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Lived Experience Storytelling: Primer for AdvocacyLived Experience Storytelling:
Primer for Advocacy

This toolkit encourages people with lived experience to engage in advocacy while using a trauma-informed lens to take care of themselves and their stories.

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Designing Belonging: Third Spaces as Mental Health Infrastructure

The Austin Public Library system provides some of the most visible and accessible third space systems in the city. It is a network of spaces that serve people across ages, backgrounds, and life experiences.

Educators As Architects of Change

Beth Hines takes a whole system approach to student mental health through a program at Arp Elementary School.

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. 

Faith as a Mental Health Partner

Today’s episode explores what becomes possible when that trust is paired with intentional partnership across faith, community, and mental health systems. Our guest is the Reverend Dr. Daryl Horton of Mount Zion Baptist Church in East Austin. 

Mutual Aid, Mutual Respect

In this episode of Into the Fold, we speak with Dawn Capra, Director of Housing Advocacy at the Texas Housing Foundation. She describes how well-coordinated and respectful cooperation between community organizations supported both the logistical needs and emotional well-being of displaced residents.

Let Community Drive the Work: A Conversation with Larissa Minner

Larissa Minner on how small-scale changes to everyday practice can catalyze deeper change not only to lives, but to systems.

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Tammy Heinz

Tammy Heinz

Tammy Heinz serves as program officer and consumer & family liaison for the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, bringing the perspectives of consumers, youth and family members into the foundation’s grant making, operations and decision-making processes. For more...

Vicky Coffee-Fletcher

Vicky Coffee-Fletcher

Vicky Coffee-Fletcher joined the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health as a program officer in 2007. She leads initiatives to improve the mental health of children and their families in Houston, enhance the mental health workforce, and promote consumer, youth and family...

Vicky Coffee-Fletcher

Vicky Coffee-Fletcher

Vicky Coffee-Fletcher joined the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health as a program officer in 2007. She leads initiatives to improve the mental health of children and their families in Houston, enhance the mental health workforce, and promote consumer, youth and family...

Dr. Lynda Frost

Dr. Lynda Frost

Lynda Frost
Read posts by Dr. Lynda Frost.

Dr. Lynda Frost serves as the director of planning and programs at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, where she oversees major initiatives and grant programs, leads strategic and operational planning, and manages program staff. She joined the foundation as associate director in 2003.

Dr. Frost is an experienced administrator and attorney with legal expertise in human rights, juvenile justice, criminal law and mediation. She also holds an appointment as a clinical associate professor of educational policy and planning at The University of Texas at Austin. She previously taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Richmond, the University of Virginia and American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Dr. Frost has a law degree and a doctorate in educational administration from the University of Iowa, a master’s degree in international education from Lesley University, and a bachelor’s degree in English and American Studies from Amherst College.

Contact Dr. Lynda Frost.

Dr. Lynda Frost

Dr. Lynda Frost

Lynda Frost
Read posts by Dr. Lynda Frost.

Dr. Lynda Frost serves as the director of planning and programs at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, where she oversees major initiatives and grant programs, leads strategic and operational planning, and manages program staff. She joined the foundation as associate director in 2003.

Dr. Frost is an experienced administrator and attorney with legal expertise in human rights, juvenile justice, criminal law and mediation. She also holds an appointment as a clinical associate professor of educational policy and planning at The University of Texas at Austin. She previously taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Richmond, the University of Virginia and American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Dr. Frost has a law degree and a doctorate in educational administration from the University of Iowa, a master’s degree in international education from Lesley University, and a bachelor’s degree in English and American Studies from Amherst College.

Contact Dr. Lynda Frost.

Dr. Lynda Frost

Dr. Lynda Frost

Lynda Frost
Read posts by Dr. Lynda Frost.

Dr. Lynda Frost serves as the director of planning and programs at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, where she oversees major initiatives and grant programs, leads strategic and operational planning, and manages program staff. She joined the foundation as associate director in 2003.

Dr. Frost is an experienced administrator and attorney with legal expertise in human rights, juvenile justice, criminal law and mediation. She also holds an appointment as a clinical associate professor of educational policy and planning at The University of Texas at Austin. She previously taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Richmond, the University of Virginia and American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Dr. Frost has a law degree and a doctorate in educational administration from the University of Iowa, a master’s degree in international education from Lesley University, and a bachelor’s degree in English and American Studies from Amherst College.

Contact Dr. Lynda Frost.

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