Community Healthcore

PURPOSE:

Community Healthcore provides mental, emotional, and behavioral health services to Northeast Texas residents.     

 

DUTIES:

The board serves as the mental health and intellectual disability governing authority for Bowie, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Red River, Rusk, and Upshur counties.  It assists many types of people groups in East Texas including:

 

  • Children, adolescents, and adults with severe mental illness
  • Persons with intellectual disabilities
  • Individuals needing addiction recovery
  • Persons in the criminal justice system
  • Birth to 3 years of age in the Early Childhood Intervention program
  • Families through our Parents as Teachers program and service to at risk youth
  • Veterans
  • Persons who have experienced trauma and needing trauma informed care
  • Older adults through our Aging and Disability Resource Center

 

COMPOSITION:

1 member

TERM:

2 years

MEETINGS:

As needed

CONTACT:

Linda Hooks

Linda.hooks@txkisd.net  /  (903) 277-1628