With March being Social Work Month, we thought it worth exploring an increasingly urgent issue within social work: the challenges of doing ethical social work practice in a politically divided time like ours. In Texas, this is especially true for social workers who serve LGBTQ+ clients. How do practicing social workers navigate this difficult terrain? Social workers Kurt Olster and Kimberly Goodwin join us to discuss.

Episode 133: Gender-Affirming Care is Trauma-Informed Care

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-gender-affirming-care-trauma-informed-care

Hogg History: The Ima Hogg Scholarships

https://hogg.utexas.edu/history-of-the-ima-hogg-scholarships

Don't Mess with Texas Social Workers

https://hogg.utexas.edu/dont-mess-with-texas-social-workers

Announcing 2022 Ima Hogg Scholarship Recipients

https://hogg.utexas.edu/hogg-scholarship-recipients-2022

Mental Health and Social Policy: A Q&A with Benita Bamgbade

https://hogg.utexas.edu/mental-health-and-social-policy-a-qa-with-benita-bamgbade

Public school teaching has never been easy, but the willingness of some lawmakers to crack down on what is taught is unprecedented in recent memory. In Texas, there are signs that lawmakers are ready to follow in the footsteps of Florida, where public school teachers and librarians are now subject to restrictions on books that teach about race, sexual orientation and gender identity. To help us understand what teachers are going through, we talk to Nelva Williamson, an AP African American Studies teacher for Houston Independent School District; and Jesus Sosa, who teaches social studies for Richardson Independent School District.

Public school teaching has never been easy, but the willingness of some lawmakers to crack down on what is taught is unprecedented in recent memory. In Texas, there are signs that lawmakers are ready to follow in the footsteps of Florida, where public school teachers and librarians are now subject to restrictions on books that teach about race, sexual orientation and gender identity. To help us understand what teachers are going through, we talk to Nelva Williamson, an AP African American Studies teacher for Houston Independent School District; and Jesus Sosa, who teaches social studies for Richardson Independent School District.

Related Links:

Mental Health in Schools

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-mental-health-schools

On the Defensive: How Policy Changes Affect Queer Mental Health

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-policy-changes-queer-mental-health

Op Ed: Safe and supportive schools for every Texas student

https://hogg.utexas.edu/op-ed-safe-and-supportive-schools-for-every-texas-student

Op-ed: Uproar over critical race theory should not threaten mental health in schools

https://hogg.utexas.edu/critical-race-theory-mental-health-in-schools

The Hogg Foundation, past and present, wants to know more about the people and communities it aims to impact through its work. But during the 1950's this desire for greater knowledge ran headlong into the social and political climate of the time. \

]'? Beginning in 1954, the Hogg Foundation conducted the Texas Cooperative Youth Study, a large-scale survey of nearly 13,000 high schoolers. It surveyed their attitudes on a range of issues, including segregation and other hot-button social issues of the time. The study took place the same year as the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that mandated the desegregation of public schools. Unexpectedly, the study met with a cold reception. White parents were alarmed by the study’s questions, and this response triggered a backlash that even drew in elements of the anti-communist panic emblematic of the time.

To help us make sense of this moment in Hogg Foundation history, Aviv Rau is a graduate research assistant for the Hogg Foundation and a graduate student in the Information Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin. And Dr. Don Carleton is executive director of the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of, “Red Scare.”

Related links:

Central Texas African American Healthy Minds winners:

https://hogg.utexas.edu/healthy-minds-grants-2023

Hogg History: The First National Congress of Black Professionals in Higher Education

https://hogg.utexas.edu/hogg-history-the-first-national-congress-of-black-professionals-in-higher-education

Hogg and the Story of Texas

https://hogg.utexas.edu/hogg-mental-health-texas

Why History?

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-why-history

From the Archives: Dr. Kenneth Clark on Racism and Child Well-Being

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-dr-kenneth-clark-on-racism-and-child-well-being

From the Archives: Roy Wilkins on The Mental Bondage of Race

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-roy-wilkins

Girls Empowerment Network seeks to “ignite the power in girls by teaching them the skills to thrive and believe in their ability to be unstoppable.” Ana O’Quin is a newly hired policy fellow for Girls Empowerment Network. On this episode she is joined by her policy mentor, Sarah Miller-Fellows, to shed some light on what “unstoppability” for girls looks like in the year 2023, and how the cultivation of girls' confidence in their leadership skills is essential to mental health.

Related links:

Empowering Girls Through Policy

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-empowering-girls-through-policy

A Vision for the Future: Policy Priorities, 2023-2024

https://hogg.utexas.edu/policy-priorities-2023-24

Building Capacity to Advocate for Mental Health Policy

https://hogg.utexas.edu/blog-advocate-mental-health-policy

Policy Fellows Retrospective

https://hogg.utexas.edu/policy-fellows-retrospective

The 88th session of the Texas Legislature kicks off in January. In a time of increasing polarization, mental health stands apart as an issue that lends itself to bipartisan cooperation. But will that be as true in 2023? What can we expect from the Legislature, and what does it mean to do mental health policy in 2023? Joining us to offer some potential answers to these questions is the Hogg Foundation Policy Team: Alison Mohr Boleware, director of policy; Shannon Hoffman, policy program officer; and Angela Ott, policy fellow.

