Good Afternoon Everyone,
It’s Ana Yáñez-Correa from the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition (TCJC), and I’m excited to share a survey invitation with you.
TCJC was invited by the Meadows
Foundation to assist in distributing a 9-question,
anonymous survey related to mental health. Specifically, the
Foundation is considering the establishment of a Mental Health Policy Research
Institute in Texas, and the survey asks individuals in Texas about the
particular needs for such an Institute.
The Meadows Foundation will be collecting responses
until Friday, August 24, 2012.
You will find more information about the
logistics and goals of the survey in the message below from Linda Perryman
Evans, President of the Foundation:
Dear Colleague:
As someone whose insights and
opinions we respect, we invite your assistance as we undertake an important
project. The Meadows Foundation, a private family foundation created to
serve the people of Texas, is committed to improving mental health services for
Texans. As part of our current strategic plan, we are considering the
idea of establishing a Mental Health Policy Research Institute to conduct
high quality and objective policy research and development to improve Texas'
public mental health system. (A copy of our Mental Health Strategic Plan
can be found here.)
To help us in our
deliberations, we are seeking advice and input from key behavioral health stakeholders
and other thought leaders across Texas. Specifically, we are asking
you to help us answer the following questions:
1. Is there a need for an institute to focus on policy research and
development for the mental health system in Texas, and if so, how could this be
used to benefit Texas?
2. What are the primary policy issues, immediate and long-term, related
to mental health services in Texas that such an institute could be helpful in
addressing?
3. What is the appropriate role for a foundation such as ours in creating
a Texas Mental Health Policy Research Institute?
To assist us in this phase of our study, we have engaged the TriWest
Group to conduct an online survey of interested stakeholders. All
responses are being collected by TriWest and will remain anonymous. The
survey will take about 5 minutes to complete. The results of this
study will be posted on the Foundation's website in early 2013.
We greatly value your opinion
and hope you will share your ideas with us. To participate, please follow
this link to the survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s/Version_10.
Thank you,
Linda Perryman Evans
President | The Meadows Foundation
Thank you for your
critical participation in this important project!
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5 comments:
Ana Yáñez-Correa was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States at the age of twelve where she worked as a domestic worker with her mother until she entered college.
Mexico's loss is our gain.
Correct,
Those immigrants that are coming to this country to better their lives, go to school, work hard and make careers for themselves I want in this country.
Blessings on Ana. Thanks for coming to our country and the improvement that you bring to our nation.
I don't know what the hell any of this has to do with the friggin Post but I guess two of you do and that's what matters. I was born here in the great state of confussion AKA - TEXAS or was it TEJAS and never been thanked for staying.
And now for something completely different. Back to the GFB Comment Section regarding the content of the Guest Blogger's Post.
Thanks for the info. Ana.
The MH policies you want to create will affect who or what exactly? Hope this does not involve the use of tax payer dollars now or down the line.
Good question. Perhaps these policies will save taxpayer money in the long run - like fewer inmates.
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