Thrive Advocates for Behavioral Health

01/27/2022

Thrive Advocates for Behavioral Health, Inc. is no longer operating. Please visit Aspire Advocates for Behavioral Health Learn more about this organization at www.aspireadvocates.org

01/27/2022

Mobile Crisis Teams
Mobile crisis teams go out into the community to begin the process of assessment and definitive
treatment outside of a hospital or health care facility. These teams include a psychiatrist available by
telephone or for in-person assessment as needed and clinically indicated. Mobile crisis services can be a
valuable part of a crisis service system, but they are not a singular solution.

https://www.healthmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/Behavioral-Health-Crisis-Services-Models-and-Issues-9-26-2018.pdf

01/27/2022

By July, the U.S. will switch to an expanded su***de hotline for which people can call a three-digit number — 988 — to get help. It’s also hoped that 988, not 911, will eventually become the number called when a person is experiencing a behavioral-health crisis.

https://www.nami.org/Press-Media/In-The-News/2021/A-new-su***de-hotline-988-will-launch-in-July-2022-and-offer-expanded-services?feed=In-the-news

NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

01/26/2022

There is general agreement that far too many persons with behavioral health (mental illness and/or
substance use disorder [SUD]) issues are arriving in hospital emergency departments (EDs) and not
being well served in that setting. The underlying issues interfering with the appropriate treatment of
persons in a behavioral health crisis are complex and many. There are many large service systems that
can be involved: physical health, emergency services, law enforcement, and certain community social
services, in addition to behavioral health. These service systems have their own points of entry (in many
cases multiple doors for the individual system) with great variation in the skills, training, and experience
of the person at the initial point of contact. There are obvious challenges around which agency should
take initial responsibility and how services are coordinated. Each situation requires a judgment about
who does what and when, as well as communication and coordination across systems and professionals.
Given the breadth of the behavioral health emergency response environment, there have been multiple
service configurations designed to improve the system. Since much of this capacity is still emerging,
evidence for the best approach to these services is very limited. Further, the different environments
(especially urban versus rural) and community resources may result in best practices that vary.

https://www.healthmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/Behavioral-Health-Crisis-Services-Models-and-Issues-9-26-2018.pdf

01/26/2022

Standalone Behavioral Health Crisis Centers
Crisis centers function like a behavioral health ED. They stabilize and assess persons in crisis in an
environment conducive to their needs, resulting in better outcomes. Fewer individuals require inpatient
psychiatric treatment, and referrals are made to more appropriate settings. Crisis centers are often
paired with crisis residential units that provide longer term services but short of psychiatric
hospitalization. There are a limited number of crisis centers in Michigan, two are operational and two
others are in the planning stage. Some point to the law which requires ambulances to transport
emergencies to hospital emergency departments (EDs) as a major impediment. While this is an issue,
there are many other obstacles to developing and sustaining crisis centers.

https://www.healthmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/Behavioral-Health-Crisis-Services-Models-and-Issues-9-26-2018.pdf

01/25/2022

Physical health and
mental health
live in the same body.
We have to stop treating
them as if they are
two separate things.

https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2019/06/Market_Insights-Behavioral_Health_Report.pdf

01/24/2022

Urgent Care: A Model For Behavioral Health Providers

We need more of these in every state.

The Hope Center will be the first program in North Carolina to bring together behavioral health urgent care and facility based crisis services for children and youth in a single facility.

https://www.healingmagazine.org/urgent-care-a-model-for-behavioral-health-providers/

As providers of mental and behavioral health we enter the field with the desire to serve, to give back, and foster wellness in our communities.

01/23/2022

Ozark Center opens first Urgent Care for Mental Health

https://www.ozarksfirst.com/local-news/local-news-local-news/urgent-care-for-mental-health-opening-in-southwest-missouri/

JOPLIN, Mo. — Southwest Missouri’s first and only urgent care for mental health will open in Joplin Thursday, Oct. 1. The Urgent Behavioral Solutions will be operated by Ozark Center, w…

01/22/2022

988 State Bill Tracking

See which states are preparing for the 988 Lifeline which goes into effect July 2022

01/21/2022

Sign petition for improved crisis services

Join the movement of people demanding our elected officials reimagine our mental health crisis system