Community

Assisting efforts to build resilience and improve mental health in the places people live, learn, work, pray, and play.

We will support communities in their efforts to build resilience and improve mental health in the places people live, learn, work, pray, and play. This includes working alongside community members, youth, families, neighborhoods, and people with direct experience with mental health challenges to explore and advance approaches that promote mental health, resilience, and well-being.

Community Impact Stories
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The Hogg Foundation will support community members and organizations outside of traditional health care settings by facilitating an understanding of how their work can impact and better promote mental health. By partnering with schools, workplaces, faith-based organizations, and other key community organizations, the foundation will facilitate learning, coordination, and collaboration among sectors and stakeholders. Through these efforts, the foundation seeks to create environments that promote mental health and support meaningful, community-driven change.

Key Strategic Actions

  • Provide grant funding to promote mental health, resilience, and well-being for communities in Texas.
  • Support resilience and wellness through community-based efforts organized and run by and for people with first-hand mental health experience.
  • Increase funding for community-based grant programs and flexible funding for community nonprofit partners.
  • Promote capacity building among a wide range of community-based partners.
  • Support the local convening of community conversations to promote mental health.

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