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 experiencing a behavioral health crisis. Services may include brief therapeutic and skill-building interventions, engagement of natural supports, interventions to integrate natural supports in the de-escalation and stabilization of the crisis, and coordination of follow-up services.

Services involve advocacy and networking to provide linkages and referrals to appropriate community-based services and assisting the individual and their natural support system in accessing other benefits or assistance programs for which they may be eligible. The goal of Community Stabilization services is to stabilize the individual within their community and support the individual and natural support system during the following:

1) between an initial Mobile Crisis Response and entry into an established follow-up service at the appropriate level of care if the appropriate level of care is identified but not immediately available for access

2) as a transitional step-down from a higher level of care if the next level of care is identified but not immediately available or

3) as a diversion from a higher level of care.