Behavioral Health

Behavioral health is an integral part of everyone’s overall health. It encompasses mental health conditions, substance use disorders, life stressors, crises, and stress-related physical symptoms. Behavioral health care refers to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of those conditions.

Prevent Suicide and Support Texans’ Mental Health
Preventing suicide must be a priority. Evidence-based strategies to reduce suicide risk and care models that improve behavioral health care delivery are key to reducing suicide rates and supporting Texans’ mental health.

View the Suicide Prevention Toolkit

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Education

• All CMEs on Opioids and Prescription Management
• All CMEs on Physician Wellness

Resources

Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Family, Intimate Partner, and Domestic Violence

• Domestic Violence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
• Recommendation: Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
• About Intimate Partner Violence | Intimate Partner Violence Prevention | CDC

TCMHCC – Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) - Information on CPAN, PeriPAN, and TCHATT

• Child Psychiatry Access Network (CPAN)
• Perinatal Psychiatry Access Network (PeriPAN)
• Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine (TCHATT) – TCMHCC

Behavioral Health Services | Texas Health and Human Services

• Prevention and Behavioral Health Promotion | Texas Health and Human Services
• Rural Mental Health | Texas Health and Human Services

Nature's Impact on Mental Health

• Nature Prescriptions for Health: A Review of Evidence and Research Opportunities - PMC

School-Based Health Clinics (SBHC)

• Resources from the School-Based Health Alliance

Suicide Prevention and Community Support

• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline | SAMHSA
• Public Policy Priorities | AFSP
• Texas Public Health Suicide Prevention Toolkit 2025
• After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools | AFSP
• Prevent Suicide and Support Texans’ Mental Health
• Behavioral Health & Suicide Prevention: What Texans Can Do

US Surgeon General’s Health Priorities focused on Mental Health & Wellbeing

• Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation - Social Connection | HHS.gov
• Youth Mental Health
• Social Media and Youth Mental Health