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Provides short-term care with 24-hour supervision in a residential setting for youth (ages 12-18) experiencing an acute mental health, behavioral health or substance use issue that requires more than a visit to the pediatrician, but less than a trip to the emergency room.

The program offers intervention and support for both the family and the youth to stabilize the current situation and plan for the future. This program is not available to youth who are system involved through the Department of Human Services (DHS) or the Juvenile Court System.

If you live in the following counties, please reach out to the Mason City location, (641) 423-7362:
Allamakee, Black Hawk, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton, Emmet, Fayette, Floyd, Grundy, Hancock, Howard, Humboldt, Mitchell, Pocahontas, Tama, Webster, Winneshiek, Wright

If you live in the following counties, please reach out to the Ames location, (515) 233-2330:
Audubon, Boone, Clark, Dallas, Decatur, Franklin, Greene, Guthrie, Hardin, Hamilton, Jasper, Lucas, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Story, Warren, Wayne

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In Person Crisis Intervention
Crisis Residential Treatment

Filing of mental health board petitions for involuntary commitment to a mental health hospital.

-- The patient must be dangerous as well as mentally ill.

-- There must be an overt act of dangerousness to the patient or to someone else occurring within the last three months.

-- There must be information establishing mental illness.

-- Subject must be found in Douglas County at time Petition is filed.

The Petition will be presented to the Deputy County Attorney to determine if there is sufficient evidence of dangerous acts and mental illness for approval of the filing of the Petition.

Petitioner and other witnesses may have to appear at the commitment hearing to give sworn testimony to the evidence of dangerousness to self or others as well as mental illness. The subject and his/her attorney will be present. Failure to appear might result in the dismissal of the Petition.

-- A Public Defender will be appointed to represent the subject if he/she is indigent.

-- The only testimony permitted to be introduced at the hearing is first hand information. No hearsay evidence can be introduced.

-- The commitment hearing will be held within 7 days after patient is admitted to hospital.

-- Commitment by the Board of Mental Health is for persons who refuse voluntary treatment.

-- The Board of Mental Health does not commit persons solely on the basis of having an intellectual or cognitive disability.

-- The Board of Mental Health does not pay for the care of patients or pay for the Physician while subject is in the hospital.

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Categories

General Counseling Services
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
General Psychiatry
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Medication Assisted Maintenance Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Psychiatric Medication Services
Life Skills Education
Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Categories

General Counseling Services
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
General Psychiatry
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Medication Assisted Maintenance Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Psychiatric Medication Services
Life Skills Education
Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Categories

General Counseling Services
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
General Psychiatry
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Medication Assisted Maintenance Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Psychiatric Medication Services
Life Skills Education
Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Categories

General Counseling Services
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
General Psychiatry
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Medication Assisted Maintenance Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Psychiatric Medication Services
Life Skills Education
Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment

Crisis team (Engagement Specialist and Crisis Counselor) provide mobile crisis response.

-- On-site counseling.

-- Mental health evaluation.

-- Assess the need for psychiatric hospitalization.

Short term inpatient stabilization (average length of stay 7 days) to acutely mentally ill persons in crisis who require emergency protective custody and psychiatric supervision. Priority is given to persons in the Region V service area.

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Involuntary Psychiatric Intervention
Inpatient Mental Health Facilities
Offers behavioral health and psychiatric services to all children and adolescents. Services include child/adolescent therapy, substance use disorder services/addiction treatment, family therapy, crisis services, Mobile Crisis Response Team, Care Coordination and Wraparound supports, and school based services.

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Child Guidance
Autism Therapy
In Person Crisis Intervention
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Adolescent/Youth Counseling

SASS provides the following services for children and youth:

-- Crisis intervention.

-- Short-term stabilization where a child is at risk of self-harm, or harming others.

-- Individual and family psychotherapy/counseling.

-- Mental health assessment.

-- Case management and resource linkage assistance.

-- Psychiatric services.

Categories

Mental Health Evaluation
Case/Care Management
General Psychiatry
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Suicide Counseling
In Person Crisis Intervention
Elected public prosecutor for Lancaster County prosecutes those who are accused by the police of violating the state criminal code. In order to file a criminal case the prosecutor must believe there is sufficient evidence of the accused's guilt to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.

Advises county elected officials on legal matters, conducts the county's civil litigation, enforces child support orders, and files petitions relating to mentally ill persons. No legal advice or representation is provided to individual citizens in private legal matters.

Bad check prosecution of individuals for writing or passing insufficient funds, no account, or forged checks. Aids businesses in reducing the number of bad checks received through education. Businesses or individuals can submit checks to Diversion Services, 4435 "O" Street, Suite 96, Lincoln, NE 68510, (402) 483-4444, for criminal prosecution of the offender.

Domestic violence prosecutions of offenders of domestic abuse, and assists victims of such violence in prosecuting their cases in court. Appropriate referrals are made to social service agencies.

Juvenile Division prosecutes law violations committed by juveniles, including truancy cases. Brings abuse and neglect cases against parents before the separate Juvenile Court, and files termination of parental rights cases in appropriate situations.

Mental health commitments are initiated through the County Attorney. Mental health proceedings to involuntary commit persons alleged to be mentally ill and dangerous to themselves or others, and who have refused voluntary treatment for their mental illness.

