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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 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: Kelli Carlson (641) 390-1438, 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 Kayla Mayer (712-225-2129) or 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, Dickinso

Counseling is available for children who have been victims of child abuse. Contact for more information.

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Abuse Counseling
In Person Crisis Intervention
Child Abuse Prevention

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

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Mobile Mental Health Clinic
In Person Crisis Intervention
This program is designed to use natural supports and resources to build upon a person's strengths to help resolve an immediate behavioral health crisis in the least restrictive environment by developing a plan to resolve the crisis. The goal of the service is to avoid, an Emergency Protective Custody Hold or inpatient psychiatric hospitalization.

Provides various behavioral health services to individuals with disabilities. Behavioral health services include:

- Psychiatric evaluation.

- Medication management.

- 24/7 crisis intervention.

- Coordinated Case Management.

- Outpatient individual and group therapy services.

- Substance use treatment for co-occurring disorders.

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Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment
General Counseling Services
Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention
Suicide Counseling
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Case/Care Management

Provides crisis intervention services for run-away, locked-out, homeless, and ungovernable youth. Will make sure youth gets emergency psychiatric or substance abuse treatment if needed. Can provide short-term or long-term placements if reunification is not immediately possible. Once the youth is reunited with the family, a follow-up care plan is created and implemented.

Services include:

-- Access/screening.

-- Anger Management Counseling.

-- Caregiver Connection.

-- Crisis stabilization services.

-- Case Management.

-- Child Outpatient Therapy.

-- Family Counseling.

-- Linkage with psychiatric medical services.

-- ADHD Services and Resources.

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Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention
Anger Management
Specialized Information and Referral
Caregiver Counseling
Psychiatric Case Management
Juvenile Delinquency Diversion Counseling
Offers intervention provided by crisis response staff for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis. Staff, working in pairs in an individual's home or other locations in the community, reduce the level of risk present in the crisis situation, identify needs, develop action plans, coordinate referrals with other mental health resources and follow up until appointments with the individual's preferred provider take place. Mobile crisis provides an alternative to admission to hospitals or correctional facilities.

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

-- On-site counseling.

-- Mental health evaluation.

-- Assesses the need for psychiatric hospitalization.

-- Community referrals and linkages.

-- Post crisis follow-ups.

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Mental Health Information/Education
Mental Health Evaluation
General Counseling Services
Suicide Prevention Hotlines
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
In Person Crisis Intervention

Ongoing support and crisis intervention to families. Family Consultation is designed to enhance the effectiveness of the parents by providing practical guidance and support. Crisis intervention is also available 24 hours a day to ensure safety and stability in the home.

Compass equips parents either through practical, specific one-on-one instruction or in a seminar format. This instruction assists parents and families to communicate and interact in a healthy and successful manner. The method goes beyond simple education and focuses on equipping parents with the individual skills needed to be successful.

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Parental Visitation Facilitation
In Person Crisis Intervention

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.


YOUR LIFE IOWA (https://yourlifeiowa.org) is 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.

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Bullying Prevention
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
Mental Health Crisis Lines
In Person Crisis Intervention
Bullying Helplines
Suicide Prevention Hotlines
Substance Use Disorder Hotlines
Gambling Disorder Helplines
Youth Issues Information Services

Offers a 24 hour Mobile Crisis Response Team. Anyone experiencing a mental health crisis can call to have the Mobile Crisis Unit dispatched.

Crisis team (Engagement Specialist and Crisis Counselor) provide mobile crisis response including on-site counseling, mental health evaluation, and assess the need for psychiatric hospitalization.

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Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention

Crisis Services to anyone experiencing a crisis. Crisis services include:

23-hour Crisis Observation services support individuals in a secure and protected setting, medically staffed, and a psychiatrically supervised treatment environment to stabilize the situation and better assess any additional levels of care.

24-Hour Crisis Hotline provides support on the phone for people looking for immediate help with an emotional or mental health crisis.

Crisis Evaluation and Stabilization provides short-term care for individuals with mental health and developmental disabilities who need 24-hour supervision for safety during a crisis, without the added trauma of hospitalization. Stabilization includes a crisis evaluation.

Mobile Crisis Response and Outreach services provide on-site, face-to-face mental health services for an individual or family experiencing a mental health crisis. Can respond to wherever the crisis is occurring. Must call the 24-hour Crisis Line to access mobile crisis response teams. Call (855) 581-8111 for Mobile Crisis.

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Mental Health Evaluation
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
Psychiatric Emergency Room Care
In Person Crisis Intervention
Crisis intervention program available 24 hours a day offering emergency services and crisis management support.

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 a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

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.

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Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
General Counseling Services
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
In Person Crisis Intervention
General Psychiatry
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Medication Based Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Life Skills Education
Psychiatric Medication Services
Mental Health Evaluation
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Same-day psychiatric services to adults and children experiencing symptoms such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, disturbing thoughts, suicidal thoughts, or acute grief reactions.

Provides psychiatric evaluations, crisis interventions, therapeutic counseling, medication review/management, medication review and management, etc.

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Medication Information/Management
Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention

SASS provides the following services for children and youth:

-- 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.

-- Psychiatric services.

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In Person Crisis Intervention
Mental Health Evaluation
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
General Psychiatry
Suicide Counseling

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

- On-site counseling.

- Mental health evaluation.

- Assess the need for psychiatric hospitalization.

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Suicide Prevention Hotlines
General Counseling Services
In Person Crisis Intervention
Mental Health Information/Education
Mental Health Evaluation
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines

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.

Crisis Services to anyone experiencing a crisis. Crisis services include:

23-hour Crisis Observation services support individuals in a secure and protected setting, medically staffed, and a psychiatrically supervised treatment environment to stabilize the situation and better assess any additional levels of care.

24-Hour Crisis Hotline provides support on the phone for people looking for immediate help with an emotional or mental health crisis.

Crisis Evaluation and Stabilization provides short-term care for individuals with mental health and developmental disabilities who need 24-hour supervision for safety during a crisis, without the added trauma of hospitalization. Stabilization includes a crisis evaluation.

Mobile Crisis Response and Outreach services provide on-site, face-to-face mental health services for an individual or family experiencing a mental health crisis. Can respond to wherever the crisis is occurring. Must call the 24-hour Crisis Line to access mobile crisis response teams. Call (855) 581-8111 for Mobile Crisis.

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Mental Health Evaluation
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
Psychiatric Emergency Room Care
In Person Crisis Intervention
Provides immediate short-term assessments for people in a mental health or substance abuse crisis. This is for individuals who do not need an inpatient hospitalization, however are not able to be treated on an outpatient basis either. Within an Access Center patients will be immediately assessed for medical, mental health and substance abuse related disorders. The patient and staff will together work on a plan for next steps that make sense. A patient's stay at the Access Center will vary from a few hours to a few days and is designed to stabilize and return the patient to their community as soon as possible.

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Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Access Centers
In Person Crisis Intervention

Offers mobile crisis response services for individuals in need. Provides services 24-hours a day, including crisis stabilization, pre-admission screening, assessment, case management, community support, and counseling/therapy.