TEXAS VETERANS COMMISSION 
Our Mission
The Veterans Mental Health Department (VMHD) is focused on ensuring access to competent mental health services for service members, veterans, and their families. VMHD accomplishes this task by providing training, certification, and technical assistance across Texas. In addition to connecting veterans in need directly to local services, VMHD also works with partners at the national, state, and local level to address veteran-specific issues including suicide prevention/intervention, veteran homelessness, military cultural competency, peer support services, military-related trauma, women and rural veterans, and justice involvement. Across all programming, VMHD is fortunate to have the broadest definition of veteran regardless of discharge status, branch of services, or having served one day or a career. All services including training, technical assistance, and direct services provided across VMHD programming are offered freely to all who are in need.
Who We Are
We work with partners at the national, state, and local level to address a wide variety of veteran-specific issues.
MARY MARGARET BRAKEN
CTRS
Program Support Coordinator
MaryMargaret.Bracken@tvc.texas.gov
(512) 463-6091
CYNTHIA GRAY
Air Force Veteran
Justice Involved Veteran Coordinator
Cynthia.Gray@tvc.texas.gov
(512) 815-7906
TERRI WILLIAMS
Licensed Professional Counselor
Justice Involved Veteran Coordinator
Terri.Williams@tvc.texas.gov
(737) 237-4080
Amber Morson
Social Services Professional
Homeless Veteran Coordinator
Amber.Morson@TVC.Texas.gov
(512) 567-5477
ANTHONY BUSTOS
Army Veteran, MPH
Homeless Veteran Coordinator
Anthony.Bustos@tvc.texas.gov
(512) 567-5618
JESSICA DEL RIO
Licensed Professional Counselor
Veteran Suicide Prevention Coordinator
Jessica.DelRio@tvc.texas.gov
(512) 560-9469
JOHN WILSON
Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel
Community & Faith-Based Program Manager
John.Wilson@tvc.texas.gov
(512) 463-6091
DON HIPP
Navy Veteran, LPC-S, CCTP, LCCA
Mental Health
Provider Coordinator
Don.Hipp@tvc.texas.gov
(512) 420-7704
Get Social
We are the state appointed advocate of Texas veterans and assist them in securing the benefits they earned while serving.
Services
All services including training, technical assistance, and direct services provided across VMHD programming are offered freely to all who are in need.
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
We provide technical assistance to Service Members, Veterans, and their Families (SMVF) peers.
TRAININGS
We offer training to licensed mental health providers and organizations, community & faith-based organizations, and state agencies on the impacts of military-related trauma.
CERTIFICATIONS
Mental Health Providers can get certified with free military cultural competency training.
A History Of Helping Veterans
VMHD is a branch of the Texas Veterans Commission. TVC was created in 1927 as the State Service Office to assist veterans of the Indian wars, Spanish-American War and World War I.
Homeless Veterans On the Street
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Veteran Suicide Rate per 100,000
Why It Matters
Military trauma-affected SMVF often have difficulty accessing timely mental health resources due to factors, which include; an individual’s difficulty in recognition of their mental health needs, lack of resources available upon recognition of mental health needs, difficulty accessing mental health resources, and a lack of community-level awareness of military-related traumas resulting in mental health conditions.
The VMHD provides military trauma-informed training and technical assistance to create greater awareness of and access to mental health resources for SMVF.
Join Our Network
We provide training and technical assistance to agencies and organizations spanning the Texas Criminal Justice System in an effort to improve diversion and mental health treatment options for justice-involved veterans who have suffered military-related traumas.
Sign up today to become a volunteer.
How Are We Doing?
VMHD and TVC are committed to providing our Texas veterans and their families with superior customer service. Let us know how we are doing by completing a brief survey.