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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.

Street outreach workers act as first responders to gun violence.

Provides the following in response to gun violence:

- Crisis Response: Available to every family in the aftermath of gun violence. This includes mental health care, first-aid, practical needs of the victim and family, liaise with law enforcement, engage in interactive safety planning, and address any other emerging urgent needs.

- Conflict Mediation

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.

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, 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) 344-5235. Note: Whenever an issue occurs or a team fails to respond to a request, please notify John Coulter or Brian Koob for resolution.

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.

Assists adults and youth who are in a crisis - suicidal, homicidal, and/or psychotic. The Crisis Responder will screen all crisis calls to assess the severity of the problem. If the Crisis Responder identifies the problem as severe, the Crisis Responder will contact the Licensed Mental Health Therapist on call to request a crisis assessment be conducted face to face.

The program is designed to prevent hospitalizations and Emergency Protective Custody by wrapping appropriate services around the client to allow him/her the opportunity to remain in the community.

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. 

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.

Provides a Mobile Crisis Response Unit to help those going through a mental health crisis. The team can provide immediate in-person or over-the-phone support. The team is partnered with 988 and can respond to any mental health crisis in Will County and southwest Cook County. After the initial call, the MCRT can provide up to 4 sessions of crisis stabilization.

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.

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.

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.

Crisis team (Engagement Specialist and Crisis Counselor) provide mobile crisis response. Services include on-site counseling, mental health evaluations and assesses the need for psychiatric hospitalization.

Offers crisis intervention, mediation and emergency shelter to vulnerable children. Services include assessing the overall needs of each youth and helping them access the resources they need. This includes getting dropouts or truants back in school, arranging for tutoring, mentoring, medical, dental and mental health needs, social support and counseling.

Also helps with youth who have already had experience with the legal system. Youth who have been found delinquent by the Court and referred by probation participate in intensive programming that includes s comprehensive service plan, one to one mentoring, advocacy and supervision, case management, and participation in Spectrum Wilderness experience (when eligible).

Offers crisis services for those experiencing mental health crises, such as suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, and acute psychosis; substance use crises, such as overdoses and withdrawal symptoms; and everyday issues such as relationship challenges, financial challenges, job loss, and grief and loss.

Services include:

- Pathways to Success: Provides access to intensive care coordination and additional home- and community-based services for youth ages 20 and younger with complex behavioral health needs.

- The Living Room: Offers a safe, quiet space where people experiencing emotional distress can find respite staffed by Certified Recovery Support Specialists who offer peer support. Designed as an alternative safe space for clients who might otherwise use emergency department services for mental health needs.

- Mobile Crisis Response: Clinicians respond to calls through the CARES Line and the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline when there is immediate need for support with the goal of stabilizing children and adults in community settings or determining the appropriate referral.

- Crisis Co-Response Team (CCRT): Teams that pair clinicians with police departments and law enforcement to provide crisis support and follow-up behavioral healthcare for individuals involved with 911 and emergency response calls.

Offers 24-hour inpatient care for people with behavioral health disorders or co-occurring disorders. Providing a very short-term residential alternative to emergency room care or inpatient hospitalization for individuals in need of urgent care related to a mental health crisis, substance use disorder, or both.

Also offers several outpatient services and mental health evaluations for inpatient placement.

Crisis intervention for runaway, locked-out, homeless, and ungovernable youth. Services ensure youth receives emergency psychiatric or substance abuse treatment if needed, follow-up care plan for youths reunited with family, and short-term or long-term placements if reunification is not immediately possible.

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.