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Emergency Services
offers a 24-hour crisis line, mobile crisis response team and a crisis bed
program. It provides individualized service in the least restrictive manner
utilizing natural and peer supports whenever possible. The focus is on prevention
of crisis, de-escalating, and offering community based options, assessing
and diverting many situations from becoming an inpatient hospitalization.
Crisis Line
Trained staff provide confidential and anonymous telephone counseling
and crisis intervention, as well as information & referral 24-hours
a day, seven days per week. Access to programs can be initiated through
the crisis line. Serving all ages.
Mobile Crisis Team
Clinical evaluations and crisis intervention are available seven days
a week on site or in the community. The team is composed of psychiatrists,
master level clinicians, registered nurses and other specially trained
staff. Services offered are assessment, consultation, evaluation for inpatient
hospitalization, crisis bed placement or other community options. The
team also provides linkage and follow-up services with community providers
to assure continuity of care. All ages and legal status (voluntary &
involuntary) are served.
Crisis Bed Apartment
The crisis bed apartment provides a non-medical setting for adults in
crisis who would otherwise have been treated in an inpatient psychiatric
hospital setting. Staff provide support and observation 24-hours per day
under supervision of a licensed clinician and a psychiatrist. Individuals
are admitted as a means of hospital diversion or to shorten a length of
stay from inpatient. Programming is often done in conjunction with the
psychiatric Day Treatment Program. All ages and legal status are served.
Day Treatment
The Day Treatment Program is a time limited active treatment program,
meeting up to five days per week, five to six hours per day, coordinated
with structured clinical services within a therapeutic setting. It is
designed to serve adults with significant impairment resulting from psychiatric,
emotional, behavioral, or substance abuse difficulties.
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