THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER OF TEXOMA

Following are our primary goals:
1. Low-income children, parents/caregivers and families have access to affordable, high quality outpatient mental healthcare that includes counseling, psychological testing services, case management, skill building, and psych-educational group programs.

2. Strive to address social determinants experienced by families that increase health and economic inequalities through expansion of solution focused services and supports.

3. The Texoma region is designated by the Texas Department of Health and Human Services as a mental health professional shortage area. This means we do not have an adequate number of licensed professionals to meet the need in our community.
Our goal is to continue to develop and expand the licensed professional counselor intern program by providing mental healthcare services to low-income adults at our Center and partnering agencies.

4. Be a leader in the Texoma region delivering the SAMHSA approved trauma informed model of care.

5. Embrace and expand technology to advance telehealth while maintaining in-person services.

A. Our strategies for providing access to outpatient mental healthcare to low income Texoma children and families are:
1. Be a leader in the community with a strong team of highly qualified licensed professionals credentialed as providers of Medicaid, CHIP and several other insurance panels increasing the low income clients options in accessing care. This strategy requires extensive support for our professionals to ensure they are receiving competitive pay and benefits and a quality work environment where they can thrive and provide the best care possible for our clients. Retention and ongoing training of clinical staff is critical to our success.

2. Embrace and expand technology to advance telehealth services.

3. Partnering with the community to foster strong support and funding relationships that enable us to provide sponsored care for uninsured clients.

4. Continue to be led by a strong, active, committed board of directors who advocates and embraces the cause.

B. Our strategies to solve the mental health workforce shortage in Texoma is to;
1. Provide a licensed intern program for postgraduate interns that includes a paid internship, clinical supervision and management support. This program allows interns to collaborate with other social agencies to provide care for their populations and increase opportunities to provide advanced quality of care for CFGC clients.
2. Obtain sustainable funding for the program by partnering with local foundations, United Way and others and be seeking expanded program funding via new grants and program development.

C. Our strategies for being a mental healthcare topic training leader in the Texoma region include:
1. Effectively and openly communicate with local providers and caregivers to determine the most critical mental health training topics .
2. Effectively partner with and acknowledge local sponsors that provide the funds and venues for the trainings.
3. Develop and expand speakers for the training within and outside the Texoma region focusing bringing expertise from the Dallas/Ft. Worth metro-plex.
4. Successfully market the trainings within the community for to achieve maximum attendance.

The Child & Family Guidance Center of Texoma celebrates 56 years of service to the Texoma community in 2022.

The board of directors is comprised of 16 committed community leaders governing the organization through collective efforts of expertise, stewardship and advocacy.

The staff is comprised of highly trained and skilled administrative professionals, most holding advanced degrees and the clinical team is comprised of a multi-disciplinary scope of talent holding licensure in the State of Texas.

Community resources and support enable the Center to continue to sustain programs and services. Local funders and referrals sources believe in the work of the Center and continue to provide much needed resources and support.

We strive to address the overwhelming plight in our community, as the fallout from the pandemic continues, unemployment, poverty, anxiety, depression, isolation, and suicide ideation area at all-time highs. 2020 was a year like no other, not just for CFGC, but the world. Change has been dramatic, and we have strived to adapt and navigate through these intensely difficult times. Our agency rapidly adapted to the shift from in-person care to 100% telehealth during the pandemic. This has resulted in the silver lining of expanding to a hybrid model of care offering both telehealth and in-person care.

We are proud to share that we have accomplished developing a strong team of professionals who are passionate about their work and know their work greatly positively impacts our community. Through extensive reflection, review and determination the CFGC board and management team has strenghtened the organization by improving internal operation systems, achieving fundraising goals, meeting the needs of the staff for job satisfaction and ensuring high quality of care for clients.

We are still developing partnerships within the community to further increase our efforts in growing the licensed intern program.

We are striving to adapt to the fast growth of the agency and implement planning strategies that will ensure long term success of the organization.

We are a fully integrated Trauma Informed Care agency providing high quality mental health care to the impoverished and impacted by trauma.