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Support for families looking for mental health help in Texas

If you are looking for mental health support for yourself, your child, your teen, or someone in your family, you are not alone.

The Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium is working to make the mental health care system stronger for you. We work with the professionals you already see—doctors, schools, and clinicians in training—to expand and strengthen mental and behavioral health care.

Need Mental Health Support?

Contact your pediatrician, school counselor, family doctor, psychiatrist, or OB/GYN to see if they already work with our programs:

  • Child Psychiatry Access Program (CPAN)

    Mental health care consults and resources for doctors and health clinicians seeing child and youth patients. Learn more about CPAN.

  • Perinatal Psychiatry Access Program (PeriPAN)

    Mental health care consults and resources for doctors and health clinicians seeing pregnant or postpartum patients. Learn more about PeriPAN.

  • Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine (TCHATT)

    Direct, school-based mental health services to students via telehealth. Learn more about TCHATT.

  • Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM)

    A 5-session mental health education program in schools to build students’ skills. Learn more about YAM.

For questions about our programs, email: tcmhcc@utsystem.edu.

Find Local Mental Health Services

Your Local Mental Health Authority (LMHA) or Local Behavioral Health Authority (LBHA) can help connect children, teens, and adults to counseling and mental health services, and help you find support in your community.

  • Texas Health and Human Services provides a searchable directory to help you find the LMHA or LBHA that serves your county or zip code.

    Find Your LMHA/LBHA

Need Help Right Away?

If you or someone you know needs mental health support right now:

Call or text 988 for the 24/7 suicide & crisis lifeline.

Go to the nearest emergency room if there is immediate danger.

Pregnant, postpartum, or recently had a baby? Call or text the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline at 1-833-TLC-MAMA (1-833-852-6262) for free, confidential support. 

If you are a young person and need help, reach out to a trusted adult, school counselor, or doctor.

Visit Texas Health and Human Services’ MentalHealthTX.org for crisis and mental health support services for children and adults.

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