Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium

Who We Are

The Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) was created by the 86th Texas Legislature to leverage the expertise and capacity of the health-related institutions of higher education to address urgent mental health challenges and improve the mental health care system in this state in relation to children and adolescents.

In 2021, the Texas Legislature approved federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act for expanded services of several of the Consortium’s initiatives.

TCMHCC Has Five Initiatives:

• The Child Psychiatry Access Network (CPAN) provides telehealth-based consultation and training to primary care providers. Learn More
• The Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine (TCHATT) program provides in-school behavioral telehealth care to at-risk children and adolescents. Learn More
• The research initiative has created two state-wide networks to study and improve the delivery of child and adolescent mental health services in Texas. Learn More
• The Community Psychiatry Workforce Expansion (CPWE) funds full-time academic psychiatrists as academic medical directors and new psychiatric resident rotation positions at facilities operated by community mental health providers. Learn More
• The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Fellowships program expands both the number of child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship positions in Texas and the number of these training programs at Texas HRIs. Learn More

Get to Know Us

Meet the Teams

Get to know the clinicians and staff who provide services through our CPAN and TCHATT programs.

Executive Committee

Learn more about the members of the Executive Committee.

Staff and Leadership

TCMHCC is staffed by The University of Texas System, through a contract with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

For more information on the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC), contact Luanne Southern at lsouthern@utsystem.edu.

For media inquiries, contact Laura Cruzada at lcruzada@utsystem.edu or (512) 322-3762.