Personal and Professional Growth at the Policy Academy

In 2010, the Hogg Foundation started its Mental Health Policy Fellows Program. Program grantees receive funds to hire and train an in-house mental health policy fellow, increasing their capacity for interfacing public policy issues with mental health. Each grantee...

$350,000 to Support Faith-Based Community Response to Harvey

The Hogg Foundation has awarded $350,000 to 11 faith-based organizations in support of their continued efforts to educate communities about mental health, recovery and wellness, with a new focus on addressing the mental health impacts and trauma resulting...

Promoting Mental Health in Everyday Life

Earlier this month, we announced that the Hogg Foundation is making a strategic shift to focus on supporting community environments that promote mental health and well-being. In the process of developing our new strategic plan, we also revisited the foundation’s...

Reentry Peer Support: The Lifeline of Lived Experience

This blog post from 2017 was recently updated to include a link to recently published research by Dr. Jennifer Reingle Gonzalez. Imprisonment can upend a person’s life. Upon returning to their communities, people leaving prison confront a world that wants little to do...

More Than Texas Tough: What Resilience Means

Since Hurricane Harvey first made landfall, it’s been humbling and encouraging to see the outpouring of generosity, courage and resilience displayed by Texans in response to this disaster. Texans take pride in individual resilience; how tough we are and how quickly we...