Texana Center

Texana Center is a public, tax-exempt behavioral healthcare organization founded in 1999. It helps children, adults, and families navigate mental illness, autism, developmental disabilities and trauma, with practical support directed toward greater independence. The organisation employs more than 600 professionals and serves over 15,840 people each year across six Texas counties: Fort Bend, Austin, Colorado, Matagorda, Waller and Wharton. It is a designated Local Mental Health Authority and Local Intellectual and Developmental Disability Authority.

Services span outpatient mental healthcare - including assessment, counselling and medication management - alongside 24-hour crisis intervention, suicide prevention programmes and residential treatment. Autism treatment incorporating Applied Behavior Analysis, developmental disability services, early childhood intervention and peer support round out the clinical offering, with service coordination and community referrals linking clients to wider resources.

Work is conducted on an evidence-based, trauma-informed basis, guided by values of stability, empathy, hope and dignity. The stated focus for staff is client independence and healthier lives.