About PermiaCare
The PermiaCare Mental Health Services and Clinic in Midland, Texas offers treatment and services for clients with substance use disorder and mental illnesses. The clinic seeks to provide services to underserved clients while improving the public’s perception and understanding of mental illness and substance use.
The clinic accepts Medicaid, CHIP and private insurances. If your family is low income you may qualify for payment assistance using funding from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Specialized Program for Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders
The clinic offers a co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorder (COPSD) program. If you have a major mental illness and a substance use disorder the program can stabilize your mental illness while helping you remain sober.
Your counselor will be a licensed dependency counselor who has a degree in psychology, sociology, or other behavioral science. Common major illnesses include major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
Crisis and Emergency Services
Crisis and emergency services are available 24 hours per day, every day of the year. Crisis intervention and suicide prevention services offer face to face interventions by a mobile outreach team and can provide emergency hospitalization.
If the client is under the influence of substances, a medical clearance is needed to verify crisis services are needed. Needed medical attention should be resolved before a call to the hotline.
If needed, crisis respite services offer a clinical stay of a few hours to 14 days. Clients are accepted on a voluntary basis and will receive medication and counseling services.
Counseling for Employment, Housing and Other Essentials
Counseling assists clients with processing emotions and changing attitudes and behaviors. Clients can receive training in areas such as budgeting, social skills, coping with illness, and taking medication.
For clients who have difficulty keeping housing and/or employment, the clinic will help the client find housing and employment and provide training on how to be a good tenant and employee. Financial assistance for housing is available for those who qualify.
