In a recent article for Grantmakers in Health, Rick Ybarra, senior program officer at the Hogg Foundation, explores how philanthropy can contribute to supporting and building a stronger, more robust, and durable nonprofit sector.
Philanthropy has forever espoused the term “sustainability.” We ask in grant applications and in our conversations with grant partners: “What’s your sustainability plan?” and “How do you plan to sustain your program once the grant ends?” Read more…
New Loan Repayment Program Can Help with Workforce Shortage in Texas
Fact: we need more mental health professionals in Texas. As of October 2015, 205 out of the 254 Texas counties fall under the designation of a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA). That leaves over 3 million Texans in a county without a single psychiatrist. While...
How to Fix Our Broken Mental Health Care System: Money is Only Part of the Solution
A recent post on the Huffington Post titled The Costs of Not Caring: How to Fix Our Broken Mental Health Care System highlights the significant reductions to state mental health budgets over the past years and the subsequent impact to people with various mental health...
Diversity of Providers in Health Care is Key
A recent policy brief published in the Journal of American Board of Family Medicine (JABFM) reports that, although an increasing number of primary care physicians are incorporating nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians’ assistants (PAs) into their patient care...
Request for Proposals: Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Research Grants in Texas
Request for Proposals: Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Research Grants in Texas The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health invites eligible higher education institutions in Texas to respond to this request for proposals (RFP) to fund mental health recovery-oriented...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Mental Health
Past and present members of the Hogg Foundation National Advisory Council peer around the corner toward the future of mental health in America. We asked current and former members of our National Advisory Council for their thoughts on what they saw as the future of...
PeerFest 2016: An Online Symposium
PeerFest 2016 is nearly upon us. What is PeerFest? It is the Hogg Foundation's first attempt at a Texas-themed event that is by and for "consumers" - persons with lived mental health experience. Similar in design to the national Alternatives conference,...