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County renews $200,000 contract with Prosper Waco and hears progress on $5 million state behavioral-health funding
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Commissioners renewed a $200,000 contract with Prosper Waco for behavioral-health leadership support and received a report that McLennan County secured $5 million in discretionary state funds (rider 58) to expand school-based mental health, jail reentry models, inpatient bed capacity, and a multidisciplinary crisis-response model.
The commissioners court on April 21 approved a one-year renewal of a $200,000 service agreement with Greater Waco Collective Impact Initiative, doing business as Prosper Waco, to continue support for the county's Behavioral Health Leadership Team (BHLT).
Jessica Addis (S11), representing Prosper Waco, briefed the court on outcomes from the past year and spending associated with recently awarded state discretionary funding (rider 58). She said the community secured $5,000,000 in state discretionary funding this legislative session to address local behavioral-health needs; the funding is not prescriptively allocated and the BHLT steering committee is setting priorities.
Addis highlighted early results including school-based mental-health services active in Waco ISD, a coordinated jail reentry model linking high-need individuals to community care, an expansion in inpatient psychiatric bed capacity, establishment of multidisciplinary response planning to pair clinicians with public-safety responders, and a countywide behavioral-health needs assessment being completed by the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute. She said the county expects measurable outcomes and will use shared data systems to track progress.
Commissioners discussed the possibility of mapping duplicative services across community agencies, aligning funded partners around measurable goals, and using a portion of state and private funds to address urgent needs such as inpatient bed days. The court approved the Prosper Waco renewal and thanked presenters for the update.
