Community Stabilization services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to provide for short-term assessment, crisis intervention, and care coordination to individuals who have recently experienced a behavioral health crisis. Community Stabilization is a bridge service that supports an individual as they are making a transition between certain levels of care when there is a gap in availability of services.

Critical Features of Community Stabilization include:
● Recovery-oriented, trauma-informed
● Integrating the Zero Suicide/Suicide Safer Care principles
●  Assessment and screening, including explicit screening for suicidal or homicidal ideation
● Linkage and referral to ongoing services, supports and resources (examples: housing, peers, chaplaincy), as appropriate and least restrictive level of care
● Coordination of specialized services to address the needs of co-occurring intellectual/developmental disabilities and substance use
● Engaging peer/natural and family support to strengthen the individual’s participation and engagement
● Crisis Intervention
● Brief Therapeutic Interventions
● Crisis education, safety, prevention planning, and support
● Interventions to integrate natural supports in the de-escalation and stabilization of the crisis