This is Emergency Services as its Defined on a Community Services Boards' Web Site

Emergency Services/Crisis Counseling is a State mandated program. This unit provides short-term crisis counseling and referrals to individuals on an emergency basis. Emergency and crisis response services include: telephone interventions; face-to-face assessments and evaluation (including pre-admission screening); psychiatric consultation and other clinical consultation about mental health, substance abuse, and special populations which include children, adolescents, geriatric, people with mental retardation, and individuals involved in the forensic system. Emergency Services/Crisis Counseling is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Everything on this website has been thoroughly examined, reviewed, evaluated, and ultimately approved by The Citizens’ Committee for the Advancement of Rational Thought and Actions in Virginia's Mental Health System….


Things Sure Aren't What They Used to be..Conditions Sure Have Changed

coming soon........

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Where Can a Person be Evaluated?

Just about anywhere. Typically will be at their residence, "on the street" usually at the request of the police, hospitals, jail (rarely), schools, juvenile detention, halfway houses, adult residential facilities, emergency rooms, nursing homes, churches.... Where won't a person be evaluated? Sort of case-by-case decision; however, just about unheard of to go to a person's place of business unless the request is by the employer.
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