Mental Health Awareness Month

A counselor with West Texas Counseling and Guidance described the nonprofit's growth from 31 clients in 2018 to 514 in 2025, its free veteran counseling, and its 122 zero-suicide crisis appointments last year, inviting the public to a mental health luncheon.

The director of the local mental health clinic read the proclamation and warned that Laurel Ridge psychiatric hospital's closure of 300 beds is forcing patients to be transported as far as San Angelo or Waco.