Mental Health Connection
of Tarrant County

Our next meeting will be: Monday, June 11, 2012
8:30 - 10 a.m.

Presentation:
One Safe Place
Presented by: Michelle Morgan

The Women's Center
1723 Hemphill
Fort Worth, Texas 76110

Please park on the
SOUTH side
of The Women's Center.

Minutes of previous meetings

Newsletters

2010 Committee Accomplishments

Organization Chart

2011 Committees Resolution

Ten-Year Anniversary Brochure

Community Solutions
Wraparound Outcomes

Quick Links

2012-13 Hand in Hand match information, forms

DataLink

DataLink Utilization Charts

Learning Communities

Learning Communities Full Report

Blue Ribbon Committee on
Mental Wellness in the Workplace

         Final Report

         Detailed Final
               Report

         Mental Health 
         Insurance
         Coverage in       
         Tarrant County

              Executive
                Summary
                   

              Full Report

Strategic Plan

Anti-Stigma Campaign

Hand in Hand

Wraparound

Fort Worth ISD
Family Resource Centers

Kenneth Barr Award

Standards of Care

Grant-Seeking Process

 

 

TarrantCares.org Celebrates First Year with More Than 3,000,000 Hits Do you or your clients need to find local health or social services? What about information on medications and medical tests? Then TarrantCares.org is the place for you. Almost 3.5 million people used Tarrant Cares.org in its first year to find the help and resources they needed. At any time, day or night, you and your clients can find information on topics ranging from local health and social services to housing, employment and support groups. A library of more than 30,000 articles on health, parenting and other topics also includes information on medications and medical tests – all written in everyday language. Create your own personal health record that you can share with physicians or anyone you want. Tarrant Cares protects your records with the same security used by banks. Specialized sections within Tarrant Cares offer information specifically related to: Adult and juvenile community corrections Children and families Domestic, sexual and other violence Intellectual and developmental disabilities Mental/behavioral health Prenatal to age 5 Public health and healthy communities Seniors/adults with disabilities Veterans, service members and their families Join the 3.5 million others who have found help on TarrantCares.org by checking it out today. To help let others know about Tarrant Cares through your agency's newsletter, Facebook page, Web site and more, click here for art and articles that will help.   CulturalConnection To Hold Next Training in June The next California Brief Multicultural Competency Scale (CBMCS) Training is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, June 7 and 8, and Thursday and Friday, June 14 and 15, 2012. Participants must attend all four days of training to receive credit for the course. The training will be held at All Saints Parish Hall, 214 N.W. 20th Street, Fort Worth 76164. Training begins each day at 8 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. A registration fee of $125 per person covers all materials and lunch each day. Participants who attend all four days receive 32 CEU hours, plus 3 ethics CEUs. More Information Registration Form   Mental Health Connection Trauma Committee Receiving National Technical Assistance The Complex Trauma Treatment Network (CTTN) has selected Mental Health Connection's Trauma-Informed Committee as a learning community that will receive technical assistance and other support. The goal of the CTTN is to work with professional learning communities interested in adopting or expanding the use of trauma-informed care in their services. CTTN is funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and is a participating program of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. The project provides technical and training supports to local teams on a regular basis over the course of a given project year; less intensive supports may be available in subsequent years based on continued funding of the initiative. On February 1 and 2, 2012, Technical Assistance Provider Brad Stolbach presented a community training on building a Trauma-Informed Community. Click here to review his PowerPoint presentation. Hand in Hand Respite Advocacy Committee Releases 2012 List The Hand in Hand Respite Advocacy Committee has released an updated list of organizations that provide respite services for special needs children. If you are aware of any other agency that provides these services, please contact Stephanie Norton.   Bridging the Gap reveals demographics of the future During his presentation at the 2011 Bridging the Gap Symposium, Steve Murdock, Ph.D., drew some gasps as he explained the future look of Tarrant County, Texas and the entire nation. For example, he showed that Texas' population has grown by more than 20 percent since 2000, making us second only to California as the most populous state. Since 2000, the Anglo population in Texas declined in 161 counties and grew in only 91. The Hispanic population, on the other hand, grew in 228 counties and declined in only 22. Texas is not the only place seeing this dramatic shift in demographics. During the same time frame, 2,699 of 3,139 counties in the United States saw an increase in Hispanic population. The largest numbers of Hispanics across Texas and the country are under 18. For more information, click here to review the PowerPoint presentation given by Dr. Murdock at the Symposium.   Hand in Hand Year 3 Evaluation Report A report on Hand in Hand's third year has been issued by the MHMR of Tarrant County Advancement and Research Division. Among other results, the report notes that children served through Hand in Hand have significantly reduced levels of functional impairment, approaching nonclinical levels just six months after intake. Children experienced significant improvements in their total behavioral and emotional strengths from both intake to 6 months and intake to 12 months. In addition, caregiver strain was significantly reduced both from intake to 6 months and intake to 12 months. Click here to read the full report. Hand in Hand Match Information Hand in Hand has issued new information about reporting match in-kind or cash contributions. Previous years have required that the community provide $1 in matching contributions for every $3 spent by Hand in Hand. This year, the cooperative agreement with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration requires $1 in contributions for every $1 spent. Please read the document carefully so you can learn the types of activities and contributions that count toward the match. Different sheets within the Excel document explain the match program and provide the 2011-12 match report form and sign-in sheets. The document also provides the Report Submission Schedule for match contributions. For additional information about Hand in Hand matching contributions, email Lupe Shanklin or call her at 817-569-4518. 2012-13 Match Information

Mental Health Connection Offers Toolkit for Consumer-Run Qualitative Study
System of Care communities that want to conduct their own consumer-run qualitative study can click here for a toolkit to help them get started.