WELCOME TO THE


Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine

at The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School

Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine (TCHATT) is a statewide program that partners with school districts in your community to offer students free, virtual mental health care with licensed clinicians.

Watch the “Welcome to TCHATT” video in English or Español.
Click to read the “Welcome to TCHATT” video transcript in English.

I think it’s easy for adults that we look at pressures that students are on and we sort of see it through our lens of when we were students, and not realizing that how much has changed and what students are dealing with and the pressures they’re feeling.
Having the TCHATT program there as a support.
I feel they are a support system that works shoulder-to-shoulder.
School districts can’t do this work alone, we need experts that are outside of us to really come together and so that’s the first thing I see is it’s this amazing partnership.
TCHATT stands for Texas Child Health Access through Telemedicine.
Our job is to help support schools in identifying and supporting mental health needs for children.
Some of the biggest challenges I see that we struggle with of how we provide mental health care to our students is a lot of access within the community.
Time is so important for us that they get immediate service so they can start getting the help that they need.
It’s a program that allows the school district to connect students with um professional psychiatrists or therapists so students can receive the help that they need.
It is a program that is free to school districts, there’s no cost, equipment is provided, there is funding available if school districts do not have the funding.
It’s all televideo, you know, that we can have quicker access and more accessibility through video opposed to a family having to go take their students somewhere.
The fact that it happens during the school day, that they can meet with a mental health professional, psychologist, psychiatrist at school is probably the most critical thing for our students, um, to remove every barrier for them to get this assistance they need.
The TCHATT program serves a variety of emotional distress and what we tell schools is that it’s anything that you find concerning, from anxiety about school, about learning, to loss, depression, also symptoms of trauma.
Being able to talk it through with another professional about your concerns because in the school setting we can only do so much and we really need that support and help.
It breaks your heart when you see that they’re struggling, um, and when you see that progress, it just makes you have hope and fills you with happiness that you know, we’re going to continue to see that progress with that student.
All of our students we want to be successful, right?
And so we’re always supporting them in ways that can they can be the best that they can be.
Without the help of course, TCHATT.
I feel delighted when I do see students become who they can become.
When we see students that actually can get the help that they need for whatever mental health concern it is, um, that’s why we’re here.

Click to read the “Welcome to TCHATT” video transcript in Español.

 Los estudios están más difícil. Hay más tarea más que aprender y a veces esa presión lo siente los estudiantes. El programa teach es una manera para apoyar esas áreas limitantes que, como distritos, tenemos. Para que nuestros estudiantes puedan alcanzar esas metas y logros en su futuro.

Chi chat por sus glas en inglés, eh, significa acceso a la salud infantil en tejas a través de la tele. Y es un programa que se enfoque en brindar acceso a la terapia en este modo virtual para asegurarnos de eliminar cualquier obstáculo que pueda prevenir a familias. No hay suficientes terapistas en en las comunidades.

Y para agarrar una primer cita, tienes que estar en una lista de espera. O no hablan el idioma de los padres, que también es una de los retos que enfrentan, o muchas veces los padres, por razones de trabajo por razones de transporte, no pueden llevar al estudiante al programa a recibir los servicios que ellos necesitan.

Especialmente aquí en nuestra comunidad. Esto nos ayuda para que los niños reciban ese apoyo de inmediato cuando es directamente en la escuela, es algo accesible y puede el estudiante beneficiarse de ese gran programa que apoya en la área que el estudiante necesite ese apoyo. Una cosa que es muy importante es que tia es un programa que es gratis, es gratis y es algo que es.

Privado. Nuestro programa se enfoca en meditar. Apoyo en una variedad de dificultades en salud mental desde un diagnóstico de ansiedad, dificultades si ha habido un duelo o existe alguna pérdida, al igual que si hay algún trauma reciente o ya pasado, pueden ser sesiones ceap peas o también evalu las. De psicólogos o psiquiatras.

Para mí ha sido un gran apoyo porque muchas veces necesitamos más del conocimiento que yo tengo. Y eso es lo que pruebe t. Para mí allí nuestros consejeros se puede apoyar también y consultar si tienen preguntas, no son solamente para la familia o los estudiantes, pero me dio nada a mi. Para poder saber qué es lo que puedo hacer para ayudar a este estudiante que el niño está en crisis.

Pues duele saber tan, tan jovencitos y sintiéndose como aislados o solos o con miedo. Una luna debe estar riéndose. Debe estar gozando. Cuando veo a un estudiante que ha recibido la ayuda que necesita. Es como un regalo para mí, para mi corazón, ver ese gran cambio es el mejor regalo. Se puede decir de la satisfacción que pudistes ayudar a un joven.

Nosotros podemos ayudar a los estudiantes con su desarrollo académico. Con su desarrollo con el comportamiento, pero nos faltaba un factor y ese factor era la salud mental y a base del recurso que nos pruebe t. Shot, ahora lo tenemos y podemos ayudar al estudiante de todas maneras, es un recurso único.

What is TCHATT?

Dell Medical School’s (Dell Med) TCHATT program gives students the care they need, when they need it, conveniently arranged through a student’s school. TCHATT is a free service paid for by the state and does not require any insurance.

Watch the video or click the link below to learn more about how TCHATT supports families and students.

Whom we serve

The Dell Medical School TCHATT program serves students who live in 13 Central Texas counties:

Bastrop
Blanco
Burnet
Caldwell
Coryell
Fayette
Hamilton

Hays
Lampasas
Lee
Mills
Travis
Williamson

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Search our complete list of partner districts here.



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About TCMHCC

The Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) was created by the 86th Texas Legislature to leverage the expertise and capacity of health-related institutions of higher education to address urgent mental health challenges, as well as improve the state’s mental health care system for children and adolescents.

In 2021, the Texas Legislature approved federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act to expand services provided by several of the Consortium’s initiatives.