Crisis Response

B16 - Home, School and Community: Customizing Crisis Response to Meet the Needs of Children, Youth, Young Adults and their Families

Monday, May 1, 2023

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM

Location: 403 A, Level 2, LACC

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None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Relias, LLC and National Council for Mental Wellbeing guarantee this educational conference is free from bias.

Workshop Presenter(s)

Elizabeth Manley, LSW (she/her/hers)

Senior Advisory, Health and Behavioral Health Policy
Innovations Institute at UConn School of Social Work
Hartford, Connecticut

Slides
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Hazeline Pilgrim, MSW

Executive Director
Family Support Organization of Essex County
East Orange, New Jersey

Children, youth, and young adults have unique needs when experiencing a behavioral health crisis. Customizing crisis services for children recognizes that caregivers and children are interconnected in their relationship and that crisis situations for children significantly impact the parent/caregiver. The role of family/caregivers is essential to address the unique needs of youth and meet the sense of urgency that families experience is an essential component of a customization for children. Learn more about strategies that support providing age-appropriate crisis services and provide an overview of best practices.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the key elements of a customized children's crisis system.
Identify the importance of a child-specific assessment as a foundation of mobile response and stabilization services.
Discover the essential strategies in shifting culture within the workforce.
Describe the role of data collection with the implementation and sustainability framework.
Identify key strategies for standing up new interventions.