Making a Difference: Peer Support in IDD Services

Individuals with an intellectual and / or developmental disabilities (ID/DD) suffer disproportionately with mental health conditions. Reasons often include stress related to frustrating social challenges and trauma such as physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, neglect and bullying. These inherent challenges create a unique susceptibility for the development of mental health conditions. Peer Support Services provide an opportunity for people with ID/IDD to develop social skills, learn how to advocate for their needs and give and receive mutual support from others with lived experience.

On Thursday, March 30 at noon, Integral Care invites you to join us for a virtual Community Forum, “Making a Difference: Peer Support in IDD Services.” Experts from across Texas will discuss the following topics.

• What Peer Support is and what Peer Support Specialists do
• How Peer Support Services for IDD came to be
• The current status of Peer Support in Texas, what’s on the horizon and how you can get involved

integralcare.org/2023-idd-forum

The recording of the February Board of Trustees Meeting is now available to watch on our YouTube Channel.
https://youtu.be/29SEKpg8LB0

Meetings are open to the public.
Click here to watch the 2/23 Board of Trustees meeting live webinar.
Then, click the “Continue on this browser” button. The meeting starts at 5pm.

February is Black History Month, a time to celebrate and honor the history, contributions and many sacrifices of Black Americans. This year’s theme is “Black Resistance.” To kick it off, check out this video from the National Museum of African American History & Culture in which Mary Elliott, the museum’s curator of slavery and freedom, discusses the origin of Black History Month and its significance.

St. David’s Foundation has awarded Integral Care a $1,183,864 grant over a 24-month term to continue the Foundation’s support of the Judge Guy Herman Center for Mental Health Crisis Care. Continued funding will help the Herman Center build on initial successes to enhance our services and keep clients connected to care after a crisis. Over the next two years, Integral Care will utilize in-house intakes to connect clients to ongoing services and ensure continuity of care through linkage with their current treatment providers.

The recording of the January Board of Trustees Meeting is now available to watch on our YouTube Channel.
https://youtu.be/FxsfUbtC35s

The January Board of Trustees meeting will be held in person at 1430 Collier St, Austin, TX 78704.

Click here for the live webinar link.

The recording of the December Board of Trustees Meeting is now available to watch here and on our YouTube Channel.
https://youtu.be/jfu6SJmM0PU

The December Board of Trustees meeting will be held in person at 1430 Collier St, Austin, TX 78704.

Click here for the live webinar link.

The 88th Texas Legislature: Preparing Mental Health, Substance Use Disorder and IDD Advocates

Over the last decade, the Texas Legislature has made an extraordinary commitment to mental health. Texas’ 88th Legislative Session kicks off on January 10, 2023. This creates more opportunities to further improve the issues affecting the mental health of Texans as well as the impact of substance use on our state and the needs of people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

On Wednesday, December 7 at noon, Integral Care and Texas Council of Community Centers invite you to join us for a virtual Community Forum, “The 88th Texas Legislature: Preparing Mental Health, Substance Use Disorder and IDD Advocates.”

integralcare.org/forum88