Youth

Crisis response services are made available 24 hours per day, seven days per week to persons experiencing a mental health crisis. Support is available by phone or mobile visits as necessary, providing assessment, treatment and referral to services when needed.

If you are having thoughts of suicide or considering harming yourself or others, help is available 24 hours every day.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Call 1-800-273-8255

Available 24 hours everyday

MTBH 24 HOUR CRISIS LINE – 1 (800) 356-5395

Adolescent Supportive Recovery Services are outpatient substance use services for youth ages thirteen through eighteen that are experiencing issues with substance use and dependency. Services may include, but are not limited, to individual, family and group therapy. Goals of the program are to support the youth’s recovery from substances by teaching them skills to maintain sobriety, improve family and social relations, promote vocational and educational functioning and learning how to develop other recovery supports in the community.

Youth are supported in this program by a case manager who focuses on the individual needs of the client with mental illness and/or emotional disturbances, meeting regularly in the home, at school, in the community or at one of our facilities. Within this program, there are available a variety of elective specialty services to focus on skill building activities.  Those enrolled in the CPR program may use these services based on their specific needs: 

• Community Support – Clients served routinely meet with a Community Support Specialist to address their identified needs.
• Crisis Intervention – Immediate response for crisis situations is available 24 hours per day and 7 days per week by phone support and mobile visits as necessary. Persons with mental illness are helped to regain their best level of function and decrease hospital services and detention.
• Healthcare Home – Services support the clients’ health, behavior, and social needs.  A Nurse Care Manager provides or arranges services based on identified needs from health screening and assessment.  
• Medication Services – Doctors and Nurse Practitioners may prescribe and monitor usefulness of medications being used by clients served to decrease symptoms and increase the ability to function.
• Psychosocial Social Rehabilitation (PSR) – In a group setting, this program helps with social, leisure and living skills.  

Our psychiatrist specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and management of mental illness beginning with a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation. They frequently work as part of a team which also includes nurses, licensed therapists, and case managers to provide comprehensive services to our patients. When necessary, medication can be an effective part of the treatment designed to meet the client’s unique mental health needs, decrease symptoms and increase the ability to function in one’s life.

The goal of this program is to help youth develop the social, emotional and intellectual skills that are necessary in order for them to live well-adjusted and happy lives. Coping skills are taught so the child can be successful handling stressful situations and assists them in developing resources that will reduce future stressors. Peer interaction is encouraged in group activities and helps the patient learn to navigate successfully through mental and behavioral health challenges. Groups take place in various settings such as the community, schools and within the agency.