Texana Center

The Texana Behavior Improvement Center offers part-time Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) programs for children with autism to teach them the skills necessary to become more successful both at home and in community settings. Services offered include individual consultations with a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, creation of an individual support plan, an after school program, and social skills groups for older youth.

The Texana Behavior Treatment and Training Center offers a short-term residential solution for children and adolescents ages 8-17 who have a diagnosis of an intellectual disability or autism combined with challenging behavior that could hurt themselves, their families, or their communities. The program assists families in maintaining their children in their family homes and avoiding placement in long-term care residential facilities.

The goal for the program is to return the children successfully to their own communities. As a condition of admission, families must agree to participate in training and to accept their child back into their home upon discharge from the program. Families are very involved while their child is staying at the Behavior Treatment and Training Center. They participate in numerous clinical sessions with their child and sessions where they learn techniques of positive parenting and applied behavior analysis procedures that develop desired behaviors, teach compliance, and decrease problem behaviors. Transition plans are developed to transfer successful intervention strategies and procedures to the family, school and/or provider.

The Social Connections Club helps teens and young adults with autism gain the soft skills needed to prepare for competitive employment and adult responsibility. Individuals with autism may need assistance to understand parts of conversation such as social conventions around greeting others, volume and intonation, initiations and responses in conversations, and staying on topic. Teaching teens and young adults with autism these and other practical skills like delayed gratification and money management, helps to prepare them to interact socially with others in the workplace. The group also uses “First Job Survival Skills,” a video teaching series that covers what supervisors want from employees and how work differs from school and personal life.

The mission of Project GROW Early Childhood Intervention is to educate and empower families of children, age birth through 3 years old with developmental delays by assessing and implementing appropriate training and/or services that support family resources. The program provides early identification and developmental programming for children with or at risk for developmental delays. Services are personalized to assist and enable families to support the child in developing new skills or improving on present skills and assist the family in meeting needs and developing resources. The program provides parent/ family training based on the belief that the parents are the primary teachers of their children.

Texana Center’s Behavioral Healthcare Clinics provide assessment, treatment, and supportive assistance to those affected by serious and persistent mental illness.

Texana Center’s six Behavioral Healthcare Clinics offer outpatient mental health services for children and adults including psychiatric evaluation, medication management, therapy/counseling services, primary care integration, targeted case management, psychiatric rehabilitation services, peer support services, family support services, supported employment, and supported housing.

Services are built on evidence-based interventions aimed at promoting recovery and resilience and can help those affected to plan a new course for their life – one which leads to increased well-being and growth. The goal is to promote stabilization and empower individuals to increase their success in leading functional and productive lives within their community, workplace or at home.

Services that target specific vulnerable populations include assertive community treatment for adults who have been hospitalized multiple times, intensive case management services for adults with mental illness who are currently on probation, intensive wraparound services for youth with behavioral health issues who are first encountering the juvenile justice system, coordinated specialty care for individuals 15 – 30 years of age experiencing a first episode psychosis, and Youth Empowerment Services (YES) to provide a continuum of appropriate services and supports for families with children who have severe emotional disturbances.

Texana Center’s crisis response services include a 24/7 crisis hotline that serves as the first point of contact for the Austin, Colorado, Fort Bend, Matagorda, Waller, and Wharton Counties. The Texana Mobile Crisis Outreach Team (MCOT) provides 24/7 intervention and assessment. Citizens of Texana Center’s six counties can call the crisis hotline at 1-800-633-5686. The crisis hotline also serves as the front door for the Texana Crisis Center.

The Crisis Center provides life-saving support for individuals with mental illness who need an immediate, intensive intervention to avoid self-harm or suicide. The Texana Crisis Center offers two culturally sensitive, trauma-informed, inpatient programs to help clients from all backgrounds. The Extended Observation Unit provides emergency stabilization for individuals who are experiencing an acute behavioral healthcare crisis and require 24-hour observation. For clients who can stabilize in a less intensive setting, Texana Center offers a Crisis Residential Unit. Clients in the Residential Crisis Unit attend at least four hours of classes each day covering basic life skills such as goal setting, social skills, conflict resolution, anger management, and relapse prevention through Chemical Dependency Counseling.

Texana offers programs that help adult clients with intellectual disabilities live productive lives in their own communities. Programs include 21 group homes and five learning centers, which offer social activities, help clients with basic life skills, and connect individuals to supported employment.

Texana also serves as the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Authority, which is the starting point for people seeking information about what services are available for persons with an intellectual or developmental disability. Service Coordinators help the families of clients with intake, eligibility, and navigating and accessing state programs. Clients served can be any age.