07/11/2025
Our hearts are heavy with grief and care for our Hill Country communities.
We know many in our extended communities have been impacted by the flooding throughout Central Texas. Our hearts are with you and with all those affected. Some areas have considerable mental health support being coordinated while others have fewer community members or organizational resources who can provide immediate or longer term care.
If you are able or willing to provide support to those impacted by the Central Texas Flooding, please sign up here and we will be getting this information coordinated with other local area societies and through the people providing direct resources and support to those directly impacted by the flooding: https://forms.gle/XKCmsoZeyykoWm9y6
We know there are a couple of lists going around, including one by the Hill Country Counselors Association which has an extensive list of providers, so please don't feel you need to duplicate responses unless you want to. We have coordination with them as well.
There have been two specific asks which, if you can assist directly or have people or resources you can recommend to assist, please let us know by emailing Dr. Amy Gorniak amy.nicole.gorniak@gmail.com who is the Member at Large-General for BCPA Executive Committee this year and is connected with several local organizations with boots on the ground doing flood support. These two needs are:
1) Hill Country Counseling Association will be setting up groups with first responders in Kerrville and the surrounding areas and is seeking people with CISM/CISD and Psychological First Aid training who would be willing to co-facilitate groups for first responders over the coming weeks/months.
2) Both flood victims and responders, including many volunteers in areas where there hasn't been much outside organizational response as yet, are in need of crisis support check ins and community based groups or circles for making space to be with our process grief, distress, etc. and aces their own capacity and their community supports. Many areas don't have stable wi-fi or other internet so in person facilitation would be most effective. Hunt, Leander/Sandy Creek, and potentially other areas would benefit from this support. If you would be interested in this kind of work, possibly over time rather than one and done, please reach out (and, also, all help is useful so if you might be able to help once, that's good, too!)
Also, if anyone knows psychiatric providers (Psychiatrists, PNPs, etc) who might be able or willing to donate time to help people get access to prescriptions they've lost, please feel free to forward them this information. They can reach out to Dr. Gorniak or if anyone knows of a group coordinating this already, that would be beyond helpful to have information for.
Thank you all for all you do.
Best,
BCPA Executive Committee
