Integral Care opens up community housing in East Austin for the homeless

Integral Care opened the Terrace at Oak Springs, a unique apartment complex in East Austin housing 50 homeless people and providing ongoing health care services.

FOX 7 Discussion: Suicide care initiative in Texas

Suicide is a serious, but preventable public health problem. Integral Care, as the local authority for behavioral health and developmental disabilities in Texas, has taken the lead on initiatives to help educate our community in hopes of collaboratively preventing suicides from occurring.

Schools use mobile apps for safety
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More than 100 Texas school districts are using cellphone apps to address mental health and school safety.

AISD student health services
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Austin ISD health services staff are scrambling to find additional funding to keep mental health centers running at 16 school campuses.

Improving mental health services in schools
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The Hogg Fondation is working to improve mental health services in area schools. Lockhart ISD is one of the districts to receive grant money for those services. Superintendent Susan Bohn talks about what this means for students.

New crisis center in Travis County officially opens
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A new crisis center officially opens in Travis County. It focuses on providing short term emergency mental health care for adults. FOX 7's Jacqueline Sarkissian has more.

New crisis center in Austin
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The Judge Guy Herman Center for Mental Health Crisis is set to open in Austin. FOX 7's Jacqueline Sarikissian has the details.

Police prevent suicides

Officers say we are facing a mental health crisis in this country. Suicidal subject calls are increasing. Officers from Austin to the smaller Pflugerville are responding to hundreds, even thousands of cases per year. In this week’s Crimewatch FOX 7's Noelle Newton shows you at the incredible risk officers are taking to save these people and get them the help they need.

Intervention efforts to helping first responders battle stress

We often look to first responders as heroes--those who have an inner toughness to display courage in times of chaos. But they are not numb to the trauma they see.

New campaign to educate about mental health of first responders

Mental health issues are a big problem facing fire and EMS workers, but a newly founded campaign, named Code Green, is hoping to help by educating first responders.

Travis Co. mental health docket handles 5,000th case

The Travis County District Attorney's Office is working to connect criminals with mental illness to community resources.