The Hill Country Council on Alcohol and Drug Awareness (HCCADA) offers presentations at NO CHARGE as requested, upon availability.

List of topics:

• Meaningful Connections (4-Part Series)
• Prescription Drugs and Opioids
• Overdose Reversal (Narcan) Training
• Stigma and Substance Use – Recovery Is Possible
• Alcohol Education
• E-Cigarettes
• Marijuana: Drug Facts and Policy Updates

To request a presentation or activity for your group, please contact us.

Free.

HCCADA is providing Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) and Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training to school personnel, emergency first responders, law enforcement, and other community members who can provide referrals to mental health services. Our population of focus for which the training is intended to help is school-age youth, adults with serious mental illness/disturbance, and the public.

Youth MHFA teaches adults how to identify signs and respond if children/youth are experiencing a mental health illness or serious emotional disturbance.

Adult MHFA trains adults in how to identify signs and respond if someone may be experiencing a mental health illness or serious emotional disturbance.

HCCADA specifically serves the entirety of region 8 of Texas Department of State Health Services which includes 28 counties: Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Calhoun, Comal, DeWitt, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio, Gillespie, Goliad, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Jackson, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Kinney, La Salle, Lavaca, Maverick, Medina, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde, Victoria, Wilson, Zavala.

Courses are offered both in-person and online. Either course is 8 hours long and feature hands-on activities and practice, ALGEE, the 5-step action plan and an overview of local mental health resources, support groups and other help.

The curricula is established and facilitated by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing.

All costs associated with tuition and training are covered by our MHAT grant.

CJCGC trains women and men through a 10-week class utilizing the Jobs for Life(TM) curriculum. Each intern (client) is equipped to understand the dignity of work, complete a vocational plan, and build a network to pursue God’s plan for their life.

The Bible is used as a textbook to help interns understand their journey, God-given value, and purpose. To increase employability, interns are trained to use standard computer programs like Microsoft Office or career-specific programs like QuickBooks. With the opportunity to complete industry-recognized certifications, interns increase their marketability to employers.

For the application, click here:

Intern Application

Men and Women.

Job searching, writing a résumé and practicing for the interview may not be enough. Are you qualified for the job you want? Do you need to improve on your skills? Next Level Learning offers an evolving section of classes and workshops to help you reach your goals!

• GED Tutoring
• Building Computer Skills Class
• Soft Skill Workshops

Email us at [email protected] for more information on any of these classes or workshops.

Gii offers refugees and political asylees opportunities to obtain job training, education assistance, and language proficiency training. Our services include:

For adults, Gii provides TOEFL training to fluent English speakers who want to teach English to Afghan refugees. In addition to providing newly arrived Afghans with English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, GII also assists with the test preparation for the CDL exam, professional training for fields such as customer service, and other fast-track job readiness training. To boost a sense of familiar home life, Gii also supports a cooking program, sewing and quilting program, and gardening club (through access to a local community garden).

For youth, Gii provides mentoring and tutoring/homework study sessions.

Hill Country MHDD Centers serves families with children and adolescents, ages 3 through 17, who exhibit significant behavioral and/or emotional difficulties. We work closely with the family and child/youth to help strengthen and empower families to improve functioning and quality of life. We are committed to providing comprehensive services in a trauma-sensitive environment that promotes safety and healing.

• Counseling - Cognitive behavioral therapy focused on reducing or eliminating symptoms of emotional issues and improve daily living.
• Family Case Management - Activities to assist child/youth or caregiver in gaining and coordinating access to needed care and services based on the child/youth’s needs.
• Family Partner - Experienced parents of children with serious emotional disturbances who provide mentoring and support to the child/youth’s primary caregivers.
• Family Training - Training provided to primary caregivers to help manage and cope with the child’s emotional or behavioral difficulties.
• Skills Training and Development - Training provided to a child/youth to address symptoms that interfere with functioning. This service provides an opportunity for the youth/child to learn and improve upon skills they need to function as appropriately and independently as possible.

Ages: 3-17

Click here to contact us.

We accept Medicaid, Medicare, Private Insurance, or Sliding Scale.

Hill Country MHDD Centers serves families with children and adolescents, ages 3 through 17, who exhibit significant behavioral and/or emotional difficulties. We work closely with the family and child/youth to help strengthen and empower families to improve functioning and quality of life. We are committed to providing comprehensive services in a trauma-sensitive environment that promotes safety and healing.

• Counseling - Cognitive behavioral therapy focused on reducing or eliminating symptoms of emotional issues and improve daily living.
• Family Case Management - Activities to assist child/youth or caregiver in gaining and coordinating access to needed care and services based on the child/youth’s needs.
• Family Partner - Experienced parents of children with serious emotional disturbances who provide mentoring and support to the child/youth’s primary caregivers.
• Family Training - Training provided to primary caregivers to help manage and cope with the child’s emotional or behavioral difficulties.
• Skills Training and Development - Training provided to a child/youth to address symptoms that interfere with functioning. This service provides an opportunity for the youth/child to learn and improve upon skills they need to function as appropriately and independently as possible.

