Behavioral Health Support

While our Early Childhood Education and Economic Empowerment programs contribute to reinforcing our clients’ mental health resilience, we are also implementing activities that focus on mental health awareness and promote well-being through education and referral support.

Our clients, mainly young and prospective mothers, are educated through awareness workshops. These sessions are delivered in collaboration with the experts from ISF in a culturally and linguistically appropriate setting. As of today, 300 pregnant women have been reached. This was complemented by sponsoring workshops aimed at empowering community leaders and faith leaders to help raise awareness of mental health issues and impacts on the community and families.

Our second intervention channel focuses on referring clients who need support to competent organizations such as ISF, DAYA, and AN-NISA. Our trained 27 community health workers facilitate this process.

Finally, in order to continue to improve its programmatic approach, we have launched in 2024 a Mental Health Task Force. By bringing a group of experts from different medical fields, we analyze existent gaps in current health and behavioral services and support systems for financially challenged individuals/families or immigrants with Fort Bend and Harris Counties and identify transdisciplinary pathways to address these gaps, with Phase One focusing on women during and post-partum and their children, en-uterus through 3 years of age. 

The Task Force is led by the former CEO of The Harris Center for Mental Health and Intellectual and Developmental Disability Services, the working group is composed of representatives from the Texas Council of Child Welfare Boards, Behavioral Health Services for Fort Bend County, Mental Health America Great Houston, and Houston Health and Human Services Department, among others.