Youth Mobile Crisis Intervention

At the Virginia Beach Community Services Board, the Youth Mobile Crisis Intervention Services Program provides access to immediate behavioral health care delivered in a person-centered manner. Crisis services are available to youth experiencing acute behavioral health dysfunction requiring immediate clinical attention. The program objectives are to prevent the exacerbation of a behavioral health or substance abuse condition; to prevent injury to the person or others; and to provide treatment in the least restrictive setting. The crisis intervention clinicians make every attempt to offer a crisis assessment within one business day of receiving a referral to the program. Short-term crisis counseling is provided in the office and community to include the person's home, school or other settings that are appropriate to meeting the needs of the client.  All activities are geared toward returning the client or family to a pre-crisis level of functioning and to prevent the need for psychiatric hospitalization.