Engagement Report 2014

Engagement Report 2014 ADVANCING RECOVERY AND WELLNESS IN TEXAS FOR 75 YEARS n 1940 – 2 0 1 5 Message from the n The voices of consumers and their families Our other approach in this report is to take are at the center of the conversation. a deeper look at one particular facet of how Our Mission Executive Director n Recovery and wellness are the goal for the Hogg Foundation has evolved over the past everyone. The Hogg Foundation for n n n n few years, in rather unexpected ways. We do n Physical and mental health are treated as this through a feature on how the hiring of our Mental Health advances Dear Friends and Colleagues, indivisible aspects of the whole person. two consumer and family liaisons, Tammy mental wellness for the years ago, when n Health equity, and cultural and linguistic Heinz and Stephany Bryan, has helped locate people of Texas as an Ima Hogg devoted competency, are the rule rather than the the consumer voice, and the principles of impactful grantmaker and 75 exception. her brother Will’s legacy to recovery, right at the heart of everything the catalyst for change. establishing the Hogg These aren’t the words Miss Ima would have foundation does. Foundation for Mental used in 1940. Nor should they be, if we aspire As you read through the report, I hope Our Vision Health, she had a simple but to be as innovative and far-seeing in our time you’ll get a better sense of who we are, what profound vision of the kind as Miss Ima was in hers. Yet they remain in the we’re doing, and why it’s been such a privilege The Hogg Foundation for of future she hoped the foundation would help spirit of what she lived, believed and worked and honor for me personally to serve as Mental Health will invest bring into existence. toward. And our commitment, to serving the executive director of the Hogg Foundation for our knowledge and It was a future in which people with people of Texas, remains inspired by her the past six years. resources to move Texas mental health challenges would be treated lifetime of dedication. I also hope you’ll be inspired to become an forward in achieving with respect and dignity, and mental health In this engagement report, we’re exploring ally of ours, if you’re not one already, in the mental wellness. would be seen as indivisible from all other that tension—between our origins, our evolu- ongoing effort to bring into being the Texas aspects of a flourishing and healthy life. tion, and our future—in two ways. that Miss Ima envisioned all those years ago. Over the decades, Texas has come some One is through the lens of our 75th Core Values distance toward realizing that vision, in no anniversary, and its theme of Past, Present, Best regards, n Steward Miss Ima’s vision small part thanks to the work the Hogg and Future. The past is represented by an n Act with integrity Foundation and its allies have done. essay from historian William S. Bush, on the There’s still a long way to go, however, and founding vision of the Hogg Foundation. n Create impact it’s a testament to the farsightedness of Miss The present is alive in the extraordinary Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., Ima’s vision that the future we’re hoping to portraits of our grantees shot by photographer F.A.P.A. achieve, from our vantage point in the second Wyatt McSpadden, who has been documenting Executive Director, Hogg Foundation for decade of the 21st century, looks very much the soul of Texas for more than three decades. Mental Health like the one she envisioned at our founding. And we peer into the future with current and Associate Vice President, Division of Diversity At the heart of our vision, as we see it now, former members of our National Advisory and Community Engagement is a person, family, and community-centered Council, who give us their take on the future Clinical Professor, School of Social Work THIS PAGE: Ima Hogg at age 12 mental health care system in which: of mental health in America. The University of Texas at Austin Hogg Foundation For Mental HealtH 1 Table of Contents Focus on Mental Health A Founding Vision n n n n n n n n We sent photographer Wyatt McSpadden on the By William S. BuSh focuS on menTal healTh road to capture portraits of our amazing grantees. by Wyatt McSpadden 2 he original vision for the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health from el Paso to Jacksonville, capturing hogg grantees s part of our 75th anniversary celebrations, we sounds deceptively simple: Provide a “mental health program for on their home turf. wanted to honor our grantees—the people who help a the people of Texas.” These were the words found in the Hogg us make recovery and wellness