Crisis Residential is a 12-bed unit that provides short-term psychiatric stabilization to DuPage County residents. The unit is voluntary and unlocked, and is utilized both as a step-down from inpatient psychiatric care and as an alternative to inpatient hospitalization.
No appointment needed. Crisis evaluations to determine eligibility for Crisis Residential are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Services provided include:
- Case management
- Group and individual therapy
- Integrated assessment and treatment planning
- Psychiatric evaluation
Crisis Residential services are available to DuPage County residents, regardless of insurance or ability to pay.
Admission Criteria
- Resident of DuPage County
- 18 years of age or older
- Assessed as medically stable and able to complete activities of daily independent-living
- Clinically assessed as able to self-administer medications and able to participate in treatment programming
- Experiencing an increase in psychiatric symptoms, or in a psychiatric crisis and in need of stabilization
Exclusionary Criteria
- Actively suicidal or homicidal with a plan, and unable to contract for safety
- Aggressive or combative
- Medically unstable
- Registered sex offender
- Unwilling to participate in treatment programming