Immediate Crisis Care
- Mobile Crisis Care – We come to you.
- Mental Health Urgent Care Clinic – You come to us.
Located at 823 Maple St., we are the first Nationally recognized Mental Health Urgent Care Clinic – right here in Brainerd, MN.
If you find yourself in crisis, Call Northern Pines Mental Health Urgent Care (218) 454-8001 or Dial the National hotline at 988.
Mental Health Urgent Care Clinic
Open 10-7 Every Day
You come to us
Walk-ins welcome
823 Maple Street Brainerd, MN 56401
Mental Health Urgent Care Clinic Phone Number: (218) 454-8001
YOU decide what is a crisis!
Our Mental health Urgent Care Clinic team are mental health professionals and practitioners who can effectively and appropriately intervene in a mental health crisis. These professionals quickly help in the moment it’s needed at our clinic.
Initial assessments are done in a comfortable room where listening occurs and a treatment plan is devised along with the client. Everything is handled for the client to focus their attention inward.
Comfort calms. Relax in our massage chair. All the focus is on calm and comfort. This aids in getting the effective outcomes clients in need seek.
Mobile Crisis Outreach (MCO)
24/7 – Holidays may be closed. Call 988 in that case.
We come to you
The Mobile Crisis Outreach Team Crisis Services:
Around-the-Clock, 24 hours.
For children, adults and families. Northern Pines Mental Health Mobile Crisis Response teams are composed of mental health professionals and practitioners who can effectively and appropriately intervene in a mental health crisis.
These professionals can meet a person at home, school, work or wherever a crisis occurs. If you are having a mental health crisis you may also
call the National Suicide Prevention Line by dialing 988.
Urgent Care Clinic Services
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Crisis Assessment
A face-to-face mental health evaluation of any immediate need for emergency services.
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Crisis Intervention
An intensive service initiated during a mental health crisis to assist the person to utilize available resources and begin to stabilize the crisis.
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Crisis Stabilization
Services designed to restore the person to a stable level of mental health functioning.
Additional Crisis Services
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Rapid Access Psychiatry
Arrangement for psychiatric appointment within 72 hours.
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Referrals
Referral to appropriate professional programs and services, such as ARMHS, ACT, ICTS, TCM, CTSS.
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Next Day In Clinic Appointment
A “next-day” appointment in one of the
Northern Pines Mental Health Center clinics.
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County Social Services
Financial support, mental health case management.
Residential Crisis Care – Safe Harbor
Opened in 2015, Northern Pines Mental Health Center Safe Harbor provides supervised adult mental health services.
Safe Harbor is a five bed supervised residence in Brainerd, MN.
The building is handicapped accessible from the front entrance and has 132 feet of panoramic views of river frontage.
Available to adults over the age of 18 with a diagnosis, this residential care model helps short term stabilization
of 10 days in the RCS program as well as longer term Intensive treatment of 90 day stays in the IRTS program
to help manage a diagnosis in a safe and rehabilitative location to get back to a full and productive life.
Our Team Approach
Safe Harbor IRTS / RCS utilizes a team approach consisting of a Consulting Psychiatrist, Nurse, Mental Health Professionals, Practitioners, and Certified Peer Specialists. Your safety is our priority; our dedicated staff will work alongside you to identify and work toward your goals for recovery. Safe Harbor is staffed 24/7.
Residential Crisis Stabilization Services
This program provides a safe environment and supportive staff for individuals in a mental health crisis. Safe Harbor is a subacute care facility. Services are short-term for up to 10 days and designed for adults experiencing a lapse in functioning due to increased mental health symptoms. The primary goal of RCS is to assist individuals in learning to use community-based mental, physical, and substance health services to minimize inpatient mental health hospitalizations and improve outcomes.
Individuals will develop new skills and prepare to transition back to the community in a safe, supportive environment. All admissions are voluntary.
A total of 5 beds are available for adults requiring crisis services.
- Age 18 or older
- In a sub-acute crisis, a sub-acute stressor, or relapsing from a DSM-5-related mental illness.
- Not at imminent risk of suicide, and can contract for the safety of themselves and others.
- Agree to voluntarily stay and follow the program’s policy, procedures and guidelines.
- Agree to participate in the development of an individual treatment plan and actively
participate in programming - Not under the influence of substances.
- Can carry out functions of daily living and provide self-care in completing all ADLs.
- Demonstrate behavioral self-regulation, and control toward self, to other clients and be compatible with the current milieu.
- Access to medications brought to Safe Harbor in bottles or prepackaged (from the pharmacy) medication packs. Injectable medications must be coordinated with the Safe Harbor RN before admission.
Intensive Residential Treatment Services
This program integrates mental health, medical, and substance use care in a 24- hour supervised setting for up to 90 days. IRTS services are a step below hospitalization and are provided in a community-based system of care for adults who need a high level of treatment and assistance. During this time, the individual and their care team will work to develop a treatment plan focused on psychiatric stability, personal and emotional adjustment, self-sufficiency, and learning skills to help individuals live in a more independent setting. Individuals graduating from the IRTS program will be discharged with formal mental health supports in place to continue supporting them in their recovery journey. A total of two beds are available for IRTS services when not utilized by RCS.
IRTS Admission Criteria
- Age 18 or older and a severe and persistent mental illness.
- Assessed through a LOCUS as needing a “medically monitored level of service” (Level 5), which supports the need for an IRTS placement.
- Requires 24-hour supervision and monitoring to improve functioning and avoid relapse requiring a more restrictive environment.
- Can participate, at least at a minimal level, in the treatment program.
- Has one or more of the following: History of two or more inpatient hospitalizations in the past year, Significant independent living instability, Homelessness, Increased abuse of alcohol and drugs use, Frequent use of mental health and related services, yielding a poor outcome in outpatient or community support services, or a newly diagnosed individual considered to be “at significant risk” of experiencing the above
characteristics. - Written opinion of a licensed mental health professional, stating other available community based services can’t meet an individual’s needs.