RESOURCES FOR ALL

CHOICES - The Council on Recovery

The Council on Recovery's Choices program is a comprehensive, multiple high-risk behavior prevention and intervention program tailored to meet each school's unique needs. The program utilizes evidence-based methods for reducing high-risk behavior by working directly with school culture and creating student, parent, faculty action groups to achieve positive outcomes. By addressing the entire school-specific system, Choices delivers specialized programming to universal, selective, and indicated target audiences within each school through close interaction between faculty, parents, and students.

The Choices program model can be adapted to meet the prevention needs of any school. Choices utilizes a novel prevention approach that builds students’ executive functioning skills while simultaneously targeting a variety of high-risk behaviors that students often struggle with.

Schools also have the option to integrate a part-time or full-time Choices Counselor on campus who can provide groups for high-risk students and conduct individual and family therapy. These Counselors can also provide case management and other services as needed.

Communities In Schools

Many students and their families have a hard time accessing and navigating the maze of public and private services. There may be ample resources in a community, but rarely is there someone on the ground who is able to connect these resources with the schools and students that need them most. Through a school-based coordinator, we bring community resources into schools to empower success for all students by removing barriers for students at risk of dropping out, keeping kids in schools and on the path to graduation and leveraging evidence, relationships and local resources to drive results.

Communities Youth Services

Community Youth Services (CYS) is a school-based crisis intervention, counseling and case coordination program that provides practical assistance to families of children and youth who are experiencing problems. In partnership with the local schools and other governmental entities, CYS services are available to students in fourteen Harris County school districts, the Pasadena Police Department and the Educational Services Division of the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department.

MHA - Mental Health America

Focused on shaping the mental health of people and communities in the areas of children and education, integrated health care, chronic illnesses, women, suicide prevention, and veterans. Works to replace misperceptions and misunderstanding about mental illness with compassion and proper treatment; link people to mental health services; provide education and training for key sectors of the community; remove barriers to mental health care by facilitating change in systems and advocate for legislative solutions that address the vast unmet need for public mental health services.

Youth Mental Health and Substance Abuse Resource Guide

Available Screening Tools Here

MAM - Memorial Assistance Ministries

MAM connects families and individuals to opportunities that can lead to increased knowledge, skill, and confidence as they develop their plans for bright futures centered on financial stability, health and wellness, and personal leadership development.

Services include: employment services; financial coaching; adult education such as English as a Second Language, Citizenship Preparation, digital literacy, and GED; immigration legal services, mental health counseling, case management and financial assistance.

MentalHealth.gov

MentalHealth.gov provides one-stop access to U.S. government mental health and mental health problems information. MentalHealth.gov aims to educate and guide:

• The general public

• Health and emergency preparedness professionals

• Policy makers

• Government and business leaders

• School systems

• Local communities

Mental Health TX

Find resources or a provider for yourself or for someone else. Mental Health TX provides resources for the following common conditions:

• Suicide

• Trauma and PTSD

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Bipolar disorder

• Psychosis

• Substance Abuse

• IDD

Mosaic Tree Counseling

Mosaic Tree Counseling believes in complete mental restoration and balance. Their main purpose is to give parents, foster families, and children uniquely customized psychotherapy in the comfort and privacy of their own home or in our comfortable office. This allows the Therapist to be in the client’s true environment, enabling the Therapist to experience each client’s daily life and culture, for the most effective therapy available. Mosaic Tree Counseling is continuously striving to uphold all expectations of our clients and are dedicated to exceptional customized therapeutic services giving the client the ability to identify, explore, and process emotions through carefully customized interventions, reaching their goals, and presenting clients with the building blocks they will need now and in the future.

NAMI - National Alliance on Mental Illness

NAMI Greater Houston vigorously promotes the development of community mental health programs and services, improved access to services, increased opportunities for recovery, reduced stigma and discrimination and increased public understanding of mental illness. With the opening of our new peer-run resource center – the S.E.A. (Support, Education and Advocacy) Center, families and consumers can access the help they need.

