New Loan Repayment Program Can Help with Workforce Shortage in Texas

Fact: we need more mental health professionals in Texas. As of October 2015, 205 out of the 254 Texas counties fall under the designation of a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA). That leaves over 3 million Texans in a county without a single psychiatrist. While...

Health Care Reform: A Rechartered Agenda

Happy 2016! It is an exciting time indeed! Presidential debates, political agendas in play, international and domestic issues front and center, major decisions that will impact the lives of all Americans…and none more important than health care reform! I’d like to...

Houston Symposium to Discuss “Police, Jails, and Vulnerable People”

All to frequently, there is another incident in Texas highlighting how the criminal justice system is in need of serious reform, especially for individuals in the system who are facing poverty or living with a mental illness. The public is now more aware of systemic...

We Have a New Website! Let us know what you think.

We’ve overhauled both the design and the architecture of hogg.utexas.edu in the hopes of better serving our constituents, better reflecting the foundation’s identity and values, and no longer looking like we have a website from 2003