This year’s census is extraordinarily for one main reason. It is taking place under the shadow of a public health emergency: coronavirus, which is currently consuming people’s attention here in the U.S. and worldwide. Our two guests, Katie Martin Lightfoot and Ava Graves, join us to discuss Census 2020 in general and in the impact of coronavirus in particular.

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Texas Communities Count

https://hogg.utexas.edu/initiatives/texas-communities-count

In honor of Women’s History Month, this episode of Into the Fold features the voices of three extraordinary women in the Hogg Foundation’s history. First, we hear from Bert Kruger Smith, the longtime host of the Human Condition radio series, and her interview guest, Efua Sutherland, the Ghanaian playwright, director, researcher and children’s rights advocate. We also hear from former employee of the Hogg Foundation, Linda Swan-Adkins, whose eye-witness account of the tragic 1966 UT tower shooting is an important piece of Texas history.

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Episode 77: Consumer Voice: Its Role in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-consumer-voice

Episode 33: Nightmare at Noon - The UT Tower Shooting

https://hogg.utexas.edu/nightmare-at-noon-the-ut-tower-shooting

This episode of Into the Fold takes place against the backdrop of the 20th anniversary of the annual Central Texas African American Family Support Conference (CTAAFSC), where we talked with two of the event’s keynote speakers Dr. King Davis, and Dr. Altha J. Stewart, about historic issues of race in psychiatry and the importance of defining health equity as a matter of social justice.

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Episode 11: The Central Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-patricia-galloway-on-historic-digital-archive-of-psychiatric-hospital-records-from-segregated-era

Episode 26: King Davis on the Segregated Past, the Fractured Present

https://hogg.utexas.edu/into-the-fold-episode-26-king-davis-on-the-segregated-past-the-fractured-present

Hogg Foundation Launches Healthy Minds Grants for African American Mental Health, Well-being

https://hogg.utexas.edu/hogg-foundation-launches-healthy-minds-grants-for-african-american-mental-health-well-being

February is Youth Leadership Month. In this episode of Into the Fold, we talk with three young people who are change-makers in their communities. Through two of the Hogg Foundation’s latest initiatives, these youths have been empowered to embrace new leadership opportunities to help improve their neighborhoods and communities. Our three guests, Kam’rin Christal, Cristina Figueroa, and Ricky Longoria, share their experiences with us and offer wisdom on how to further cultivate youth leadership across communities.

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Episode 88: Young Minds Matter

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-young-minds-matter

Robert Lee Sutherland Seminar 2019: Working Together for Rural Well-being

https://hogg.utexas.edu/events-networks/rls-seminar

Communities of Care

https://hogg.utexas.edu/initiatives/communities-of-care-houston

Collaborative Approaches to Well-being in Rural Communities

https://hogg.utexas.edu/initiatives/collaborative-approaches-well-being-rural-communities

In observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th, this episode of Into the Fold features an interview from a late 1970s episode of the Human Condition, a radio series produced by the Hogg Foundation between 1972 and 1983. Longtime host of the Human Condition, Bert Kruger Smith, speaks with eminent Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg, who died in 2007, about the conditions that led to the Holocaust and what happened in the minds of the people committing atrocities in the name of the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem.

Across medicine, psychiatry, and neurology, it was long believed that the immune system held sway over every system in the body - except for the brain. In this episode of Into the Fold, we discuss the newly understood role of microglial cells, which are brain cells that, according to groundbreaking scientific research, prove the interconnectedness of our bodies’ and our minds’ regulatory systems, disrupting centuries-old assumptions about mental, cognitive, and physical health issues. Award-winning journalist Donna Jackson Nakazawa returns to the podcast to discuss the implications of this discovery and her new book, The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell that Changed the Course of Medicine.