a reality in Texas. We also T wanted to highlight the diversity of the work we support, family’s bequest to the University of Texas in July 1939, which provided a founding viSion and the diversity of Texas environments in which it’s done. an endowment of $2.5 million. The birth of the Foundation during the by William S. Bush 3 So we enlisted photographer Wyatt mcSpadden to hit subsequent year marked a number of “firsts.” It was the first profession- Texas a&m historian Bill Bush looks back at the the road to take ally managed foundation in Texas, the first private foundation to be foundation’s origins. environmental portraits housed within a public university, and the first private foundation dedi- of grantees who are cated solely to the cause of mental health. As for what it would mean, in W h aT W e Ta l k a B o u T W h e n doing work in each of practice, to be first—that may have presented the greatest challenge of all. 7 We Talk aBouT menTal healTh the foundation’s four The phrase “mental health”—more often stated as “mental hygiene” at by Ike Evans strategic areas. the time of the Foundation’s inauguration—was largely unknown in Texas. members of the national advisory council look toward During the first decade of the twentieth century, the idea had emerged out the future of mental health in america. LEFT : Jim Lemon is the peer support coordinator of a national movement based in the northeastern United States. Led by for the East Texas Coali- the National Committee for Mental Hygiene (NCMH), the movement tion for Mental Health Walking The Walk Recovery. The rest of counted among its numbers former patients in mental hospitals, psychia- 12 by Daniel Oppenheimer McSpadden’s portraits are trists, psychologists, social workers, elected officials, judges, journalists, The hogg foundation hired two consumers as full-time sprinkled throughout this and prominent citizens such as Ima Hogg, who helped found the Texas program staff, changing the organization to its core. report; you can find them on pages 5, 6, 9, 10, and 19. Society for Mental Hygiene in 1934. Ima Hogg (“Miss Ima” to her contemporaries) became interested in By The numBerS Wyatt mcSpadden is a native Texan with a wealth of experience mental health after her own personal experiences with emotional trauma. photographing the down and out, the high and mighty, and everyone endowment, total giving, and initiative-specific giving for 2012-14. As a child, Miss Ima toured Texas’ mental hospitals with her father, 20 in between, often as not for Texas monthly magazine, which has been featuring his work in its pages since 1978. in 2009 the Ima Hogg became Governor James Stephen Hogg, during his two terms (1890-1895). She university of Texas Press published Texas BBQ, the fruit of the two interested in formed friendships with some of the children she met in those hospitals, decades mcSpadden has spent crisscrossing the state photograph- mental health after while her father read widely in the scholarly literature on mental illness. ing family-owned barbecue establishments. her own personal experiences with Miss Ima would see both of her parents pass away prematurely, while she emotional trauma. was studying psychology at the University of Texas. A protracted bout with depression led Miss Ima’s physicians to refer 2 Hogg Foundation For Mental HealtH Hogg Foundation For Mental HealtH 3 Honoring grantees her to experts in the new field of psychotherapy in the early 1920s. This experts on mental health, and in hiring as the led Miss Ima to the office of Austin Fox Riggs, one of the more prominent Foundation’s first director Robert Lee Suther- therapists and public advocates for mental health in the United States. land, an academician trained at the University FOCUS ON: From Riggs, Miss Ima learned about “positive mental health” for “every- of Chicago’s respected sociology program. day living.” She also was brought into contact with the NCMH and mental The result of this collaboration of public Promoting health consultants at the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the new profes- intellectuals, academic leaders, and prominent Dialogue and sionally managed philanthropies that emerged in the early twentieth philanthropists was a unique vision commen- Learning century. Inspired by the mental health movement, Miss Ima helped found surate with a unique organization. The Hogg the Houston Child Guidance Center in 1929. Foundation for Mental Health, in its early To promote the It was during this period that Miss Ima began to develop her vision years, would mount a massive public education exchange of ideas for mental health.

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