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Texas pilot program bringing MH services to local community
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32400
Subject(s) - hotline , mental health , referral , service (business) , health care , collaborative care , nursing , medicine , medical education , psychology , political science , psychiatry , business , engineering , telecommunications , marketing , law
Despite the closure of schools in March because of the COVID‐19 pandemic, the San Antonio Mobile Mental Wellness Collaborative — an organization that six nonprofit agencies in San Antonio formed last year — is bringing much‐needed mental health services to the south side of the city, the San Antonio Express‐News reported June 1. Requests for assistance come in daily on the district's wellness center hotline, said Talli Goldman‐Dolge, CEO of Jewish Family Service San Antonio, which provides three clinicians for the program. Through the collaborative, the South San Antonio Independent School District (ISD) elementary, middle and high school students and their families can call one number and get a consultation. Those who qualify will get a referral for case management, counseling, psychiatric care, educational workshops or addiction therapy. Leslie Allison, a behavioral health clinical manager for Methodist Healthcare Ministries who runs health clinics at other schools, said programs like these make a difference because they provide services to students who, in many cases, can't get help through the traditional health care system.