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NAMI Metropolitan Houston
NAMI Metropolitan Houston provides education programs, peer support groups, and advocacy to enable families and consumers to become more effective self-advocates.
Address: P.O. Box 66270, Houston, Texas 77266-6270
Phone: 713-970-4419
Email: namimetrohouston@yahoo.com
Web site: www.namimetrohouston.org

NAMI Metropolitan Houston Chapters

Bay Area (Clear Lake, Baytown, Seabrook)
Phone: 281-922-7032
Email: recasail@sbcglobal.net

Central (Bellaire, Medical Center, Southwest Houston)
Phone and Fax: 713-729-1242
Email: sraffle@att.net

Northeast (Humble, Kingwood)
Phone: 281-358-9582
Email: gcoleman2@att.net

Northwest (Spring, Cypress, Tomball)
Phone: 281-376-0206

NAMI Local Affiliates

NAMI Fort Bend
Phone: 281-494-5193
Email: namifortbend@alltel.net

NAMI West Houston
Phone: 832-598-2760
Email: namiwh@comcast.net
Web site: www.namiwesthouston.org

NAMI Golden Triangle
Phone: 409-835-7121
Email: cguidroz@gt.rr.com

NAMI Gulf Coast
Phone: 888-554-2264 (Toll free)
Phone: 281-331-1365
Fax: 281-824-9441
Email: namigc@namigulfcoast.org
Web site: www.namigulfcoast.org

NAMI Montgomery County
Phone: 281-367-2314
Email: lzweifel@worldnet.att.net

RESOURCES

NAMI: The Nation’s Voice on Mental Illness
NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. Founded in 1979, NAMI has become the nation’s voice on mental illness, a national organization including NAMI organizations in every state and in over 1100 local communities across the country, who join together to meet the NAMI mission through advocacy, research, support, and education.
Address: 3803 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100, Arlington, Virginia 22203
Phone: 703-524-7600 or TDD: 703-516-7227
Fax: 703-524-9094
Helpline: 800-950-NAMI (6264)
Web site: www.nami.org

NAMI Texas: The State’s Voice on Mental Illness
National Alliance on Mental Illness of Texas
NAMI Texas has a variety of programs and services directed to mental health consumers, family members, friends, professionals, other stakeholders, and the community at large to address the mental health needs of Texans. NAMI Texas works to inform the public about mental illness by distributing information about mental illness through every means of communication. Interviews are produced on television, stories are featured in newspapers, brochures are produced and distributed, referrals are provided and newsletters and other publications are utilized.
Address: Fountain Park Plaza III, 2800 S. I-35, Suite 140, Austin, TX 78704
Phone: 512-693-2000 or 1-800-633-3760
Fax: 512-693-8000
Web site: www.namitexas.org

The Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County (MHMRA)
MHMRA provides or ensures the provision of services and support to persons with mental disabilities so they may live with dignity as fully functioning, participating, and contributing members of the community, regardless of their ability to pay or third party coverage.
Phone: 713-970-4600
Phone: 713-970-7000
HelpLine: 713-970-7070 (Psychiatric Emergency)
Web site: www.mhmraofharriscounty.org

The NeuroPsychiatric Center (NPC)
The NeuroPsychiatric Center evaluates consumers with mental health emergencies. The NPC uses the least restrictive means possible to stabilize people so that they may return to the community and stay out of hospitals and jails. The NPC is a crisis and emergency center that is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Address: 1502 Taub Loop, Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 713-970-7070 (24 hours a day)

Note: Hours of Operation are 24 hours a day. The front door is locked between midnight and 7:00 AM. Ring doorbell to the left of the sliding glass doors for entry during those times.