Ages: 3 -17

Click here to contact us.

Kimble County MH Center services these counties:

• Kimble
• Mason
• Menard
• Schleicher
• Sutton
• Edwards

We accept Medicaid, Medicare, Private Insurance, or Sliding Scale.

Hill Country MHDD Centers serves families with children and adolescents, ages 3 through 17, who exhibit significant behavioral and/or emotional difficulties. We work closely with the family and child/youth to help strengthen and empower families to improve functioning and quality of life. We are committed to providing comprehensive services in a trauma-sensitive environment that promotes safety and healing.

• Counseling - Cognitive behavioral therapy focused on reducing or eliminating symptoms of emotional issues and improve daily living.
• Family Case Management - Activities to assist child/youth or caregiver in gaining and coordinating access to needed care and services based on the child/youth’s needs.
• Family Training - Training provided to primary caregivers to help manage and cope with the child’s emotional or behavioral difficulties.
• Skills Training and Development - Training provided to a child/youth to address symptoms that interfere with functioning. This service provides an opportunity for the youth/child to learn and improve upon skills they need to function as appropriately and independently as possible.

Ages: 3-17

Click here to contact us.

We accept Medicaid, Medicare, Private Insurance, or Sliding Scale.

Hill Country MHDD Centers offer compassionate care and support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Provider Services support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, helping them to achieve an interdependent life and live to their fullest potential.  Personalized, specialized services may include:

• in-home, community, and work supports
• transportation
• behavioral supports
• respite
• day habilitation

If you are interested in IDD Services, please call our IDD Centralized Intake Line at 830-387-5970.

Hill Country is a contracted provider of Home and Community-Based Services (HCS) and Texas Home Living (TxHmL) Medicaid waiver programs; however, we also serve as the Local Intellectual and Developmental Authority (LIDDA), which means we cannot and do not endorse any particular provider. If you or someone you help support receives services through HCS or TxHmL, our Service Coordinators will present all available provider options, including Hill Country, in order to help you make an informed choice about the program that will best meet the needs and goals of the person served.

No one wades a stream without getting wet, and no one comes back from war unchanged. This is a toughening process for some people – a self-awareness generation engine. The efforts of our troops may produce internal struggles, but those efforts also produce tested, accomplished people.

Sometimes, people need a hand in slowing the internal disquiet and conflict that combat, deployment, military sexual trauma, or other abnormal situations produce. No one is better prepared to speak with a Veteran about her experiences than another Veteran, a peer.

With the peer-to-peer network, veterans go through a training course that teaches them how to facilitate groups of veterans. Once trained, they go out into their local communities and create peer groups. Because members of the group set the rules, no two peer groups are the same."- www.milvetpeer.net 

We offer basic training for peers to establish a basic understanding of the MVPN network.

Additional training is provided to peers throughout the year. Our groups meet with peers with similar experiences and struggles in a safe, comfortable space. These groups are led by trained group facilitators who are advanced enough in their recovery journey to help you navigate your recovery with coping skills and confidence.

Our staff, volunteers, and partner organizations are here to make sure you get connected to the resources you need. We also have community events yearly to promote camaraderie, awareness, and fun. We can't wait for you to join us!

Free

The Texas Veterans + Family Alliance Grant provides funds for case management services. 

We have Veteran Service officers who can help with disability claims and Texas Veteran's Commission workforce officers to help veterans find jobs or enroll in job training programs.

Veteran or a family member of a veteran.

Free

If you have hearing loss

Please dial 7-1-1 to reach a relay operator. The free 7-1-1 access number is available anywhere, anytime. CapTel users dial the 10-digit number directly; people calling CapTel users dial the toll-free Captel relay service number (877) 243-2823. For

Spanish callers dial (866) 217-3362.

Fees for services vary.

Services are provided on a

• Sliding scale based on income
• Private-Payment
• State funding
• Most insurance plans are accepted

Click here for insurance inquiries

Comprehensive behavioral health services for both adults and children and adolescents.

Services include:

• assessment and intake
• case management
• skills training
• counseling
• pyschiatric services
• medication coordination
• outpatient substance use disorder services
• peer services
• veteran's services
• crisis services
• care coordination
• integrated physical health services
• other wrap around support services

This program will provide services for adult individuals, who are age 18 or older, who have severe and persistent mental illness or a substance use disorder.

Children and adolescents ages 3-17 who evidence significant emotional and/or behavioral difficulties and who demonstrate a need for
intensive outpatient mental health services as determined by the completion of a uniform assessment and evaluation by KCF intake clinician.

Click here for fee information

Workforce Solutions Borderplex offers job training, help finding work, and child care support. It provides special resources for students and veterans.

Workforce Solutions is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.

Workforce Solutions Borderplex offers job training, help finding work, and child care support. It provides special resources for students and veterans.

Workforce Solutions is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.