Texas Panhandle MHMR - TCOOMMI Program

TEXAS CORRECTIONAL OFFICE ON OFFENDERS
WITH MEDICAL OR MENTAL IMPAIRMENTS- ADULT PROGRAM

TCOOMMI Offices located inside the historic Santa Fe Building

Diversion Services for persons with mental and medical impairments...

Texas Panhandle MHMR, through the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments (TCOOMMI) Program and the new Mobile Crisis Outreach Team (MCOT), can provide assistance to the mentally ill who are involved with the criminal justice system.

TCOOMMI services for parole and probation consumers include:

Assessment services
Case management
Rehabilitation services
Psychiatric services
Medication and monitoring
Individual/Group therapy and skills training
Benefit eligibility services
Screening and linkage to appropriate medical services, including hospice
Jail screening and treatment
Pre-release referral process for jails and families
Joint treatment planning with criminal justice agencies, social services, health & human service agencies and other appropriate disciplines
Resource information services for attorneys or court personnel
Advocacy
screening of inmates in local TDCJ units who have been recommended for early release for medical reasons (terminal illness) by their treating physician.

Working together...

The TCOOMMI and MCOT programs utilizes the Panhandle region's local strengths and partners with area law enforcement officers, parole officers, probation officers, substance abuse specialists, and in-patient treatment facilities to provide the best services possible in the most efficient manner possible.

TCOOMMI also works in partnership with area jails. Services offered to offenders currently incarcerated in Texas Panhandle county jails include:

New arrest cross-referencing with the Texas Department of State Health Services' CARE system to determine if inmates have been or are currently MHMR clients; not just TPMHMR clients, but clients in any MHMR system across the state.
Pre and post-booking advocacy for release to treatment instead of incarceration.
Designated mental health staff are assigned to screen inmates for mental health issues.
Evaluation and Treatment while incarcerated, partially through the use of innovative telepsychiatry services in the Dallam-Hartley County Jail, Deaf Smith County Jail, Gray County Jail, Hutchinson County Jail, Potter County Detention Center and Randall County Jail, with expansion of the telepsychiatry program into the Hansford County Jail, Hemphill County Jail, and Moore County Jail coming soon.

What are TCOOMMI's admission requirements?

Entry into TCOOMMI services is based on an individual being involved in the criminal justice system and being assessed and diagnosed as having a priority mental illness of major depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder. Priority is given to probationers in Potter, Randall, and Armstrong Counties, parole referrals, and to local jail inmates. Crisis Services are available to all referrals.