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MUTT
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Connecticut
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New Jersey
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Definition
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Mobile crisis response service to keep youth enrolled in the SOC at home and out of inpatient psychiatric care unless truly needed
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Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services (EMPS) is a mobile intervention for children and adolescents experiencing a behavioral or mental health crisis.
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Short-term, flexible services that assist in stabilizing youth in their current living arrangement, to prevent repeated hospitalizations, to stabilize behavioral health needs and to improve functioning in life domains.
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Purpose
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Goal to contain and manage crisis in the home and community so the family plan and vision wouldn’t be disrupted.
Gatekeeper function for multisystem youth.
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The purpose of the program is to serve children in their homes, schools, and communities, reduce the number of visits to hospital emergency rooms, divert children from inpatient hospitalization if a lower level of care is a safe and effective alternative, and decrease the number of unnecessary arrests in school/community.
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Defuse the current crisis and help link the youth and family with ongoing therapeutic resources. On-site intervention for immediate de-escalation of presenting emotional symptoms and/ or behaviors.
Integrated fully into New Jersey’s System of Care.
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LOS
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Child Welfare MUTT 30 days
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45 days
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40% 72 hours; 60% 8 weeks
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Availability
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24/7 availability (pager from 11pm-7am)
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EMPS Mobile Hours: 6am to 10pm Mon-Fri
1pm to 10pm Sat/Sun/Holidays
Crisis clinician response during non-mobile hours, with EMPS mobile follow-up offered at next mobile hours
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24/7 Single Point of Access: CSOC; Contracted Systems Administrator (CSA)
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Average response time
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Average mobile response time 20 minutes
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45 minutes
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Within 60 minutes
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Location
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Home, school, Community
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Home, school, Community
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Home, school, Community
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Population and eligibility
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Provides services to any family in Milwaukee County with a child who is having a mental health crisis when the behavior of the child threatens his or her removal from home, school, etc.
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Any child 18 or younger in Connecticut (19 year olds, if in school)
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1. Youth/ young adult between the ages of 5 & 21. Special consideration given to children under 5.
2. The child/youth exhibits moderate to high intensity risk behaviors which impacts overall functioning; and/or the current functional impairment is a clearly notable change compared with previous functioning.
3. The child/youth requires immediate intervention in order to be maintained in his/her present living arrangement or to avoid psychiatric hospitalization.
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Limitations
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Exclusions: Youth in Residential Treatment Centers, Sub-Acute Units, Inpatient Hospitals
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If the youth is involved with MST/FFT, then MRSS dispatch and stabilization is not accessible. The caregiver may voluntarily choose to work with MRSS and discontinue MST/FFT services.
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