Outside Resources
The Counseling Department of Temple ISD is happy to provide contact information for several outside mental health agencies and resources. Take a look at the following agencies for additional information.
STARRY Counseling
STARRY Counseling services are available at no cost to families with children up to 17 years old. Counseling services include individual, group, and family counseling as well as parenting classes.
Click here to view STARRY's website
PCHAS - Presbyterian children's homes & services
Most people think of Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services as the agency that cares for children whose families can’t care for them anymore. But a huge part of our mission is helping families in crisis stay together. We do this at no cost to the families, regardless of their circumstance. The families we serve face enormous threats to their unity: the death of a parent, divorce, illness, homelessness, violence and substance abuse.
We help:
Families in need of emotional support
Single parents who feel overwhelmed
Grandparents raising grandchildren
Families struggling with a child’s difficult behavior
Parents who are at the end of their rope and not sure where to turn
Our masters-level degree specialists have served more than 10,000 families over the past ten years. Their proven approach, as well as their compassion and patience, has saved many families from breaking apart. First, specialists make sure the children are safe. Then they help families create goals to work toward and support them when they need it, for as long as they need it.
This may include:
Identifying a family’s strengths and areas where they can grow
Building up parenting skills
Individual and group counseling
Working on daily routines and healthy relationships
Assisting a family member with temporary out-of-home placement if neededNTA
Central counties services
CMHS provides services to children and adolescents between the ages of three (3) and seventeen (17) with serious emotional and behavioral problems causing significant disruption in their lives who reside in Bell, Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas and Milam counties. The goals of our services are to strengthen family units thereby reducing out-of-home placements while improving the child or adolescent’s ability to function within his/her home, school and community. Because children and adolescents cannot effectively be helped in isolation, we work closely with their families and other significant influences in their lives. Services are clinic, home, school and community based. Services include assessment and referral, medication related services, counseling, skills training, family training and support, case management and case stabilization. Insurance accepted are Medicaid and CHIP. Contact (254) 298-7171 for information or to schedule an intake appointment.