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Episode 17, Childhood Disrupted

https://soundcloud.com/hoggfoundation/episode-17-childhood-disrupted

Episode 32: Early Intervention in Psychosis

https://hogg.utexas.edu/early-intervention-in-psychosis

Episode 74: First Episode Psychosis: A Path for Better Outcomes

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-first-episode-psychosis

For many indigenous Americans, Thanksgiving is not just problematic -- it commemorates genocide, dispossession, forced removal, and cultural erasure. This emotional gauntlet has mental health implications that we will be discussing in this episode. For this discussion, we are joined by Angela Vela-Arce, master's student at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work and director of the Native American and Indigenous Collective, which is part of the Multicultural Engagement Center at UT Austin. Angela brings a perspective on indigenous mental health that speaks to the experiences of young people and indigenous students on campus.

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Episode 67: Supporting DACA Students

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

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

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

Episode 88: Young Minds Matter

https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-young-minds-matter

This episode takes place against the backdrop of Young Minds Matter 2019, a one-day conference held by the Hogg Foundation in Houston, Texas on Oct. 23, 2019. The theme for the event was “Community Connections for Well-being.” We unpack what that phrase means with the help of three powerful, unique voices from the event: Marlon Lizama, a Houston spoken word artist and co-founder of the Iconoclast Artists program that empowers youth through the arts; Dr. Howard Pinderhughes, chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Science at University of California San Francisco; and Dr. Nia West-Bey, a senior policy analyst with the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). Weaving together strands that include themes of historical and cultural trauma, personal narrative, poetry and social science, these conversations converge on the central question: What does it truly mean to care about young minds?

Related links:

Young Minds Matter 2019

https://hogg.utexas.edu/events-networks/young-minds-matter

Young Minds Matter: Historical and Cultural Trauma

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

Episode 65: The Past Does Matter: A Look at Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome

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

Episode 36: Youth in Transition: From Support to Empowerment

https://hogg.utexas.edu/transition-age-youth

Leading into the 86th Texas Legislative Session, much attention was given to the topics of mental health and safety in schools. Recent tragedies, including the Santa Fe High School shooting, emphasized the need to explore how to best support students, their teachers, and our schools as a whole. Senate Bill 11 (SB11), a major focus of this session, aimed to address safe and supportive schools, with mental health being just one component of this legislation.

This week we are joined by Tracey Spinner, Director of Comprehensive Health Services and Mental Health for Austin Independent School District (AISD), and Shannon Hoffman, Policy Program Specialist for the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, to discuss SB11, and the challenges of and strategies for balancing mental health and safety in schools.

Related links:

Episode 42: Mental Health in Schools

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

Episode 22: Restorative Discipline in Schools

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

Healthy Educators for Healthy Kids

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

Finding Common Ground on School Safety

http://hogg.utexas.edu/school-safety

What We Can Do for Our Kids Following the Santa Fe Shooting

http://hogg.utexas.edu/santa-fe-shooting

Mental health in schools is at a tipping point. Here is what needs to happen.

http://hogg.utexas.edu/mental-health-in-schools

The troubling issue of youth suicide has emerged as a top-level concern for the community of Brooks County, Texas. Located in far South Texas, Brooks is one of the most underserved regions in the state. Ranked next-to-last out of 242 Texas counties on overall health outcomes by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Brooks County has a 32 percent poverty rate amid a 90 percent Hispanic population.

The month of September is Suicide Awareness Month. We're taking a look at suicide as a community-level problem, one that calls for community-level solutions. April Anzaldua, Project Director for the Behavioral and Health Outreach Leadership Development (BHOLD) Project, joins us for a discussion of the challenges and strengths of Brooks County youth in the context of her collaborative work.

Related links:

Reflections from the Working Together for Rural Well-being Seminar

http://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-rls-reflections

Five Rural Counties on a Mental Health Mission

http://hogg.utexas.edu/five-rural-counties

Collaborative Approaches to Well-being in Rural Communities

http://hogg.utexas.edu/initiatives/collaborative-approaches-well-being-rural-communities

Understanding Rural Communities

http://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-mental-health-rural-communities