Collects delinquent child support payments under existing divorce decrees, including contempt proceedings, garnishments, tax intercept, wage assignments, and reciprocal enforcement actions for other jurisdictions.

Establishes paternity, including blood testing, settlements, and trials, if necessary.

Obtains child support orders and modifications in appropriate situations.

Categories

Public Counsel
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Genetic Testing and Screening
Involuntary Psychiatric Intervention

SASS provides the following services for children and youth:

-- Crisis intervention.

-- Short-term stabilization where a child is at risk of self-harm, or harming others.

-- Individual and family psychotherapy/counseling.

-- Mental health assessment.

-- Case management and resource linkage assistance.

-- Psychiatric services.

Categories

In Person Crisis Intervention
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Mental Health Evaluation
Suicide Counseling

SASS provides the following services for children and youth:

-- Crisis intervention.

-- Short-term stabilization where a child is at risk of self-harm, or harming others.

-- Individual and family psychotherapy/counseling.

-- Mental health assessment.

-- Case management and resource linkage assistance.

-- Psychiatric services.

Categories

In Person Crisis Intervention
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Mental Health Evaluation
Suicide Counseling
Offers behavioral health and psychiatric services to all children and adolescents. Services include child/adolescent therapy, substance use disorder services/addiction treatment, family therapy, crisis services, Mobile Crisis Response Team, Care Coordination and Wraparound supports, and school based services.

Categories

Child Guidance
Autism Therapy
In Person Crisis Intervention
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Adolescent/Youth Counseling

Crisis team (Engagement Specialist and Crisis Counselor) providing mobile crisis response.

-- On-site counseling.

-- Mental health evaluation.

-- Assesses the need for psychiatric hospitalization.

-- Community referrals and linkages.

-- Post crisis follow-ups.

Categories

In Person Crisis Intervention
Suicide Prevention Hotlines
Mental Health Evaluation
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
General Counseling Services
Mental Health Information/Education
Offers behavioral health and psychiatry services to any adult in need. Services include individual therapy, adult couple therapy, substance use disorder services/addiction treatment, crisis services, assertive community treatment (ACT), intensive psychiatric rehabilitation, community based services, care team, wraparound services, and Mobile Crisis Response Team.

Categories

Assertive Community Treatment
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
DUI Offender Programs
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Sex Offender Counseling
Mental Health Evaluation
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
In Person Crisis Intervention
Psychiatric Medication Services
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
General Counseling Services
Subacute inpatient psychiatric treatment for adults; voluntary, evaluation and treatment of acute symptoms of psychiatric disorders and co-occuring disorders.

Emergency protective custody for those age 19 and over, involuntary. Evaluation and treatment of acute symptoms, initiated by law enforcement personnel in Region 3.

Day psychiatric program, adult partial hospitalization.

Psychiatric home health provides in-home nursing assessment, occupational therapy to assess functional skills, psychology to assist with behavior plans for caregivers, and social work to provide in-home psychotherapy.

Categories

Psychiatric Medication Services
Psychiatric Day Treatment
Home Based Mental Health Services
Involuntary Psychiatric Intervention
Inpatient Mental Health Facilities

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Categories

General Counseling Services
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
General Psychiatry
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Medication Assisted Maintenance Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Psychiatric Medication Services
Life Skills Education
Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Categories

General Counseling Services
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
General Psychiatry
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Medication Assisted Maintenance Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Psychiatric Medication Services
Life Skills Education
Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Categories

General Counseling Services
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
General Psychiatry
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Medication Assisted Maintenance Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Psychiatric Medication Services
Life Skills Education
Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Categories

General Counseling Services
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
General Psychiatry
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Medication Assisted Maintenance Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Psychiatric Medication Services
Life Skills Education
Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment

Provides the following services for children and youth:

-- Crisis intervention.

-- Short-term stabilization where a child is at risk of self-harm, or harming others.

-- Individual and family psychotherapy/counseling.

-- Mental health assessment.

-- Case management and resource linkage assistance.

-- Psychiatric services.

Categories

In Person Crisis Intervention
Psychiatric Disorder Counseling
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Suicide Counseling
Mental Health Evaluation
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines

Crisis intervention for runaway, locked-out, homeless, and ungovernable youth.

-- Ensures youth receives emergency psychiatric or substance abuse treatment if needed.

-- Follow-up care plan for youths reunited with family.

-- Short-term or long-term placements if reunification is not immediately possible.

Categories

In Person Crisis Intervention
Runaway/Homeless Youth Counseling
Youth Shelters

Crisis team (Engagement Specialist and Crisis Counselor) provide mobile crisis response.

-- On-site counseling.

-- Mental health evaluation.

-- Assess the need for psychiatric hospitalization.

Assists adults and youth who are in a crisis - suicidal, homicidal, and/or psychotic. The Crisis Responder will screen all crisis calls to assess the severity of the problem. If the Crisis Responder identifies the problem as severe, the Crisis Responder will contact the Licensed Mental Health Therapist on call to request a crisis assessment be conducted face to face.

The program is designed to prevent hospitalizations and Emergency Protective Custody by wrapping appropriate services around the client to allow him/her the opportunity to remain in the community.

Categories

Suicide Prevention Hotlines
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
In Person Crisis Intervention