{"id":9747,"date":"2012-08-06T18:25:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T18:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=9747"},"modified":"2012-08-08T13:19:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T13:19:55","slug":"alum-professor-come-together-to-fight-mental-illness-in-central-texas-and-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2012\/08\/alum-professor-come-together-to-fight-mental-illness-in-central-texas-and-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum, professor come together to fight mental illness in Central Texas and abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"mhga2-aug12\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mhga2-aug12.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Padilla and Matt Stanford\" width=\"180\" \/>Helping those with mental health challenges is a passion of Baylor alums Joe Padilla, BA &#8217;95, and Dr. Matt Stanford, BS &#8217;88, MA &#8217;90, PhD &#8217;92, founders of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalhealthgracealliance.org\" target=\"_blank\">Mental Health Grace Alliance<\/a>. Working in tandem, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalhealthgracealliance.org\/mental-health-grace-alliance-about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">the two<\/a> have turned this passion into a mission-minded non-profit organization dedicated to helping others.<\/p>\n<p>Because both Padilla and Stanford believe in a holistic approach to treatment, they have been purposeful about establishing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalhealthgracealliance.org\/partnership-for-mental-health\/\" target=\"_blank\">partnerships with other mental health agencies<\/a> in addition to providing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalhealthgracealliance.org\/christian-mental-illness-support-groups-services\/\" target=\"_blank\">a host of services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from Baylor, Padilla and his wife, Jessica, worked overseas with Antioch Ministries International. In 2009, though, Padilla began researching and implementing a holistic recovery process for his wife, who suffered from ever-increasing mental health challenges. Through this approach, Jessica made remarkable process, and today she leads an active and full life.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Stanford is a professor of psychology, neuroscience and biomedical studies at Baylor. An accomplished author, he has been published in such outlets as\u00a0<em>USA Today<\/em> and <em>The New York Times<\/em>. His writings are inspired by the questions he receives from people of faith when working with those affected by a variety of illnesses, including personality disorders and traumatic brain injury.<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated to putting hands and feet to faith, both founders have also spent time in Libya in the past year in conjunction with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actsofmercyinternational.org\/#\/crisis-in-libya\" target=\"_blank\">Acts of Mercy<\/a>. Working with refugee groups, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalhealthgracealliance.org\/mental-illness\/mental-health-training-in-libya\/\" target=\"_blank\">PTSD training and support groups<\/a> have been instituted for Libyans who continue to recover from the revolutionary war.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Joe and Matt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helping those with mental health challenges is a passion of Baylor alums Joe Padilla, BA &#8217;95, and Dr. Matt Stanford, BS &#8217;88, MA &#8217;90, PhD &#8217;92, founders of Mental Health Grace Alliance. Working in tandem, the two have turned this passion into a mission-minded non-profit organization dedicated to helping others. Because both Padilla and Stanford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}