Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments

Community Based Interventions

Adult service programs are designed to demonstrate a multi-service approach, along with appropriate and cost effective alternatives to incarceration for offenders with special needs.
32 statewide MHMR programs provide:
- Case management
- Rehabilitation/Psychological services
- Psychiatric services
- Medication and monitoring
- Individual/Group therapy and skills training
- Benefit eligibility services including Federal Entitlement Application Processing
- Screening and linkage to appropriate medical services, including hospice
- Jail screening
- Court intervention
- Pre-release referral process for jails and families

Adult COC programs are designed to conduct pre-release screenings and referrals for aftercare medical or psychiatric treatment services for adult offenders with special needs referred from TDCJ CID and other referral sources.
MHMR COC services include but are not limited to the following:
- Service coordination for aftercare services
- Joint treatment planning with criminal justice agencies, social services, health & human service agencies and other appropriate disciplines
- Benefits eligibility services and applications

The jail diversion programs are designed specifically to demonstrate a multi-service approach for more appropriate alternatives to incarceration for offenders with mental impairments.
The jail diversion programs include the following services:
- Specialized mental health deputies
- Designated mental health staff assigned to screen offenders for mental health issues
- Resource information services for attorneys or court personnel
- Advocacy for the offender with attorneys, court personnel and/or bond release programs
- Referrals for further medical evaluation or commitment

Juvenile service programs are designed as a family-based, multi-service approach to meet the mental health needs of juvenile offenders
Services are targeted for youth in the Texas juvenile justice system, ages 10-18, who have been assessed with severe emotional disturbances
19 statewide MHMR programs provide wrap-around case management philosophy and flexible programming
Service components include:
Assessments for service referral
Service coordination and planning
Medication and monitoring
Individual and/or group therapy and skills training
In-home services such as Multi-Systemic Therapy or Functional Family Therapy
Family focused support services
Benefit eligibility services
Transitional services

Juvenile services are provided to TYC juveniles including a Continuity of Care system
Services are targeted for youth released on parole who have a serious mental illness that requires post release treatment
MHMR services provide:
- Individualized assessments
- Service coordination
- Medication monitoring
- Advocacy services
- Transitional services to other treatment programs
- Benefit eligibility