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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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Leading with Cultural Humility

Willis’ humble approach ensures the right people are on the front lines of transformative processes.

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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The Texas Tribune Festival: A Summary of Sunday’s Sessions

The second day of the Texas Tribune Festival was as informative and engaging as the first. The opening and closing Health and Human Services presentations interacted nicely by laying out the policy arguments for and against the Affordable Care Act. Click on the posts...

Spread the Message of Recovery Month Throughout the Year!

As September draws to a close, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the importance of recovery and what it means to mental health. We know now that people with mental health conditions, even serious ones, can recover and experience wellness. They can live...

Only a Few Weeks Until the 25th Annual Alternatives Conference

There is excitement in the mental health consumer world about the upcoming Alternatives 2011 conference. The Alternatives conference is the oldest national mental health conference organized by and for mental health consumers/survivors. In a few weeks, three of my...

Not All Who Travel to Dallas are Cotton Bowl Bound

Program Officer Rick Ybarra and I are headed to Dallas this weekend!  However, unlike many other Austinites who will be traveling northbound on IH-35, we won’t be attending the Texas-Oklahoma game or the state fair.  We will be gathering with social workers from all...

We All Could Use a Little More Comfort

One of the topics that comes up frequently in the quarterly Seclusion and Restraint Reduction Leadership Group meeting is how helpful people find a well-designed comfort room. Many Texas facilities, including psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers and...

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