The Pew Charitable Trusts on October 4, 2024. In this episode of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ “After the Fact” podcast, the Meadows Institute’s Executive Vice President for Justice and Health, Yolanda Lewis, highlights…
Meadows Institute leaders call for expanding the crisis care continuum into pretrial detention From left: Yolanda Lewis, executive vice president for justice and health at the Meadows Institute, Tim Bray, vice president for justice and health policy at the Meadows…
Early intervention is key to promoting brain health and avoiding the criminal justice system, Institute’s Yolanda Lewis tells Brain³ Summit By Geoffrey Melada | February 23, 2024 Yolanda Lewis addresses the Brain³ Summit held Feb. 21-22 at the Center for…
Institute’s Yolanda Lewis discusses transforming the culture of crisis response at Chicago Bar Association
Pretrial detention is a high-risk time for individuals with mental illness, and suicide remains one of the leading causes of death in U.S. jails. “Over half of the people in jails are detained on a pretrial [basis]; they have not…
A new research study published in the American Psychological Association’s journal, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, and co-authored by Dr. Julie Kaplow, executive director of the Trauma and Grief Center at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, finds that…
This article was published by Galveston County Daily News on May 4, 2023. The woman had tried to commit suicide Wednesday night. On Thursday afternoon, she was sitting in the alley behind a gas station at 44th Street and Broadway…
This article was published by the San Antonio Report on April 3, 2023. Some of the roughly 300 inmates in Bexar County’s jail who have been deemed incompetent to stand trial could benefit from a new pilot program that was…
GALVESTON – Galveston city and county officials, in partnership with the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and other Galveston foundations today announced the launch of a new program that improves 9-1-1…