Texas Panhandle Mental Health Mental Retardation provides mental health services for adults who have a mental illness such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, or other severely disabling mental disorders which require crisis resolution. For help with mental health crises and emergencies, please call our Mental Health Crisis Line at 1-800-692-4039.
Assessment services are designed to determine eligibility, treatment needs, and treatment preferences of the individual seeking services.
Service Coordination provides linkage to medical, social, educational, and other services or supports that help achieve community participation acceptable to each individual. Service Coordination involves assessment, service planning, monitoring and crisis-management.
- MEDICATION-RELATED SERVICES
Medication Related Services are for evaluating prescriptive need and monitoring medication used for psychiatric disorders. Services include pharmacological management, medication monitoring, medication administration and medication training.
Skills Training expands an individual’s independent living and community skills. This training is designed and adapted to the individual’s needs for skill acquisition and is accomplished through face-to-face contact with the individual.
- COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy are face-to-face problem resolution services provided by a licensed practitioner to individual consumers.
- PATH – Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness
The PATH program provides services to an individual of any age who is:
Supported Housing services assist individuals with severe and persistent mental illness choose, obtain and keep regular integrated housing (not agency owned or operated housing). Services also include temporary rental assistance; intensive in-home rehabilitation services, coordination activities that facilitate access to resources and services that support the consumer with choosing, obtaining or maintaining affordable housing.
Supported Employment services provide individualized assistance in choosing employment, integrated work sites in regular community jobs, long-term supports to assist individuals in keeping employment and finding an additional job if necessary.
- ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT (ACT)
The ACT Team is a self-contained program that provides treatment, rehabilitation, and support services. Persons with a chronic or persistent mental illness, who have a history of multiple hospitalizations, involvement with the judicial system, homeless shelters or community residential homes are eligible.
- INTENSIVE CRISIS RESIDENTIAL– CRISIS STABILIZATION
Crisis Stabilization is a short-term hospitalization service provided to individuals who are demonstrating a psychiatric crisis which cannot be stabilized in a less restrictive setting.
Inpatient Services involve extended hospitalization, which provides 24-hour security during acute psychiatric crisis. The Agency contracts with Big Spring State Hospital to provide inpatient services when short-term crisis stabilization has not been effective.
Family Education is a program providing consultation and education to individual families or groups of families regarding mental illness. Education is also provided to the public in a classroom setting at various locations throughout the 21-county catchment area.
For more information, contact:
TPMHMR Amarillo Outpatient Clinic
1501 S. Polk
Amarillo, TX 79101
(806) 337-1000
Or your Regional Clinic
Or call our Crisis Line at 359-6699 (toll free 1-800-692-4039)
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