Multi-Disciplinary Responce Teams
December 1, 2025 – The Meadows Institute was featured in a story in the Austin American-Statesman regarding the launch of FIRST, or “Field Integrated Response Support Team,” a pilot program in Austin that is modeled after our work developing Multi-Disciplinary Response…
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…
This article was originally published by The Pew Charitable Trusts on July 23, 2024. Read the full article on Pew’s website. Cities and counties seeking to implement alternative response teams for mental health emergencies can support these efforts by improving other…
Meadows Institute president and CEO discusses transforming mental health emergency response on Fox Business
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 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…
AUSTIN – Max Geron, former Chief of the Rockwall Police Department, has joined the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute as Senior Director of Health and Public Safety, effective August 1. In that role, Geron will advance the organization’s work in…
This article was originally published by the The Galveston Daily News on June 3, 2022. The city of Galveston on Thursday publicly committed to a bold new policing initiative that will create a unit to be dispatched when people are…
This article was originally published by The Galveston Daily News on June 2, 2022. When someone calls 911 in Galveston, three services stand by to respond to the emergency — police, fire and emergency medical services. Under a new program…