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Along with highly competitive benefits, HHSC offers rewarding careers with a strong sense of mission: to protect the health and safety of people receiving long-term care in settings such as nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Personal care attendants — also known as community attendants, personal care assistants and direct service workers — help people with disabilities live independently in their own homes and communities.

The Office of the State Forensic Director (OSFD) works at the intersection of behavioral health and justice systems to improve the statewide coordination and oversight of forensic services and prevent justice-involvement for people with mental illness, substance use disorders, and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The purpose of the Council is to advise Health and Human Services Commission and the legislature on research, diagnosis, treatment and education related to pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.

  Texas lawmakers have approved almost $1 billion of new construction for the state psychiatric hospitals. These projects will modernize the facilities where Texans come to heal and increase the capacity of our state hospitals. Best-care practices require modern facilities and that means replacing some older buildings, especially at Austin State Hospital, where a new 240-bed hospital will be built.