Texas NABORS and its members collaborate with clinical partners across North Texas in efforts aimed at improving the behavioral health of our region. Partnerships include recruitment of participants for clinical research as well as placement of trainees in areas in need of providers. Our partners are known for deep engagement in their communities.
Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at Metrocare
Metrocare is the largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, providing both in-person and tele-behavioral healthcare to children and adults, individuals, couples, and families. The Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic (a.k.a., “Cohen Clinic”) at Metrocare is located in a federally designated health professional shortage area for mental health (ID:7484799626) to provide integrated, interdisciplinary behavioral health within a community-based primary care setting serving diverse members of military families (22% Hispanic, 14%African-American/Black/African-origin; 10% Asian). Trainees work as members of interdisciplinary care teams that includes social workers, psychiatrists, licensed chemical dependency counselors, and licensed marriage and family therapists.
John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS)
John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) is located in a mental health, Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA ID: 7483111792) and houses the only psychiatric emergency center in Tarrant County. As a public hospital, JPS provides inpatient and outpatient interdisciplinary services, including both in-person and tele-behavioral health, to homeless, indigent, and other residents of North Texas (28.9% Hispanic; 17.1% African-American/Black/African-origin). JPS houses the largest Family Medicine residency program in the country and is the main teaching hospital for the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. With additionally accredited residency programs in psychiatry and emergency medicine, and diverse interdepartmental healthcareprofessionals (e.g., social work, pharmacists, medical interpreters), JPS is an ideal partner for interdisciplinary training on integrated care teams.
VA North Texas Health Care System
TheVA North Texas Health Care System (VANTHCS) is the largest mental health service in the VA Health Care System, with over 34,000 mental health outpatient visits annually.It is also the second largest VA in the nation with over 1.4 million annual outpatient visits. The VANTHCS encompasses multiple facilities and community-based outpatient clinics with extensive tele-behavioral health linkages to serve 38 counties in north Texas, mostly rural and all in mental health HPSAs, as well as 2 counties in southern Oklahoma. The complexity and large number of patients seen creates an enriched training environment. Trainees work closely with providers and trainees in other disciplines, including medicine and psychiatry, nursing, social work, and other allied health professionals, to serve a highly diverse population.
Psychology Clinic @ UNT
Located in a mental health HPSA (ID: 7487902282) with a medically underserved community (ID# 03463), the UNT Psychology Clinic provides in person and telehealth evidence-based services and referrals to clients who request them. The clinic also provides professional and competent training to UNT doctoral psychology students, with a focus on developing competences in assessment, treatment and recovery support of those with substance use disorders (27.7% of clients), trauma-informed care (46.9% of clients), and tele-behavioral, rural mental health in health professional shortage areas (Cooke County, ID# 7487706969, and Wise County, ID#7483179283). Review of demographics associated with the clientele served indicates 19.7% Hispanic, 9.6% African American, and 12.5% bi/multi-racial with an average income of $14,000 annually.