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Integral Care outlines crisis services, housing programs and city funding at Public Health Committee
Summary
Integral Care, Austin-Travis County's local mental health authority, briefed the City Council Public Health Committee on its crisis continuum, housing programs and funding risks, including roughly $4 million in city-supported contracts subject to renewal during the coming budget cycle.
Integral Care, the local mental health authority for Austin and Travis County, told the City Council Public Health Committee on June 4 that it operates a wide crisis and housing continuum supported in part by city contracts totaling about $18,000,781.
The briefing, delivered by Dawn Hanley, chief operations officer and vice president of Integral Care, and other agency leaders, described crisis hotlines, psychiatric emergency services (PES), mobile crisis teams embedded in the 911 center and multiple housing programs including tenant-based and project-based permanent supportive housing.
The presentation said Integral Care served just under 30,000 individuals in fiscal 2024 and provided roughly 426,000 unique services across more than 30 programs and about 120 contracts. Hanley said the organization employs about 1,000 staff. “We provide services to adults and family and children who are experiencing a mental illness need or behavioral health needs through substance use and intellectual and…
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