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Connecticut's Mobile Crisis Intervention Services, (formerly known as EMPS), provides children's mental health crisis services free of charge to all children in Connecticut through a network of fourteen provider sites across the state. Trained mental health clinicians are deployed to homes, schools and community locations to provide in-person crisis stabilization services and linkage to ongoing care for children in Connecticut.
CHDI serves as the Performance Improvement Center for the State’s Mobile Crisis Intervention Services through a contract with the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF).
The Mobile Crisis Intervention Services Performance Improvement Center (PIC) carries out a number of functions for mobile crisis providers, DCF and others to improve mobile crisis service quality and outcomes, including:
We use the data and results to work directly with providers to examine their services, improve them where necessary, and promote the best possible outcomes for children and their families.
We have seen dramatic improvements in service access, quality and outcomes since we started working with mobile crisis providers in 2009.
To learn more about the Mobile Crisis Intervention Services Performance Improvement Center, visit www.empsct.org or contact Kellie Randall.
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Kellie Randall - Senior Associate randall@uchc.edu 860-679-8098 |