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…
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…
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…
July 9, 2025 – The Meadows Institute was featured in Public Health Watch in an article about community health paramedic teams’ response to emergent mental health crises in rural Texas communities. Executive Vice President for Health and Public Safety B.J. Wagner was quoted in…
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…