Crisis Continuum
Highlighted Resources:
National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care: Best Practice Toolkit (2020)
Produced By: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Description: These national guidelines are intended to help mental health authorities, agency administrators, service providers, and state and local leaders consider how to develop and structure crisis systems to meet community needs. It defines national guidelines in crisis care, offers tips for implementing care that aligns with national guidelines, and tools to evaluate the alignment of systems to national guidelines. Core elements of a crisis system must include (1) regional or statewide crisis call centers coordinating in real time; (2) centrally deployed, 24/7 mobile crisis teams; and (3) 23-hour crisis receiving and stabilization programs.
Keywords: crisis continuum; mobile crisis teams; crisis stabilization units; crisis call centers
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Produced By: The Stepping Up Initiative
Supported By: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Description: The Stepping Up Strategy Lab is an interactive library of policies, practices, and programs implemented by jurisdictions across the country to reduce the prevalence of people living with mental health conditions in jails. The database includes dozens of different programs, policies, and practices (e.g., crisis intervention team, co-responder team), including definitions and local examples.
Keywords: Crisis response programs, practices
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Crisis Services: Meeting Needs, Saving Lives (2020)
Produced By: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Supported By: Center for Mental Health Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Description: This resource provides an overarching view of crisis services across systems for people experiencing urgent mental health and substance use needs, as well as providing policy considerations on how to build an effective crisis continuum.
Keywords: crisis continuum
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Building a Comprehensive and Coordinated Crisis System (2021)
Produced By: Council of State Governments Justice Center
Supported By: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Description: Across the nation, communities are grappling with how to respond to crisis calls, particularly ones involving people with behavioral health needs. As they work to build and expand their crisis systems, communities are also looking to expand beyond typical police responses to include mental health professionals and other community responders. This brief highlights the continuum of responses that make up a comprehensive, coordinated crisis system and offers guidance for building a system that addresses local needs.
Keywords: police; first responders; behavioral health; crisis response; collaboration; crisis continuum
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Other Resources:
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III. COVID-19 and Crisis Response
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I. Overview
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Crisis Services: Effectiveness, Cost-effectiveness, and Funding Strategies (2014)
Produced By: Truven Health Analytics Inc.
Supported By: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Description: This resource provides an overview of crisis services states offer. This report summarizes the evidence base on the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different types of crisis services, and then presents case studies of different approaches that states are using to coordinate, consolidate, and blend fund sources in order to provide robust crisis services.
Keywords: crisis response; funding; cost-effectiveness; crisis continuum
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Produced By: Abt Associates
Supported By: Arnold Ventures
Description: This resource provides a framework for decision-making to improve response to individuals experiencing a crisis as a result of substance use, mental health, or homelessness challenges. The framework is grounded in a systematic review of the range of approaches that have been implemented by first responder agencies in the United States and organizes specific programs (for example, the Oregon-based CAHOOTS program) into program types based on common features (such as responding agency, response activities, and desired outcomes).
Keywords: crisis response; homelessness; mental health; substance use; crisis continuum
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Roadmap to the Ideal Crisis System: Essential Elements, Measurable Standards and Best Practices for Behavioral Health Crisis Response (2021) - Executive Summary, Full Report
Produced By: Authored by Committee on Psychiatry and the Community for the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry; Published by National Council for Behavioral Health
Description: This report provides a guide for communities to develop a vision and direction for their behavioral health crisis systems, to evaluate their current behavioral health crisis capacities and to operationalize a strategy for implementing structures, services and processes that move toward an ideal crisis system. It discusses accountability and finance; the crisis continuum, including capacities and services; and basic clinical practice. An instrument (report card) is included to assist communities who are working to enhance their crisis system to assess their current status of each of the elements of an ideal crisis system.
