HARLINGEN, TX (KGBT) — Governor Greg Abbott issued eight executive orders Thursday for statewide assessment training and other preventative measures in effort to identify potential mass shooters.

"In light of the shooting in Dayton, El Paso and Odessa, it appears to be a momentum for congress to pass more legislation in respect to red flag laws," said U.S. Congressman Filemon Vela.

The executive orders came after a growing concern of gun control issues in Texas, a state still in mourning from two recent mass shootings in El Paso and Odessa.

"It is going to be very difficult no matter what we do to ensure that there are no further acts of mass violence, but what we can certainly do is mitigate it," he explained.

Executive order number six calls for collaboration between the Texas Department of Public Safety, school districts, medical and legal professionals. It's organized as a partnership to create 'multidisciplinary threat assessment teams' to prevent mass attacks.

Here in the Rio Grand Valley, behavioral health specialists are already taking action, especially with youth in the early intervention stages.

"We work very closely with school district police, their mental health counselors and social workers...we already have some processes in places to identify at risk behaviors," said Linda Cantu, Director of Assessment at South Texas Behavioral Health Center.

According to Gov. Abbott, 30 days from now the Department of Public Safety will develop standardized intake questions that could be used by law-enforcers to better disclose information to the Texas Suspicious Activity Reporting Network.