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Enhanced Sequential Intercept Model for San Diego County

This is a proposal to adopt a Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) tailored for the San Diego County Behavioral Health System (BHS). The traditional SIM illustrates five periods where interventions can be made when one is experiencing a mental or psychiatric crisis as they navigate through our criminal justice systems. Typically someone in crisis or, their loved ones, employer, or other…

The Community Experience Project

The San Diego County Behavioral Health Services (BHS) is in process of developing what is called the Community Experience Project. They have been working with a University of California San Diego partner. They describe the project in part as: “The goal of the Community Experience Project is to develop a process to identify and address unmet behavioral health needs, and…

Crisis on the Horizon: Mental Health and Substance Abuse

We are on a cliffs-edge in regards to San Diego County resident’s building mental health and substance abuse issues we are going to face. People already getting treatment and services before Covid-19, then suddenly stopping or drastically reducing receiving those services, will be an important cohort to regain. The Covid-19 pandemic itself is wreaking havoc on people’s anxiety levels leading…

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