Presented by: Michael Kennedy, MFT Director. Psychiatric Emergency Services 24/7 availability Access...

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Presented by:Michael Kennedy, MFTDirector

Psychiatric Emergency Services

• 24/7 availability

• Access to Crisis Stabilization Crisis Residential Services Inpatient Hospitalization Ongoing outpatient Services

Crisis Assessment, Prevention, and Education Team

CAPE Team staff provide mobile response at 8 Sonoma County high schools and

Santa Rosa Junior College

Community Intervention Program Providing mobile services to

Sonoma County’s most vulnerable populations:

• People who are homeless• People who abuse

substances• Veterans

• People of Color• People who experienced

recent psychiatric hospitalization

Mobile Support Team

Responding behavioral health crisis call to law enforcement

• Staffed by licensed mental health staff, certified

substance abuse counselors & post – graduate interns

• Follow up services provided by mental health consumer

and family members• Start up scheduled for

March 2012

Community Intervention Training• 8 Trainings completed

since 2008• over 210 law enforcement

officers trained• Full participation from all law enforcement agencies

countywide

Crisis Residential Unit• Alternative to psychiatric in-

patient hospitalization

• 10 - bed psychiatric crisis residential treatment

program

• Provides intensive 24-hour therapeutic environments

Coming June 2012Aurora Behavioral

Health

• 93 - bed psychiatric inpatient hospital

• Serving adults,

adolescents, and geriatric clients

Forensic Assertive Community Treatment Team & Mental Health

Court• Intensive services to adult mentally ill offenders

• Referrals directly from jail

• Probation conditions supervised by an embedded probation officer

• Positive outcomes include:

82% decrease in jail days48% reduction in hospitalizations

60% reduction in FTAs86% reduction in convictions

95% reduction in new felonies