{"id":217172,"date":"2026-03-23T22:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/217172\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:24:11","slug":"texas-tech-health-sciences-center-receives-state-mental-health-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/217172\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech Health Sciences Center receives state mental health funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center will advance its mental health education with new state funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">$5 million in state grants are part of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program going to several institutions to benefit licensed physicians pursuing mental health careers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Texas Tech Health Sciences Centers in Lubbock and El Paso will each receive about $555,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Governor Greg Abbott reiterated the state\u2019s commitment to increasing access to mental health care across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThese grants will create opportunities for our renowned higher education institutions to develop the next generation of healthcare leaders,\u201d Abbott said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center will advance its mental health education with new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[138,84731,6944,84730,66,168,170,169,2125,223,27,1769,84584,10703],"class_list":["post-217172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-el-paso","tag-forensic-psychiatry-fellowship-program","tag-governor-greg-abbott","tag-health-sciences-center","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-mental-health","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-health-sciences-center","tag-ttuhsc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}