May 7, 2026 – The Meadows Institute is featured in a story in the Hill Country Community Journal on the Rebuild Kerr Grantee Gathering hosted by the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country. The meeting brought together nonprofit leaders,…
March 31, 2026 – The Meadows Institute was featured in local and national coverage of a partnership to strengthen care for children between Intermountain Health Primary Children’s Hospital in Utah and the Trauma and Grief Center. Primary Children’s is the…
November 25, 2025 – Months after the devastating floods in Central Texas, the psychological toll continues for many children, who find themselves “very, very distressed” by simple rainstorms. The Meadows Institute’s trauma and grief expert Dr. Julie Kaplow explains the…
November 24, 2025 – The Meadows Institute was featured on the Houston television station KPRC to discuss the impact of the Family Mental Health Care Fund. Dr. Julie Kaplow, the executive director of the Trauma and Grief Center at the Meadows…
November 14, 2025 – The Meadows Institute was recently featured on Building Pathways to Healthy Minds, a ChildBuilders podcast. In the episode, Dr. Julie Kaplow, the executive director of the Meadows Institute’s Trauma and Grief Center, shares insights from her work…
By Geoffrey Melada | September 25, 2025 Seeking a targeted intervention for grieving children in the wake of the deadly Hamas-led attack on Southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, five Israeli mental health clinicians traveled to Houston in September for…
July 21, 2025 – As part of the Meadows Institute’s ongoing response to the devastating floods in Central Texas, Julie Kaplow, PhD, the executive director of the Trauma and Grief Center at The Hackett Center for Mental Health, wrote a…
This column was authored by the executive director of the Meadows Institute’s Trauma and Grief Center, Julie Kaplow, PhD and was published in Psychology Today on January 15, 2025. Grief doesn’t begin only after the death of a loved one. If…
This article was published by NPR on April 10, 2024. Read or listen to the full story on NPR’s website. Zion Kelly still thinks of himself as a twin. By the time he and his fraternal twin, Zaire, were in…
This segment aired on KPRC Click2Houston on February 13, 2024. Psychologist Dr. Julie Kaplow talks about how shootings affect people and how to reach out for help if you or someone you know is facing mental health struggles.
For many of us, the holiday season is a happy and joyful time that we look forward to all year. But after experiencing the death of a loved one, the holidays can be a very difficult time, particularly for children.…
Dr. Kaplow’s new book, “Multidimensional Grief Therapy: A Flexible Approach to Assessing and Supporting Bereaved Youth” This month, to help us commemorate National Children’s Grief Awareness Month, we were privileged to sit down for a Q&A with author and Trauma…
This segment ran on KXLN Houston (Univision) on September 6, 2023. View on Univision’s website.
This article was published by Click2Houston on September 7, 2023. Students are well-informed about school safety and they probably have more opinions than you may know. That is why discussing fears or concerns with your student is important. Julie Kaplow,…
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 the Houston Chronicle on May 23, 2023. Nora Senske and her classmates sat in a locked basement classroom at Lamar High School for several hours on a recent Monday as police investigated a shooting threat…
This article was published by Houston Landing on January 4, 2024. Each day after his shift as a machine operator, Eliberto Ortega used to walk through the front door of his east Houston home, take off his steel-toed work boots…
This interview was released by NPR on December 1, 2022. At a school district in Texas, mental health professional training to address grief and trauma is healing for school-based therapists and social workers who lost loved ones during the pandemic.…
This article was originally published by the Houston Chronicle on October 13, 2022. Educators are teaming up with law enforcement to launch a program at a Houston-area school district that aims to quickly link students who have experienced trauma or…
This article was originally published by the Houston Chronicle on September 26, 2022. In memories tucked away on a phone, Chant’e Mahogany Wilson appears full of life: Smiling in selfies, holding her twin daughters on Mother’s Day and telling them:…