A Safe Place for Help Subgroup

Main topics: Strengthen collaboration with inpatient behavioral health facilities statewide to improve patient referral pathways and coordination of care, and clarify how connections are working between 988 and crisis stabilization services. Then identify opportunities to improve those connections.

Main topics: Updates from around the state, coordination of crisis stabilization services with other crisis services and community resources, opportunities and strategies to engage hospitals as partners in the crisis response system, and future meeting plans.

Main topic: Identify existing crisis stabilization services for children and youth in Nevada, share insights about those services across regions, and initiate mapping of those services to make the information available to the Coalition.

Main topic: Current and proposed State regulations for crisis stabilization services from Nevada Medicaid and DPBH, along with status updates about crisis stabilization facilities.

Main topic: Community-based strategies to expand access to “a safe place for help”, including "crisis respite" and sub-CSC/CSU models, and how regions might work together to explore, pilot, and evaluate such strategies.