Related links:

Protecting Kids’ Mental Health in a Time of Polarization

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-social-emotional-learning

Lessons Learned on Public Policy

https://hogg.utexas.edu/lessons-learned-on-public-policy

Young and Invincible

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-young-and-invincible

Empowering Girls through Policy

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-empowering-girls-through-policy

In our What Happened to You? series, we are looking at trauma, at both the individual and community level. COVID-19 has been a generational trauma, affecting children, families, communities, and whole societies. Health care workers have been among the most deeply impacted. For this episode we’re looking at the traumatic impact of COVID on health care workers, through the lens of a concept known as "moral injury." Our two guests are University of Texas at Austin professors Dr. Robert Prentice, professor of business ethics at the McCombs School of Business; and Dr. Read Pierce, professor of internal medicine at Dell Medical School.

Episode 139: What Happened to You? Part II: Why We Talk About it

https://hogg.utexas.edu/what-happened-to-you-part-ii-why-we-talk-about-it

Episode 138: What Happened to You, Part I: Back to School (with Trauma)

https://hogg.utexas.edu/what-happened-to-you-part-1

Episode 118: Children in 2021: Grief and Loss

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-children-in-2021

It’s hard to miss the multitude of public conversations about personal trauma taking place these days. Once a very privately held concern, discussing Discussing personal trauma and its long-term impact has become markedly less stigmatized. Increasingly, public discussion is considered empowering, humanizing, and helpful to others with similar experiences.

In the second of our series of podcasts addressing the relationship between trauma and well-being, we Into the Fold host Ike Evans speaks with Dr. Bruce Perry, co-author with Oprah Winfrey of the recent best-selling book, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, about the increased openness and evolving approach to understanding trauma.

Episode 138: What Happened to You, Part I: Back to School (with Trauma)

https://hogg.utexas.edu/what-happened-to-you-part-1

Episode 133: Gender-Affirming Care is Trauma-Informed Care

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-gender-affirming-care-trauma-informed-care

Episode 118: Children in 2021

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-children-in-2021

Sustainable Support for Grieving Students

https://hogg.utexas.edu/what-we-do/success-stories/sustainable-support-for-grieving-students

On Trauma and Children’s Mental Health

https://hogg.utexas.edu/trauma_conference

Triggered by Lights: Red, White, and Blue

https://hogg.utexas.edu/triggered-by-lights-red-white-and-blue

it has been two months since the horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Tragedies like Uvalde are always a chance to revisit what we mean by “safety,” and where mental health fits in to that. And lest we forget, the worst of the COVID pandemic may be over for most kids, but that can't erase the more than 10.5 million children worldwide who have lost one or both parents during the coronavirus pandemic. In this episode we explore the persisting effects on Texas kids of these two recent disasters. The first segment is an interview with Texas Tribune's Brian Lopez about the aftemath of the UValde shooting. In the second segment we hear from Rosie Guzman and Sandy Salinas, both with Communities in Schools of Laredo, a Hogg Foundation grant partner.

Related links:

For Uvalde, Sympathy is Not Enough

https://hogg.utexas.edu/for-uvalde-sympathy-is-not-enough

COVID-19 and Our Schools

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-covid-19-and-our-schools

Children in 2021

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-children-in-2021

Sustainable Support for Grieving Students

https://hogg.utexas.edu/what-we-do/success-stories/sustainable-support-for-grieving-students

Episode 87: Mental Health and School Safety: Finding the Balance

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-mental-health-and-school-safety

Episode 129: Protecting Kids’ Mental Health in a Time of Polarization

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-social-emotional-learning

In the summer of 2022 the Hogg Foundation teamed up with the Bullock Museum of Texas to contribute to their summer of programming on mental health. In June of 2022, Hogg Foundation executive director Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., and Dr. Bill Bush, Texas A&M professor of history and author of Circuit Riders for Mental Health: The Hogg Foundation and Twentieth Century Texas, were the featured guests in a webinar presented by the Bullock Museum. Their conversation connects the past and present of mental health, and shows how building an effective, person-centered mental health system in Texas is a project that spans generations.

Related links:

Hogg State Hospital Archives Project

https://hogg.utexas.edu/hogg-foundation-awards-260000-for-austin-state-hospital-archives

Bullock Museum Webinar: Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr. and Dr. William Bush

https://utexas.box.com/s/9jpu7bkky2t4tz6uzw30xszarnh18rkj

Episode 25: Circuit Riders for Mental Health

Into the Fold, Episode 25: Circuit Riders for Mental Health

The Hogg Foundation: 80 Years of Texas Resilience

https://hogg.utexas.edu/the-hogg-foundation-80-years-of-texas-resilience

In Their Words: Mental Health Then and Now

https://hogg.utexas.edu/mental-health-then-and-now

As we close Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, we take a look at one of the most vital domains for the exploration of lived mental health experience: art. Our guest is Velta Brenya, a recent graduate from The University of Texas at Austin, and her unique project: The Double Diversity Digital Art Gallery. Velta created the Double Diversity Digital Art Gallery to highlight the experiences of Black, neurodiverse college students.

In a bonus segment, we preview next month's podcast interview with Adrian Fowler, the first Black program officer to work for the Hogg Foundation.

Related links:

Episode 69: Mental Health and the Musician's Life

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-musician-mental-health

Double Diversity Digital Art Gallery

https://doublediversityart.wixsite.com/dddag/about

"The Flower that Grew from Concrete" (first art piece discussed in the episode)

https://doublediversityart.wixsite.com/dddag/see-the-art?pgid=l43conqk-20a2a177-9b36-4314-8019-7dd1ff2a0bb8

"Veiled Woman in Fron of State Capitol" (second art piece discussed in the episode)

https://doublediversityart.wixsite.com/dddag/see-the-art?pgid=l43conqk-030d245f-9217-4943-8a54-8083f5c62918