Texoma Community Center

Community Crisis Response Partnerships - Texoma Community Center (TCC) Is the Local Mental Health Authority in North Central Texas Bordering Oklahoma. TCC Has Forged Collaborative Relationship With the Law Enforcement Agencies for the Counties in This Catchment Area and Propose to Strengthen and Expand That Relationship and Improve the Full Continuum of Crisis Care in This Area. TCC’S Mobile Crisis Outreach Team (MCOT) Has Been Operating Since 2007 and Has Been Involved With Jail Diversion Activities Since That Year, But Has Also Been Expanding Into Cross-training, Participated in the Sequential Intercept Mapping, the 988 Initiative and Cross-site Evaluations. TCC Seeks to Improve and Expand Those Activities to Reduce the Burden on Area Law Enforcement. TCC Will Use This Grant to Work With the City of Sherman to Develop a Co-responder Program Since Sherman Showed to Have the Highest Area of Need, and to Also Work With Other Towns in This Primarily Rural Area to Work Toward That Same Co-responder Model for Effective Crisis Response. TCC Has the Infrastructure to Capture and Report the Essential Data and Has a Proven History of Highly Successful Metric Compliance.