NON-CRISIS 1-800-299-3699
(TOLL FREE)

NON-CRISIS 1-806-337-1000
(AMARILLO AREA)

About Us

Welcome to Texas Panhandle Centers!

Texas Panhandle Centers Behavioral and Developmental Health is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic and is a locally controlled non-profit organization that serves adults and youth with severe mental illness, substance use conditions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and children from birth to three years of age who experience developmental delays.

TPC provides quality behavioral and developmental health services to over 10,000 individuals and their families each year with the goal of meeting their needs at the right time and place and to keep people connected to their community of choice.

The Board of Trustees, staff and volunteers prioritize quality, experience, innovation, advocacy, and is at the heart of what we do every day Making Lives Better for those we serve.


Libby Moore
Executive Director

Texas Panhandle Center’s Evolution

  1. March 1966
    Amarillo Community MHMR Center


    • City of Amarillo Appointed Board of Trustees
    • Served only Potter and Randall Counties

  2. 1967
    Amarillo State Center for Human Development


    • Land donated by the Harrington Foundation
    • Served clients in 23 counties of the Texas Panhandle

  3. September 1973


    • Expanded services to upper 21 counties of the Texas Panhandle

  4. 1988
    Texas Panhandle Mental Health Authority


    • Established offices in Dumas, Borger, Perryton, Pampa, Hereford, Clarendon, and Amarillo.

  5. 2000
    Texas Panhandle Mental Health Mental Retardation


    • Merger of Texas Panhandle Mental Health Authority and Amarillo State Center

  6. December 2010
    Texas Panhandle Centers Behavioral and Developmental Health


    • Rebranded to better reflect the agency’s focus of service and to erase the stigma attached to intellectual disabilities

  7. March 2022
    CCBHC Certification


    • Texas Panhandle Centers was certified as a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC)