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Mobile crisis response provides immediate services when law enforcement, area shelters, and referrals from The Nebraska Family Helpline are confronted with someone experiencing a mental health crisis. Therapists help resolve an immediate behavioral health crisis to avoid emergency protective custody holds, avoid inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, and link individuals to community services.

Post-crisis services include a 90-day stabilization program offered in partnership with other agencies.

Peer Support Specialists available to those referred through Omaha Police Department officers who encounter individuals in crisis.

Offers behavioral health services to any child or adolescent in need. Services include psychiatry/medication management, individual therapy, family therapy, substance use disorder services/addiction treatment, crisis services (24/7 Crisis Line, Mobile Crisis, CSCBS), case management, peer support, care team/specialized services, and school-based services (where applicable).

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services. Services include the following:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

A program made up of dedicated, caring, and specially trained professionals who provide a comprehensive organized approach for the redirection and control of the harmful aspects of stress caused by a traumatic or critical incident. Services are provided to Emergency Services Personnel. All 99 counties are covered by a CISM Team, find the county team lead below for further assistance.

BENTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPT. TEAM - Team leader is Deputy Shelby Chekal, (319) 310-2424/Sheriff’s Office: (319) 472-2337 ext. 6238. Counties covered: Benton County only. BREMER COUNTY CISM TEAM - Team Lead: Kip Ladage (319) 404-4363. Counties covered: Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Grundy, Howard. Note: Butler and Floyd Counties also covered by the North Iowa CISM Team (Mason City). CENTRAL IOWA CISM TEAM (American Red Cross) - Team Lead: Dianne Fagner (515) 277-5406, Alternate Team Lead: John Coulter (641) 344-4235. Counties covered: Adair, Boone, Carroll, Clarke, Dallas, Decatur, Greene, Guthrie, Hardin, Jasper, Lucas, Madison, Marshall, Polk, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Story, Tama, Union, Warren, and Wayne. Note: Des Moines Police Department, Polk County Sheriff and Polk County Mental Health all have a Peer Support Team that provides CISM support: for Des Moines PD contact Sgt. Sean O'Neil (515) 283-4811, Polk County Sheriff's Office, contact Sgt. Ayal Naggar (515) 466-0889, West Des Moines PD Peer Support, contact Lt. William Taylor (515) 321-0321, and Polk County Mental Health, contact Sara Lupkes (515) 286-3589. DUBUQUE CISM TEAM - Team Lead: Jessica George (563) 599-6558 or (563) 583-1711, Alternate Team Lead: Marty Benda (563) 590-5955. Counties covered: Allamakee, Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones, Linn, Winneshiek. Note: Jones and Jackson Counties also covered by the Quad Cities CISM Team. FORT DODGE - Team Lead: Gary Snook (515) 571-1712. Counties covered: Calhoun, Hamilton, Humboldt, Pocahontas, and Webster. NORTH IOWA CISM TEAM (MASON CITY) - Team Lead: Tom Wollner (641) 420-2524, Alternate Team Lead: Brian Koob (641) 430-2950. Counties covered: Butler, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Hancock, Kossuth, Mitchell, Winnebago, Worth, and Wright. Note: Butler and Floyd Counties also covered by the Bremer County CISM Team. Note: Kossuth County is also covered by the Spencer / Spirit Lake CISM Team. NW IOWA CISM TEAM – Team Lead: Shawn Scholten (712) 476-5245. Counties covered: Lyon, O’Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, and Sioux. QUAD CITIES IA/IL - Iowa Team Lead: Jamie Temple (563) 271-8106 or (563) 323-1000. Counties covered: Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Johnson, Louisa, Muscatine, and Scott. Note: Jones and Jackson Counties also covered by the Dubuque CISM Team. SIOUXLAND CISM - Team Lead Jessie Dominoski (712) 301-1889. Counties covered: Cherokee, Crawford, Ida, Monona, Sac and Woodbury. SOUTHEAST IOWA ALLIANCE – Team Lead: Brandon Howard (319) 576-1113 or (319) 753-8390. Alternate Team Lead: Gary Syznula (319) 572-2238. Counties covered: Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Van Buren, and Washington. Note: Van Buren County is also covered by the Southern Prairie CISM Team. SOUTHERN PRAIRIE CISM TEAM - Team Lead: Jeanetta Nieuwsma (712) 314-2152, Alternate Team Lead: Teri VanKooten (641) 820-0121. Counties Covered: Appanoose, Davis, Iowa, Jefferson, Keokuk, Mahaska, Marion, Monroe, Van Buren, and Wapello. Van Buren County is also covered by the Southeast Alliance. SOUTHWEST IOWA CISM TEAM - Team Lead: Rita Pierson (712) 322-1896 or (402) 680-8407, Alternate Team Lead: Marsha Houser (402) 403-7195. Counties covered: Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Shelby, and Taylor. SPENCER AND SPIRIT LAKE CISM TEAMS - Spencer Team Lead: Chris Meyer (712) 240-2810 or (712) 264-6517, Spirit Lake Team Lead: Steve Hopkins (712) 330-1144. Both teams work together to cover: Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Palo Alto and Sioux. Note: Kossuth County is also covered by the North Iowa CISM Team. IOWA STATEWIDE CISM TEAM RESPONSE:IOWA CISM NETWORK - Coordinator: John Coulter (641) 344-4235, Vice Coordinator: Brian Koob (641) 430-2950. Note: Whenever an issue occurs or a team fails to respond to a request, please notify John Coulter or Brian Koob for resolution.

Offers Crisis and SASS services through the Mobile Crisis Response Team. Screening Assessment Support Services (SASS) is a 90-day program which provides family-focused community-based services to youth in crisis and their family. The SASS program focuses its services on youth 20 years of age and younger who are at risk because they are struggling to function at home, school, or within the community. Can also link families to services such as a therapist, child psychiatrist, and/or other resources within the community.

Offers Crisis and SASS services through the Mobile Crisis Response Team. Screening Assessment Support Services (SASS) is a 90-day program which provides family-focused community-based services to youth in crisis and their family. The SASS program focuses its services on youth 20 years of age and younger who are at risk because they are struggling to function at home, school, or within the community. Can also link families to services such as a therapist, child psychiatrist, and/or other resources within the community.

Offers support services to individuals experiencing mental health or substance use issues or facing a crisis situation. Services include: peer support, crisis intervention, safety planning, referrals for community resources.

Provides on-site crisis intervention services to medical professionals, employers, family members, friends or individuals who believe a situation would benefit from this service. Anyone can call to discuss Mobile Crisis Outreach with Foundation 2 staff.

Call to dispatch the Mobile Crisis Outreach Unit

Provides YOUR LIFE IOWA (https://yourlifeiowa.org), the go to resource for information, resources and help, including crisis services related to gambling, mental health, substance use, suicide, and related concerns (such as bullying, brain injury, children's mental health, overdose reversal, etc.). Services are free and confidential. Your Life Iowa is accessible via website, online chat, text, or phone 24/7. Your Life Iowa is funded by the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services and managed by Foundation 2.

***IDHHS has created a new BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICE SYSTEM which can be accessed by calling Your Life Iowa. A navigator will help individuals find and access mental health and substance abuse services.

Provides crisis intervention services for children and youth. Crisis services include short-term stabilization where a child is at risk of self-harm, or harming others, individual and family psychotherapy/counseling, mental health assessment, case management and resource linkage assistance, and psychiatric services.

Offering behavioral health services to any adult in need. Services include psychiatry/medication management, individual therapy, adult couples therapy, substance use disorder services/addiction treatment, crisis services (24/7 Crisis Line, Mobile Crisis, CSCBS, Crisis Stabilization Center), assertive community treatment (ACT), case management, peer support, and care team/wraparound services.

-- Crisis Center: Crisis stabilization and residential treatment services to persons exhibiting symptoms of acute mental illness or extreme stress reactions and are at risk of hospitalization.

-- Psychiatric Response Team (PRT): Crisis services for individuals of all ages who present in local emergency departments with suspected psychiatric issues. Provides face-to-face crisis assessments in the ER to determine the level of care needed at that time.

Psychiatric Response Team Emergency departments located at Memorial Medical Center, St. John's Hospital, Lincoln Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville Memorial Hospital, and Taylorville Memorial Hospital.

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services. Services include the following:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services. Services include the following:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Provides mental health support services to children and youth. Services include crisis intervention, short-term stabilization where a child is at risk of self-harm, or harming others, individual and family psychotherapy/counseling, mental health assessment, case management and resource linkage assistance, and psychiatric services.

Offers a 24-hour Mobile Crisis Response Team in coordination with Central Iowa Community Services (CICS) and the Care Connections of Northern Iowa region. Anyone experiencing a mental health crisis can call to have the Mobile Crisis Unit dispatched.

Serves as a crisis team with an Engagement Specialist and Crisis Counselor providing mobile crisis response intervention including on-site counseling, mental health evaluation, and asessment for psychiatric hospitalization.

Offering behavioral health services to any adult in need. Services include psychiatry/medication management, individual therapy, adult couples therapy, substance use disorder services/addiction treatment, crisis services (24/7 Crisis Line, Mobile Crisis, CSCBS, Crisis Stabilization Center), assertive community treatment (ACT), case management, peer support, and care team/wraparound services.

Provides on-site crisis intervention services to medical professionals, employers, family members, friends or individuals who believe a situation would benefit from this service. Anyone can call to discuss Mobile Crisis Outreach with Foundation 2 staff.

Call to dispatch the Mobile Crisis Outreach Unit

Offers the Crisis Observation Service (COS) is available to clients ages 5 or older who are experiencing psychiatric/psychological stress which does not require hospitalization. Provides a safe environment where you can meet with a crisis specialist, a nurse and a mental health professional. If appropriate, the COS staff may coordinate an assessment by a psychiatric nurse practitioner if indicated. COS clients must be able to maintain safe behaviors while utilizing the suite, be able to provide their own basic hygiene needs, be medically stable and willing to work with staff on intake paperwork and discharge planning. The crisis specialist may also be able to assist clients in setting up mental health appointments and services with Elevate CCBHC or their provider of choice.

Crisis team (Engagement Specialist and Crisis Counselor) provide mobile crisis response.

- On-site counseling.

- Mental health evaluation.

- Assess the need for psychiatric hospitalization.