Metrocare /tags/metrocare Metrocare en-US Copyright Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:48:08 GMT New southeast Dallas mental health clinic seeks to fill service 'desert' /health-wellness/2025-02-07/southeast-dallas-mental-health-clinic-metrocare The Metrocare Elam Family Mental Health Clinic offers walk-in appointments and financial assistance through charity care. Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:48:08 GMT /health-wellness/2025-02-07/southeast-dallas-mental-health-clinic-metrocare Kailey Broussard Dallas County awards $4 million to local opioid, substance use treatment providers /news/2025-01-16/dallas-county-awards-4-million-to-local-opioid-substance-use-treatment-providers-texas-opioid-settlement-purdue-pharma Dallas County commissioners awarded about $1 million from Purdue Pharma lawsuit settlement funds to each caregiver. Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:00:00 GMT /news/2025-01-16/dallas-county-awards-4-million-to-local-opioid-substance-use-treatment-providers-texas-opioid-settlement-purdue-pharma Marina Trahan Martinez 'Deadly gap': Why a Dallas-area clinic is raising awareness of veteran mental health /health-wellness/2024-12-31/deadly-gap-dallas-area-clinic-veteran-mental-health The Steven A. Cohen Family Medical Clinic at Metrocare in Addison is part of a network that recently launched a public awareness campaign about the signs of suicide. Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:00:00 GMT /health-wellness/2024-12-31/deadly-gap-dallas-area-clinic-veteran-mental-health Kailey Broussard Mental Illness As An Asset: In Texas, Former Patients Find Work Helping Peers /health-science-tech/2017-05-23/mental-illness-as-an-asset-in-texas-former-patients-find-work-helping-peers Maybe you’ve heard of sponsors or recovery coaches to help with drug and alcohol addiction. How about for mental health? In the last decade, peer support… Tue, 23 May 2017 22:01:45 GMT /health-science-tech/2017-05-23/mental-illness-as-an-asset-in-texas-former-patients-find-work-helping-peers Lauren Silverman Texas Lawmakers May Replace Longtime Mental Health Program /health-science-tech/2015-02-12/texas-lawmakers-may-replace-longtime-mental-health-program State lawmakers are poised to consider scrapping the longtime pilot program NorthSTAR, which provides mental health care to lower income residents in… Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:55:26 GMT /health-science-tech/2015-02-12/texas-lawmakers-may-replace-longtime-mental-health-program BJ Austin With New Cottages, Dallas' Homeless Getting Keys To A Better Future /texas-news/2014-04-20/with-new-cottages-dallas-homeless-getting-keys-to-a-better-future Chronic homelessness can seem unsolvable. People bounce around from the street to jail to hospitals and back to the street. On Thursday, ground was broken… Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:16:09 GMT /texas-news/2014-04-20/with-new-cottages-dallas-homeless-getting-keys-to-a-better-future Stella M. Chávez | The Texas Newsroom Mental Health Care: Better Understanding, More Funding /government/2012-12-17/mental-health-care-better-understanding-more-funding Mental health care has become a topic of discussion after last week’s school shootings. Two North Texans working in the field are calling for a new… Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:36:31 GMT /government/2012-12-17/mental-health-care-better-understanding-more-funding BJ Austin