The Program:
The Mobile Crisis Team is operated by Sheppard Pratt Health System to respond to mental health emergencies in Harford County at locations of occurance, such as homes, places of work, schools, and emergency rooms. Teams of specially-trained mental health clinicians provide on site assessments and crisis stabilization through therapeutic interventions. The purpose of the program is to avert unnecessary visits to hospital emergency rooms and subsequent hospitalization of persons experiencing mental health crises and to provide access to more appropriate, effective and economical care in the community utilizing other resources such as outpatient counseling and rehabilitative services. Additionally, services are provided to persons with mental illnesses who are unwilling or unable to seek outpatient services and to law enforcement officers encountering psychiatric emergencies.

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