Recommendations to Improve Children’s Mental Health Crisis Services CMHP Crisis Task Force Report 112018 | Page 3

Table of Contents
Executive Summary ...................................................................................................................................... 3
Introduction: Building Health & Well-Being for Our Children ...................................................................... 6
The Challenges We Face in Austin and Travis County .................................................................................. 7
Our Community Collaborates to Improve the Health & Well-being of Our Children ................................. 10
Our Community Identifies Ways to Create a System that Builds Health & Well-Being ............................. 12
Recommendation #1: Improve coordination and communication across systems ................................... 13
Recommendation #2: Single Comprehensive Point of Entry ...................................................................... 15
Recommendation #3: Expand home and community-based intervention services ................................... 18
#3.1 Expand the scope of mobile crisis response ................................................................................... 19
#3.2 Provide intensive community-based crisis intervention ................................................................ 21
#3.3 Expand Wraparound Care ............................................................................................................... 23
#3.4 Increase family and youth peer support services ........................................................................... 25
#3.5 Crisis respite .................................................................................................................................... 27
Recommendation #4: Expand access to partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient services ........... 28
Recommendation #5: Residential crisis stabilization ................................................................................. 29
Appendix A: Children's Mental Health Crisis Task Force Meetings ............................................................ 30
Appendix B: Map of Current Mental Health Crisis System ......................................................................... 33
Appendix C: Map of the Crisis System We Want ........................................................................................ 35
Appendix D: Definitions .............................................................................................................................. 37
End notes .................................................................................................................................................... 39
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