There is currently a strong push in Texas toward diverting people with mental health conditions away from the criminal justice system and into treatment. This is the good news. The bad news is that the demand for flexible, evidence-based, person-centered mental health treatment far outpaces the supply. The state's forensic system is a case in point. In this episode Limestone County Sheriff Dennis Wilson and Kevin Garrett of Texas Jail Project share their complementary perspectives on the issue--one a lawman, the other a person with lived experience of the system.

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Hogg Policy Fellows

https://hogg.utexas.edu/what-we-do/policy-engagement/policy-fellows-academy

Episode 28: Jail and Mental Health

https://hogg.utexas.edu/episode-28-jail-and-mental-health

Episode 23: Talking about Forensic Mental Health

https://soundcloud.com/hoggfoundation/into-the-fold-episode-23-talking-about-forensic-mental-health

To say that the media has a public trust problem, earned or not, is an understatement. How should we evaluate the media’s coverage of the pandemic, and how can we all become more savvy media consumers? Joining us to help make sense of these questions is Dr. Timothy Caulfield, Professor of Law at University of Alberta, Canada, Research Director of the Health Law Institute and current Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. He is the author of the national bestseller The Cure for Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness and Happiness (Penguin 2012) and Relax, Dammit!: A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety (Penguin Random House, 2020).

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Episode 40: Mental Health and Media: Stop Raising Awareness Already

https://hogg.utexas.edu/mental-health-and-media

Schools have become a flashpoint in the larger debate about how we balance living our lives and keeping ourselves safe during the time of COVID-19. Schools serve as crucial bridge between families, young people, and essential services and community resources. They are also increasingly sites of mental health care. In this episode of Into the Fold we hear from Tasha Moore, Chief Strategy Officer of Communities in Schools of North Texas, which specializes in dropout prevention, and Suki Steinhauser, CEO of Communities in Schools of Central Texas, who share some wisdom about keeping kids in school at a time when ‘school’ no longer means what it used to.

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Related links:

Episode 22: Restorative Discipline in Schools

https://hogg.utexas.edu/into-the-fold-episode-22-restorative-discipline-in-schools

Episode 42: Mental Health in Schools

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

Improving Academic Achievement through Mental Health

https://hogg.utexas.edu/initiatives/academic-achievement-mental-health

Healthy Educators for Healthy Kids

https://hogg.utexas.edu/what-we-do/success-stories/student-mental-health

Substance misuse has long been a pain point on college campuses, and the University of Texas at Austin is no different. This week we talked with an organization that is pushing back against the engrained belief that substance misuse is a “rite of passage” for college students, and instead is offering a holistic model for shifting the conversation around substance use on campus. Kate Lower, Director of SHIFT, joins us to discuss the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on patterns of substance use among college students during this time of increased environmental changes and isolation.

Related links:

3 Things to Know: Recovery

https://hogg.utexas.edu/3-things-to-know-recovery

In Their Words: On Recovery

https://hogg.utexas.edu/in-their-words-on-recovery

Episode 51: The Social Entrepreneurship Model

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-recovery-social-entrepreneurship

This week we are joined by Dr. Eric Tang, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Director of the Center for Asian American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. We discuss COVID-19 and Asian Americans, especially now that the pandemic has brought to the forefront many of our nation’s deep xenophobic biases that harm Asian people of color in the United States, including here on the University of Texas at Austin campus.

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Episode 100: Black Lives Matter

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-black-lives-matter

Episode 13: Deportation Threat and the Children of the Undocumented

https://soundcloud.com/hoggfoundation/into-the-fold-episode-13

Episode 45: Deportation Anxiety for Today’s Young Adults

http://hogg.utexas.edu/deportation-anxiety-young-adults-podcast

Episode 85: Refugee Resilience and Well-being: A Voice from the Field

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-refugee-resilience-and-well-being

Episode 57: Supporting Our Dreamers

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-supporting-daca-students

In this milestone 100th episode of Into the Fold, we dive into the topic of racism and historical trauma with a panel of experts. We are joined by three former podcast guests: Dr. Christen Smith, an associate professor of African and Diaspora Studies and Anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin; Dr. Ryan Sutton, director of the Heman Sweatt Center for Black Males at The University of Texas at Austin; and Latasha Taylor, a mental health organizer and former Hogg Foundation Policy Fellow. Together, we discuss the impact of police brutality on African American mental health and ways non-Black allies can best support their friends and the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Episode 65: The Past Does Matter: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-the-past-does-matter

Episode 56: Police Violence and Black Women’s Health

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-police-violence-black-women-health-part1

Episode 53: From Advocacy to Mobilization: the Role of the Marginalized

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

Episode 34: Mental Health and the Black Student Athlete

https://hogg.utexas.edu/black-student-athlete-mental-health

Young Minds Matter: Historical and Cultural Trauma

https://hogg.utexas.edu/historical-and-cultural-trauma

With COVID-19 putting unprecedented stress on our already overburdened systems of support for older people, the need to provide for the mental and physical health of this population has reached a critical level. On this episode of the podcast, we are joined for the second time by licensed clinical social worker Carly Bassett, who specializes in mental health care for older adults.

