MH/MR Authority of Brazos Valley Washington County

MH/MR Authority of Brazos Valley Washington County

Services:
Education and Counseling Services
• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Language Services

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

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Facility Type

• Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted in designated area

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

Emergency Mental Health Services

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

Ancillary Services

• Family psychoeducation
• Supported employment
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Education services
• Suicide prevention services
• Case management service
• Intensive case management
• Illness management and recovery
• Supported housing
• Assertive community treatment

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

• Local, county, or community government

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Treatment Approaches

• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Active duty military
• Veterans
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Payment Assistance Available

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Children/Adolescents
• Seniors
• Young Adults
• Adults

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Medicare
• Community Service Block Grants
• Other State funds
• Medicaid
• Federal Grants
• County or local government funds
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Cash or self-payment
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Private health insurance
• State corrections or juvenile justice funds
• Community Mental Health Block Grants

Pharmacotherapies

• Ziprasidone
• Perphenazine
• Lurasidone
• Chlorpromazine
• Risperidone
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Olanzapine
• Paliperidone
• Aripiprazole
• Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
• Haloperidol
• Quetiapine

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

• Outpatient