CPAN and PeriPAN Are Resources to Extend Your Capacity

Mental health is complex. Texas PeriPAN and CPAN are free, simple, and trusted resources for Texas health care clinicians.

Texas Perinatal Psychiatry Access Network (PeriPAN) and Child Psychiatry Access Network (CPAN) are a resource for psychiatric physicians—whether you have a mental health treatment question about your perinatal or pediatric patient or are fielding a call from a primary care doctor about their patient, we can help!

Key Features for Texas Clinicians

  • No cost to you or your patient.
  • Quick responses:
    • Real-time peer consult call backs within 30 minutes, or at a convenient time.
    • Text to start a consult; we reply within 5 minutes.
  • A one-time, virtual consultation between one of our psychiatrists and a patient to help clarify the next steps in treatment with the patient’s primary clinician.
  • Assisting you with treatment plans.
  • Free CMEs, including Project ECHO and ethics CMEs.
  • Vetted resources and referrals in 1 business day.
  • Signing up for CPAN/PeriPAN takes 5 minutes and is done once.


Our access network is backed by research, based on other effective models in the country, and anchored in 12 Texas medical schools.

Program Goal

Our goal is to empower clinicians, save them time, and ensure children, youth, and pregnant and postpartum mothers get the mental health care they deserve, quickly and effectively.

Program Impact and Benefit

  • Patients who get treatment can and do improve.
    Access programs like this help your patients get the mental health care they need—
    fast.
  • Nearly 14,000 Texas clinicians are enrolled in PeriPAN and CPAN.
  • 98% satisfaction rating among clinicians.
  • Over 38,000 patients served to date.


No call is too small, call as often as needed.

Contact Us!
Call: 888-901-2726
Website: www.TXCPAN.org   www.TXPeriPAN.org