Crisis Care and Service Systems Part 1 SAMHSAs National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care Best Practice Toolkit

Course overview

This course is part of a 3 course series on Crisis Care and Service Systems Substance abuse and mental illness crisis situations occur in all communities. This series presents SAMHSAs national guidelines and best practices for crisis care, which can be used to strengthen crisis care and reduce the impact of substance abuse, acute mental illness, and suicide in America. The courses in this Crisis Care and Service Systems series are: SAMHSAs National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care: Best Practice Toolkit Crisis Services Implementation and Infrastructure Crisis Care for Different Populations Crisis mental health care in the United States is currently inconsistent and inadequate. Good crisis care is widely recognized as an effective strategy for preventing suicide, resolving mental health and substance use crises, reducing the use of emergency departments to board patients in psychiatric crisis, improving mental healthcare provision, and shifting reliance away from law enforcement and the justice systems to manage psychiatric emergencies. SAMSHSAs National Guidelines for Behavior Health Crisis Care: Best Practice Toolkit presents best practice guidelines that reflect the standard of crisis care needed to prevent tragedies of public and patient safety. The purpose of this course is to support social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, counselors, program managers, and direct care providers working with-in crisis care systems in providing effective crisis care that follows a set of national guidelines. Clinicians can apply the best practice guidelines in this course as they offer universal access to the most appropriate services, supports, and resources to individuals experiencing mental health and substance use emergencies. This system focused learning material also offers providers with crisis system capacity modeling tools that can estimate crisis service needs. Other topics covered include and are not limited to tips for implementation, funding, and evaluation of system and provider performance. For information about our unlimited plan visit www.ce4less.com