23-Hour Crisis Stabilization

23-Hour Crisis Stabilization is a program that consists of a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals providing treatment services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The program provides an ongoing assessment, crisis intervention, and a clinical determination of the appropriate level of care for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis. Services are provided for a period of up to 23 hours in a community or center-based setting. Services are accessible 24/7 and allow individuals who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis to be in a safe environment for observation and assessment.

Services are provided to individuals who have urgent behavioral health needs including but not limited to:

• Significant emotional dysregulation
• Disordered thought processes
• Substance use and intoxication resulting in behavioral crisis and environmentally de-stabilizing events

Services include, but are not limited to:

• Individualized treatment planning
• Individual and family therapy
• Nursing on-site 24/7
• Skill restoration/development
• Health literacy counseling
• Psycho-educational interventions
• Psychiatric evaluation
• Crisis intervention
• Care coordination