Hogg Foundation Blog
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Hogg Foundation Executive Director Named to Centers for Disease Control Advisory Committee
TDr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr. has been appointed to the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ACD).
The Global Cause of Mental Health
According to the World Health Organization, nearly a billion people worldwide have experienced mental illness. For this podcast episode, we talk to two experts who have devoted their lives to global mental health.
Hogg Foundation Awards $260,000 for Austin State Hospital Archives
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is pleased to announce that it has awarded $260,000 to The University of Texas at Austin for the Austin State Hospital Archives Project.
Young Minds Matter: The Healing Future
The New Deal for Youth Changemakers are presenting in the Day One session, “A New Deal for Youth: Our Vision for Healing and Well-being” during Young Minds Matter 2021.
Texas health organizations must promote vaccines
Every day, we see ordinary people innovate approaches to getting more shots into more arms. What does it say to them that there are health care workers who would sooner quit than get vaccinated?
Gender Affirmation Can be Life and Death
In this episode of the podcast, an expert on adolescent development takes us through the challenging terrain of gender identity and sexuality, and what these mean for parent-adolescent relationships.
Peer Leadership and Why it Matters
For this episode of our Into the Fold podcast, we spoke with two leaders of the mental health consumer movement in Texas. Between the two of them, they possess lifetimes of accumulated wisdom on mental health recovery.
40 Hours for the Forty Acres: Days of Giving
SAVE THE DATE | Make your gift September 22-23 during UT’s 40 Hours for the Forty Acres days of giving. Your contributions can make a change by strengthening mental health for the people of Texas.
Voices of Students in Crisis
We spoke with this year’s Moore Fellowship recipient, Erin Morpeth, about her award-winning dissertation titled, “Voices of Students in Crisis: A Mixed Methods Study of College Students Hospitalized for Psychiatric Distress.”