Youth Mobile Crisis Services in MA with Natalia Vasquez and Lucy Andino

WJC graduate students - Lucy Andino and Natalia Vazquez - join me in this episode to talk about youth mobile crisis services in the state of MA.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/mobile-crisis-intervention

They have provided the following contact numbers for Massachusetts residents:

Emergency Mental Health Services An alternative to 911 for experiencing a mental health crisis
When your child is having a mental health crisis, you may feel powerless to help. Wayside's Youth Mobile Crisis Intervention team will partner with you and honor your family's voice and preferences. We work to stabilize the situation, provide support, identify your needs and the ways to meet them. Youth Mobile Crisis Intervention is a mobile, on-site, face-to-face therapeutic response to youth experiencing a behavioral health crisis. The YMCI team will identify, assess, treat, and stabilize the situation and will reduce immediate risk of danger to the youth or others. YMCI's mobile therapeutic response includes crisis intervention, stabilization, and coordination, for up to 7 days, until the youth is stable or transferred to another level of care. Wayside provides this service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in two different regions of the state. Wayside is subcontracted by Advocates, Inc., to provide YMCI services for youth and families in the MetroWest and Waltham areas. Contact/Referrals Framingham: [phone] Waltham: [phone]