Mental Health Resources
These resources support the social, emotional, and psychological needs of our families.
Subcategories include: Behavioral Support, Bullying, Counseling, Crisis Intervention, Grief & Bereavement, Suicide Prevention & Support
Alpha Home
Alpha Home offers spiritually-based drug and alcohol treatment services and support to individuals. Treatment is available regardless of your ability to pay.
America’s Poison Centers
This is the official site of America’s Poison Centers, representing the nation’s 55 poison centers in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration, and Health Resources and Services Administration.
Any Baby Can
Since 1982, Any Baby Can has been a safety net for families in need. Providing direction and guidance for families of children and youth with special needs is at the heart of this organization.
Bernice’s Room
Our mission is to help our community with the simplest to the most complex resources needed for everyday living. Whether it be food, clothes, education, or linking community resources,
we are here to help!
Big Mama’s Safe House
Safe House that promotes conflict resolution with education, gun safety, trauma informed training to help end gun violence
Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas
As the sole provider of grief support programs for children through young adulthood in South Texas, we wholeheartedly devote ourselves to addressing the bereavement needs of children from every culture and social circumstance to help them heal and move forward.
ChildSafe
Providing families with forensic interview services, counseling, and family support for children victims and child survivors of abuse and neglect and their nonoffending family members.
College Planning Guide for Students with Mental Health Conditions
This is an extensive guide to help students navigate the programs and policies supporting mental health. Topics covered range from understanding their rights to……
CommuniCare Health Centers
A full-service primary healthcare system with multiple locations.
Communities In Schools (SAISD)
Communities In Schools of San Antonio has partnered with SAISD for over 20 years, providing high-quality integrated student support services for students and families to help students overcome challenges that might otherwise inhibit their academic success.
Crime Victims Compensation (Texas OAG)
The Crime Victims’ Compensation (CVC) Program helps crime victims and their immediate families with the financial costs of crime. CVC covers crime-related costs such as counseling, medical treatment, funerals, and loss of income not paid by other sources.
Crisis Text Line
Crisis Text Line serves anyone, in any type of crisis, providing access to free, 24/7 support via mediums people already use and trust.
Cyber Bullying Research Center
Offering a variety of resources on how to prevent cyberbullying. Tailored for both students and adults.
David’s Legacy Foundation
Offering resources to parents and families centered around David’s law to prevent cyberbullying.
DUI Resources: A Guide to Charges, Treatment, and Supportive Services
Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol can put someone in serious legal and financial jeopardy. Yet there are several support services to help people who have received a DUI, including substance abuse treatment and other resources.
Employment Resources for People Recovering From Substance Abuse Issues
Although reentering the workforce after treatment can be difficult, your past does not dictate your future. Throughout this guide……
Empower House
Empower House provides transformative community health services, youth development programs, and advocacy opportunities that empower women and girls of color.
Fentanyl: One Pill Kills
Five Texans die every day, on average, from fentanyl poisoning. Understanding the dangers of fentanyl is crucial in reducing the threat it poses to you and your loved ones.
Get Smart About Drugs
Courtesy of the Drug Enforcement Administration, this page is a resource for parents, educators, and caregivers.
Grief Support Resources (Porter Loring Mortuaries)
At Porter Loring Mortuaries, we believe bereavement is a precious time in a person’s life and hope the resources provided will help allow those to better understand and cope with grief.
Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent’s Guide to Substance Use Prevention
This guide offers information that can help you raise children who understand the risks of substance use.
Haven for Hope
Haven for Hope and our partners, address the root causes of homelessness by offering programming tailored to the specific needs of the individual.
Information on Childhood Bullying & Glasses
Wearing glasses as a child can increase the risk of being bullied. Learn more about how to identify the signs and what to do about it.
JOVEN
JOVEN’s mission is to develop character and resiliency in children by providing them with innovative and exciting programs, as well as structured alternative activities, that are designed to help them succeed.
