Crisis Referrals
The first-line response for calls to 911 that request assistance due to mental health concerns and are considered to be non-imminent risk and non-criminal.
What is MCOT?
The first step a new patient must take to begin services with The Harris Center.
What is the access line?
The act of experiencing internal stimulation without external cause.
What are hallucinations?
This is the Harris County Psychiatric Emergency Room that holds patients for up to 23 hours then can either refer them for further inpatient treatment or discharge them for community care.
What is NPC/PES?
Clients on this team receive the most intensive case management services within the agency.
What is the ACT team?
The client is reporting a decrease in joy, sleeping more, and a decline in self-care activities.
What is depression?
The involuntary alternative for mental health crisis that do not result in transport by police.
What is the Mental Health Warrant?
This program offers intensive community-based services to assist children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances to live in the community with their families.
What is the YES waiver program?
This is the 8th leading cause of death for all Americans
What is suicide?
A 3-5 day inpatient placement provided by THC that serves voluntary psychiatric services.
What is the CSU?
This program offers showers, meals, medication management, and case management for homeless individuals.
What is the PATH program?
The caller reports her daughter has difficulty staying on task, is often fidgety, talks excessively and has trouble waiting her turn.
What is ADD/ADHD?
a special team made up of HPD or Harris County Sheriff Crisis Intervention Team Officers and a Harris Center clinician that responds to calls involving individuals in need of mental health services and are unable to access other crisis services
What is the CIRT team?
This Mental Health Division Program is available to perform community outreach to homeless individuals.
What is the HOT team?
This is a diagnosable illness that affects a person's thinking, emotional state and behavior and can disrupt a persons work or other daily activities.
What is mental health?