Camino Real Community Services is a non-profit organization providing mental, behavioral and intellectual disability services to Atascosa, Dimmit, Frio, Karnes, La Salle, Maverick, McMullen, Wilson and Zavala counties. Camino Real is the designated Community Mental Health Authority and the Authority for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. As the authority, it has the responsibility for eligibility determination, coordinating care, and managing a network of providers of direct services.
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Services Offered
Mental Health Services
Mental illness is characterized by a temporary or persistent inability to cope effectively with life's changes. Individuals with mental illness often experience difficulties coping in our complex society and are often overwhelmed by everyday activities and stresses. With treatment, many people with mental illness can return to productive, enjoyable living.
Camino Real Community Services offers a wide array of services designed to meet the needs of individuals with mental illness. These services include Screening, Assessment, Referral, Case Management, Medication Related Services, Counseling, Crisis Intervention, and a full range of Rehabilitative Services, and Family Support. Camino Real serves persons of all ages.
Early Childhood Intervention (ECI)
Camino Real ECI assists families with children between the ages of birth to three who have a disability or developmental delay and live in the following counties:
Atascosa, Bee, Dimmit, Frio, Gonzales, Guadalupe, La Salle, Live Oak, Maverick, McMullen, Wilson, Zavala.
Camino Real ECI offers support and resources to families, which may include: family education and support; service coordination; developmental services; audiology and vision services; nursing and nutrition services; physical, occupational and speech-language therapies.
Youth Empowerment Services (YES)
The YES Waiver is a home and community based services waiver that allows for more flexibility in the funding of intensive community-based services to assist children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances to live in the community with their families.
Goals * Reducing out-of-home placements and inpatient psychiatric treatment by all child-serving agencies; * Providing a more complete continuum of community-based services and supports; * Ensuring families have access to parent partners and other flexible non-traditional support services as identified in a family-centered planning process; * Preventing entry into the foster care system and relinquishment of parental custody; and * Improving the clinical and functional outcomes of children and adolescents.
Fees and Payment
All screenings and evaluations are at no cost to families. Other services are billed to Medicaid, private insurance or to families based on the Family Cost Share Sliding Scale. No child or family will be turned away because of an inability to pay.
This is a nonprofit organization.
Services Offered To: Adults Teens Children
Special Groups: Bilingual
Payment: Sliding Scale Medicaid
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.
