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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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Paying for Health Care: The Carrot, the Stick and the Muscle

A blog post published on August 27, 2013 titled, “Wielding the Carrot and the Stick: How to Move the U.S. Health Care System Away from Fee-for-Service Payment” highlights, in simplistic terms, the most significant challenge before us when it comes to truly reforming...

On Becoming a Change Agent: A Q&A With Clayton Travis

The Hogg Foundation works to foster the capacity of individuals and organizations to engage in effective mental health advocacy. Through the Hogg Mental Health Policy Fellow Grants program, organizations receive grants to hire in-house policy fellows, individuals who...

Youth and Young Adults: Understanding Them, Serving Them

During a recent interview for KUHF, Houston's NPR affiliate, Dr. Sarah Narendorf, assistant professor at the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston, provided a pitch perfect summary of the thinking that drives the Hogg Foundation's efforts to...

Fresh Learning, Greater Impact

In a recent blog post I said a few words about the Hogg Foundation's interest in youth and young adult mental health. This local news segment featuring Hogg grantee Dr. Christine Norton, assistant professor at the School of Social Work at Texas State University-San...

The Hogg Policy Fellows Q&As

The Hogg Foundation works to transform mental health policy in Texas. The Hogg Mental Health Policy Fellows grant program is one of our tools for fostering the ability of individuals and  organizations to engage in effective mental health policy work. Get to know some...

The Lessons of Suicide

It was one of the first times I realized suicide was an option. It had never seemed real to me before. Now, I knew someone who did it. And in front of me. I wasn’t as afraid of it any more.

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