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Crisis Intervention Services
Behavioral Health Response (BHR)
Your Single Source Access to Mental Health Services
314-469-6644 or 1-800-811-4760
314-469-3638 (TTY for the hearing impaired)
At Behavioral
Health Response, mental health professionals are available 24-hours a day, 7
days a week, 365 days a year to help you or someone you know access appropriate
mental health care services.
One call to
the Crisis Hotline provides you with an evaluation of the situation by a
qualified mental health counselor who will then help by:
- talking you through the
crisis; or
- helping you access a
counselor and/or psychiatrists; or
- helping you get into
the hospital; or
- recommending that you
contact one of the many area community resources, such as the Mental Health
Association, the Alliance for the Mentally Ill, or Life Crisis Services.
BHR Mobile Outreach Team
Sometimes during the initial telephone evaluation it is apparent to the crisis
counselor that the crisis might be escalating. In this case, the telephone
counselor might send one of BHR's qualified Mobile Outreach Team counselors to
meet you face-to-face. The Mobile Outreach counselor will then conduct a
thorough evaluation of your situation and work with you to come up with a plan
that helps to resolve the crisis.
The BHR Mobile Outreach
Team counselor will help you write a plan. This plan might include:
- discussing the
situation and possible solutions; or
- identifying some
community resources that may be of some help; or
- recommending an
appointment with a qualified therapist or psychiatrist; or
- helping you get into a
crisis bed; or
- helping you get into
the hospital.
Because BHR's Mobile
Outreach Team members are located throughout the eastern region of Missouri,
they can usually respond to a crisis within one hour of being dispatched.
BHR's Goals
- To assist individuals
in psychiatric crisis
- To prevent unnecessary
hospitalizations whenever possible
- To provide immediate
response and necessary interventions, 24-hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days
a year to individuals experiencing a mental health crisis
- To help link clients
with the services, resources, and supports needed to enable them to continue
living in the community of their choice.
Visit the
Behavioral Health Response web site
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