by Hogg Staff | Oct 10, 2016 | Hogg Blog
As a member of a team of nine peer supporters that supports a robust volunteer program, rich learning can happen when volunteers and new peer supporters join the team. The consensus of team members is, “We can’t do it without our volunteers!” Both volunteers and new...
by Hogg Staff | Oct 5, 2016 | Blog, Hogg Blog
Guest post by Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., executive director of Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. This past May, the board of directors of Grantmakers in Health (GIH) decided to relocate the organization’s 2017 Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy from...
by Ike Evans | Oct 4, 2016 | Hogg Blog
Guest post by Manuel X. Zamarripa, Ph.D., LPC-S In 2014, a Fox News Latino article cited that only 1 in 11 Latina/os seek mental health treatment. Chicana/o Psychology is rarely discussed as recourse to address this situation. In 2004, Dr. Manuel Ramirez outlined the...
by Ike Evans | Sep 7, 2016 | Blog
The 2014-2016 Hogg Mental Health Policy Fellow cohort recently celebrated the end of their tenure in July. The fellows made great strides in the Texas policy arena in a variety of topic areas like the mental health workforce, substance use co-occurrence, services for...
by Ike Evans | Sep 7, 2016 | Hogg Blog
Guest post by Toni Watt, Ph.D., with contributions by Laurie Seremetis, M.D. Children in state custody have experienced maltreatment, neglect, and family disruption. Thus, behavioral health systems serving these children need to be trauma-informed. Fortunately, there...
by Rick Ybarra | Sep 2, 2016 | Blog, Hogg Blog
The nationwide movement to advance Integrated Health Care (IHC) as a standard of care continues! It has been a mountain climb, but we have made significant progress over the past five to seven years moving incrementally towards the summit. To date, numerous studies...