Texans Recovering Together is the state CCP program. It is administered within the Disaster Behavioral Health Services branch of HHS and provides short-term stress management and crisis counseling to individuals and groups having psychological reactions to large-scale, presidentially declared disasters. By providing emotional support and interventions, Texans Recovering Together CCP grants help people recover from the impact of disasters.

Crisis counseling is a strengths-based, outreach-oriented approach to helping people affected by disasters identify and get personal and community resources that will aid the recovery process. It consists mainly of supportive, educational face-to-face interventions with people and communities in their natural environments. The CCP seeks to empower survivors by educating them about disaster reactions, teaching them coping skills, assessing them for individual needs and linking them to appropriate community resources.

Crisis counseling is considered strengths-based because it assumes most people affected by disasters are naturally resilient. By providing support, education and links to the community resources they need, people will be better equipped to recover from the negative consequences of disasters.

While crisis counseling assumes a natural resilience in the majority, it also includes screening and assessing for severe reactions in the minority. Crisis counselors know that few people will develop diagnosable conditions. They are trained to identify people having severe reactions and refer them to appropriate treatment services and community resources.