Keywords: crisis continuum; funding
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Behavioral Health Crisis Alternatives: Shifting from Police to Community Responses (2020)
Produced By: Vera Institute of Justice
Supported By: NFL’s Inspire Change grant program
Description: This resource provides an overview of crisis response programs, including a typology of approaches organized by the involvement of law enforcement, before examining the efforts of three communities—Eugene, Oregon; Olympia, Washington; and Phoenix, Arizona—to reduce the number of crisis calls directed to police.
Keywords: crisis response; crisis continuum
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Produced By: Abt Associates
Description: Communities are increasingly considering approaches to minimize unnecessary engagement of first responders in noncriminal or medical matters and, if engaged, to improve the nature of the response. But what kinds of programs exist, and what is the evidence for their effectiveness? The author present a framework for understanding the range of programs that first responder agencies in the U.S. have implemented to improve response to behavioral health- and/or homelessness-related crises.
Keywords: vulnerable populations; crisis response; crisis continuum
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Produced By: Abt Associates
Description: Communities want to reimagine models of emergency responses to individuals experiencing a crisis. But the paucity of research in this area means policymakers have little access to data to inform their decision-making. In this white paper, we summarize the types of first responder-led, emergency-response models and present the evidence that exists for them. Then we suggest investment to fill the evidence gaps, support reform efforts, and ensure that reimagining the emergency response system both contributes to and relies on evidence.
Keywords: crisis response; vulnerable populations; emergency response; first responders; crisis continuum
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Perspectives on Reimagining America’s Emergency Response System (2020) - Webinar
Produced By: Abt Associates
Supported By: Arnold Ventures
Description: This resource presents a framework for understanding the range of programs that have been implemented by first responder agencies in the U.S. to improve responses to crises related to serious mental illness, substance use disorder, and/or homelessness. In this webinar, experts in diversionary emergency responses will discuss factors that are relevant to decision-making around reimagining emergency responses at state and local levels.
Keywords: crisis response, emergency response, first responder
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Crisis Now: Transforming Services is Within Our Reach (2016)
Produced By: National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention
Description: This report provides recommendations on expanding crisis services and provides a road map for change. It provides recommendations for a regional 24/7 clinically staffed hub/crisis call center, mobile crisis teams, and crisis stabilization facilities. It also discusses essential qualities to incorporate into a comprehensive crisis system, financing crisis care, and strategic directions for crisis care.
Keywords: crisis continuum; mobile crisis teams; crisis stabilization units; crisis call centers
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Business Case: The Crisis Now Model
Produced By: Crisis Tech 360
Description: This resource briefly discusses issues with the traditional crisis response system and the crisis now model, which include three core services in a crisis continuum deployed as full partners with law enforcement, hospitals, and first responders. It also discusses outcomes from Maricopa County (Phoenix, AZ).
Keywords: crisis continuum
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Before and After a Behavioral Health Crisis: Building a Continuum of Care (2022)
Produced By: National Association of Counties
Description: Counties across the country are building multidisciplinary teams and using key data elements to prevent and better address mental health and substance use disorder crises outside of the criminal legal system. Building an effective care continuum targets the root causes of a behavioral health crisis by investing in comprehensive and accessible prevention, treatment, and real-time intervention. With almost one in four adults in the United States living with a mental health condition, substance use disorder or both, county leaders recognize the urgency to find innovative approaches to balance community behavioral health needs and law enforcement response in a time of crisis. This discussion provides key resources on the importance of a continuum of care and features lessons learned from counties working to reduce barriers to behavioral health for its residents.
Keywords: continuum of care; mobile crisis; crisis call center; Crisis intervention Team (CIT)
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Ready to Respond: Mental Health Beyond Crisis and COVID-19 (2021)
Produced By: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Supported By: Center for Mental Health Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Description: This resource aims to lay out a roadmap as states emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and need a full continuum of psychiatric care. It reviews recent behavioral health system demands and highlights seven key priority areas for consideration to build a sustainable, more complete, and robust psychiatric care continuum.
Keywords: crisis continuum; 988; diversion; technology; funding
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Produced By: National League of Cities (NLC)
Supported By: Arnold Ventures
Description: This resource is the first in a series of issue briefs examining city-level approaches to emergency response and crisis stabilization.
