December 4, 2025 – Joe Straus, the former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, published a column in the Dallas Morning News praising the lifelong leadership and public service of Tom Luce, the founding CEO of the Meadows Institute. …
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…
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…
October 29, 2025 – The Meadows Institute’s chief innovation officer, Kacie Kelly, was featured on Behavioral Health Tech’s Expanding Access podcast to discuss the impact of policy on behavioral health innovation. Kelly discusses topics such as AI in mental health,…
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…
October 21, 2025 – The Meadows Institute’s trauma and grief expert, Julie Kaplow, PhD, was interviewed by Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health, the magazine of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, about the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as…
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…
October 3, 2025 – The Dallas Morning News published the following essay by the Meadows Institute’s president and CEO, Andy Keller, on the investments the Texas Legislature has made over multiple sessions to make our state a national leader in…
October 10, 2025 – The Dallas Morning News published the following article featuring the Meadows Institute’s chief medical officer, Roshni Koli, MD. The editorial spotlights the Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine (TCHATT) program, which provides telehealth access to quality…
The Hunt Family Foundation’s commitment will increase the quality and access to mental health care throughout the Borderplex region, where critical service gaps persist EL PASO, October 30, 2025 — The Paso del Norte Center, a regional center of the Meadows…
September 29, 2025 – “As clinicians, we have a vital role to play in helping common-sense, bipartisan solutions like the COMPLETE Care Act become a reality,” write Meadows Institute leaders Roshni Koli and Clare McNutt for Psychiatric News. “Congressional leaders…
September 19, 2025 – Dr. Quianta Moore, the executive director of The Hackett Center for Mental Health, was featured on Dorothy Gibbons’ The Rose podcast to discuss the mental health and wellness challenges facing women and how to navigate them. Moore highlights the importance of The Hackett Center and…
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 18, 2025 – Massive shifts are underway in how technology is leveraged in health care. As policies that impact interoperability, behavioral health information technology, and the role of AI are taking shape, savvy digital mental health leaders will recognize…
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…
August 19, 2025 – The Austin American-Statesman featured the Meadows Institute in an article on checking kids’ mental health as they head back to class for a new school year. Chief Medical Officer Roshni Koli is quoted in the piece,…
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…
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…
An article in Inside Philanthropy spotlights the promise of the Collaborative Care Model to address the nation’s mental health care needs, with a strong focus on Path Forward—a national initiative co-founded by the Meadows Institute. It highlights how philanthropy has accelerated the…