Mental & Emotional Health Grant

Mental & Emotional Health Grant is sponsored by The Dallas Foundation (Sponsored by the Bette Rathjen Foundation for Emotional Health). This grant supports programs that advance mental and emotional health through innovative care models, research, education, and community-based interventions.

Grant Recipients - The Bette Rathjen Foundation The Bette Rathjen Foundation is pleased to support the following organizations that closely align with our mission to support scientific and medical solutions and to provide resources to families confronting emotional illness.

Behavioral Health Innovation Center Capital Campaign: Metrocare (formerly Dallas County MHMR) is the largest provider of disability, mental health and substance abuse services in Dallas County serving more than 55,000 adults and children annually. Each day, they see 2,700 patients at clinics spread throughout Dallas County offering walk up and same day appointments.

Our grant will support a rebuilt main campus which will integrate outpatient mental health and developmental disability services with supporting programs, training, and trauma-informed care that treats both an individual’s mental and physical health needs holistically.

To ensure success, Metrocare integrates their care with UTSW, Parkland, The Bridge, Stewpot, Austin Street Shelter, CitySquare, food pantries, hospital systems, police departments, correctional systems, universities and nonprofit agencies across North Texas. Pediatric Behavioral Health Program.

12,000 children will receive behavioral screenings each year during pediatric visits through 13 Parkland Community Oriented Primary Clinics and 5 Parkland-DISD Youth and Family Clinics located on school campuses. Approximately 2,400 children per year will receive behavioral health care referrals and services.

University of Texas Southwestern Center for Depression Research CDRC Resilience Academy: A multifaceted effort to improve mental health and save the lives of young people in Dallas by partnering with local high schools and community organizations to implement universal preventative care models developed at UTSW.

Through the promotion of mental health awareness and help seeking behavior, facilitators will identify at risk students and provide resources to help them monitor their mental health. Ultimately, UTSW will follow eligible students long term in order to identify characteristics associated with resilience and the risk of the development of depression.

This effort will help develop reliable medical tests to identify depression or other mood disorders early enough to prevent disease onset. The Goodness Web connects a nationally a diverse community of results-oriented donors and partners who pool their resources and expertise to accelerate a carefully selected group of promising mental health initiatives to improve lives.

Counseling and Mental Health Center (CMHC): UT Austin CMHC developed the Mental Health Informatics Project. With funding for this enhanced technology, CMHC has been able to create one of the first of its kind research labs at a university counseling center. CMHC has been able to collect and analyze variables in students seeking mental health services and use this data to more efficiently match students with appropriate interventions.

Establishing a research database at this new level of detail and sophistication is a powerful tool to improve health outcomes and enhance student well-being and success. Feasibility Study and Program Design for Pediatric Tertiary Mood Disorder Care. The MMHPI provides policy and program guidance that creates equitable systemic changes to improve emotional health care in the state of Texas.

The MMHPI performed a preliminary study to assess the feasibility of developing a comprehensive center for the diagnosis and treatment of children with complex mental health conditions in the North Texas region. The program is currently in design phase.

The institute will explore means of supplementing traditional treatment options with care components that include family and youth driven diagnosis, reimagined inpatient treatment and increased availability of ECT, TMS, and Esketamine programs.