Joven – Prevention Services
This program works with all children regardless of their background to build life skills and healthy habits by sharing Center for Substance Abuse prevention curricula taught in school-based settings and out-of-school time (OST) sites.
McKinney-Vento Services (Student & Academic Support Services – SAISD)
The program works with families and unaccompanied youth who live in a temporary situation due to loss of housing. The McKinney Vento Education Assistance Act is a federal law that provides services to these children.
MEDucation: A Dose of Knowledge
Adults get a good dose of knowledge about prescription drug abuse among adolescents through the MEDucation Guide. This comprehensive guide teaches parents lessons on the problem of abuse and the solutions available.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving – Concerned Citizen Assistance
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) counts on concerned citizens like you to help us put an end to impaired driving and underage drinking. Here are ways you can help put an end to these 100% preventable crimes.
National Bullying Prevention Center
Offering a variety of resources, and tools to teach students how to prevent bullying and promote kindness, acceptance, and inclusion.
PTSD and Car Accidents
Please visit this comprehensive guide about PTSD after car accidents.
QUITXT – Quit Smoking Start Living
Quit smoking for good with Quitxt, a free service that turns your phone into a personal quit coach by motivating text messages to quit, setting a quit date, real-time help handling stress, and more.
Rise Recovery
Our Programs are based on relationship strengthening and meeting the unique recovery support needs of the entire family. Our Services are designed to heal the wounds left by drugs and alcohol and bring purpose and hope for the future.
Roy Maas Youth Alternatives
Helping children, families, and young adults with counseling and short term psychiatric needs.
San Antonio Council of Alcohol and Drug Awareness (SACADA)
The San Antonio Council on Alcohol and Drug Awareness (SACADA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that provides education, youth prevention programs, information resources, and services to prevent alcohol and drug abuse.
School Safety: Vaping 101 (Office of Family and Community Engagement – SAISD)
Despite myths that vapes only contain “harmless water vapor,” that is not the case. This brief video will give you information regarding the facts, real dangers, and consequences of vaping.
Smoking Cessation (University Health)
If smoking is a habit you or someone you love have tried to break without success, we can help.
Social Hosting and How Parents Can Follow the Law (TABC)
This quick video guide from the Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission will inform you about social hosting and how parents can follow the law.
Talk with Your Teen About E-cigarettes: A Tip Sheet for Parents
This tip sheet is brought to you courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Test Anxiety Parent Guide (SEAD and Restorative Practices – SAISD)
This resource describes the common symptoms of test anxiety, and strategies that students can use before, during, and after tests.
Texas Bullying Laws (Texas School Safety Center – TX State University)
Offering families legal resources centered around bullying prevention.
Texas Suicide Prevention Collaborative
Offering a wide variety of support services to individuals in need, or who have lost a loved one.
The Pride Center San Antonio
Pride Center San Antonio was born with the purpose of promoting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and ally community in Bexar County. Our goal is to establish a center for the local LGBTQ+ community as a clearinghouse that would work in alliance….
The Social and Health Research Center
The Social & Health Research Center is committed to improving the social and health well-being of populations at-risk. The Social and Health Research Center expects to improve health behaviors with innovative and evidence-based health programs to control chronic diseases such as obesity, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes and to design better instruments to evaluate program effectiveness.
The Trevor Project
Offering support to LGBTQ+ individuals in need.
The YMCA of Greater San Antonio
We focus on youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility, and incorporate core values of caring, honesty, respect, responsibility, and faith into all we do. At the YMCA we are more than a gym, we are a community with something for everyone in your family.
Tobacco and Vaping Information (San Antonio Metropolitan Health)
For the first time since 2000, overall youth tobacco use has increased in San Antonio. The boom of e-cigarettes and other vaping devices has reversed the trend of declining teen tobacco use. It is important to remind parents, teachers, and guardians to help children……
Tobacco Cessation Resources (San Antonio Metropolitan Health)
Smoking Cessation Classes and Resources from the City of San Antonio.