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

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

Adult Behavioral Health Outpatient Services

Texas Panhandle Centers provides behavioral health services for adults who have a mental illness such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, or other severely disabling mental disorders which require crisis resolution.

For help with behavioral health crises and emergencies, please call our Crisis Line at 1-800-692-4039.

    • ASSESSMENT SERVICES
      Assessment services are designed to determine eligibility, treatment needs, and treatment preferences of the individual seeking services.
    • SERVICE COORDINATION
      Service Coordination provides linkage to medical, social, educational, and other services or supports that help achieve community participation acceptable to each individual. Service Coordination involves assessment, service planning, monitoring and crisis-management.
    • MEDICATION-RELATED SERVICES
      Medication Related Services are for evaluating prescriptive need and monitoring medication used for psychiatric disorders. Services include pharmacological management, medication monitoring, medication administration and medication training.
    • SKILLS TRAINING
      Skills Training expands an individual’s independent living and community skills. This training is designed and adapted to the individual’s needs for skill acquisition and is accomplished through face-to-face contact with the individual.
    • COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
      Cognitive Behavioral Therapy are face-to-face problem resolution services provided by a licensed practitioner to individual consumers.
    • PATH – PROJECTS FOR ASSISTANCE IN TRANSITION FROM HOMELESSNESS
      The PATH program provides services to an individual of any age who is:
      1) Suffering from a serious mental illness or from serious mental illness and has a substance abuse disorder; and is
      2) Homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless.
    • SUPPORTED HOUSING
      Supported Housing services assist individuals with severe and persistent mental illness choose, obtain and keep regular integrated housing (not agency owned or operated housing). Services also include temporary rental assistance; intensive in-home rehabilitation services, coordination activities that facilitate access to resources and services that support the consumer with choosing, obtaining or maintaining affordable housing.
    • SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT
      Supported Employment services provide individualized assistance in choosing employment, integrated work sites in regular community jobs,
      long term supports to assist individuals in keeping employment and finding an additional job if necessary.
    • ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT (ACT)
      The ACT Team is a self-contained program that provides treatment, rehabilitation, and support services. Persons with a chronic or persistent
      mental illness, who have a history of multiple hospitalizations, involvement with the judicial system, homeless shelters or community residential
      homes are eligible.
    • CRISIS INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION SERVICES
      • CRISIS RESPITE
        This service provides a safe secure place for individuals with a behavioral health condition to receive supportive care. Services are voluntary. The program is a 24-hour service in an unlocked facility. The person must be able to self-administer medications and not be at risk of self-harm or harm to others. All admissions are coordinated through the Mobile Crisis Outreach Team. Services provided at the location include evidence based practices in group and individual settings like Peer support, psychosocial rehabilitation and Co-occurring psychiatric and substance use services.
    • MOBILE CRISIS OUTREACH TEAM
      This team is activated by the 24-hour hotline when someone is in need of assessment and immediate crisis intervention services. The team will evaluate the crisis and work with the individual to develop a safety plan that can assist in crisis resolution. This service is offered in all 21 counties of the TPC service area.
    • INTERCEPT TEAM
      This is a co-response team made up of mental health professionals and crisis intervention trained (CIT) police officers in the Amarillo city limits. This team coordinates with other CIT officers in other counties and with other first responders. These teams not only respond to crisis but also link people to social supports that can help reduce the incidents of crisis.
    • INPATIENT SERVICES
      When a person is in need of hospitalization to manage their behavioral health condition TPC assists in the admission process by conducting assessments, coordinating admissions with available psychiatric facilities and providing discharge planning with the inpatient treatment teams. TPC strives to contract with private psychiatric facilities and psychiatric facilities managed by the State of Texas so people have a choice in facilities that best fit their needs.
    • FAMILY EDUCATION
      Family Education is a program providing consultation and education to individual families or groups of families regarding mental illness.
      Education is also provided to the public in a classroom setting at various locations throughout the 21-county catchment area.
    • WELLNESS CLINIC PROGRAM
      TPC’s Wellness Clinic utilizes “a no 4 walls approach” to holistic care. The TPC Wellness Clinic provides services to individuals with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorders (SUD), and co-occurring disorders (COC) to individuals who live in the upper 21 counties of the Texas Panhandle.

For more information, contact:

TPC Amarillo Behavioral Health Clinic

1501 S. Polk
Amarillo, TX 79101

(806) 337-1000
Or your Regional Clinic

Or call our Crisis Line at (806) 359-6699 (toll free 1-800-692-4039)

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