MHMRA of Harris County - Annual Report FY 2012 2012 | Page 8

Investing in Healthy Minds and a Healthy Community

Invest in Us
The theme of this year’s
annual report is Investing in
Healthy Minds and a Healthy
Community. When we, as
a community, fund mental
health and IDD services, we’re
making a good investment
decision. We’re choosing to
take a proactive approach and
pay for early intervention and
ongoing care, rather than, by
our inaction, choosing to pay
the high emotional and fiscal
tolls of crises that can result
when people do not receive the
care they need.
Friends of MHMRA of
Harris County (“Friends”)

is a vehicle that allows you,
as an individual community
member, to invest in MHMRA
and the critically important
services it provides our
community. Friends is an
independent nonprofit
organization that seeks to
enhance and expand the
services and supports provided
by and through MHMRA.
Through your generosity, we
have made a variety of grants
to support MHMRA and its
consumers. In FY 2013, we will
make our biggest grant yet to
the Interim Care Clinic, located
at the Neuropsychiatric Center

in Houston’s Medical Center.
The purpose of the clinic is to
provide care for people waiting
to receive an appointment
at one of MHMRA’s mental
health outpatient clinics, to
prevent further deterioration
of their illness. Friends
will cover the costs of onemonth prescriptions for
psychotropic medications in
collaboration with HEB’s $4/$5
prescription program. This is
important because equipping
a person with the appropriate
medication is often the first
step in helping him work
toward recovery.

We could not provide support
to the Interim Care Clinic
and other MHMRA programs
without help from donors like
you. If you have donated, thank
you for investing in us and for
recognizing that mental health
care and IDD services are
good for you, your loved ones
and the entire community. If
you have not donated, please
consider making a donation.
Learn more at
friendsofmhmra.org.

Vision

Mission

The vision of MHMRA of Harris County is that the public mental
health and mental retardation system will act in partnership with
consumers, family members, service providers and policy makers
to create options responsive to individual needs and preferences.
This vision includes recognition of these values:
• The individuals that MHMRA serves share common human
needs, rights, desires and strengths.
• MHMRA celebrates cultural diversity and individual
uniqueness and is committed to support individual choices
and preferences.
• MHMRA is committed to developing an environment that
inspires and promotes innovation, fosters dynamic leadership
and rewards creativity among our staff, volunteers and
consumers.

It shall be the mission of MHMRA of Harris County, within the
resources available, to provide or ensure the provision of services
and supports in a respectful fashion that are high quality, efficient,
and cost effective such that persons with mental disabilities
may live with dignity as fully functioning, participating, and
contributing members of our community as possible, regardless of
their ability to pay or third party coverage.
• Persons with severe mental illness should be able to live in
homes of their own, develop relationships, work, and remain
out of hospitals and jails.
• Persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities should
be able to acquire the skills and access community resources
to develop networks of human relationships, learn, work, and
live in environments of their choosing.
• Children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance
should be able to live in homes with families, develop normal
relationships with their peers, attend school, and remain out
of hospitals and juvenile justice facilities.

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