SAMSHA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

SAMHSA’s National Helpline, 1-800-662-HELP (4357), (also known as the Treatment Referral Routing Service) or TTY: 1-800-487-4889 is a confidential, free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, information service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and family members facing mental and/or substance use disorders. This service provides referrals to local treatment facilities, support groups, and community-based organizations. Callers can also order free publications and other information.

RaiseUp Families

RaiseUp Families provides nine months of comprehensive case management, including a needs assessment, development of a self-sufficiency plan, supportive counseling, and advocacy. RaiseUp Families assists parents of school-aged children to overcome obstacles through personalized case management. Participating families are required to accept an active role in accomplishing their goals, with the support of case managers who bring exceptional skill and a determined passion to their work. With the right tools, guidance and resources, the parents we help are able to raise up their family, ensuring both a stable home and stronger future.

Santa Maria Hostel

Full continuum of care to meet the unique needs of women and their families on their recovery journey. In addition, there are prevention services for students at the following Spring Branch ISD schools:

• Buffalo Creek

• Edgewood

• Terrace

• Pine Shadows Elementary

For school-based prevention services Call Teresa Garcia at 713-691-0900 x2122

Spring Branch Community Health Center

Spring Branch Community Health Center has 6 community health centers in the Spring Branch, West Houston, Katy, and Cy-Fair area ready to meet all your healthcare needs. Our state-of-the-art facilities offer affordable, high-quality healthcare to serve your entire family with services that range from family medicine, women’s healthcare, pediatrics, dental care, back-to-school vaccinations, flu shots, and physicals.

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES:

Psychotherapy, Tele-Psychiatry, Substance Abuse Treatment, Case Management. Areas of Expertise: Culturally Competent Counseling, Adolescents

Walk into any Spring Branch Community Health Location and ask for an appointment at the Front Desk or call 713-462-6565

Spring Branch Family Development Center

Spring Branch Family Development Center exists to enhance the well-being and development of the families of Spring Branch through a multi-agency collaboration that provides educational, recreational, health and social services in English and Spanish. Partners offer a wide variety of services including education, recreation, health and social services.

SpringSpirit

SpringSpirit exists to provide pathways for youth to realize life opportunities through sports, education, and mentoring programs based on Christian principles. All SpringSpirit programs focus on the mind, body and soul.

TEA - Texas School Mental Health

A comprehensive school mental health system that provides a continuum of services and supports intended to:

• Promote a positive school climate
• Teach and support skills for social, emotional, and behavioral health
• Prevent mental health and substance use problems
• Intervene early to reduce the severity of mental health concerns; and
• Provide access to school-based and community-based interventions and supports to students and families.

Texas 2-1-1 Resource Program

No matter where you live in Texas, you can dial 2-1-1, or (877) 541-7905, and find information about resources in your local community. Whether you need help finding food or housing, child care, crisis counseling or substance abuse treatment, one number is all you need to know.

WholeLife Service Center - The Women's Home

The WholeLife® Service Center offers an integrated care model with a wide variety of medical and behavioral health and supportive services for individuals and families. The Center offers Case Management, Peer Support and Counseling services. Other services are provided by partners.

Adult outpatient recovery services for individuals with co-occurring disorders. General Mental Health support for children, youth and adults. General Case Management and supportive housing needs.

RESOURCES FOR PARENTS

Parents.com

Trauma-Informed Parenting

Teen Mental Health - For Parents

Separation Anxiety Tools for Parents 

School Refusal and Separation Anxiety

National Alliance on Mental Illness - For Families

Society For Adolescent Health and Medicine - For Parents

RESOURCES FOR TEENS

Net Smart Teens 

Teen Mental Health

Texas School Mental Health 

National Alliance on Mental Illness - Teens and Young Adults

Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine - For Teens and Young Adults

COPING TOOLS FOR KIDS

Calming Strategies

Coping Calendar

BOOK RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN

Storyline Online

17 Children's Books For Anxious Kids

77 Children’s Books About Mental Health

10 Best Children’s Books To Help Kids With Anxiety