Mental health resources available for team members

July 17, 2023

Texas Children’s believes the health and wellbeing of team members and your families is as important as the excellent care you provide to our patients every day. Clear access to world-class benefits is our goal and our commitment to you. Over the next few weeks, we will highlight some of the special benefits that make Texas Children’s unique. We begin with encouragement around your mental and emotional health.

Mental Health Resources for Team Members

These valuable MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES can improve the quality of your life and support the people you love.

  • Log on to the Happify website or download the HappifyTM app to reduce stress and amplify optimism.
    • Happify offers team members science-based activities and games that diminish anxiety, increase mindfulness and improve emotional well-being.
  • The Women’s Place – Center for Reproductive Psychiatry provides team members and dependents help with managing mental health issues related to a woman’s reproductive cycle.
    • Baylor Medicine psychiatrists and psychologists offer expert evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of women’s mental health conditions, including premenstrual dysphoric disorder, postpartum depression, attachment difficulties between mother and baby, and a host of diagnosis affecting female reproductive mental health.
  • Visit the Spiritual Well-Being site where you can explore ways to nurture your sense of purpose at work. Our Workforce Chaplains provide emotional support to team members through
    • grief and crisis care,
    • well-being webinars and
    • confidential counseling.
    • The Stress Management Brochure can help you understand causes and effects of stress, as well as strategies you can employ to manage stress.
  • We work with local exercise studios to offer team members free onsite fitness classes that help reduce anxiety and build resilience.
    • Visit the Connect Calendar to sign up for yoga, strengthening and conditioning and more.