Connecticut’s Mobile Crisis Intervention Services, (formerly known as EMPS), provides children’s mental health crisis services free of charge to all children in Connecticut through a network of 14
Trained mental health clinicians are available 24/7/365 to be dispatched to homes, schools, and community locations to provide in-person crisis stabilization services and connections to ongoing care for children in Connecticut. CHDI serves as the Performance Improvement Center for the State’s Mobile Crisis Intervention Services through a contract with the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF).
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- Mobile Crisis Intervention Services partners with SBDI to respond and connect students with behavioral health needs to the appropriate community-based services and supports.
- Mobile Crisis Intervention Services is available to all Connecticut residents and can be accessed by dialing 2-1-1 and, at the prompt, pressing “1” for “crisis.”
- Callers are connected to a crisis specialist who triages the call and transfers to a local Mobile Crisis provider who gathers information in order to dispatch a trained mental health clinician to the location of the child/youth, including at school.
- Trained mental health clinicians are available to be dispatched to the home, school, or community for a face-to-face evaluation within 45 minutes – 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.
- Following the initial crisis, the clinician and other members of the Mobile Crisis team will meet with the family for up to six weeks, develop a Crisis Safety Plan, and connect them with additional mental and behavioral health resources within the community.