Pennsylvania-based Youth Advocate Programs Inc. had been providing services to Tarrant County since 1992, but lost its contract in July after questions arose during a Juvenile Board meeting over ...

Tarrant County and MHMR have made efforts to keep people with mental illness out of jail altogether. The Mental Health Jail Diversion Center opened in 2022 as an alternative to incarceration for ...

Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare was at July's board meeting and said most of the roughly 20 members backed the vote. “[An] overwhelming majority said, ‘We don’t want to go with YAP.’ ...

The Tarrant County Commissioners Court reversed an earlier vote Tuesday and approved a contract with My Health My Resources of Tarrant County to provide services for children in the juvenile ...

Tarrant County’s proposed budget for next fiscal year doesn't include funding for the Mental Health Jail Diversion Center, but officials are looking for money to keep the program going.

The Tarrant County Commissioners Court reversed an earlier vote Tuesday and approved a contract with My Health My Resources of Tarrant County to provide services for children in the juvenile ...