Responding to the
Flooding in Texas

In response to the July 4, 2025 flooding in Texas, we quickly deployed an emergency response team and began partnering with the Texas Association of Community Health Centers (TACHC). Our team included mental health specialists who provided urgent behavioral and mental health care to frontline responders, healthcare workers and affected community members, including in the town of Hunt in Kerr County—near where nearly 30 campers and counselors lost their lives at Camp Mystic. As part of mobile medical units, team members conducted daily wellness checks and outreach visits, and connected affected first responders and community members who were involved in search-and-recovery operations—and thus were coping with the sudden loss and grief—with national, state and local mental health resources.

Beyond Kerr County, the International Medical Corps team and local health center network identified pressing and underserved flood-related needs in Gillespie, Kimble, Mason, McCulloch and Menard counties, which also suffered severe flooding and infrastructure damage. We delivered services in community hubs such as food pantries, school districts and community centers, conducted wellness checks and disseminated free mental health and self-care resources. By the time they left Texas on August 15, our clinical team had conducted more than 1,300 wellness checks and community-outreach engagements in group and individual settings across 17 sites. Our mobile outreach enabled team members to meet with community members and provide a space to listen to their stories and experiences, enabling them to process their grief safely.

We continue to work in coordination with the TACHC and other partners to provide critically needed relief and recovery supplies to help affected communities—procuring and delivering supplies to health facilities in Kerrville and the surrounding areas that will help these facilities remain operational and ensure that patients receive the resources and services they need. We already have distributed more than 2,500 items to first responders and affected community members, including hygiene kits, wound-care kits, and hygiene products and essential items—such as baby wipes, deodorant, socks and t-shirts—across schools and community hubs.

Twenty-four federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) operate within a 50-mile radius of Kerrville, serving vulnerable populations—including low-income, uninsured and elderly residents, and those living with chronic conditions. Though our team has left the area, we will continue to support FQHCs’ longer-term recovery need by expanding community health-worker coverage, improving access to care and medications, and addressing sharp declines in clinic visits among low-income, uninsured and underinsured patients.