Burke’s mission is “Working Together to Improve Lives.” Burke works to do this by providing high-quality, personalized, evidence-based mental health, early childhood intervention, and intellectual and developmental disability services to individuals in East Texas.We provide award-winning mental health and developmental disability services to individuals in 11 East Texas counties (Angelina, Houston, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Trinity, and Tyler).

Regionally, we operate over 30 facilities specializing in person-centered care for every client. Part of the East Texas healthcare community for over 50 years, Burke employs more counselors, psychiatrists, and case workers than any other provider.

We believe all East Texans who need mental health and developmental disability services deserve high-quality, personal, professional, and compassionate care. Wherever they live and whatever their income, our clients deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and that is what every Burke employee strives to deliver.

With more than 400 employees, Burke is one of the largest employers in East Texas. Burke employees are as committed to their clients and communities as they are to their profession. Many of us were born and raised here, and others came as fast as we could. Our people make it possible to deliver our clients the highest-quality, most comprehensive services.

Burke has provided care for East Texans since its establishment in 1974 as Deep East Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services. Burke is a local governmental entity and a nonprofit organization governed by a nine-member Board of Trustees. We have grown from a small organization offering limited services to a major behavioral health provider, serving over 5,000 people annually through various mental health, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and early childhood intervention services.

The organization’s namesakes, Ward and Annabelle Burke, have been tireless advocates for people with mental illness or intellectual and developmental disabilities and were instrumental in making community care possible in Texas.

One of thirty-nine community centers in Texas, Burke provides services in an eleven-county region that includes Angelina, Houston, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Trinity, and Tyler counties.