Podcast
Into the Fold: Mental Health PodcastOur mental health podcast is one of the ways we move from simply talking about our grantmaking to influencing dialogue and learning about mental health and well-being. Hosted by “Ike at the Mic,” our communications manager Ike Evans, the series captures the human implications of mental health and the factors that influence it, bringing you conversations with mental health experts, consumers, advocates, practitioners, researchers, and community leaders from across Texas and beyond.
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Recent Podcasts
A written synopsis is available for each podcast.
Educators As Architects of Change
This episode explores how educators can become architects of change, building environments where social emotional well-being is part of the foundation of learning. Our guest is Beth Hines, principal of Arp Elementary School which takes a whole system approach to student mental health through the Arp Creating Pathways to Social Emotional Well-Being for All Students program.
What Comes After the Crisis: Avoiding Whiplash in Reform Efforts
Our latest podcast explores what it takes to avoid “reform whiplash”, the cycle in which systems lurch forward during crisis only to stall or regress once public attention shifts.
Policy: Telling Your Story
Explore how you can use your personal story to shape systems, influence policy, and make their communities stronger.
Policy: What’s in It for Me?
In this podcast episode, we’re talking with two leaders who help Texas students turn awareness into action and frustration into advocacy.
Partnership Across Distance: The Texas Panhandle
In today’s episode, we look at how partnerships can stretch across counties and communities to align resources and ensure that rural Texans don’t have to navigate care alone.
Beyond the Bed: Care as Partnership
When someone leaves a state hospital and returns to their community, recovery doesn’t pause — it often becomes more complicated. Housing, connection, medication, transportation, stigma, isolation — the real work of healing often begins outside the hospital walls.
*Into the Fold is part of the Texas Podcast Network. Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty and staff at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts represent the views of the hosts and guests, not of The University of Texas at Austin.
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