Resources
Local Mental Health Services -Fort Bend
Texana Center offers a wide array of services that help to improve the lives of many Texans by providing care, skills training and support for all kinds of behavioral challenges, including mental illness, intellectual disabilities and autism. We are here to help you, as we know it can be difficult to navigate the system.
For questions regarding IDD Services, please call 281-342-0090
Local Telephone: 281.239.1300
24/7 Crisis Hotline1 (800) 633-5686
Texana Center 4910 Airport Ave. Rosenberg, TX 77471
Local Mental Health Services In Harris County
Local Mental Health Services Medicaid Waiver Programs
CLASS-MDCP (Medically Dependent Children's Program)
The Harris Center, (713) 970-7799
HCS (Home and Community Services)
THML (Texas Home Living Waiver Management)
The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD · 713-970-7000
Local Mental Health Services - Walker, Montgomery and Liberty Counties,
Adult Mental Health, Child/Youth Mental Health, IDD Services, Substance abuse, Mental health Housing, Physical Health Services, Substance use disorder treatment and Crisis Services.
Tri-County Behavior Healthcare, (800) 550-8408
24/7 Crisis Hotline 800-659-6994
Social Security Resources
What You Should Know Before You Apply for Social Security Disability Benefits
Find My TWC-VR Services
Apply for VR services, eligibility for those services is based on these four factors:
1. You have a physical, cognitive, or mental impairment documented by the appropriately qualified professional (doctor, psychologist or other)
2. Your documented impairment causes a substantial barrier to getting or keeping employment
3. You can benefit from vocational rehabilitation services that lead to an employment outcome
4. You require vocational rehabilitation services to prepare for, secure, retain or regain employment
Post Secondary Options
The University of Houston-
Clear Lake Connecting to College provides individualized student support
www.uhcl.edu/autism-center/connecting-to-college
Texas A&M-PATHS Certificate Program leads to a successful career as Direct Support Professional
VAST Program-Provides post-secondary transition programs and comprehensive support services
https://www.hccs.edu/continuing-education/departments/hcc-vast-academy/LoneStar-LIFEPATH
http://www.lonestar.edu/lifePATH.htm
College Living Experience
Check for eligibility requirements and requirements
FUNDING OPPORTUNITES
Autism Grants for Families
ACT Today! grants are designed to provide access to individuals and families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders. Grant payments will be made directly to pre-approved treatment providers, assessors or materials vendors.
CARE Family Grant Program is mainly for helping families with medication, autism diagnosis/evaluation, therapy session (including speech, OT and ABA,) and autism summer camps.
We offer small grants and stipends averaging $1,000 per family to assist with the financing of limited, targeted educational investments for these children.
Danny’s Wish iPads for Autism applications will only be accepted September 1st through December 31st of each calendar year. Applications received and approved will be acknowledged by email & submitted to lottery for the next allocation of iPads awarded. Unfortunately incomplete applications will not be considered for award. iPads will be awarded each April of each calendar year.
First Hand is dedicated to impacting the health of children, their families and communities through reactive and preventative initiatives. To fulfill that mission, we provide funding for individual children with health-related needs when insurance and other financial resources have been exhausted.
Our programs have evolved to include free or low-cost wheelchairs and other durable medical equipment, vehicle and home adaptations and more.
Friends of Man, the charitable arm of the Institute for the New Man, gives help to people who find themselves in a situation where they have nowhere else to turn.
We help them obtain expensive medical and adaptive equipment such as augmentative communication devices, bathing and feeding chairs, enclosed beds or sensory equipment.
Maggie Welby Foundation Scholarships
The Maggie Welby Foundation offers scholarships for children grades Kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Modest Needs hallmark grant is our Self-Sufficiency Grant. We make Self-Sufficiency Grants in an effort to assist individuals and families who, because they are working and live just above the poverty level, are ineligible for most types of conventional social assistance but who, all the same, are living one or two lost paychecks away from the kind of financial catastrophe that eventually leads to homelessness.
ASDF’s Holiday Gift Card Program
Through the ASDF’s Holiday Gift Card Program, we provide families across the country with $250 gift cards for the holidays.
The iPad For Kids Program revolutionized and unlocked the communication barrier for children on the spectrum. The iPad gives a voice to the voiceless.
Parents email us when they find a camp for their child. We ask them for the name of the camp, the dates they are looking at and the cost of the camp. If funds are available and we are able to help them, we will require documentation from their child's doctor stating that he/she is on the Autism Spectrum.
MyGOAL Inc. Enrichment Grant is a grant program that will enable families to take advantage of socialization and educational opportunities designed for individuals with special needs.
The intent of NAA’s Give A Voice program is to provide communication devices to individuals with autism who are non-verbal or minimally verbal, and whose communication challenges put them at increased risk of injury or harm.
Our NSWKids program supports direct educational diagnostic testing, services and tutoring/mentoring and support to the families of active duty SEALs, SWCC and support personnel who have special needs children. Recent examples of where we’ve helped include: spouse respite, emergency home repairs for deployed service members, urgent child care and primary care individual replacement.
Small Steps in Speech is a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization which provides grants on behalf of children with speech and language disorders for therapies, treatments, communicative devices, and other services aimed at improving their communication skills.
UHCCF grants provide financial help/assistance for families with children that have medical needs not covered or not fully covered by their commercial health insurance plan.
Varghese Summersett PLLC Annual Scholarships
The special needs scholarships can be used offset the cost of camp, tutoring, classes, secondary education, post-secondary education or tools to help them learn and flourish
