Block grants for community mental health services

The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded the Health & Human Services Commission of Texas $192.407 million on October 1, 2025, under the Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services program (CFDA 93.958). The award funds comprehensive community mental health services to adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbance across Texas through September 30, 2027, with place of performance in Austin, Texas.

HHSC administers the block grant as the state's designated mental health services agency, passing funds through to 20 sub-recipients including local mental health authorities, regional mental health centers, and one research university. Sub-recipients deliver transition support specialist programs, crisis intervention and stabilization services, suicide prevention and 988 Lifeline capacity expansion, coordinated specialty care for early psychosis, mobile crisis response teams, jail diversion and forensic assertive community treatment, evidence-based Mental Health First Aid training, and community mental health center operations. Named sub-recipients include North Texas Behavioral Health Authority, Brazos Valley Mental Health-Mental Retardation Center, University of Texas at Austin, El Paso Community MHMR (Emergence Health Network), Austin-Travis County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center (Integral Care), Texana Center, Denton County MHMR Center, Lubbock Regional MHMR, Andrews Center, Sabine Valley Regional MHMR Center, Tropical Texas Center for MH-MR, Helen Farabee Centers, West Texas Centers for Mental Health & Mental Retardation, My Health My Resources of Tarrant County, Heart of Texas Region Mental Health & Mental Retardation Center, Bluebonnet Trails Community MHMR Center, The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD, Nueces County MHMR Community Center, Concho Valley Center for Human Advancement, and Central Texas MHMR Center.