Early intervention is key to promoting brain health and avoiding the criminal justice system, Institute’s Yolanda Lewis tells Brain³ Summit By Geoffrey Melada | February 23, 2024 Yolanda Lewis addresses the Brain³ Summit held Feb. 21-22 at the Center for…
Apply for this premier learning experience to advance school safety and student wellness in your district. Our Challenge Districts are seeing a variety of concerning trends, including: Increases in student aggression, anxiety, depression, grief, and loss Challenges with supporting the…
For years, the prevalence of behavioral health conditions has been increasing in the United States, with the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating this troubling trend. The demand for behavioral health treatment currently far outpaces the supply due to an understaffed and unevenly…
Apply between March 19 and April 8 for this premier learning experience to advance school safety and student wellness in your district Our Challenge Districts are seeing a variety of concerning trends, including: Increases in student aggression, anxiety, depression, grief,…
This article was published by the KERA News on May 16, 2024. Read the full article on KERA’s website. The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office has received a $12,500 grant to help provide transportation to participants in a drug court…
This article was published by Med City News on May 13, 2024 and authored by Meadows Institute’s Senior Fellow for Brain Capital, Harris Eyre. Read the full article on Med City News’ website. Becoming a father has profoundly sharpened my…
This article was published by the Texas Tribune on May 15, 2024. Read the full article on the Texas Tribune’s website. State leaders on Wednesday unveiled a new $305 million hospital, part of an $2.5 billion overhaul of the state’s…
This article was published by NPR on March 21, 2024. Read the full article on NPR’s website. Zion Kelly still thinks of himself as a twin. By the time he and his fraternal twin, Zaire, were in their mid-teens, people often mistook Zaire as the older of the two brothers. “He was taller…
This article was published by KFOX14 on March 21, 2024. Read the full article on KFOX14’s website. EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — A group of local leaders, brought together by the Paso del Norte Health Foundation, gathered at El Paso Community College…
This article was published by State of Reform on March 18, 2024. Read the full article on State of Reform’s website. Behavioral health experts and community leaders met at the 2024 Texas State of Reform Health Policy Conference last month…
This article was published by State of Reform on March 13, 2024. Read the full article on State of Reform’s website. Youth mental health professionals discussed efforts to provide care to children in need at the 2024 Texas State of…
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 article was published by Austin’s KXAN on February 21, 2024. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Juvenile Justice Department will receive a grant of nearly $1 million to help reduce youth incarceration rates, according to a release from Sen. John…
This article was published by State of Reform on March 1, 2024. Read the full article on State of Reform’s website. As more states across the nation ramp up efforts to increase and provide access to behavioral health services for youth despite…
This interview was published by State of Reform on February 15, 2024. In this Q&A, Hani Talebi, PhD, chief clinical officer and senior vice president for Health Systems Integration at Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute (MMHPI), spoke with State of Reform…
Institute’s Yolanda Lewis discusses transforming the culture of crisis response at Chicago Bar Association
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By Geoffrey Melada | December, 2023 Jason Richie, director of public health, Milken Institute (l), and Meadows Institute’s Vice President of Care Innovation Clare McNutt field questions from the audience at the Advancing Behavioral Health and Policy Summit in Washington,…
Pretrial detention is a high-risk time for individuals with mental illness, and suicide remains one of the leading causes of death in U.S. jails. “Over half of the people in jails are detained on a pretrial [basis]; they have not…
A diverse array of behavioral health providers, health plans, investment firms, startups, as well as some of the leading minds in national mental health policy, flocked to Phoenix, Arizona last week for the 2023 Behavioral Health Tech Conference, the largest…