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Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams provide face-to-face help to people who are at risk of harm to themselves or others. The MCOT provides counseling services to people at their home, school or other location. The services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Mental Health Deputy programs help improve the crisis response system by diverting people in need of behavioral health crisis services from hospitals and jails to community-based alternatives that provide effective behavioral health treatment at less cost.

Information for providers of inpatient psychiatric beds

Crisis units are facilities designed to treat an individual's symptoms of mental illness in the community.

A hotline is continuously available phone service operated by trained and competent crisis staff that provides information, screening and intervention, support, and referrals to callers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Any local mental health authority (LMHA) or local behavioral health authority (LBHA) providing hotline services for any portion of the day must be accredited by the American Association of Suicidology.

Mental heatlh crisis services are available 24 hours, seven days a week and include: prompt face-to-face crisis assessment, crisis intervention services, crisis follow-up, and relapse prevention services

Information for Texans about Consumer-Operated Service Providers are an evidence-based practice program recognized by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. COSPs are independent organizations operated and governed by people in recovery, and a central feature of their services is peer support. These providers have a unique and valuable role in a recovery-oriented system of care.

Coordinated Specialty Care is designed to meet the needs of people with an early onset of psychosis. who have a psychotic disorder diagnosed within the past two years. People must also live in the service area of a CS

The Clubhouse Model is an evidence-based, recovery-oriented program for adults living with mental health challenges. This site provides a list of state funded clubhouses as well information for program providers.

TCOM consists of a set of principles that guided the development and implementation of a set of assessment tools.

The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths assessment is a comprehensive trauma-informed behavioral health evaluation and communication tool. It is intended to prevent duplicate assessments by multiple parties, decrease unnecessary psychological testing, aid in identifying placement and treatment needs, and inform case planning decisions. CANS assessments help decision-making, drive service planning, facilitate quality improvement, and allow for outcomes monitoring.

The Adult Needs and Strengths Assessment is a multipurpose tool developed for adult behavioral health services. It is intended to prevent duplicate assessments by multiple parties, decrease unnecessary psychological testing, aid in identifying placement and treatment needs, and inform case planning decisions. Its assessments help support decision making, including level of care and service planning, to facilitate quality improvement initiatives, and to allow for outcomes monitoring.

Texas Community Mental Health Contracts information for providers.

The benefits of Peer Support Services are listed.

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.