Care Solace

Every person deserves access to mental health care.

Waxahachie ISD has partnered with Care Solace, to help families navigate the mental health care system to find available providers matched to specific needs, so you do not have to. Care Solace connects students, staff, and their families to care.  At no cost to you, Care Solace will quickly and confidentially find available mental health and substance-use providers matched to your needs.

• 24/7/365 Multilingual Support
  • A multilingual team is available 24/7/365 to help with understanding options, contacting providers on your behalf, and scheduling an appointment.
• Care Regardless of Insurance
  • Connect to care with any coverage including Medicaid, Medicare, and sliding scale options for those without insurance.
• Easy Access to Care
  • Use Care Match, the self-serve website, to find a provider or services on your own.
• Find the Right Help at the Right Time
  • Visit the WISD Care Solace site.
  • Call (888) 515-0595.

Care Solace is not an emergency response service or mental health services provider.  In the event of a life-threatening emergency, call 911 or the National Suicide Hotline at 988.

Mind Above Matter

WISD Intensive Afterschool Treatment Program

Helping our students succeed.

Next Step

Help for today. Hope for tomorrow.

As many as 20% of students have behavioral, emotional, and mental health issues that require counseling or treatment. Of these young people, more than 80% never receive any mental health care for their issues and 10% go on to drop out of school. The Waxahachie ISD counseling department has partnered with Next Step Community Solutions to provide a Licensed Professional Counselor to be available on campuses to work with our students on an as-needed basis at no cost.  Next Steps Community Solutions wants to ensure that teens experiencing mental health issues get the support they need, no matter what.

Next Step Community Solutions

Experience

Next Step only uses professionally licensed counselors in order to achieve the highest level of service. Next Step has been offering counseling services to East Texas schools for the past five years.

Philosophy

Students are referred by the campus counselor based on their individual needs.  Once consent from the student’s parent/guardian is received, the student will begin receiving services by the next Step counselor.  The program is administered within the school setting during school hours. Next Step counselors work closely with designated school staff and provide the right amount of counseling hours based on your unique needs.

N TX Behavioral Health Authority

Multisystemic Therapy (MST®)

The Waxahachie ISD counseling department has partnered with the North Texas Behavioral Health Authority to offer Multisystemic Therapy for our students and families.  Therapists work in the home, school, and community, and a team member is on call 24/7 to provide caregivers with the tools they need to transform the lives of troubled young people. Research demonstrates that MST® reduces criminal activity and other undesirable behavior.  MST is an evidence-based program that empowers young people (aged 12 – 17) and their families to function responsibly over the long term. MST reduces delinquent and antisocial behavior by addressing the core causes of such conduct – and views the client as a network of systems including family, peers, school, and neighborhood. Therapists have small caseloads and provide services in the home at times convenient to the family. The average length of treatment is between 3 and 5 months, and therapists and provider agencies are held accountable for achieving change and positive outcomes.  For more information, please reach out to your campus counselor. 

Outreach, Screening, Assessment, and Referral (OSAR)

OSAR removes barriers by providing outreach, screening, assessment, and referral services to individuals with substance use and/or co-existing disorders through brief intervention and linkage to treatment and recovery-oriented services.  OSAR is a caring supportive network that proactively empowers youth, adults, and families impacted by alcohol, drugs, and co-existing mental illness to achieve a healthy quality of life and a recovery-informed community. 

WISD has developed practices and procedures for suicide prevention. This includes providing parents with information on identifying risk factors, accessing resources for treatment or support provided on and off campus, and accessing available student accommodations provided on campus. WISD has a procedure for providing notice to parents/guardians of students who are identified as at risk of attempting suicide. During the notification of parents/guardians of a student who is at risk of attempting suicide, parents are provided with counseling resources and alternatives. Parents are also given procedures and support for the return of a student to school following hospitalization/residential treatment or following suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention.

• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800)-273-TALK (8255)

• Crisis Text Line Text HOME to 741741

• Suicide Awareness