Procedures
This is the legal document submitted to request a court-ordered evaluation
What is a petition?
This is the maximum time allowed to complete the pre-petition screening after application
What is 48 hours?
This form is used in both Emergent and Non-Emergent Petitions to apply for involuntary evaluation.
What is MH-100 (Form A)?
This is the minimum number of witnesses required for a petitio
What is two?
This type of petition is filed when there is immediate danger to self or others.
What is an Emergent Petition?
This must be done before petitioning if unsure about client risk.
What is staff with a supervisor or upper leadership?
After filing, this is how long an Emergent Petition’s Detention Order is valid.
What is 48 hours?
This form is completed by the BHMP in a Non-Emergent Petition.
What is MH-105 (Petition for Court-Ordered Evaluation)?
This person cannot act as both pre-petition screener and applicant or witness.
Who is the pre-petition screener?
This type of petition is used for Gravely Disabled or Persistently or Acutely Disabled patients who are not an immediate threat.
What is a Non-Emergent Petition?
A petition becomes “emergent” when this box is checked.
What is DTS (Danger to Self) or DTO (Danger to Others)?
A Non-Emergent Petition’s Detention Order is good for this many day
What is 14 days?
These two forms in a Non-Emergent Petition require notarization.
What are MH-100 and MH-105?
While an applicant cannot be a screener, this is one role they can take on.
What is a witness?
This is where you file an Emergent Petition
What is RI, UPC, or CPEC?
These are the two types of petitions in involuntary evaluation.
What are emergent and non-emergent?
The first attempt to pick up a client under an Emergent Petition occurs within this time frame.
What is a couple of hours?
This report must be included in a Non-Emergent Petition but not an Emergent Petition.
What is the Pre-Petition Screening Report?
Sally calls the clinic and tells her case manager that she is going to take all her pills. Sally tells Margret, another case manager, what Sally said to her. Margret cannot be listed as a witness in this case.
What is because she did not directly hear the statement? What is secondhand witness statements are not valid?
After being evaluated at RI, UPC, or CPEC, this is where the patient is transferred.
What is Valleywise Behavioral Health Center?
This legal status requires the client to comply with treatment as ordered by the court to participate in psychiatric treatment: medication and engagement with clinical team.
What is Court-Ordered Treatment (COT)?
If the client is not found within 48 hours of an Emergent Petition, this must happen.
What is a new petition must be submitted?
You must never do this when completing forms for an Emergent or Non-Emergent Petition.
What is leave anything blank?