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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.
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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.
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The Tarrant County Mental Health Jail Diversion Center is an effort to keep people with mental illness out of jail.
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The Tarrant County Jail has a history of complaints about medical neglect.
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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.
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Tarrant County’s Mental Health Jail Diversion Center is a place where some people can receive help instead of going to jail.
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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.