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…
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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…
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…