Welcome to our website! We hope this will assist you in finding the services you require.

Who We Are

The Heart of Texas Region MHMR Center is made up of caring professionals who are dedicated to helping individuals and families cope with mental illness, intellectual and developmental disabilities, developmental delays, and emotional conflict. Currently we serve over 20,000 people each year in a six-county area. Read here for more...

Highlights and News

WE CARE Program

The WE CARE (Waco Empowered Community Achieved Renewable Envionment) continues to grow and donate produce. Since its first harvest of April 8th of 2011, we've delivered 885.2 lbs of produce to local area food banks. Our goals are to teach our consumers not only the rewards of gardening and renewing resources, but to allow them the opportunity to give back to a community that supports and believes in our mission. Community inclusion, along with the satisfaction of seeing results for their work, continues to inspire and reward everyone involved with this project.

Sponsors for this project include:

Alcoa Fastening Systems
AgriLife Extensions
Bandana Enterprise Incorporated Irrigation and Landscape
City of Waco
CMC Alamo Steel
David Dickey Concrete
Easy Gardener
Hanson Heidelberg Concrete Pipe & Precast
Hornet Signs
LaVega Flower Shop
McLennan County Master Gardeners
Parsons Roofing
Ratliff Ready-Mix
Rosanbalm Construction
Texas Master Naturalist
TSTC
World Hunger Relief

Veteran Services

Here at the Heart of Texas Region MHMR Center, we care about the issues that affect our community veterans. The Heart of Texas Region MHMR Center has taken an active role in providing support for veterans that suffer from Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD) through support groups such as the Peer-to-Peer (Bring Everyone in the Zone or BEITZ). This peer to peer support workshop is for men and women of all military eras. BEITZ is a volunteer, veteran/peer-driven organization supported by professionals from academia and mental health services. It was created by former staff and veterans in the inpatient PTSD program at the Waco, TX VA Medical Center.

Another workshop being offered that provides support to our community veterans and their families is Operation Resilient Families (ORF). This is a program of experiential learning: empowering and encouraging veterans and their families to address post-deployment challenges with strength, intention, and shared community. ORF is an eight-session peer-led program for veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), their families and close friends. Both workshops (Peer to Peer and Operation Resilient Families) are free of charge.

In addition to the two workshops mentioned above, the Heart of Texas Region MHMR Center is focused on establishing a Military Veteran Peer Network (Veterans helping veterans). This network is comprised of veteran volunteers who have been trained in mental health peer-to-peer counseling. The network services include at a minimum, responding to requests from veterans who are seeking access to veteran and military family reintegration services. Reintegration services include, but are not limited to, meeting with the veteran one-on-one or in group settings and informing them about and/or referring them to community health and human service providers.

For more information regarding any of these services, please contact Tom Thomas or Ray Muniz at 254-752-3451 or email: reyes.muniz@hotrmhmr.org.

Independence Center

The Independence Center continues to be an excellent resource for our community's veterans, in addition to other individuals in our community with mental health issues. Services at the Independence Center are available to anyone over 18 with mental health issues.

Hotline

The hotline is a continuously available telephone service staffed by trained and competent crisis counselors that provides information, screening and intervention, support, and referrals to callers 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The number is 1-866-752-3451. Or click here for full contact information including TDD.