HPD Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)
The Crisis Intervention Team of the Houston Police Department provides officers with training on mental illness and crisis intervention/de-escalation techniques. In situations involving individuals in serious mental health crisis, trained police officers offer a more professional and humane response to individuals in serious mental health crisis.
Web site: www.houstoncit.org

Mobile Crisis Outreach Team (MCOT)
The NeuroPsychiatric Center Mobile Community Outreach Team is a mobile team designated to serve Harris County residents, children and adults who are: (1) in crisis; (2) unable to access traditional, outpatient, psychiatric services, and (3) at risk for hospitalization. MCOT will provide skilled, in-field assessment and treatment for those consumers who have problems in accessing community clinics.
Phone: 713-970-7520

UT-Harris County Psychiatric Center (HCPC)
The UT-Harris County Psychiatric Center is the principal Harris County hospital committed to mental health in the area and one of the finest psychiatric centers in the country. HCPC’s outreach program educates the local community about mental health.
Address: 2800 South MacGregor Way at Highway 288, Houston, TX
Phone: 713-741-5000
Web site: www.uth.tmc.edu/uth_orgs/hcpc/

Mental Health America (MHA) of Greater Houston
Mental Health America (MHA) of Greater Houston is dedicated to improving the health of all individuals and to achieving victory over mental illness. MHA serves Greater Houston best as a change agent and coalition builder. MHA Houston’s advocacy components include Systems Advocacy and Collaborative Initiatives and Legislative Change. The Information and Referral (I & R) Service, also available in Spanish, responds to people seeking information about mental health problems and mental illnesses as well as those who need referrals to community mental health resources.
Address: 2211 Norfolk, Suite 810, Houston, Texas 77098
Phone: 713-523-8963
Fax: 713-522-0698
Web site: www.mhahouston.org

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance of Houston (DBSA)
The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance of Houston offers free weekly support groups in locations throughout Greater Houston, and periodic lectures by doctors and other health care professionals providing current information about mood disorders and their treatment.
Address: 3800 Buffalo Speedway, Suite 300, Houston, Texas 77098
Phone: 713-600-1131
Web site: www.dbsahouston.org

Techs and Trainers
Techs and Trainers provides meaningful employment for people with mental illness. Workers are trained to rebuild computers, thus developing independence, self-confidence and working knowledge, and earning employable skills.
Address: 6020 Jessamine St., Suite 102, Houston, Texas 77081
Phone: 713-839-7177
Web site: www.techsandtrainers.org

The Gathering Place
The Gathering Place provides a supportive environment for adults with severe and persistent mental illness, focusing on strengths rather than limitations, in order to facilitate life choices and more independent living.
Address: 5310 S. Willow, Houston, Texas 77035
Phone: 713-729-3799
Fax: 713-729-6870
Web site: www.gplace.org

The Houston Association of Black Psychologists (HABPSI)
The Houston Association of Black Psychologists offers community participants an information and referral service network to facilitate connecting with Black mental health practitioners. The Houston Association of Black Psychologists is dedicated to enhancing the psychological well-being of Black people and other ethnic minorities in America.
Address: P.O. Box 301045, Houston, Texas 77230
Phone: (832) 689-7948
Email: info@habpsi.org
Web site: www.habpsi.org

Children’s Mental Health Resources

Attention Deficit Disorders Association - Southern Region (ADDA-SR) is a non-profit organization. Their mission is to provide a resource network; to support individuals impacted by attention deficit disorders and related conditions; to advocate for the development of community resources and services that meet the education, social, and health care need of all individuals with ADD/ADHD; and to keep the public informed on the disorder through the media, an association newsletter, referral service, monthly chapter meetings, education programs, parent and adult services as well as conferences and workshops.
Address:  12345 Jones Road, Suite 287-7, Houston, Texas 77070
Phone:  281-897-0982
Email:  addaoffice@pdq.net
Web site:  www.adda-sr.org

Children at Risk improves the quality of life of Greater Houston’s children through research, public policy analysis and advocacy.
Address: 2900 Weslayan, Suite 400, Houston, Texas 77027-5132
Phone: 713-869-7740
Fax: 713-869-3409
Email: info@childrenatrisk.org
Web site: www.ChildrenAtRisk.org

