The department shall establish the Crisis Intervention Program to serve Penobscot, Hancock, Piscataquis and Washington Counties. This shall be a community-based program to provide counseling, consultation, evaluation, treatment and referral, education and training services, delivered by a crisis intervention team. The program shall provide the following services: [PL 1987, c. 349, Pt. H, §21 (NEW).]
1. Emergency room services. Crisis intervention and psychiatric emergency services based in a hospital emergency room;

[PL 1987, c. 349, Pt. H, §21 (NEW).]

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3621

2. Outreach services. Outreach services and crisis intervention beyond the hospital setting; and

[PL 1987, c. 349, Pt. H, §21 (NEW).]

3. Telephone hot-line services. A community-based telephone crisis intervention hot-line offering 24-hour, 7-days-a-week counseling, consultation, evaluation, treatment and referral services.

[PL 1987, c. 349, Pt. H, §21 (NEW).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 1987, c. 349, §H21 (NEW).