Texana Center Honor Graduates in Texas Health and Human Services Vocational Apprenticeship Program
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 17, 2024 Contact: Sudan Britton Communication/Grants Coordinator O: 832-947-5634 C: 346-762-0344 sudan.britton@texanacenter.com Recognition Day at Texana Center: Honoring the Graduates of the Apprenticeship Program (ROSENBERG, TX.) — Texana Center’s second annual Vocational Apprenticeship Program honored 11 apprentices who graduated and received a certificate from the Texas Health and Human Services Vocational […]
Fort Bend Junior League Awards Nearly $7,000 Grant: A Boost for Texana Center for Advancement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 18, 2024 Contact: Sudan Britton Communication/Grants Coordinator O: 832-947-5634 C: 346-762-0344 sudan.britton@texanacenter.com Fort Bend Junior Service League Awards Nearly $7,000 Grant to Texana Center for Advancement (SUGARLAND, TX.) — Fort Bend Junior Service League (FBJSL) awarded Texana Center for Advancement a $6,800 grant that will benefit Texana clients. Thanks […]
Texana Center Group Home Closes in El Campo
Leader News Article Texana Learning Center in El Campo has closed a group home that served four residents and plans to sell the property in an effort to reduce costs and recoup losses from the Texas Legislature’s decision to cease funding their programs. “Because the State of Texas did not fund a pay […]
Call to Action on IDD Provider Crisis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 12, 2024 Contact: Sudan Britton Communication/Grants Coordinator O: 832-947-5634 C: 346-762-0344 sudan.britton@texanacenter.com CEO INVITES PUBLIC TO CALL LEGISLATORS REGARDING INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES (IDD) PROVIDER CRISIS (ROSENBERG, TX.) — Shena Ureste, Chief Executive Officer at Texana Center, works endlessly to educate the public on the issues Texana Center faces […]
Chief Executive Officer Announcement
The Texana Center Board of Trustees is excited to announce a significant milestone in Texana Center’s continued journey towards excellence in mental health, autism, and developmental disabilities services. After a thorough selection process, we are proud to introduce our new Chief Executive Officer, Shena Ureste. Shena brings an impressive 21 years of leadership experience within […]
Quarterly Provider Meetings
Texana Center is hosting quarterly collaboration meetings for the Medicaid Provider agencies serving persons with intellectual developmental disabilities (IDD). The goal is to promote collaborative working relationships between providers and Local IDD Authorities that result in improved services for persons with IDD. The meetings are open to representatives of Medicaid Provider agencies (Home and Community-Based […]
NCQA Accreditation
Texana Center’s Case Management Program completed the renewal audit for National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Accreditation of Case Management for Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS). Texana Center earned a perfect score, 100%, and received NCQA Accreditation for the next three years! Texana Center earned the initial accreditation in 2020. NCQA is an independent, not-for-profit […]
Texana Cafe serves up opportunity for adults with autism
FULSHEAR, Texas — The Texana Café is on a mission to serve exceptional food made by exceptional people. At this café, the workers, or “interns” as they’re called are all neurodiverse individuals. Many have autism. “A lot of them come in with very little confidence, with fear, with anxiety, because they’ve never held a job before,” said Rany […]
Fort Bend Junior Service League Provides Nutrition Grant
Rosenberg TX – December 16, 2022 – The Behavior Treatment and Training Center is one of Texana Center’s best-kept secrets. The program provides new hope to young people ages 8-17 with autism and intellectual disabilities whose aggressive behaviors put them at risk for removal from home or school. Through short-term residential therapy using the principles […]
Golf for Greater Houston Provides Life Skills
Rosenberg TX – December 1, 2022 – A generous grant of $58,000 from Fluor’s Golf for Greater Houston will provide expanded class offerings at Texana Center for Advancement in Fulshear. Texana Café and the new Center for Advancement both focus on meeting the needs of transition aged youth (14-25) with autism and intellectual disabilities, a […]
