Crisis Prevention and
Intervention Services
Overview

Angie Marquis, Acting PA
Crisis Prevention and
Intervention Services

 Maine’s Statewide CPIS
System

• Services provided to adults ages 18 and
over found eligible for Developmental
Services or living in a Brain Injury waiver
home.
• The 4 district teams based in Caribou,
Bangor, Augusta and Portland.
They cover Maine with 44 staff providing CPIS
work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

 Background Information
• Program Administrator specific to the
Crisis Program.
• Team Leader, Case Managers and
Mental Health Workers make up team.
• 4 crisis homes located throughout state.
• Program is staffed 24 hours a day.
• Provide stabilization and support
through a crisis situation.

 Overall Goal of Maine’s
Responsive Crisis System
Comprehensive crisis system
made up of 5 major components:
1. Prevention Services
2. Crisis Telephone Services
3. Mobile Crisis Outreach
Services
4. In-home Crisis Services
5. Crisis Residential Services

 Prevention Services

 

Planning for the
situation befo -

    

Prevention Services
are…

• Proactive, comprehensive and
individualized approaches to assist
Individuals and their supporters to

– identify ways to help them avoid a crisis or
successfully work through an emergent situation.

• Best accomplished through consultation
and education and development of a
crisis prevention plan.

 Crisis Telephone
Services

• Include supportive communication, consultation,
problem solving, information and referral to
persons in distress.
• Crisis staff assesses when caller needs additional
supports and should meet face-to- face with crisis
personnel and/or other professional staff.

Crisis telephone services available 24/7
Toll-free - 1-888-568-1112.
Please ask for DS Crisis Worker.

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 Mobile Crisis
Outreach
Services
are…
Most flexible. Provided where crisis occurring.
o Could be residential facility, private residence,
police station or jail, boarding home, homeless
shelter, work site, or in community.
• Staff providing as needed on-site assessments,
consultations, education, crisis stabilization, and
crisis plan development.
• Crisis staff assisting Individuals to become
stabilized within his/her current residence when
possible.

 n-home Crisis Supports…
• Are a home-based service to assist persons
to become stabilized in collaboration with
their current support system.
• Build on existing support system and
prevents potential adverse effects of having
a person leave their home.
• Include: Consultation, assessment, and crisis
prevention planning services.

 Crisis Residential
Services (CRS)

• Provide short-term, highly supportive and supervised
residential settings where individual can stabilize and
return home or move to another location.
• Ensure Crisis Staff present 24/7 to assist in crisis planning
and stabilization, training/assistance in daily living skills,
monitor medications, and provide transportation to all
necessary appointments during their stay.
Crisis Homes Locations
Presque Isle, Bangor, Monmouth and Gray

 Emergency Transitional Housing

DS crisis services has a contract with two agencies in
Maine to provide Emergency Transitional Housing.
• Up to 6 Individuals can be placed in agency homes under the
State contract.
• Individuals with an urgent placement need and Section 21
funding, can be placed and billed to the waiver if agency
availability allows
• A request is made to the Crisis Team Leader who will have Crisis
staff conduct an assessment of the Individuals needs and
appropriateness for Emergency Housing Placement.
• Emergency Housing is considered to be a short-term option while
long-term placement is being actively sought.

 Notification
DS Crisis Team should be notified every
time person with DS services:
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Has involvement with law enforcement
Requires a mental health assessment
Is a lost or missing person
Has a suicide attempt or serious threat
Any other dangerous situation which impose risk
of imminent harm

 For More information Call
Toll-free statewide - 1-888-568-1112
Ask for a DS Crisis Worker
NOTE: If you have not received a
response in 15 minutes, please call again.