Individuals must meet all of the following criteria:
- The individual must be experiencing an active behavioral health crisis; and
- Urgent intervention is necessary to stabilize or prevent escalation of the individual’s behavioral health crisis; and
- The individual or collateral contact reports at least one of the following:
- suicidal/assaultive/destructive ideas, threats, plans or actions; or
- an acute or increasing loss of control over thoughts, behavior and/or affect that could result in harm to self or others; or
- functional impairment or escalation in mood/thought/behavior that is disruptive to the home, school, or the community or impacting the individual’s ability to function in these settings; or
- the symptoms are escalating to the extent that a higher level of care will likely be required without intervention; and
- Without urgent intervention, the individual will likely decompensate which will further interfere with their ability to function in at least one of the following life domains: family, living situation, school, social, work, or community.