Building a Resilient Future: What’s Next for Mental Health Advocacy

This is Part 2 of the conversation we began with last month's Episode 169, Navigating Systemic Shifts: Policy Changes That Impact Mental Health Care. We want to know, from those doing the work, what feels different about doing mental health policy in 2025. For this episode, we bring back our guests Mandi Zapata of Texas Civil Rights Project, Noah Jones of Texas Counseling Association, and Maia Volk of Disability Rights Texas. This time we’re focusing more on the personal stakes of doing policy work in a challenging environment. 

In a bonus segment, we revisit a conversation from 2023, about Girls Empowerment Network and what their experience has to teach us about the future of public policy.

Episode 169 - Navigating Systemic Shifts: Policy Changes That Impact Mental Health Care

Related links:

• https://hogg.utexas.edu/texas-mental-health-guide
• https://hogg.utexas.edu/the-purpose-of-policy-work-in-a-divisive-time
• https://hogg.utexas.edu/the-future-of-recovery
• https://hogg.utexas.edu/2-million-awarded-to-train-mental-health-policy-fellows-in-texas
• https://hogg.utexas.edu/mental-health-goes-back-to-school
• https://hogg.utexas.edu/hogg-foundation-statement-on-migrant-mental-health