CRISIS CARE
Crisis Response Systems are critical to addressing crisis in the community in a coherent and coordinated manner. Crisis Response systems often collaborate and partner with local law enforcement agencies to assure that those with mental illness receive appropriate levels of treatment rather than incarceration in local jails and/or prevent other negative and traumatic outcomes.
The key elements of a Crisis Response System include:
- Call Centers screen and evaluate calls related to psychiatric emergencies. Determines level of response needed, including dispatch of mobile crisis teams to community settings or hospital emergency departments.
- Mobile Crisis Teams include licensed mental health professionals available for evaluation, triage, and referral to alternative levels of care for persons in psychiatric crisis in the community or in local emergency departments, or if warranted, to facilitate inpatient admission.
- Residential Crisis Services is a residential alternative that provides support and assistance to ameliorate a psychiatric crisis in the least restrictive environment
- Urgent Care provides access within 24 hours to psychiatric evaluation and treatment services.
- Community based alternatives provide the most appropriate type and level of care for those with co-occurring illnesses (substance abuse and serious mental illness).
- Transportation provides access for individuals in psychiatric crisis to appropriate levels of care.
- Disaster response (Critical Incidence Stress Management) is linked to the county’s emergency response system for psychiatric and mental health needs of the community.
Maryland’s crisis systems consist of national and local hotline systems, crisis beds and other support systems. These systems save lives.
Crisis Response Statistics for 2007 revised9132007 
FY07chart crisis response revised 91307
| Crisis Teams | Address |
|---|---|
| Anne Arundel County Crisis Response System | 43 Crownsville Place Crownsville, MD 21061. 410-768-5522 Administrative office: 410-923-7191 |
| Baltimore Child & Adolescent Crisis Response System(B-CARS) | 1118 Light Street, Suite 200 Baltimore MD 21230 410-727-4800 |
| Baltimore Crisis Response, Inc.(BCRI) | 5401 Loch Raven Boulevard Baltimore MD 21239 410-433-5175 |
| Baltimore County Crisis Response System | 7939 Honeygo Boulevard, Suite 113 White Marsh, Maryland 21236 |
| Harford County Crisis Response System | 42 N. Main Street, Suite 204 Bel Air, Maryland 21014 410-638-5248 |
| Howard County Crisis Response System | Grassroots 6700 Freetown Road Columbia Maryland 21044 410-531-6006 |
| Montgomery County Crisis Response | 1301 Piccard Drive, 1st Floor Rockville MD 20850 |
| Prince George County Crisis Response System | 4372 Lottsford Vista Road Lanham, MD 20706 301-429-2183 |
| Worcester County Crisis Response System | Worcester County Health Department P.O. Box 249 Snow Hill MD 21863 410-629-0164 X162 |
*Some services are limited to certain times during the day and certain geographic areas.