Mental Health Services

Mobile teams complete comprehensive crisis assessments. A crisis assessment is an immediate, face-to-face evaluation by a two crisis-trained mental health practitioners consulting with a mental health professional.

The assessment helps do the following:

• Assess current risks and life events
• Assess the protective factors that the caller has available in the crisis
• Assess mental health symptoms
• Risky behaviors
• Cultural considerations
• Support network
• Level of functioning

Provide immediate intervention to aid the caller in relieving current symptoms of the mental health crisis. The teams may provide the following services as deemed therapeutically appropriate.

• Coping skills
• Situational de-escalation
• Safety Planning
• Means removal
• Education
• Referral to crisis residential services (if available)
• Referral to Emergency Departments
• Coordination with other local providers