Keywords: crisis response; collaboration; leadership; emergency response; Crisis Intervention Team (CIT); co-responder team
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Produced By: National League of Cities (NLC)
Supported By: Arnold Ventures
Description: This resource is the second in a series of issue briefs examining city-level approaches to emergency response and crisis stabilization.
Keywords: crisis response; collaboration; leadership; emergency response; homeless outreach teams; Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)
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Emergency Response and Crisis Stabilization: Cities Leading the Way (2019)
Produced By: National League of Cities (NLC)
Supported By: Arnold Ventures
Description: This resource is the third in a series of issue briefs examining city-level approaches to emergency response and crisis stabilization.
Keywords: crisis response; collaboration; leadership; emergency response; crisis continuum; mobile crisis; co-responder teams
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A Framework for Communities Considering a Shift from Crisis Response to Crisis Prevention (2020)
Produced By: Abt Associates
Description: Individuals and communities typically rely on the conventional—but often inappropriate--emergency response system for behavioral health crises (e.g., mental health, substance use, homelessness). Ideally, community infrastructure would be designed to prevent and treat behavioral health concerns to minimize crises. In this white paper, we set out a framework for communities seeking to shift from crisis response to crisis prevention by identifying incremental changes across multiple system components that can help build healthier communities.
Keywords: crisis prevention; crisis response; Sequential Intercept Model (SIM); training
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Produced By: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Supported By: Center for Mental Health Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Description: This resource's goal is to increase understanding about the roles that race and racism play in an individual's social determinants of health, particularly the social determinants of healthcare access and quality, and social and community context. It also discusses how these social determinants impact the availability, accessibility, and quality of mental health services. Strategies are discussed on how to create an equitable crisis continuum.
Keywords: crisis continuum; equity
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Produced By: Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc.; National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Supported By: Center for Mental Health Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Description: This resource highlights programs and states that are demonstrating success in integrating substance use disorders in the three core services highlighted in SAMHSA's Best Practice Toolkit: crisis call center, mobile crisis response services, and crisis stabilization services. It also discusses core principles related to substance use disorder and best practices.
Keywords: crisis continuum; substance use disorder; mobile crisis teams; crisis call center; crisis stabilization
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Produced By: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Supported By: Center for Mental Health Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Description: This resource provides goals to improve outcomes for people living with serious mental illness, including access without delay to 24/7 psychiatric emergency, crisis stabilization, inpatient or recovery bed and diversion from arrest, detention, or incarceration when appropriate.
Keywords: diversion; crisis stabilization; crisis continuum
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Produced By: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Supported By: Center for Mental Health Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Description: This resource recommends diverting healthcare spending away from the more expensive traditional approaches of emergency department assessment followed by a referral to acute inpatient hospitalization to a full continuum that includes less expensive specialized crisis services and psychiatric inpatient resources. The essential crisis services include: (1) regional or statewide crisis call centers; (2) centrally deployed, 24/7 mobile crisis response teams; and (3) short-term, "sub-acute" residential crisis stabilization programs.
Keywords: crisis continuum; mobile crisis teams; crisis stabilization; crisis call centers
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Beyond Beds: The Vital Role of a Full Continuum of Psychiatric Care (2017)
Produced By: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors; Treatment Advocacy Center
Supported By: Center for Mental Health Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Description: This resource offers 10 policy recommendations for reducing the human and economic costs associated with severe mental illness by building an interconnected, evidence-based system of care that goes beyond beds. Each recommendation is drawn from data and is illustrated by the story of a fictional person. The ten recommendations address the vital continuum, terminology, criminal and juvenile justice diversion, emergency treatment practices, psychiatric beds, data-driven solutions, linkages, technology, workforce, and partnerships.
