This week marks the 10th anniversary of Burke’s Mental Health Emergency Center (MHEC), a ground-breaking program that has significantly improved crisis mental health services in east Texas while serving as an award-winning model for other regions throughout the state. Burke’s MHEC was the nation’s first rural freestanding comprehensive psychiatric emergency service and the first to […]
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Fifteen new Instructors certified to teach Youth Mental Health First Aid
This summer, Burke hosted a training that added fifteen new instructors from the state of Texas to the Mental Health First Aid team. The new instructors represent organizations throughout the state: from Burke based in Lufkin, Spindletop Center based in Beaumont, Community Healthcore out of Longview, Helen Farabee Center out of Wichita Falls, Education Service […]
CDC reports ‘suicide rising across the US’
Recently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that incidences of suicide are rising across the U.S. Read more in their latest issue in Vital Signs – June 2018. The article discussed why we should be concerned with the latest suicide data, that suicide rates have increased in nearly every state from 1999 through […]
Burke could be valuable resource for East Texas districts’ school safety plans
By Donna McCollum, Journalist, see the original KTRE story here. Lufkin, TX (KTRE) Students’ mental and behavioral health needs are listed as a top priority in Gov. Greg Abbott’s school and firearm safety action plan. East Texas News learned that mental health professionals could be an excellent resource for both services and guidance to school […]
STEP Toward Recovery: Burke Hosting Outreach Presentation
By Nicole Bradford, Reporter, see the original story here. Nacogdoches, TX (Daily Sentinel) A year ago, LeeAnn Dwire might have seemed like a garden variety troubled teen. Depressed and anxious, the teen often isolated herself. Worse, she began having hallucinations — hearing voices that were not there. “I was in a bad place,” said Dwire, […]
Closing the Gap in East Texas: Improving Mental Health Care for Disadvantaged, Rural Populations
Recently, Burke therapist, Stephanie Knott was interviewed by Diolog: The Texas Episcopalian magazine. Read below to learn more about Burke’s partnership with the Episcopal Health Foundation and the Seminary of the Southwest to improve access to mental health services in East Texas counties. Seven patients. Two clinics. One elementary school. That’s the typical day for […]
