Common use of Crisis Service System Clause in Contracts

Crisis Service System. 1. The State will develop a crisis system that: (a) is available 24 hours per day, seven days per week; (b) provides timely and accessible services and supports to individuals with mental illness (including those with co-occurring substance abuse disorders) who are experiencing a mental health crisis; (c) stabilizes individuals as quickly as practicable and assists them in returning to their pre-crisis level of functioning; (d) provides interventions to avoid unnecessary hospitalization, incarceration, and/or Designated Receiving Facility, Acute Psychiatric Residential Treatment Program, emergency room, or nursing home admission; (e) provides services and supports at the site of the crisis, including at the individual’s residence; and (f) promptly assesses individual needs, identifies the services and supports that are necessary to meet those needs, and connects the individual to those services and supports in a timely manner.