For institutions

This Center is being built with the community, not for it.

If you represent the County, the Hospital District, the Sheriff's Office, a school district, the courts, a health system, or a foundation, this page is for you. Here is what a partnership can look like — and who to call.

Add your institution's voice Where the coalition stands

The operational case

What partnership can look like

Partnership takes many forms. Any one of these moves this forward:

Data sharing

Help us build the case with real, local numbers — calls for service, transports, boarding times, referrals — that prove the need.

Referral pathways

Design how your agency would refer people to the Center, and how the Center would refer back to you.

Letters of support

A signed letter from your institution carries real weight in a grant application. We can provide a template.

Co-applicant on grants

Partner with us as a co-applicant on state and federal behavioral-health funding.

Fiscal sponsorship

Support the Center's early operations before it has its own 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.

In-kind & facility support

Space, services, equipment, or expertise — contributions that don't require a check to matter.

Where this stands

Building the Coalition

This Center is being built with the community, not for it. Here is where that work stands today — honestly, and in motion.

  • County Government

    Briefings underway; a Resolution of Support is being prepared for a future Commissioners Court agenda.

  • Law Enforcement

    Active engagement with the Sheriff's Office on crisis response and diversion.

  • Hospital District

    The Center has been formally presented to the Hospital District Board.

  • Behavioral Health Authority

    Coordination underway with the regional Local Mental Health Authority.

  • Juvenile & Adult Justice

    Engagement underway with juvenile probation, adult community supervision, and the District Attorney's office.

  • Schools

    Conversations underway with area independent school districts.

  • State & Federal

    Outreach underway to state and federal representatives.

  • Governance

    Founding Board of Directors being seated; Texas nonprofit formation filed.

The sector statuses above are drawn from content/coalition.json. No institution is listed as a partner, endorser, or funder here unless it has confirmed that role in writing. We describe this work by sector, not by name — because we name an organization only after it tells us, in writing, that it's ready to be named.

Institutional endorsement

Add your institution's voice

Institutions don't fill out petition forms. If your organization is ready to formally support the Center, we'd be honored to work with you directly. You can submit a letter of support, request a template, or simply start a conversation.

One signed letter from a school district, hospital, or agency is worth more in a grant application than a thousand individual signatures. We track institutional endorsements separately from individual supporters, and carefully.

To submit a formal letter of support, email it to . Secure file upload will be enabled here shortly. Want a template? Check the box in the form and we'll send one.

Start an institutional conversation

Referral pathways, data, a letter of support, a grant, space — or just questions.

These institutional endorsements are tracked separately from individual supporters. Prefer email? Write us at .

Share it

A one-pager you can forward

Need something to share with your board or leadership? A one-page overview lives at assets/scbhc-partner-onepager.pdf.

Request the one-pager Email for a copy

The downloadable overview is being finalized and will be posted here shortly. Until then, check the box in the form above or email us and we'll send the current version.