A real estate investment firm in Fort Worth is doing something good to change how mental health is understood, diagnosed, and treated in Tarrant County. <\/p>\n
Sisters Susan Miller and Jessica Miller Essl co-founded M2GVentures<\/a>. A personal family heartbreak then motivated them to launch a social impact project called Soar<\/a>. They wanted to build a funding model around mental health needs that are critical but often overlooked.<\/p>\n Their effort just took a big step forward. <\/p>\n They announced a new partnership with the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute to launch the Tarrant County Trauma and Grief Collaborative. <\/p>\n The initiative will expand access to proven trauma- and grief-informed care for North Texas children and families by training school- and community-based professionals to better support children in navigating grief and loss.<\/p>\n A news release announcing the partnership cites a local needs assessment conducted by the Meadows Institute that showed an estimated 78,000 Tarrant County youth ages 10 to 19 experience the death of a loved one each year. At the same time, more than 58,000 are exposed to multiple traumatic events. Yet few school- and community-based treatment settings are equipped to provide evidence-based trauma and grief care.<\/p>\n Over the three-year project, the TAG Center plans to train at least 180 school-and community-based clinicians across Tarrant County through annual learning collaboratives focused on Trauma and Grief Component Therapy and Multidimensional Grief Therapy (the nation\u2019s only evidence-based treatment specifically designed for childhood grief). <\/p>\n Those clinicians are expected to serve approximately 1,440 young people, creating a wider and more sustainable network of care where children already spend their time.<\/p>\n The collaborative will also offer workshops for parents, caregivers, and educators to help them recognize signs of traumatic stress and grief, understand when a child may need additional support, and make timely referrals for treatment. <\/p>\n As clinicians deliver care, standardized outcome data will flow back to the TAG Center, allowing researchers to evaluate what is working, refine interventions, and continually strengthen the model in a cycle that connects research to training, training to treatment, and treatment back to better research.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we started Soar, it came from something deeply personal: the belief that no family should face a mental health crisis without the right support in place. Every partnership since has been chosen with that same conviction: find the people already doing the deepest, most important work, and give them the resources to go further. The Meadows Institute and the TAG Center represent exactly that. This partnership isn\u2019t just an expansion of what Soar does; it\u2019s a signal of what Soar has become: a long-term investor in the mental health of this community through research, advocacy, and community building,\u201d Essl said in the release. <\/p>\n The search for Soar\u2019s newest partner began after the devastating 2025 Central Texas floods underscored how urgently families need both immediate mental health support and long-term pathways to healing after trauma and loss. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A real estate investment firm in Fort Worth is doing something good to change how mental health is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1010816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,11361,39263,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1010815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-good-news","tag-something-good","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117122347024572919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}