Crisis Intervention Team Crisis Receiving Center

About the Program

Category: Human Services (Best in Category)

Year: 2014

Henrico County’s Crisis Receiving Center (CRC) is an essential component of Henrico County’s Crisis Intervention Team (CIT). Henrico County Police Division, Sheriff’s Office, Division of Fire, Henrico Area Mental Health and Developmental Services (HAMHDS) and many community stakeholders formed the CIT program in 2006 with a common goal of helping those in psychiatric crisis. The CRC is a unique partnership between Henrico County’s CIT program and Parham Doctors Hospital, a Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) hospital. This program is embedded in the emergency room, and is open 14 hours a day, from 10am to midnight 7 days a week. Beginning on December 3, 2013 has served over 825 persons in crisis to date. It allows for immediate transfer of custody during the civil commitment process and affords each individual an integrated assessment in a site that is welcoming and designed to work compassionately with persons in psychiatric crisis. The nursing, law enforcement, peer counselor, and mental health professionals involved with the CRC have received 40 hours of CIT training. They provide crisis services including evaluation, stabilization, medical services and referral. The CRC adheres to the principles of Mental Health Recovery which emphasize dignity, respect, trauma informed care, and consumer and family choice.