May 14, 2026 – The Meadows Institute is featured in a story by Florida Politics on the Florida Chamber Leadership Conference on Safety, Health, and Sustainability. Now in its sixth year, the conference brings together business leaders and policymakers for…
May 4, 2026 – The Meadows Institute’s health and public safety work was featured on Spectrum News outlets across Texas. In the segment, executive director for health and public safety, BJ Wagner, highlighted progress being made by the Texas Legislature to support the mental health of first responders, including the establishment of the Texas…
Communities Foundation of Texas awarded a grant to the Meadows Institute to operate the Caruth Police Institute to continue to advance public safety innovation in North Texas and across the country Pictured from left: Chief Tarrick McGuire, Scott Donaldson, B.J.…
March 3, 2026 – The Meadows Institute was featured in a recent D Magazine story highlighting our operation of the Caruth Police Institute (CPI). Communities Foundation of Texas awarded the Meadows Institute a grant to lead the program, which advances public…
September 18, 2025 – The Meadows Institute was featured in a Dallas Morning News editorial on preventing deaths by suicide among members of law enforcement. In addition, B.J. Wagner, executive vice president for Health and Public Safety, discussed the importance…
September 15, 2025 – The Meadows Institute was featured in a story on the Texas Peer Support Network for First Responders by KVUE. B.J. Wagner, the executive vice president of Health and Public Safety, is interviewed for the story and…
DALLAS — Communities Foundation of Texas has awarded a $6 million multi-year grant through the W.W. Caruth, Jr., Fund to the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute to implement a comprehensive initiative that provides support to children and youth who have…
On June 17, 2024, the Meadows Institute, in partnership with the Communities Foundation of Texas, local police leadership and The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, announced the statewide expansion of the Texas Blue Chip Program that supports law enforcement officers…
From left: Gene Ellis of the Texas Police Chiefs Association, Gregory Stevens of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, Chief Steve Dye of the Allen Police Department, Chief Special Agent Will Johnson of the BNSF Railway Police, and BJ Wagner…
DALLAS, TEXAS (June 17, 2024) – The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute in partnership with the Communities Foundation of Texas (CFT), local police leadership, and The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) today announced the statewide expansion of the Texas…
This article was published by State of Reform on March 18, 2024. Read the full article on State of Reform’s website. Behavioral health experts and community leaders met at the 2024 Texas State of Reform Health Policy Conference last month…
This article was authored by the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute’s B.J. Wagner, Senior Vice President of Health and Public Safety and Jeff Spivey, Senior Fellow of Law Enforcement Policy and was originally published in Police Chief Magazine on October…
This article was published by KERA News on September 14, 2023. Beginning next month, Dallas Area Rapid Transit will begin testing a program to respond to the needs of riders experiencing homelessness. The goal of the DART Cares program is…
DALLAS, Texas (August 21, 2023) – The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute is proud to announce the official launch of the Texas Blue Chip Program, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at offering law enforcement officers an additional access point for confidential and…
This article was published by KXAN Austin on July 5, 2023. AUSTIN (KXAN) — “Cops are those individuals others look to solve problems and protect persons in need. Weakness is not seen as an option and therefore, they will…
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…
Learn all about 988, the new national suicide and crisis lifeline launched by the U.S. government in July 2022, in this nine-part limited series podcast. The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) offers 24/7…
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 from jail. The Dallas-based mental…
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…
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 without a single use-of-force incident…