Accessing Coordinated Care and Empowering Self Sufficiency (ACCESS) Harris County is an integrated care-coordination model that works to improve outcomes for vulnerable individuals through a Care Coordination Team. The team focuses on supporting clients holistically by addressing multiple needs to achieve well-being and self-sufficiency.
ACCESS Harris County works with community members experiencing hardships, including health challenges (physical and/or mental), financial and housing needs, substance abuse, and social inequity by providing intensive, wraparound support across Harris County’s safety net system.
The ACCESS Harris County Violence Prevention Cohort aims to improve the health, well-being, sustained recovery, and self-sufficiency of Harris County’s most vulnerable residents impacted by violence.
Through community engagements by Harris County Public Heath’s (HCPH) Community Health and Violence Prevention Services (CHVPS) programs, participants are referred to the ACCESS Harris County Violence Prevention Cohort.
ACCESS Harris County provides program participants with connections to community service providers addressing:
ACCESS Harris County is a division housed in Harris County Public Health (HCPH) and includes other community Safety Net Partners aimed at serving the county's most vulnerable community members. Other participating departments and community organizations include: