January 29, 2026 – A.I. is rapidly reshaping health care, and it offers an unprecedented opportunity to transform mental health services. In a new opinion piece for Behavioral Health Tech, Meadows Institute Chief Innovation Officer Kacie Kelly walks us through…
January 23, 2026 – The Meadows Institute was featured in KERA News in a story highlighting the Street to Home initiative, a program led by Housing Forward that aims to provide permanent housing for Dallas residents who are experiencing homelessness. The Dallas…
December 10, 2025 – The Meadows Institute is featured in the Hill Country Community Journal in an article covering a recent Rebuild Kerr event hosted by the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country, detailing the continued community response after…
By Geoffrey Melada | Nov. 18, 2025 The Meadows Institute was proud to serve as the premier policy partner for Behavioral Health Tech 2025, the nation’s largest conference dedicated to expanding access to mental health care through technology, health equity…
Meadows Institute leaders discuss brain health innovation, collaboration at the 80th United Nations General Assembly By Geoffrey Melada | October 1, 2025 For the third year in a row, the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute’s leadership on brain health innovation…
By Geoffrey Melada | October 20, 2025 The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute hosted a half-day event in Washington, D.C., Oct. 9 called “Brights Spots in Digital Mental Health: Policy & Practice Solutions to Improve Outcomes.” Sponsored by the Commonwealth…
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 Meadows Institute and Texas Success Center Expand the Minding College Minds™ Learning Community to Twelve Additional Colleges September 25, 2025 Following the successful launch of the inaugural Minding College Minds learning community last September, the Meadows Mental Health Policy…
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…
DALLAS – August 27, 2025 – Andy Keller, the president and CEO of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, released this statement on the signing of Senate Bill 25: “Texas is leading the nation in the fight for our children’s…
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…