Child and Adolescent Division
Consumers
served
Achieved 97 percent of the required monthly average targets
for total consumers served. Served a total number of 7,042
youth. Total number of youth served in the Choices Program
(formerly First Time Offenders Program) was 1,142.
Contract
Outcome Measures
Exceeded the state contract for outcome measures of service
indicators that address consumer improvement in the areas
of re-arrest, school difficulties, and improvement in behavior.
Texas
Integrated Funding Initiative
Selected as an expansion site to implement a consortium of
area agencies to provide interagency service integration and
parent involvement to serve children with serious emotional
disturbances in a pilot at the Alief Independent School District.
Creation
of New Juvenile Justice Department
Re-aligned programs serving juvenile offenders in order to
increase efficiency and service. The re-alignment increases
the number of assessments to facilitate placement of juveniles
at home or in appropriate residential settings.
Choices
Program
Redesigned the First Time Offenders program as the Choices
Program to better serve consumers. The program headquarters
moved to the Chimney Rock Center where it operates with Children’s
Protective Services and the Juvenile Probation Department.
Referrals come from the Justice of the Peace courts for children
who are committing status offenses and from other county courts
for youth committing misdemeanors.
Juvenile
Probation Department
Continued working on the contract with the Juvenile Probation
Department in order to increase psychiatric services to children
entering the juvenile justice system. Under this agreement,
psychiatric services increased by one full-time employee.
This position provides psychiatric services to youth at the
detention center and other facilities.
Intensive
In-Home Services Project
Collaborated with TRIAD partners (CPS and Juvenile Probation)
to create a new level of treatment provision for youth and
families. This treatment provides intensive therapy and case
management services.
Automated
Systems, Training
Began improving automated systems to increase the capacity
to serve a greater number of consumers and track diverse funding/accounting
requirements. Staff received training on the system.
HISD
‘Safe Schools’ Grant
Selected to be part of a federal “Safe Schools/Healthy
Students Initiative.” The grant provides comprehensive
education, mental health and law enforcement services to students
in the Yates and Austin High School feeder patterns. MHMRA
employs two pre-school mental health specialists to work with
children up to age 6.
