• Several new programs for adults and children living with mental illness, substance use disorder and intellectual and developmental disabilities open.
  • Alameda House: A rehabilitation center for adults and veterans living with mental illness and substance use disorder.
  • Autism Project: A day treatment program for children diagnosed with autism.
  • Respite Care: A program for adults living with mental illness and disabilities.
  • Elderly Respite Care: A program that supports elderly people living with mental illness.
  • Fairweather Lodge: A residential program where people living with mental illness live and work together.
  • Homestead South: An affordable housing program for adults living with mental illness.
  • Infant Parent Program: A children’s mental health program for infants ages 0-3 years living with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their parents.
  • Patterson House: A home-based program for women living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
  • Neches Crossing Adult Day Treatment: A day program for adults with mental illness and substance use disorder.
  • Consumer Benefits: A program that helps people living with mental illness apply for and secure Social Security benefits.
  • The New Milestones Foundation (NMF), now Integral Care Foundation (ICF), forms as the fundraising branch of Integral Care to raise awareness and resources for mental health.
  • Integral Care opens 300 housing units and provides 125 Section 8 Certificates to adults living with mental illness.
  • Integral Care’s Crisis Team starts working with chronically homeless individuals. The team works with law enforcement and local hospitals and visits people wherever they are in the community.
  • The Consumer Drop-in Center opens. The center was managed by clients living with mental illness and provided training for independent living skills like hygiene, cooking, socialization and relaxation techniques.
  • Peer support programs begin. Peers have lived experience of mental illness, substance use disorder or intellectual and developmental disabilities and help others live successfully on their own.
  • Geneva Training House, a training program for entry into the Fairweather Lodge, begins operations.