ChildBuilders’ programs teach parents and children important skills to help them lead healthier lives. Parents learn how to raise emotionally healthy children. Children learn skills they will need to be good parents.
Address: 3800 Buffalo Speedway, Suite 310, Houston, Texas 77098
Phone: 713-400-1155
Fax: 713-400-1156
Email: childbuilders@childbuilders.org
Web site: www.childbuilders.org

DePelchin Children’s Center, a United Way agency, provides services to children and families in Harris, Ft. Bend, Montgomery and Waller counties in Texas, regardless of their ability to pay. Programs: Family Life Education; Teen Pregnancy and Teen Parenting; Counseling Services; Adoption; Post-Adoption Counseling and Services; Emergency Shelters for Housing Abused, Neglected, Homeless and Runaway Children and Adolescents; Foster Care; Therapeutic Counseling; and Treatment Services for Emotionally Disturbed Children and Adolescents.
Address: 4950 Memorial Drive, Houston, Texas 77007
Phone: 713-730-2335
Toll Free Phone: 888-730-2335
Fax: 713-802-3801
Web site: www.depelchin.org

If you need assistance with an immediate stressful situation, but it is not an emergency, call the Circle of Parents helpline, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: 713-861-4847

If you are pregnant and need immediate, non-medical assistance about your options, call the 24-hour maternity number: 713-582-7129

Early Connections provides free information, helpful tips and resources about early childhood development and learning for parents, teachers, childcare providers, and others who are interested in helping children develop to their fullest. For parents of children ages 0 – 6 years. Free materials are available in English or Spanish. Information includes child developmental stages; age-appropriate activities; discipline ideas; places to take your children in the Houston area; and how to read to young children.
Address: 3800 Buffalo Speedway, Suite 300, Houston, Texas 77098
Phone: 713-600-1198
Fax: 713-600-1298
Web site: www.earlyconnect.org

When a child or adolescent is struggling with a mental disorder, parents or caregivers often don’t know where to turn for help and support. The Children’s Mental Health Action Network, a coalition of parent advocates in Harris County of which NAMI is a participant, has developed a guide based on the experiences of parents coping day to day. The step-by-step resource guide offers suggestions for coping and where to find community resources and support. The idea is that parents who become educated advocates for their child are empowered and that there is hope for recovery.

The guide identifies several “stops on the road to recovery,” including: finding mental health care professionals, testing and diagnosis, understanding and supporting your child at home, forming a support team, parent education, partnering with schools, and crisis management. In the Resource section there is a brief description of the many services offered through support organizations, clinics, hospitals, schools, public assistance programs, books and websites. Professionals and educators including John Sargent, M.D., Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine, Robbie Sharp, Ph.D., and Becky Millikin, Ed.D., reviewed the guide.

For the downloadable guide (in pdf format), click here.

Systems of Hope meets the needs of Harris County children and youth with serious mental health needs and their families by creating a collaborative network of community-based services and supports using the systems of care framework. A plan of care is created for each family focusing on their strengths. Systems of Care is more than a program — it is a philosophy of how care should be delivered. It is an approach to services that recognizes the importance of family, school and community, and seeks to promote the full potential of every child and youth by addressing their physical, emotional, intellectual, cultural and social needs.
Address: 6300 Chimney Rock Road, Houston, Texas 77081
Phone: 713-795-HOPE (4673)
Fax: 713-295-2522
Web site: www.systemsofhope.org

The Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation educates families, professionals, and the public about pediatric bipolar disorder; connects families with resources and support; advocates for and empowers affected families; and supports research on pediatric bipolar disorder and its cure.
Web site: www.bpkids.org

Other Resources

The National Mental Health America (NMHA) is the country’s oldest and largest non-profit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness. With more than 340 affiliates nationwide, NMHA works to improve the mental health of all Americans with special emphasis on the 54 million people with mental disorders, through advocacy, education, research and services.
Address: 2001 N. Beauregard Street, 12th Floor, Alexandra, Virginia 22311
Phone: 800-969-6642
TTY: 800-433-5959
Fax: 703-684-6958
Web site: www.nmha.org

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