Ohio Planning To Enhance Statewide Behavioral Health Crisis System

The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) is planning to enhance the statewide behavioral health crisis system by helping local behavioral health authorities, provider organizations, and other state and local leaders design and implement the structure of crisis response systems that meet their respective community needs. The state seeks to pursue the following initiatives:

Establish a centralized behavioral health call center
Expand and enhance mobile crisis response services statewide
Increase capacity and access to 23-hour intensive evaluation and observational care
Establish a more extensive network of six to 16-bed crisis stabilization centers throughout the state . . .