Amarillo Area Foundation Grants Expanding Mental, Behavioral Health Care


Foundation: Amarillo Area Foundation

"If you can go to one appointment and meet with multiple people to treat you as a whole person, you're a lot more likely to one adhere to that treatment," says Amanda Mathias, executive director of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute for Texas.

That's one reason she's excited about a $250,000 grant from the Amarillo Area Foundation that will allow the nonprofit to open a mental health center in Borger, Texas, KAMR reports.

The center, called Aspire a Mindful Place, will house licensed professionals, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, and a telepsychiatrist in a space that's being renovated by the First Presbyterian Church of Borger.

"We will be employing licensed professionals, have a psychiatric nurse practitioner," says Julie Winters, executive director of Aspire a Mindful Place.

"We'll have a telehealth that can provide psychiatric care, knowing that we probably cannot get a psychiatrist to move to Borger Texas, but we can bring the services directly to our community."

The center will also help people who live in rural areas of the state who don't have easy access to psychiatrists or other mental health professionals, according to a press release from the United Way of Amarillo and Canyon, which helped fund the center.

The press release notes that

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