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- EIN 75-2890731
- (817) 569-4540
- 3840 Hulen Street North Tower Fort Worth TX 76107-7277 USA
- www.mhmrvisions.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Developmentally Disabled Centers, Disabilities, Eating Disorders & Addictions, Human Services, Mental Health, Substance Abuse Dependency, Prevention & Treatment
Mission: Mhmr visions is the 501(c)(3) organization that supports mhmr, a community center serving 24 north texas counties. The mission of mhmr visions is to raise funds and foster community support for those among us with serious mental health challenges and intellectual disabilities. Visions enhances services for babies, children, youth, and adults with developmental delays, intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd), and behavioral health disorders. Visions primary purpose is to ensure the availability of quality services, to heighten awareness within our communities of behavioral health and developmental disabilities, and to acquire funds that underwrite supplemental services to enhance the lives of people served by mhmr.
Programs: Intellectual and developmental disability services (idd)disability services offers group homes, adult day activity centers, supported employment, respite and information and referral services for individuals and their families. Mhmr visions provided funds for enriched services for individuals served by mhmr included community outings and enrichment activities to help people participate actively in the community. Day activity centers offer day habilitation services and employment training for almost 300 adults. Visions provided weekly music therapy and recreational art classes and special olympics and gardening supplies. Community outings included trips to fort worth stock show, main street art festival, putt putt golf, at&t stadium, and the military museum, week-long specialized camps for 69 individuals, and a camp fun day for 25.
substance use disorder services (suds)substance use services are traumasensitive, evidencebased practices that put clients on the path to recovery and sobriety. Services for adults include detox, residential treatment, and outpatient treatment. Services for adolescents include residential and outpatient. Adolescent substance use treatment the campusthe campus provides a continuum of substance use treatment for youth between the ages of 13 to 17. The campus residential program provides individual and group therapy, substance abuse education, life skills training, anger management, an on-site school, and family counseling. A therapeutic camp enhancement was launched in the fall of 2014. In fy17, eight weekend-long therapeutic camps were provided for youth in the residential unit. The project also provided biweekly, one-hour therapeutic counseling sessions to maximize the camp experience. Approximately 128 youth had the opportunity to experience adventure activities such as horseback riding, ropes course, zip line, swimming, life skills teambuilding, orienteering and various sporting games.
behavioral health services (bh)behavioral health services help stabilize the lives of children, adolescents, and adults. Treatment is comprehensive, recovery-oriented, and directed toward stabilization in the home, work place and community. Community centerthe community center is a mental health drop-in center where people find community, purpose and empowerment. It is a place where people can come together to end their isolation, learn social skills, and begin to integrate into the community. Community center activities are voluntary and free for people receiving mental health services in the community. The center has over 500 members. In fiscal year 2017, mhmr visions purchased two new clothes dryers and underwrote monthly birthday / holiday parties, community outings to the bowling alley and texas rangers game, and supplies for the community center garden.