Gulf Coast Center

About Gulf Coast Center

Gulf Coast Center is a community behavioral health organization in Texas City, Texas, and serves as the public mental health authority for Galveston and Brazoria counties, offering substance use treatment alongside mental health and developmental disability services. They tailor care to each person and coordinate with partner agencies, so clients can get support with related needs as well as their substance use. Most people start with their OSAR program, a free screening and assessment done by phone or video, or in person at emergency rooms, hospitals, and county jails, that matches each person to the right level of care. From there, options include a 30-day residential program called Signals of Sobriety for people without insurance or the means to pay, along with outpatient treatment, supportive outpatient care, and peer recovery coaching.

Their outpatient program pairs individual and group counseling with a personalized treatment plan that covers relapse prevention, mental health, housing, relationships, spirituality and mindfulness, and building a sober support network. Groups meet several days a week in both morning and evening sessions, which can make it easier to fit treatment around work or family. Women 18 and older with dependent children can join a specialized track focused on parenting and women’s treatment issues, with drug education for the whole family and particular attention to the children. For people living with both a mental illness and a substance use disorder, their co-occurring program offers crisis and early intervention, medication management, day or evening outpatient treatment, family and peer support, and relapse prevention, while free peer-led recovery groups meet in person and online throughout the week.