Join our team at Stellher Human Services in making a positive difference in the lives of children and families. Stellher is a progressive mental health agency that has a long history of providing excellent mental health services to our clients through home, school and community-based services. Stellher is an EOE Position Description: The on-call crisis response Practitioner will play a key role in assisting adults and/or youth and families through mental health crises, connecting them to services and resources, and providing stabilization services as needed. This position will consult with an MHP on each assessment and throughout stabilization. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in providing mental health services to youth and families. Primary Job Responsibilities: Conduct crisis assessments, an immediate face-to-face evaluation to identify; the need for emergency services, if the serious deviation from their baseline level of functioning is due to a mental health crisis or other emergency. Determine the need for crisis intervention services, or referrals to other resources, based on crisis assessment. Develop culturally appropriate crisis intervention treatment plans with clients and their families and update as necessary. Provide crisis intervention; face-to-face, short-term intensive mental health services initiated during a mental health crisis to help the clients cope with immediate stressors, identify and utilize available resources and strengths, engage in voluntary treatment, and begin to return to the client s baseline level of functioning. Provide crisis stabilization; individualized mental health service provided to a client that is designed to restore the client to their prior functional level. Assist youth and families with safety and crisis planning; a written plan to assist a client in preventing and addressing a potential crisis. Follow up with families, inpatient facilities, and other placements to set up stabilization or assist with referrals.