Related links:

Understanding Mental Health in Older Adults

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-elderly-mental-heath

How Transportation Affects the Mental Health of Nursing Home Residents

https://hogg.utexas.edu/vivian-miller-nursing-home-health

The Health Cost of Aging in America

https://hogg.utexas.edu/the-health-cost-of-aging-in-america

May is Children’s Mental Health Month. Today we are talking about COVID-19 and its effect on children, youth, and families. In the state of Texas, schools have been shut down since mid-March. Millions of children and adolescents have been sheltering at home. Just as much as kids have never needed more attention, parents have never needed more of a break. On top of that, we have good reason to believe that home is necessarily the safest place for kids.

To help make sense of it all, we are joined by a pair of Austin-based experts who come at this from the perspectives of both healthcare professionals and parents. Dr. Allison Hall is a pediatric physical therapist and the CEO/founder of My Kid Blooms, a digital resource for parents to find pediatric and OB/GYN health-related information and professionals that match the needs of their families. Dr. Nakia Scott is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and the owner of Holistic Mental Health.

Related links:

COVID-19: Protecting Kids from the Fear Pandemic

http://hogg.utexas.edu/covid-19-protecting-kids-from-the-fear-pandemic

The Inequality of COVID-19

http://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-the-inequality-of-covid-19

We Protect Health By Prioritizing Equity

http://hogg.utexas.edu/we-protect-health-by-prioritizing-equity

Elder Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19

http://hogg.utexas.edu/elder-mental-health-in-the-time-of-covid-19

Behavioral Health Equity in the Time of COVID-19

http://hogg.utexas.edu/behavioral-health-equity-in-the-time-of-covid-19

Sheltering in Uncertainty: Coping with COVID-19

http://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-sheltering-in-uncertainty-coping-with-covid19

Census 2020 in the Time of Coronavirus

http://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-census-2020-in-the-time-of-coronavirus

It is fashionable to say that coronavirus doesn't discriminate, but this may be misleading. In fact, there is compelling data suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting some communities harder than others. A new study conducted by epidemiologists and clinician-researchers from six organizations and universities across the country found that counties with high rates of African American residents comprised 52 percent of all diagnoses and 58 percent of all COVID-19 deaths nationally. According to an analysis by American Public Media Research, blacks, despite making up about 13% of the US population according to the Census Bureau, are 27% of known COVID-19 deaths. In state after state, there is evidence that this pandemic is having a disproportionate effect on people of color, on the economically precarious, and on already stigmatized populations such as the homeless.

These findings may just be the tip of the iceberg. In this episode, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio, representing Texas's 20th congressional district, and Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., executive director of the Hogg Foundation, join us from their respective worlds of politics and philanthropy to discuss the deep social implications of coronavirus through a health equity lens.

Related links

We Protect Health by Prioritizing Health Equity

https://hogg.utexas.edu/we-protect-health-by-prioritizing-equity

Behavioral Health Equity in the Time of COVID-19

https://hogg.utexas.edu/behavioral-health-equity-in-the-time-of-covid-19

Sheltering in Uncertainty: Coping with COVID-19

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-sheltering-in-uncertainty-coping-with-covid19

Census 2020 in the Time of Coronavirus

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-census-2020-in-the-time-of-coronavirus

The coronavirus crisis exposes our society’s weaknesses. It’s time to correct them.

https://hogg.utexas.edu/the-coronavirus-crisis-exposes-our-societys-weaknesses

COVID-19 is the world’s biggest story. It is seriously trying people’s emotional, financial, and even spiritual ability to cope. In this episode of Into the Fold, we are joined by Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt, who has been front and center in coordinating the official response to the pandemic for Travis County, and Carrie Barron, M.D., Director of Creativity for Resilience Program at Dell Medical School, to discuss the reality of the pandemic and strategies for coping with, and hopefully, finding some peace within, this time of uncertainty.

Related links:

Resources for Mental Health and COVID-19

https://hogg.utexas.edu/news-resources/mental-health-and-covid-19

Census 2020 in the Time of Coronavirus

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-census-2020-in-the-time-of-coronavirus

The coronavirus crisis exposes our society’s weaknesses. It’s time to correct them.

https://hogg.utexas.edu/the-coronavirus-crisis-exposes-our-societys-weaknesses

COVID-19: Protecting Kids from the Fear Pandemic

https://hogg.utexas.edu/covid-19-protecting-kids-from-the-fear-pandemic