Mental Health First Aid Training
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Local Mental Health Authority Contacts
| Counties | LMHA/LBHA | Last Name | First Name | Email Address | Office Phone |
| Tarrant County | Tarrant County | Haston | Pam | mhfa@mhmrtc.org | 817-569-4340 |
| Collin County | LifePath Systems | Fisher | Kensey | mhfa@lifepathsystems.org |
972-562-0190
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| Wise County | Helen Farabee | Lucas | Denise | lucasg@helenfarabee.org | 940-397-3376 |
| Dallas County, Ellis County, Navarro County, Kaufman County, Rockwall County, Hunt County | North Texas Behavioral Health Authority (NTBHA) | Sanders | Amy | asanders@ntbha.org | 496-530-0574 |
| Somervell County, Hood County, Johnson County, Parker County, Erath County | Pecan Valley | Paniagua | Ashlee |
817-579-4471
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| Denton County Grayson |
Denton County Texoma |
Finley Conner |
Phyllis Lenae |
phyllisf@dentonmhmr.org lconner@texomacc.org |
940-565-5295 903-957-4701 |
Behavioral Health Hospital Visits by County
Click into each county below to see the 10 zip codes with the most behavioral health-related hospital visits. Interventions will be targeted in these areas.
Department of State Health Services Project
The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council (DFWHC) Foundation-led Community Health Collaborative (CHC) receives funding from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to provide Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training to residents of rural counties in North Texas.
Through this funding, the training will be made available to residents in Ellis, Erath, Grayson, Hood, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell and Wise counties.
Behavioral health difficulty areas were determined by postal zip codes through our recent “Behavioral Health Needs Assessment Report” covering 16 counties in North Texas. Key strategies during the planning process will be to collaborate with local community partners including mental health authorities, faith-based organizations, community leaders, law enforcement professionals, first responders, teachers, veterans and residents within these high behavioral health difficulty areas.
The goal is to provide culturally and literacy-level appropriate MHFA training to these community partners to ultimately serve as a long-term solution to improve early detection and prevention of mental health difficulties in these rural counties.
Through the MHFA training program, CHC will also educate these community partners about the behavioral health-related resources available to them. CHC’s Behavioral Health Resource List for 16 counties is available on this website at http://www.healthyntexas.org/provider
Chaired by Laurie Long of Texas Health Resources and Amy Sanders of North Texas Behavioral Health Authority, the CHC’s Mental Health First Aid Committee is committed to training North Texan residents on Mental Health First Aid.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is awarding $15 million in grant funds to 31 governmental entities and nonprofit organizations in the state to provide mental health services to communities.
In 2017, Rep. Four Price's House Bill (H.B.) 13 established HHSC's Community Mental Health Grant Program and provides $30 million in state funds over the 2018-19 biennium to be matched by grantees with local and private funds.