CLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER
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Mission Statement
Our mission is to help children, adolescents, and families cope with the disabling effects of mental illness and improve their ability to function successfully at home, at school, and in the community. Clarity CGC works with kids to build the resilience and skills required to manage the stressors of everyday life. We help families understand, communicate, and learn to manage their child's illness. We educate and raise community awareness regarding children's mental health.
About This Cause
Clarity CGC is the only nonprofit in South Texas providing a continuum of mental health care for children ages 3-17 experiencing serious mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. We never turn away a family based on their ability to pay. Over 60% of our patients are uninsured, under-insured and low-income. Services include prevention, intervention and treatment services. We treat kids experiencing a range of emotional, mental, and behavioral illnesses, from ADHD and anxiety to suicidal ideation, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Treatment and intervention services include: ● emergency care in our 24/7/365 Crisis Services where children can receive immediate assessment and help; ● acute inpatient care at our 66-bed children's psychiatric hospital; ● partial hospitalization, where kids get the same intensive services as an inpatient receives Monday-Friday, from 8:30-3:00, and then they can return home at night to eat dinner with family and sleep in their own beds. This service is an excellent bridge from inpatient hospitalization for high-risk children who need a bit more time to safely transition back to the community, or it can help prevent a child from being hospitalized (especially helpful for our youngest patients who might be further traumatized by a hospital stay); and, ● outpatient therapies, including individual, group and family sessions. Wraparound supports include case management, medication management, and bridge appointments after discharge. Play with Purpose™, our music therapy, therapeutic art and active play program, is integrated into acute treatment plans. Family therapy is also an integral part of treatment. Our Next Steps Center assists kids and their families after a child is discharged to ease the transition back to home, school and community. They explain the child's diagnosis(es), medications, and their safety plan. They assist with appointments for continued therapy. Resources such as food (donated to our food pantry), and referrals for utility assistance or other functional needs, are offered. To raise awareness and promote prevention, we created the One in Five Minds® campaign. It informs and educates the community regarding children's mental health using online resources via our website, and through community presentations called Strong Minds, Happy Hearts. This platform helps provide understanding regarding children's mental illness while also promoting mental wellness. In 2019, we reached 10,700 community members to educate and promote awareness. Also during FY2020 (July 1-June 30), Clarity CGC served 8,946 unduplicated children by services, providing 18,497 hospital nights, 6,890 day treatment days, and more than 22,000 outpatient visits, even as the pandemic required moves to telehealth and institution of social-distancing measures, reducing some programs' capacities. Clarity CGC trains the next generation of providers too, to address the barrier to care created by the shortage of child and adolescent professionals. We collaborate with UTHealth SA to provide pre- and post-doctoral practice hours, provide a rotation for Baylor College of Medicine Pediatric students, and work with several nursing schools in the region. We also present CEUs so professionals may maintain certifications. At Clarity CGC we help heal young minds and hearts.