Common use of Community Crisis Apartments Clause in Contracts

Community Crisis Apartments. i. Consistent with its Ten-Year Plan, the State will develop and implement the measures set forth below to expand short-term community crisis beds and to involve peers in providing crisis services and supports. These measures are in addition to crisis apartments that already have been established, which will be maintained by the State. ii. As an alternative to hospitalization and/or institutionalization, the State will expand its community network of crisis apartments in the regions served by the mobile crisis teams described above, where individuals can stay for a limited time to receive crisis services and interventions in the community before returning home. In all other regions, the State shall, at a minimum, maintain its current crisis system, including existing crisis beds, or implement mobile crisis teams. iii. Crisis apartments will be operated with sufficient clinical support and oversight, and peer staffing, as is reasonably necessary to prevent unnecessary institutionalization. Each crisis apartment will have peer staff and clinical staff available to be onsite, 24 hours per day, seven days per week, whenever necessary, to meet individualized needs. iv. Individual stays at a crisis apartment will be limited to seven days. v. The crisis apartments will have sufficient dedicated staff capacity to meet the needs of the individuals served at each apartment. vi. Each crisis apartment will provide transportation for individuals from the site of the crisis to the apartment, and to their home or other residential setting after stabilization has occurred.