CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The problem of access to affordable mental health care in Coastal Bend schools is the reason behind an outreach program at Driscoll Children's Hospital.
The hospital partnering with the Coastal Bend Community Foundation and CCISD will place mental health professionals in multiple local schools and different grades to provide the needed service.
Driscoll Children's Hospital COO Mary Peterson said there has been an alarming increase in children coming to the hospital, because of behavioral problems.
"It's an upward curve, before they reach and their families reach a crisis point," she said.
The program will place six licensed mental health professionals directly into the schools to address the mental health needs of students.
All will be hospital personnel.
The Coastal Bend Community Foundation initiated an $800,000 grant for the three-year mental health pilot program agreement, which was signed Tuesday.
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