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Information for Texas providers of Peer Re-entry Pilot Program provides community-based peer services.
Topics: Behavioral Health Services Providers, Mental Health
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Information for Texas providers of Peer Support Services on becoming certified for Peer Support as a Medicaid Benefit.
Topics: Behavioral Health Services Providers, Licensing and Credentialing
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The benefits of Peer Support Services are listed.
Topics: Behavioral Health Services Providers, Mental Health
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A peer is a person with lived experience of recovery from mental illness or addiction. By combining this experience with skills learned in formal training, peer specialists deliver services in behavioral health settings to support long-term recovery.
Topics: Behavioral Health Services Providers, Mental Health
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Peer support is when someone with lived experience gives encouragement and assistance to help someone with mental illness or a substance use disorder achieve long-term recovery.
Topics: Behavioral Health Services Providers, Mental Health
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Program contact information for STAP vendors.
Topics: Assistive Services Providers, Contact
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STAP Vendor Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), contains the most commonly asked questions by program vendors.
Topics: Disability, Assistive Services Providers
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The Specialized Telecommunications Assistance Program (STAP) helps people who have a disability that interferes with their access to telephone networks purchase basic specialized assistive equipment or services.
Topics: Assistive Services Providers, Disability
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Information for Texas Family Care Providers
Topics: Long-term Care Providers, Aging, Disability
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The 28 area agencies on aging (AAA) provide services to help people age 60 and older, their family members and caregivers receive the information and assistance they need in locating and accessing community services.
Topics: Aging, Long-term Care Providers
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Communications from HHS to Texas Area Agencies on Aging
Topics: Aging, Long-term Care Providers
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AAA Dietary Reference Intake frequently asked questions.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers, Aging
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This webpage provides planning and response information, resources and strategies that can assist the area agencies on aging network to better prepare for and respond to all types of emergencies, disasters, epidemics and pandemics.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers, Aging
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The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) Office of Area Agencies on Aging (OAAA) applies for grants funded by Administration for Community Living (ACL). These are the State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIP) and Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) grants. In Texas, SHIP is called the Health Information, Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP). Both grants serve Medicare beneficiaries in all 254 counties across Texas. The SHIP grant has existed since 1992 and the MIPPA grant was implemented in 2008 to support the SHIP efforts.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers, Aging, Policy
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Texas Area Agencies on Aging procedural information.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers, Policy, Aging