Keywords: crisis continuum; technology; criminal justice system; crisis response
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Crisis Services' Role in Reducing Avoidable Hospitalization (2017)
Produced By: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Supported By: Center for Mental Health Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Description: This resource explores how Magellan Health Services matched people to available and accessible crisis services, law enforcement as partners in mobile crisis services, follow-up after crisis, and the role of public health campaigns in the care continuum. Also, they examine the roles of technology and people with lived experience in crisis services, and how hospital collaboratives can reduce hospital readmissions.
Keywords: crisis continuum; mobile crisis teams; law enforcement; technology; lived experience
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Rethinking Behavioral Health Crisis Systems: Saving Lives, Saving Resources (2019) - Video
Produced By: Health Management Associates (HMA)
Description: This webinar explored the four key elements of a successful crisis system redesign: crisis prevention, early intervention, appropriate response, and improved post-crisis support. It discusses strategies and approaches to achieve a reimagined crisis response system where law enforcement, health professionals, and community members to collaborate to respond to crises.
Keywords: crisis continuum
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Behavioral Health Crisis Services - Models and Issues (2018)
Produced By: Health Management Associates (HMA)
Description: This resource describes different behavioral health crisis response models, including standalone behavioral health crisis centers; mobile crisis teams; co-located, dedicated behavioral health emergency services unit; and behavioral health staffing in hospital EDs. It also discusses challenges and strategies for moving forward.
Keywords: crisis continuum; community responder models
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A Continuum of Behavioral Health Crisis Services (2015)
Produced By: Suicide Prevention Resource Center
Supported By: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Description: This one-page resource describes the five core crisis services in the crisis continuum: 23-hour crisis stabilization or observation; short-term, crisis residential stabilization; mobile crisis teams; crisis hotlines; and peer crisis services.
Keywords: crisis continuum
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Communities Must Have All Core Crisis Elements to Reach People Most in Need (2022)
Produced By: Crisis Talk
Description: This resource discusses the need for a full continuum of crisis services to divert people from the criminal justice system and the emergency department. It also discusses how in many communities, crisis services are piecemeal or non-existing, resulting in law enforcement being the primary mental health first responder.
Keywords: 988; crisis call centers; mobile crisis teams; crisis continuum
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Produced By: Vera Institute of Justice
Supported By: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Description: This literature review is a first step toward creating a research agenda for the field that identifies knowledge gaps and prioritizes options for scalable research and evaluation. This summary of the published research to date provides an overview of nine types of police-based and related emergency response models that have received some research attention, as well as the methodological approaches used to evaluate them and their results.
Keywords: Intellectual and developmental disabilities; mental illness; crisis services; research
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National Advancements in Crisis Services: Defining and Refining Community Responder Roles (2021)
Produced By: The Council of State Governments Justice Center; University of Cincinnati
Supported By: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Description: Crisis services have recently been spotlighted as a critical way to improve individual health and public safety while using resources more wisely. This session introduces core components of effective crisis services in diverse communities, including the new opportunities available through 988. Speakers discuss how law enforcement, behavioral health, and hospital systems can work together with community members to establish and operate responsive crisis services.
Keywords: Diversion; crisis continuum; 988
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A Unified Vision for Transforming Mental Health and Substance Use Care
Produced By: Mental Health America; American Psychiatric Association; The Kennedy Forum; Massachusetts Association for Mental Health; Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute; National Alliance on Mental Illness; National Council for Behavioral Health; One Mind; Pegs Foundation; Steinberg Institute; Treatment Advocacy Center; Wellbeing Trust
Description: Mental Health America (MHA) and 11 other national organizations joined together to call on the need for collective action to advance mental health and substance use disorder care in the United States. It discusses emergency and crisis response, including goals and possible pathways for success.
Keywords: Crisis response; mobile crisis team; 988; diversion; crisis continuum
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Produced By: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Supported By: Center for Mental Health Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Description: This resource discusses other countries' examples of successful and promising strategies across multiple areas, including big data, access to effective medication and therapies, supported decision-making, culture and spirituality integrated into mental health care, continuity of care, emerging models to identify targeted inpatient bed needs, alternatives to incarceration, disaster response, and mental health as public health.
