mental health services

Over the past weeks serious wildfires in Central Texas have caused devasting damages to homes, land and businesses and left many without basic necessities.

Directly or indirectly, it is hard to find someone in our community who has not felt the effects of these fires.

Ten students at Texas graduate social work programs have received $50,000 in special scholarship awards honoring the 70th anniversary of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health.

In recent years the Hogg Foundation has awarded five $5,000 Ima Hogg scholarships annually to graduate social work students who plan to provide mental health services after graduation.

The scholarship [...]

An estimated 10,000 children and youth in high-need areas of Houston and Harris County will receive mental health services in the next three years through a $7.8 million grant initiative funded by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health.

The Austin-based foundation today announced the award of eight grants for community programs involving 27 nonprofit and government [...]

Five Texas graduate students of social work have been awarded the prestigious Ima Hogg Scholarship for Mental Health for the 2009-2010 academic year.

The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health awards up to five $5,000 scholarships annually to students who demonstrate dedication to providing mental health services after graduation.

Applicants must attend an accredited graduate social work [...]

The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health plans to award up to $3 million a year in grants in the next three years to expand and improve mental health services for children and families in Houston and Harris County.

The request for grant proposals can be viewed online at www.hogg.utexas.edu. Proposals are due by June 22.

The [...]

For the first time in its 68-year history, the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health has hired two liaisons to bring the voices of consumers of mental health services and their families to the foundation's strategic planning, grant making, programs and policy activities.

The roles are unique among philanthropic organizations and gained national attention when the foundation [...]

In what is believed to be the first statewide program of its kind, the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health has awarded 28 bilingual scholarships to narrow the gap between the need for Spanish-language mental health services in Texas and the availability of trained professionals to meet those needs.

The foundation awarded nearly $300,000 in the first [...]

Five graduate students of accredited social work programs in Texas will receive a total of $25,000 as recipients of the 2008 Ima Hogg Scholarship for Mental Health.

The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health awards up to five $5,000 scholarships annually to students who demonstrate a strong commitment to providing mental health services after graduation.

Applicants must [...]

The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is joining a national movement to increase the voice of consumers of mental health services and their family members by hiring two advisers who have experienced mental illness and recovery themselves or with family.

The new positions, called consumer and family liaisons, will work with the foundation's other staff, grant [...]

The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Educational Psychology is partnering with Dell Children's Medical Center to create the Texas Child Study Center.

The center will consist of an outpatient clinic that offers children's mental health services, training for mental health professionals and graduate students, intervention services for families and research opportunities for faculty [...]