MHMR of Tarrant County

Tarrant County will put $4.5 million towards keeping the Mental Health Jail Diversion Center open. The center is an alternative to jail for people with mental health issues who are suspected of low-level crimes.

If someone is suspected of a low-level, nonviolent crime, and displays signs of mental illness, police can bring that person to the diversion center instead of jail.

The Mental Health Jail Diversion Center offers treatment instead of jail time for people suspected of low-level, nonviolent crimes. The center didn't get any money in the latest county budget proposal.

As Tarrant County’s population grows, the need for mental health services for children and families also increases, according to three Fort Worth mental health leaders.

Thousands of Texans with intellectual disabilities live in group homes. The group home system is struggling to retain workers under the low base wage the state legislature set last year.

The Tarrant County Mental Health Jail Diversion Center is an effort to keep people with mental illness out of jail.

The Tarrant County Jail has a history of complaints about medical neglect.

The Legislature put up money to establish 150 more psychiatric beds for inmates at local hospitals statewide and created a $100 million bucket for criminal justice-related mental health services.

Tarrant County’s Mental Health Jail Diversion Center is a place where some people can receive help instead of going to jail.

The need for substance use treatment didn’t go away when the COVID-19 pandemic began. Organizations in North Texas had to get creative this year to make sure there is help for people who want it.