Mental Health Services - Southeast Minnesota Adult Mental Health Initiative - Rochester

Crisis response offered through a partnership between Hiawatha Valley Mental Health Center, Olmsted County Crisis Response Team, and Spero. Counselors help individuals reach a place of emotional and physical safety, and then direct the them to community resources that offer longer-term support. They also provide over the phone assessments, safety plans and support. Counselors connect individuals to local teams able to meet the individual where they are and provide additional support. Mobile teams complete confidential comprehensive crisis assessments. A crisis assessment is an immediate, face-to-face evaluation by 2 crisis-trained mental health practitioners consulting with a mental health professional.​The assessment helps do the following:

- Assess current risks and life events

- Assess level of functioning

- Assess mental health symptoms

- Assess the protective factors that the individual has available in the crisis

- Assess mental health symptoms

- Provide a support network

- Take into account cultural considerations

Provides immediate intervention to aid the individual in relieving current symptoms of the mental health crisis. Teams may provide the following services as deemed therapeutically appropriate:

- Coordination with other local providers

- Development of coping skills

- Education

- Means removal

- Referrals to crisis residential services if available

- Referrals to emergency departments

- Safety planning

- Situational deescalation