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El Paso County
Community Toolkit
This toolkit brings together the work of the El Paso County Transition Age Youth Sequential Intercept Model mapping: the four priorities the community chose, the resources the county already has for young people ages 16 to 24, and the action plans the priority teams wrote.
Facilitated by Lynda Frost, Lynfro Consulting, and Douglas Smith, D-Degree Consulting, for the Texas Judicial Commission on Mental Health.
The four priorities
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El Paso County Resources
Every resource named during the mapping, organized by intercept, with the ones built for ages 16 to 24 listed first. 147 entries, downloadable as a spreadsheet.
02
Best Practices
The full SIM Best Practices library, covering every intercept for youth and adult systems, with the research behind each practice. It opens in a new tab.
03
Priority Action Plans
The plans developed by each priority team, including objectives, tasks, team leads, and the next meeting.
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Team Lead Toolkit
Materials for priority team leads: a playbook, meeting agendas, a progress tracker, and a checklist.
Why a Transition Age Youth SIM
Young people ages 16 to 24 are becoming adults while the systems around them change too. In Texas, a 17-year-old is treated as an adult in the criminal justice system, and many youth services end at 18 or 21. Supports built for children or for adults often miss the years in between.
A Transition Age Youth SIM maps the local system with this age group in mind, so the county can see where young people fall through the gaps and where they can be connected to help instead of moving further into the justice system.
How the process worked
The mapping took place in two parts: a virtual session followed by a full-day in-person workshop. Before the sessions, the planning team met to shape the work, community partners were interviewed, and a resource survey gathered what El Paso County already offers young people.
At the in-person workshop on October 14, 2026, participants reviewed the resources at each intercept, rated ideas for change, and chose four priorities. A team formed around each priority and drafted its action plan.
Planning team
The planning team guided the mapping from the first planning meeting through the workshop.
- Annalisa Davila, Deputy Director, El Paso County CSCD
- Josue Lachica, Assistant Director, Paso del Norte Center at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
- Enrique Mata, Executive Director, Paso del Norte Center at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
- Chief Rosie Medina, El Paso Juvenile Probation Department
- Magdalena Morales-Aina, Director, El Paso County Community Supervision and Corrections Department
- Judge Anna Perez, 41st District Court of Texas
About this toolkit
The Sequential Intercept Model identifies the points at which a young person with behavioral health needs may be redirected toward services rather than further into the justice system. This toolkit is a working document for the El Paso County priority teams and for anyone who serves young people ages 16 to 24.
El Paso County Transition Age Youth Sequential Intercept Model Community Toolkit.
Built from the El Paso County action plans and resource tables. Prepared by D-Degree Consulting and Lynfro Consulting for the Texas Judicial Commission on Mental Health.