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Outside Support and Public Resources

Trusted places to start

Find crisis and immediate-safety support first, followed by a short, maintained list of outside resources for veterans, first responders and public-safety personnel, couples, families, and people navigating work, role, identity, or major change.

Cedar Elm prioritizes authoritative, stable, and practical sources that can help visitors identify one appropriate next step.

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Crisis and immediate support

If there is immediate danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. For crisis support, use one of the services below. Cedar Elm does not provide crisis or emergency services and does not monitor this website or email for urgent messages.

Abuse, Violence, or Immediate-Safety Concerns

If someone is hurting you, home does not feel safe, or you need sexual-assault support, these outside services offer confidential help and safety planning.

Find the Right Outside Resource

Choose the route that best matches what you need.

Crisis and immediate-safety support are already listed above. The routes below lead only to nonurgent outside-resource categories.

Maintained Outside Resources

A short list organized around the next step.

Each listing belongs to an outside organization. Cedar Elm does not sell placement, rank providers, or guarantee that a resource will fit an individual situation.

Not Sure Where to Start

5 resources

Start here when the concern is broad, you are comparing care options, or you are helping someone else find a reasonable next step.

NIMH — Psychotherapies

A plain-language overview of talk therapy and what to expect.

Federal · NIMH · Verified August 2026

FindTreatment.gov

Search treatment options by location, service type, and payment accepted.

Federal · SAMHSA · Verified August 2026

SAMHSA — Helping Someone

How to talk with someone you care about, encourage help, and take care of yourself along the way.

Federal · SAMHSA · Verified August 2026

Prefer to talk to a person? 2-1-1 Texas can connect Texans with local public and community services.

Veterans and Military Families

3 resources

Readjustment, peer support, PTSD education, and other public routes built around military life.

VA Vet Centers

Community-based counseling for eligible Veterans, service members, and qualifying family members navigating readjustment, grief, and role transitions.

Eligibility is determined by the VA, not Cedar Elm.

Federal · VA · Verified August 2026

Texas Veterans Commission — Mental Health

Official Texas veteran mental health and peer-support resource navigation.

Cedar Elm does not determine program eligibility or provider selection.

State of Texas · TVC · Verified August 2026

Related routes: Veterans Crisis Line for crisis support and VA PTSD treatment information for treatment literacy.

First Responders and Public Safety

2 resources

Occupational stress and behavioral-health education for people working in fire, EMS, law enforcement, dispatch, corrections, and other public-safety roles.

If this is urgent rather than educational, use the crisis routes above.

Couples and Families

2 resources

Educational information about family relationships, communication, and the ways trauma can affect family life.

NCTSN — Trauma and Your Family

A plain-language guide to how trauma can affect family life and what helps families cope.

Nonprofit · SAMHSA-funded network · Verified August 2026

If relationship strain includes safety concerns, use the safety resources above.

Stress, Trauma, Work, or Major Life Change

5 resources

Use the subsection that most closely fits what you are trying to understand: everyday stress, trauma and PTSD, or work and role change.

Everyday Stress and Grounding

CDC — Managing Stress

Practical guidance for understanding everyday stress, trying healthy coping strategies, and finding more support when needed.

Federal · CDC · Verified August 2026

VA — Mindfulness Coach

A free VA app with self-guided mindfulness education and guided practices for present-moment awareness and stress management.

Federal · VA · App · Verified August 2026

Trauma and PTSD Information

NIMH — Traumatic Events and PTSD

How people commonly react after traumatic events, when reactions may need attention, and what treatment can involve.

Federal · NIMH · Verified August 2026

Work, Role, and Major Life Change

Job Accommodation Network: Ask JAN

Free, confidential workplace-accommodation guidance and ADA employment information for workers, applicants, employers, and service providers.

DOL ODEP-funded · Technical assistance · Verified August 2026

Cedar Elm does not provide legal advice, job-protection advice, employer advocacy, accommodation decisions, fitness-for-duty opinions, or workplace-rights determinations. Ask JAN is an outside information route.

Texas and Collin County Support

3 resources

State and local public routes for community navigation, local mental-health authority lookup, and Texas license verification.

2-1-1 Texas — Find Help

Texas search and referral support for food, health, housing, mental health, local services, and community resources.

Dial 2-1-1

State of Texas · Community navigation · Verified August 2026

BHEC — Verify a License

Texas’ official license lookup for counselors and other behavioral health professionals.

Texas licensing board · Verified August 2026

Collin County crisis and safety routes are above: LifePath Systems, Hope’s Door New Beginning Center, and The Turning Point.

Referral Partners and Community Helpers

1 resource

Public reference links for chaplains, medical and community partners, veteran-serving organizations, first responder and public-safety organizations, nonprofit leaders, and other professional collaborators helping someone identify an appropriate outside route.

VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for PTSD

The 2023 evidence-based guideline landing page for PTSD and acute stress care, for professionals and referral partners.

Federal · Clinical guideline · Verified August 2026

Working public routes for partners: BHEC license verification and Texas HHS county routing, FindTreatment.gov and SAMHSA Helping Someone, and Cedar Elm’s Referral Partner Guidance.

Resource Maintenance

Help us keep this list accurate

See a broken link, outdated phone number, or stable public resource Cedar Elm should review? Email updates@cedarelmclinical.com with the resource name and public link.

Suggestions are reviewed against Cedar Elm’s resource standards and do not guarantee inclusion or endorsement.

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Send public resource information only.

Please do not include names, client or case details, diagnoses, treatment history, crisis information, or other private health information. This inbox is not monitored for counseling requests or urgent needs.

Verification and Third-Party Boundary

Outside resources remain outside Cedar Elm.

Verified August 2026. Crisis and local resources are reviewed quarterly; other public, state, professional, and guideline sources follow the maintenance schedule appropriate to the source.

Cedar Elm does not control third-party content or availability. A link does not create a clinical relationship, inclusion does not guarantee endorsement or individual eligibility, and this page and the maintenance email are not monitored for crisis communication.

Continue With Cedar Elm

Choose a Cedar Elm public route when that is the better next step.

These links return to Cedar Elm’s own educational, referral-partner, care-orientation, and privacy information. They are separate from the outside organizations listed above.

Referral Partners

Public routing, privacy, and ethical-collaboration guidance for community and professional partners.

Referral Partner Guidance →

Privacy & Scope

Review how Cedar Elm’s public pages, educational resources, and public contact routes are intended to work.

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