Keywords: continuity of care; alternatives to incarceration; data
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Position Statement 59: Responding to Behavioral Health Crises (2017)
Produced By: Mental Health America
Description: This resource is a position statement discussing issues with a lack of appropriate systems in place to respond to behavioral health crises. It also discusses alternative response models, mobile crisis response teams, peer-run crisis respite, psychiatric urgent care clinics, crisis intervention teams, the co-responder model, and the benefits of alternative response models. It ends with a call to action providing recommendations for communities.
Keywords: Crisis continuum; mobile crisis teams; Crisis Intervention Team (CIT); co-responder teams; peer-run crisis respite
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Crisis Residential Best Practices Handbook (2018)
Produced By: TBD Solutions
Description: This handbook is designed to provide insights and perspectives on how providers and communities are delivering behavioral health care in innovative ways to people experiencing a crisis, specifically discussing crisis residential programs. The handbook provides data from workgroup participants' structured responses and anecdotes; participants included over 150 crisis providers, administrators, and payers from 45 states.
Keywords: crisis residential programs
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National Council Magazine 2016 Issue 1 - Crisis to Recovery (2016)
Produced By: National Council Magazine
Description: This 2016 issue of the National Council Magazine includes many articles on crisis response, including lessons from leadership, crisis systems of care, coordination of law enforcement, and engaging the peer workforce.
Keywords: crisis continuum
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Taking the Lead: Investing in Community Crisis Response/Continuum
Produced By: Crisis Now; National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Supported By: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Description: This resource include recommendations from the participants at the 2nd Crisis Now Global Summit on Urgent & Emergency Mental Health Care in Washington, DC September 2019.
Keywords: crisis continuum
Practice Guidelines: Core Elements in Responding to Mental Health Crises (2009)
Produced By: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Description: This resource provides crisis guidelines to (1) ensure that mental health crisis interventions are guided by standards consistent with recovery and resilience and; 2) replace today’s largely reactive and cyclical approach to mental health crises with one that works toward reducing the likelihood of future emergencies and produces better outcomes.
Keywords: crisis response; mental health; best practices; standards
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Produced By: Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee (ISMICC) members
Description: This resource is the 2017 Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee (ISMICC) Report to Congress and includes information presented in the first ISMICC meeting in August 2017 and from ongoing dialogue with the ISMICC members. It sets the stage for the work by the ISMICC moving forward. The report discusses the needs of Americans living with serious mental illnesses (SMI) and serious emotional disturbances (SED), improving practices for people living with SMI and SED, and recommendations from non-federal members.
Keywords: diversion, crisis continuum​​
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Priority 3 Video ft. Brian Hepburn
Produced By: National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention
Description: A video featuring National Response priority 3 lead, Dr. Brian Hepburn, the Executive Director of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, discussing the importance of increasing use of non-punitive and supportive crisis intervention services.
Keywords: Crisis continuum
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Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project (2002)
Produced By: Council of State Governments, Police Executive Research Forum, Pretrial Services Resource Center, the Association of State Correctional Administrators, and the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Supported By: Office of Justice Programs; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA); van Ameringen Foundation, the Melville Charitable Trust, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Open Society Institute, and Pfizer, Inc. and Eli Lilly, Inc.
Description: The goal of this project has been to elicit ideas from
some of the most respected criminal justice and mental health practitioners in the United States, to develop recommendations that reflect a consensus among seemingly opposing viewpoints, and to disseminate these findings widely so they can make the greatest possible impact on a national problem that affects every community. Throughout the project, every effort has been made to provide concrete, practical approaches that can be tailored to the unique needs of each community.
Keywords: mental health; mobile crisis teams, crisis intervention teams; crisis response models
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II. Case Studies
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Milwaukee County on Providing the Right Care at the Right Place and at the Right Time (2022)
Produced By: Crisis Talk
Description: This resource discusses crisis services in the continuum in Milwaukee County, including a crisis line, mobile crisis services, crisis stabilization services, and a statewide crisis call center.
