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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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Introducing Hogg News

If you do a search for "Hogg Foundation newsletter" at The University of Texas Digital Repository, you will find examples dating back to 1955. Since at least that time, the Hogg Foundation has recognized the importance of timely and regular communication with the...

Local Clergy Get Trained in Mental Health First Aid

“Maybe your faith isn’t strong enough.” “You should just pray a little harder.” “Girl, the devil is just trying to steal your joy!” Sound familiar? Chances are you’ve said something similar to someone you know who is “going through” a mental health challenge, or...

On the Tragedy at Fort Hood

  As a nation we'll spend the next weeks and months trying to piece together the details of the shootings this week at Fort Hood. One thing we know right now, which is the most important thing, is that four people are dead (one of them the shooter), 16 are...

Q&A with Yije Wang

Yije Wang, a doctoral student in the Human Development and Family Services Graduate Program at The University of Texas at Austin, was selected to receive the 2014 Frances Fowler Wallace Memorial for Mental Health Dissertation Award by the Hogg Foundation. The award...

No April Fools Here: Finding Common Ground and Building Community

This post was cross-posted from the Texas Network of Youth Services blog.   by Lara O'Toole, The Harris County Transition-Age Youth and Families Initiative is an opportunity for youth, young adults, parents/caregivers, and service providers to come together to...

Peer Support, Peer Problems

As a grantmaking foundation, the Hogg Foundation is privy to a world of rich conversations about mental health, a world that we are often unable to do justice to in the course of everyday business. Sometimes, however, an opportunity presents itself for us to mine our...

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