Hogg Foundation Blog
Get news, insights and ideas related to our initiatives and the state of mental health in Texas.
It’s a Texas Thing: Celebrating Recovery at PeerFest
PeerFest keynote speakers, Sir Billy L. Dorsey Jr. and Dr. William DeFoore, speak on mental health, wellness, and what it means to make a difference for people in those areas.
Digital Well-being for Youth
Exploring how young people navigate our increasingly networked world and how we balance safety, empathy, and technology in response.
Hogg Foundation Awards Reliable, Flexible Funding to Strengthen Capacity of Historically Under-Resourced Mental Health Organizations
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is excited to announce the 2024 recipients of the Reliable Flexible Funding for Mental health and Well-being (RFF) grants. The foundation will invest $5 million over 5 years in reliable, flexible funding to multiple historically...
Thrauma: From Surviving to Thriving
This blog post was guest authored by Sandra Smith, PhD, vice president of Via Hope. She is a Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist and a Certified Reentry Peer Specialist. At PeerFest 2024 she will be presenting the session, “Creating Trauma Responsive Reentry...
Honoring a Mental Health Pioneer
For Black History Month, we feature an archival interview with Dr. Melvin Sikes, founder of UT Austin’s Center for Improvement of Intergroup Relations.
Policy Academy and Policy Fellows: Learning from the Past to Serve the Future
A statement by our executive director, Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., on an important change to the Hogg Policy Academy and Fellows initiative.
The Behavioral Health Effects of the Medicaid Unwinding in Texas
Because Medicaid is the largest payer of mental health and substance use care in the nation, Texans with mental health or substance use conditions who may lose coverage during this unwinding–erroneously or correctly–will lose out on life-saving care
Hogg Policy Academy and Policy Fellows to Focus on Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health and Well-being in Next Cohort
The 2024-25 cohort of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health Policy Academy and Policy Fellows initiative will focus on supporting child, youth, and family mental health and well-being.
Exploring Gratitude
It’s hard to ignore the seasonal emphasis on gratitude that surrounds holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Hannukah. But just what does it mean to be thankful? In this episode we speak with Dr. Bob Duke to discuss the practice of gratitude and explore its...