Action | Mental Health Skill-building Services |
Stage | Final |
Comment Period | Ended on 7/27/2016 |
I am writing to express my discontent with the proposed changes to the crisis intervention regulations. Ensuring that mental health crisis interventions are guided by standards consistent with recovery and resilience is our primary responsibility to the community. I am unsure how the proposed changes allow or encourage community providers to ensure that they are adhering to the core principles and values of crisis intervention if they are burdened with meeting unrealistic demands of rolling SSPI's, in lieu of addressing current crisis. Our workforce is often overworked and often lacks readily available community resources, which lends even more credibility to the reasons why the infrastructure must not be overwhelmed with un-necessary redundant task that take away from a clinician's ability to address a mental health crisis. We have an ethical obligation NOT to encourage or reinforce in-consistent mental health care and reliance on a system that is already struggling to meet the demands /needs of the community. THIS IS NOT PERSON-CENTERED CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!