Austin Travis County Integral CareNew Milestones FoundationCentral Texas African American Family Support ConferenceMayor’s Mental Health Task Force Monitoring Committee
The Mental Health Task Force (MHTF) documents and assists coordination of behavioral health planning needs in the community to fill system gaps, promote accountability and maximize funding strategies.

Announcements

NEW Travis County Readmission Indicator Report
The MHTF has completed a crisis implementation report with new data on local trends for publicly funded psychiatric hospital beds. To download, click here. PDF Document

NEW Local Housing Progress
Read an event recap or view speakers' slides from the June forum at City Hall.

Click on the links below for the CHS Permanent Housing Program and Financial Model for Austin/Travis County.
Executive Summary, PDF Document
Full Report, PDF Document

Mental Health /
Criminal Justice Pilot
Read about local collaborators piloting a project to reduce law enforcement reliance during psychiatric emergencies by clicking here.

New Indicator
Improvement Initiative

The MHTF will shift from efforts in measuring system change, to effectuating system change over the next two years.  An Indicator Improvement Initiative will be convened to carry out this work and will be comprised of local expert panels to strategize about “what works” related to four indentified behavioral health community indicators.  We are confident this initiative will serve as a model for future system change in our community.

Supporting agencies and partners include Austin Travis County Integral Care, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, the City of Austin, the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, the St. David’s Foundation and Travis County.

Coordinator's Corner

February 2010

The City of Austin and Travis County have come a long way since the original appointment of the Mayor’s Mental Health Task Force in August of 2005, but not far enough....

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