Resource Tag: MOBILE EMERGENCY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
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A Process Evaluation of the Suicide Prevention Component at the Saskatoon Mobile Crisis Intervention Service
The executive director of the Mobile Crisis Intervention Service (MCIS) Commissioned a process evaluation to document non-mandated. It was decided to focus the evaluation on the suicide intervention/prevention/postvention services of MCIS. The goals of the evaluation were to document the current procedure employed by the staff to identify, assess and intervene in a suicide related […]
Mobile Crisis Services, Inc.
Adolescent Suicide Awareness & Prevention Project Newsletter for April 1993. Includes: updated statistics for Mobile Crisis Services of Regina; rationale behind Case Management Services, and a description of training opportunities offered in 1993 in the Regina area.
A Mobile Crisis Program: Collaboration Between Emergency Psychiatric Services and Police
An emergency psychiatry-mobile crisis program was established in 1987 in Charleston, South Carolina. The program has 2 goals: to provide emergency psychiatric services to persons in the community & to train psychiatric residents in crisis intervention. The authors describe the development of the collaboration with police & important features of the program. 3 cases, including […]
Crisis Screening and Diversion Services
In Hawaii, crisis intervention services have become an increasingly pressing concern of the mental health and substance abuse systems. Since 1983, the Crisis Response System Project (CRSP) provided mobile crisis intervention services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This paper describes the community’s utilization of CRSP services, with special emphasis on the seriously […]
The Mobile Unit: A New Approach in Mental Health
A full description of the Mobile Crisis Intervention & Suicidal Prevention Unit of the Lincoln Community Mental Health Center in the Bronx is presented. This unit has proved itself successful in handling most of the crisis situations encountered in this impoverished community. An analysis of the results & the factors responsible in obtaining these results […]
Emergency Psychology: A Mobile Service for Police Crisis Calls
Describes a new 24-hour, 7 day/week emergency treatment centre that backs up 10 police departments in northern California to provide help to people who are experiencing psychological emergencies such as violent family fights, suicide attempts & severe emotional disturbance, & to any crisis call involving adolescents. The population of the area served is approximately 750,000, […]