Border Region Behavioral Health Center Starr County

Border Region Behavioral Health Center Starr County

Services:
Ancillary Services
• Case management service
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Supported housing
• Illness management and recovery
• Suicide prevention services
• Intensive case management
• Assertive community treatment
• Supported employment

Type of Care

• Mental health treatment
• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children

Age Groups Accepted

• Seniors
• Adults
• Young Adults
• Children/Adolescents

Payment Assistance Available

• Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
• Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Treatment Approaches

• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy

Language Services

• Spanish
• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Seniors or older adults
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Persons with eating disorders
• Young adults
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)

Pharmacotherapies

• Olanzapine
• Thiothixene
• Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
• Asenapine
• Clozapine
• Haloperidol
• Ziprasidone
• Aripiprazole
• Paliperidone
• Lurasidone
• Quetiapine
• Risperidone
• Nicotine replacement
• Fluphenazine
• Brexpiprazole
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Outpatient

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• State government

Facility Type

• Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Cash or self-payment
• Private health insurance
• Federal Grants
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Other State funds

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services