BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COUNCIL

Healthcare Needs Assessment

Poverty generates poor health and poor health generates poverty.
In every aspect of healthcare from being sick to getting care, from prevention to aftercare, people in poverty don’t fare as well as people in middle class or wealth.
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The top three needs in behavioral healthcare for all respondents were:
  1. Treatment for Anxiety
  2. Treatment for Depression
  3. Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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The table below shows the Key Poverty Indicators and Top Needs only for those respondents who have no healthcare coverage.
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Christopher W. Taylor, MPA, C.M.
Behavioral Healthcare Council Chair
Samaritan Counseling Center of East Texas
Executive Director

Chris serves as the Executive Director of Samaritan Counseling Center of East Texas, a nonprofit mental health provider serving individuals, couples and families in more than 35 East Texas counties. Chris is a credentialed mediator/arbitrator in the State of Texas, and before his current role, served as Executive Director of the Cherokee County Department of Public Health. 

RESOURCES

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​ETHNN is the Smith County Behavioral Health Leadership Team Coordinator.

Latest Reports

2020 County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
Report - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 
2020 East Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse - Regional Needs Assessment 
ETCADA