Admission Requirements & Procedures
All admissions to Crisis Receiving Centers will be without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, or ancestry. Crisis Receiving Centers may accept routine referrals or on an emergency basis. Interested agencies should contact YES Behavioral Health at (804) 674-9375.
Clients can be admitted anytime during the 24-hour day. Due to the nature of CRC as crisis and diagnostic facilities, CRC may take admissions with minimal information and a verbal placement agreement and/or authorization for placement at admission. However, a written placement agreement should be obtained within 24 hours of admission or by the end of the next business day, whichever is later.
CRC Admission Criteria
- Clients may have had unsuccessful community integration
- Clients may have one or more documented mental health diagnosis and/or has exhibited high-risk behaviors (i.e., aggression, substance abuse, AWOL, suicidal ideations (but no plan of harm) and/or homicidal ideations (but no plan of harm)), or been in a situation requiring intense therapeutic intervention and there is no other bed available (i.e., CPS removal of child for abuse or neglect).
- Clients will be between the ages of 12-17
- Clients will have an IQ 60 or above
- Clients must be ambulatory (walking)
- Clients must be medically stable (must be absent of an acute or chronic medical condition that may require continual medical attention)
CRC Exclusionary Criteria
- Clients with a primary sexual offending diagnosis and or related issues whom have not successfully completed treatment and whom have been deemed a high risk for re-offending. (CRC IS NOT A SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT PROGRAM)
- Clients with a primary diagnosis of substance dependence and or related issues who are actively addicted to substances and may be experiencing acute symptoms of withdrawal
- Clients who are actively suicidal and/or homicidal and have a plan of harm toward self and/or others
- Clients with a history of fire-setting
- Clients regarded as severely mentally retarded
- Clients with highly contagious communicable diseases (HIV, TB, Hepatitis)
- Clients who are actively psychotic
|
