b'|Suicide Prevention Workplan - Los Angleles |65|66 |Suicide Prevention Workplan - Los Angleles|67The vast majority of mental health professionals do not typically receive routine training in suicide assessment, treatment, or risk management.-American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, State Laws: Training for Health Professionals in Suicide Assessment, Treatment, and Management (71).Thus, there may be a Although the term crisis services is often used to refer to hotlines or helplines, it also encompasses other programs that provide assessment, crisis stabilization, and referral to anmisguided notion that a appropriate level of ongoing care. one-size approach (i.e., aCrisis hotlines provide immediate support and facilitated referrals to medical, healthbrief hospitalization and care, and community support services, and promote problem-solving and coping skills via telephone (or text or online chat) to individuals who are experiencingmedication to treat the distress. disorder) will work for allMobile crisis teams provide acute mental health crisis stabilization and psychiatric assessment services to individuals within their own homes and in other sites outsidesuicidal patients. of a traditional clinical setting. Such teams main objectives are to provide rapid-One Size Does Not Fit All: A Compre hensive Clinical Approach to Reducing response, assess the individual, and resolve crisis situations that involve individualsSuicidal Ideation, Attempts, and Deaths (Jobes and Chalker) (70).who have a behavioral health disorder. 23-hour crisis observation or stabilization provides individuals in severe distress with up to 23 consecutive hours of supervised care to help de-escalate the severity of their crisis and need for urgent care, and to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations. Peer crisis services are an alternative to a psychiatric emergency department or inpatient hospitalization and are operated by people who have experience living with a mental illness (i.e., peers). Services are intended to last less than 24 hours but may extend up to several days, if needed. Peer crisis services are generally shorter-term than crisis residential services.Draft 3.3.2020 Not For Distribution Draft 3.3.2020 Not For Distribution'