A brief overview of Interface Consultation Services current endeavors:
I. Blog Focus - We continue to post weekly on ICS and Counseling Connections.Our posts include mental health research, news and thoughts we feel providers and clients will find valuable.
II. Counseling Connections - Provides Licensed Professional Online and Telephone Mental Health Counseling, Coaching and Services.
III. PESI Seminars by ICS:
High Risk Callers: Responding to Psychiatric Emergencies Over the Phone. New and exciting sorely needed seminar designed specifically for clinicians, call centers, triage nurses who provide efficient assessment and treatment over the phone. Psychiatric Emergencies over the phone line are DIFFICULT and extremely anxiety provoking. General Medical Clinics are seeing more psychiatric patients. Learn the skills you didn't learn in school to assist these patients.
IV. Telemental Health Triage - We continue our day-to-day service commitment to Riverwood Center to provide professional triage services so their consumers are assured efficient and timely access to mental health services, appropriate level of care assignments and expert telephone crisis triage.
V. MPRI - Michigan Prisoner Re-entry Initiative for the Mentally Ill - ICS are contracted as the Regional Care Coordinators for the Western Michigan providing services to 17 counties. ICS has hired Lee Burdick March 2007 to assist with this initiative. This program continues to grow at a very fast pace and it the only program of it's kind in the US. This speciality program is designed for mentally ill prisoners who are returning to the community. As Care coordinators we provide funding for housing, psychiatric medications, specialized placements as well as care coordination and consultation on some very difficult cases for the program.
VI. Utilization Management Opportunities - We continue to provide acute care preauthorization services for Riverwood Center.
VII. College Level Course - ICS partner, Kathlene LaCour is an part-time facility member at Kalamazoo Valley Community College.
We are seeking other opportunities to expand these kinds of services to other agencies. Please contact us via email by clicking on the link to learn more about how we can service your consulting needs or call (269)929-1292.
About Us
- Kathlene B. LaCour and Craig S. Judd
- Passages Behavioral Health Services was founded out of need to service mentally ill, co-occurring, correctional clients seeking a second chance. Our 40 years of clinical experience has prepared us to do this work which includes providing case management, Community Living Suppports (CLS), clinical assessment, treatment planning and more. Passages Behavioral Health also manages re-entry housing for this population know as the Passages House. We provide a service that not only bridges folks to another chance but helps maintain their progress in the community.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
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