This year, CFGC celebrates 50 years of life changing work.    We are extremely grateful to our invaluable donors, board members, staff, referral sources, partners and clients who have helped create our story and build on the legacy of hope.  

Our story expands five decades created by caring and dedicated individuals resulting in real change for Texoma families and positively impacting the mental well-being of our community. To this day, CFGC remains a leader in affordable mental health care for Texoma children and families regardless of their financial limitations.   CFGC primarily serves poor and working poor families who might otherwise go without care.  CFGC's multi-disciplinary team of therapists utilizes evidenced-based treatments to work with children and families who have experienced trials and trauma. 

 

In conjunction with the President's visit to the National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today finalized a rule to strengthen access to mental health and substance use services for people with Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage, aligning with protections already required of private health plans. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 generally requires that health insurance plans treat mental health and substance use disorder benefits on equal footing as medical and surgical benefits.

 

"The Affordable Care Act provided one of the largest expansions of mental health and substance use disorder coverage in a generation," HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell said. "Today's rule eliminates a barrier to coverage for the millions of Americans who for too long faced a system that treated behavioral health as an unequal priority. It represents a critical step in our effort to ensure that everyone has access to the care they need.

In partnership with the Center for Workplace Learning at Grayson College, we are excited to continue our parenting seminars in 2016!  The topics include many critical areas of life challenges children, teens and parents experience.  The seminars are FREE to the public.  Registration will be available at the CWL website.  The parenting series is presented by CFGC Colleen Callister, LPC Intern.