Keywords: crisis continuum; crisis call centers; mobile crisis teams; crisis stabilization
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Produced By: Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
Description: An ongoing concern of today's law enforcement agencies is how to manage officers' increasingly frequent contact with individuals experiencing a mental health crisis and how to do so safely, effectively, and with compassion. To identify best practices, the COPS Office provided funding to the Park Ridge (Illinois) Police Department to pilot a whole-community approach to mental health that extends efforts beyond crisis intervention team training. Together with a team comprising community stakeholders and members of the regional healthcare system, the department worked to expand community engagement and streamline responses to mental health crisis by identifying effective new strategies. This case study tells Park Ridge's story, highlighting lessons learned, sharing promising practices, and identifying opportunities for further exploration and collaboration.
Keywords: Crisis Intervention Team (CIT); co-responder team; dispatch
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Produced By: National League of Cities
Supported By: Arnold Ventures
Description: The broad goal of this project is to provide a resource to help city leaders implement effective strategies for emergency response and crisis stabilization for individuals experiencing mental illness, substance use disorder and/or homelessness. City leaders may adapt the strategies to address specific challenges related to these areas. It provides example case studies of different types of programs.
Keywords: mental health; substance use; crisis stabilization; homelessness; homeless outreach team; co-responder team
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B'More Kind: A City's Response to Crisis (2020) - Video
Produced By: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Description: This video examines the work of Baltimore's Crisis Response team. In particular, it looks at their holistic crisis response that includes mental health professionals, police officers, EMTs, and volunteers. It discusses homeless outreach teams and co-responder teams.
Keywords: case study; Baltimore; crisis response; co-responder team; homeless outreach team
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Produced By: National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Supported By: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Description: The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD, located in one of the most diverse communities in the United States, Houston, Texas, has a long history of effective and innovative collaboration with first responders. Some of our most recent innovations include the CORE program which is a strategy of responding to mental health crisis calls using a tablet and a HIPAA-approved technology platform to connect a law enforcement first responder with a mental health clinician in the community at the time of the 911 dispatch. This session explored how The Harris Center coordinated with first responder partners to bring these programs to fruition.
Keywords: Sequential Intercept Model; diversion; homeless outreach teams; co-responder team; crisis continuum
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Produced By: National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Description: In part three of the webinar series, experts from Georgia’s Behavioral Health Link and Arizona’s Connections Health Solutions provide overviews of two models of community crisis response that have proven effective.
Keywords: Mobile crisis teams; crisis line; crisis response center; crisis continuum
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Produced By: National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Description: In part four of the webinar series, community experts provide an overview of the crisis model being developed and implemented in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, and will offer background on how to get started locally on implementation of a new crisis system.
Keywords: Strategic planning; crisis continuum
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Clermont County, Ohio's Mental Health and Criminal Justice Collaboration Policy (2015)
Produced By: Clermont County Mental Health and Recovery Board
Description: This resource is a sample policy from Clermont County (OH) that discusses crisis hotline protocols; mobile crisis responder protocols, including mobile crisis public referral, mobile crisis law enforcement referral, law enforcement referral for additional follow-up, transport to hospital, direct admission, and medical clearance needed; and jail/court liasion position protocols, duties, and responsibilities.
Keywords: crisis hotlines; mobile crisis team; crisis continuum
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III. COVID-19 and Crisis Response
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Produced By: CIT International
Description: CIT International sent out a link to a survey asking how your communities are adjusting mental health crisis response in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Keywords: Mental Health, crisis response; COVID-19
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Disaster Behavioral Health Through the Lens of COVID-19 (2021)
Produced By: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Supported By: Center for Mental Health Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Description: This resource reviews the history and framework of emergency planning and response related to COVID-19. It also recommends how to best incorporate behavioral health responses into future disaster emergency planning.
Keywords: COVID-19; disaster behavioral health