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Causes: Community Mental Health Centers, Mental Health
Programs: The center provided mental health services to 6,302 individuals in the counties of midland, ector, pecos, brewster, jeff davis, culberson, presidio, and hudspeth. Physician's services for psychiatric and medication maintenance are provided in mental health clinics. Crisis treament teams provide 24 hour on call services to individuals in psychiatric emergency who have been determinted to be an immediate danger to themselves or others. Community based rehabilitation treatment teams provide individuals with the services designed to improve life skills and assure proper compliance with the medication prodivded by the physician.
see schedule o for the summary of program services for our individuals with developmental disabilities and early childhood intervention programs.
the center provided 1,157 individuals addiction treatment services. The services available include residential treatment, outpatient programs for counseling of youth 14-17. A specialized population of females, and adults with co-occurring substance abuse and psychiatric disorders, in addition to, traditional outpatient counseling for all other adult demographic populations. The center also provided medical treatments and supported housing services to 319 individuals with hiv.