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Current Projects

Our work aims to ensure that adults, children and families within various populations have access to high-quality mental health care. Click the page links below to learn more about current TIEMH projects.

Early Childhood

TIEMH early childhood projects currently focus on strengthening the early childhood systems within Texas communities for children birth to 5 years of age.

EPINET-TX

TIEMH serves as the hub for the Early Psychosis Intervention Network in Texas (EPINET-TX), consisting of CSC programs operating in public mental health centers in the state.

Healthy Community Collaborative (HCC)

HHC is a collaborative approach that brings individuals, agencies, organizations, and community members together to systematically address homelessness.

Innovative Healing Centered Project (IHCP)

TIEMH identified 15 underserved communities in Texas to participate in the Innovative Healing Centered Projects (IHCPs) to advance innovation in health prevention services to support youth and families.

Peer Organization Growth Academy (POGA)

POGA was a one-time program developed to support peer-run organizations in Texas. Although it was originally made for Texas organizations, we invite groups everywhere to view our courses.

Peer Providers

Our work evaluating peer provider initiatives aims to understand how integration of the peer workforce is occurring, how it can be improved, and how peer services impact individual and system outcomes.

Person-Centered Recovery Planning

Since 2013, TIEMH has been evaluating ongoing efforts to implement PCRP in public mental health organizations in Texas.

South Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center

The purpose of the South Southwest MHTTC is to build the capacity of the mental health workforce, organizations, and systems to deliver effective, evidence-based recovery supports.

Texas AWARE

Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education) is a five-year pilot study designed to strengthen community and school-based supports for mental health and resiliency of students.

Texas Behavioral Health and Justice Technical Assistance Center (TXBHJ)

TIEMH supports initiatives across the state of Texas aimed at reducing the number of individuals entering the criminal justice system and more effectively targeting interventions for those who are justice-involved.

Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium

TIEMH serves as the internal evaluation team for the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium, a collaboration among the Texas health-related institutions of higher education.

Texas System of Care

Texas System of Care is an effort to strengthen state and local coordination to ensure availability of high quality mental health care that is family-driven, sustainable, community based and culturally-grounded.

Transition Age Youth

The Transition Age Youth (TAY) Division aims to promote wellness and community participation through integration of developmentally and culturally attuned services for TAY locally and nationally.

Trauma Informed Care

TIEMH has supported initiatives focused on implementing trauma-informed approaches to care, including workforce development, strategic planning, organizational change efforts, research, and evaluation.

Zero Suicide Framework

TIEMH is partnering to implement suicide prevention best practices within public mental health agencies, creating Suicide Safe Care Centers in Texas. 

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Austin, TX 78701
txinstitute4mh@austin.utexas.edu

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