Johnson County Mental Health Center

Two main response models: 1) The Mobile Crisis Response Team provides community-based mental health crisis services Monday through Friday during business hours. MCRT serves adults, adolescents, and children experiencing behavioral health emergencies. The team includes licensed clinicians, crisis case managers, and a staff liaison for the state psychiatric hospital. Crisis case managers are dedicated to providing brief and intensive services with the goal of reducing the need for hospitalization, facilitating connection to mental health treatment and connecting clients to other needed services. MCRT clinicians facilitate crisis intervention assessments, mobile intake assessments, and mental health state screens. MCRT provides its services at no charge, works with Johnson County residents not already open to Johnson County Mental Health Center, and guides connection to appropriate longer-term supports. 2) The Mental Health Co-Responder Program embeds a mental health clinician from Johnson County Mental Health Center (JCMHC) within most of the police departments within Johnson County. The goal of the program is to provide the right intervention at the right time in an effort to prevent unnecessary arrests, decrease trips to the emergency rooms and reduce repeat calls for service for our law enforcement partners. The Co-Responder’s primary responsibility is to respond on scene with a law enforcement officer on calls when behavioral health is identified as a possible contributing factor. Additionally, Co-Responders conduct outreach and follow-up calls to individuals who had police contact as a result of a behavioral health crisis, with the intention of getting the individual the help they need to avoid future police contact. The Co-Responder often works with the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) trained officers in providing community based interventions as well as follow up and referrals. To learn more about JCMHC’s Co-Responder program, please see Johnson County’s Co-Responder program: new solutions for law enforcement’s interactions with mental health or see our Johnson County Co-Responder Coverage Map to see the county’s Co-Responder coverage and contact information.