Colorado Expands Access To Mobile Behavioral Health Services

Colorado expanded access to mobile behavioral health crisis services and began covering the costs of behavioral health secure transportation. The service is offered in partnership with the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) and the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF).

The state’s Mobile Crisis Response (MCR) service dispatches teams of behavioral health crisis professionals to intervene, de-escalate, and stabilize people experiencing a behavioral health crisis, as well as follow up in the days after to ensure the individual is connected to ongoing care. MCR is designed to help individuals avoid hospitalization or arrest, which have often been . . .