Suicide Prevention project, funded by counties through the California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA), is helping to establish programs such as these. A Warm Line may be integrated with a Crisis Hotline. This enhances early identification and intervention in crisis situations. As a result, it promotes community education and prevention so that people get services before a crisis worsens. Walk-In Clinic/Center and Crisis Stabilization Programs California Law recognizes the need for comprehensive evaluation and assessment that includes is not limited to, evaluation of and “but assessment of physical and mental health, income support, housing, vocational training and employment, and social support service needs.” Assessment can be provided offsite through mobile services, or at a walk-in clinic or center. The latter refers to an program that provides “outpatient” one-time and short-term (less than 24-hours) urgent and crisis mental health services, which include assessment, linkage to ongoing mental health services and community resources and medication evaluations. This could be a clinic where people can go at designated hours for crisis and other counseling, as well as referral to other crisis alternatives. Walk-in programs are convenient and readily accessible. People may not have calendars or smart phones to keep track of scheduled appointments, so they have ready access to assistance when needed rather than being required to wait for the next available appointment. Exodus Recovery has 23-hour Urgent Care Centers in Los Angeles. are described as welcoming environment where individuals in “a crisis can be assessed for stabilization services, medication evaluation and management, or hospitalization if necessary.” The centers are and available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, “open on a walk-in basis.” Fresno County has opened an Urgent Care Wellness Center. The program is described as follows: urgent care services for up “Delivers to 90 days. Services include crisis evaluation and intervention, medications, individual/group therapy, and linkage to other appropriate services. The program expanded to include evening
Suicide Prevention project, funded by counties through the California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA), is helping to establish programs such as these. A Warm Line may be integrated with a Crisis Hotline. This enhances early identification and intervention in crisis situations. As a result, it promotes community education and prevention so that people get services before a crisis worsens. Walk-In Clinic/Center and Crisis Stabilization Programs California Law recognizes the need for comprehensive evaluation and assessment that includes “but is not limited to, evaluation of and assessment of physical and mental health, income support, housing, vocational training and employment, and social support service needs.” Assessment can be provided offsite through mobile services, or at a walk-in clinic or center. The latter refers to an “outpatient” program that provides one-time and short-term (less than 24-hours) urgent and crisis mental health services, which include assessment, linkage to ongoing mental health services and community resources and medication evaluations. This could be a clinic where people can go at designated hours for crisis and other counseling, as well as referral to other crisis alternatives. Walk-in programs are convenient and readily accessible. People may not have calendars or smart phones to keep track of scheduled appointments, so they have ready access to assistance when needed rather than being required to wait for the next available appointment. Exodus Recovery has 23-hour Urgent Care Centers in Los Angeles. are described as “a welcoming environment where individuals in crisis can be assessed for stabilization services, medication evaluation and management, or hospitalization if necessary.” The centers are “open and available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, on a walk-in basis.” Fresno County has opened an Urgent Care Wellness Center. The program is described as follows: “Delivers urgent care services for up to 90 days. Services include crisis evaluation and intervention, medications, individual/group therapy, and linkage to other appropriate services. The program expanded to include evening