Emergency departments are seeing record numbers of children and adolescents in behavioral health crisis—often waiting hours or even days for appropriate care. Yet many of these youth could be safely and effectively treated in less restrictive, more therapeutic environments.
This session explores how health care organizations and community partners are building behavioral health crisis diversion programs that reroute young people from hospital emergency rooms to the right level of care at the right time. Case studies will showcase successful models for creating a continuum of care designed specifically for children and youth.
During this session, attendees will:
- Discover key components of an effective crisis service continuum for young people.
- Evaluate operational and staffing considerations unique to youth crisis services
- Identify partnership and funding strategies to support community-based crisis alternatives to ED care.