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Community-Based Solutions: Grassroots Mental Health Innovations That Work
When it comes to supporting rural communities, especially around mental health, success often starts not with answers, but with questions—and a deep commitment to listening.
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Language Matters in Mental Health
The words we use shape how we see the world–and ourselves. The words we choose and the meanings we attach to them influence our decisions, beliefs, and well-being. We have a choice in the words we use to describe ourselves, others, and the world around us.
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The Future of Recovery
Dr. Martinez’ involvement in the peer support and recovery movement has come to resonate with him tremendously.
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$2 Million Awarded to Train Mental Health Policy Fellows in Texas
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is excited to award $2 million in grant funding over two years for eleven nonprofit advocacy organizations to hire in-house policy fellows.
It’s a Texas Thing: Celebrating Recovery at PeerFest
PeerFest keynote speakers, Sir Billy L. Dorsey Jr. and Dr. William DeFoore, speak on mental health, wellness, and what it means to make a difference for people in those areas.
Digital Well-being for Youth
Exploring how young people navigate our increasingly networked world and how we balance safety, empathy, and technology in response.
Thrauma: From Surviving to Thriving
This blog post was guest authored by Sandra Smith, PhD, vice president of Via Hope. She is a Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist and a Certified Reentry Peer Specialist. At PeerFest 2024 she will be presenting the session, “Creating Trauma Responsive Reentry...
Policy Academy and Policy Fellows: Learning from the Past to Serve the Future
A statement by our executive director, Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., on an important change to the Hogg Policy Academy and Fellows initiative.
The Behavioral Health Effects of the Medicaid Unwinding in Texas
Because Medicaid is the largest payer of mental health and substance use care in the nation, Texans with mental health or substance use conditions who may lose coverage during this unwinding–erroneously or correctly–will lose out on life-saving care
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