Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
Isra Merchant, LMSW, currently serves as a Senior Project Manager at Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, where responsibilities include developing a comprehensive training curriculum for mental health services and organizing statewide training on cultural responsiveness for Youth Crisis Outreach Teams. Previous roles include Project Manager for the Center for Health System Transformation, where leadership of a team and successful grant proposals were key accomplishments, and Social Work Intern at UNICEF, focusing on child and maternal health data analysis. Additional experience encompasses case management and legislative work, including management of a district office for a Texas Representative. Isra holds a Master of Social Work from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in International/Global Studies from Texas A&M University.
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
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The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that supports the implementation of policies and programs that help Texans obtain effective, efficient mental health care when and where they need it. The Institute’s vision is for Texas to be the national leader in treating people with mental health needs. The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute provides high quality, nonpartisan and objective policy research and development to improve mental health services in Texas. It’s about more than funding at the state level. It’s about leveraging our resources statewide at a grassroots level – sharing best practices, making resources available, accessing information, building protocol – and then using that information to help those who need it most. It’s time to change how we think about mental health and change our state of mind.