Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Have a serious functional impairment
- Are at risk of disruption of a preferred living or child care environment due to psychiatric symptoms: or
- Are enrolled in a school system’s special education program because of a serious emotional disturbance.
- Helps you when there is a need for crisis prevention and management, by locating and coordinating emergency services in order to prevent the crisis from getting worse.
- Is responsible for monitoring the services your child receives to see if the services are effective, or if your child needs additional or different services.
- Is responsible for identifying and arranging for the delivery of the services and supports that you have discussed with them and that you believe will address the child’s needs and desires.
- If he or she takes the medicine at the community center, a licensed nurse or other qualified and trained staff being supervised by a doctor or registered nurse will provide or administer it.
- This person will also be responsible for monitoring your child’s medication, by assessing the impact of the medicine, including how well the medicine is working, if there are any side effects or adverse effects or if your child is experiencing any possible toxic reactions to the medicine.
- Appropriately trained staff will also teach your child and/or family member the knowledge and skills needed to be able to administer and monitor the medication at home.
- The doctor will be responsible for managing your child’s medication to determine if is/her symptoms are staying the same, getting worse, getting better or clearing up completely. The doctor will evaluate the effectiveness of the prescribed medication, the dose (how much), the frequency (how often) and whether or not a different medication should be tried, and when.
- Your local mental health authority is responsible for ensuring that your child receives his/her prescribed psychoactive medication, under certain circumstances. Your child’s medication will be provided to you if:
- You have no other means of paying for this medicine
- The medicine has been determined to be medically necessary
- It is prescribed by an authorized representative of the local mental health authority
- Your child is receiving services and registered in TDMHMR’s management information system, called CARE.
- Identify and use non-clinical/non-professional community resources
- Reduce the symptoms of the child’s disorder(s)
- Maintain the quality of life
- Promote family integration
These flexible community supports must be based on the preferences of the child and family and focus on the outcomes that you have chosen. They must also be included as strategies in your individualized family plan of care for you and your child. The supports must be unavailable through other HHSC funding and not readily available through other social services resources, other agencies, natural community supports, volunteers or charitable contributions. Flexible community supports may include: mentors; tutors; family aides; specialized camps; temporary child-care; initial job development and placement activities; and transportation services.
New Patient Intake Information:
Please print out and bring this paperwork to your intake. Completing this packet ahead of time will shorten the time needed to complete your intake. Click here to download Child Mental Health Intake PacketFor more information about how to access services, call 1-800-758-3344. Additional assistance is available via email at: MHIntake@bettyhardwick.org Intake services are available on a walk-in basis, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Please fill out both forms below and return them by email to MHIntake@bettyhardwick.org or fax to 325-690-5187.
Forms:
Mental Health New Patient HistoryMental Health New Patient Social History