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<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">For information about our NightWatch ® program, please contact Coordinator: David Godfrey (510) 420-3204</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Crisis Support Services of Alameda County has been providing telephone crisis counseling 24/7 for over 40 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our expertise is in dealing with people in crisis and people suffering from chronic mental illness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the advent of sophisticated technology and telephone equipment, it is no longer necessary for a crisis center to be local and be able to provide competent and expedient crisis intervention. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Our NightWatch ® program provides afterhours crisis intervention telephone counseling services to mental health agencies that are required to provide 24/7 services. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The NightWatch ® program mission is to assist mental health agencies to reduce psychiatric hospitalizations and help support and maintain consumers who wish to live in the community by providing crisis intervention telephone support.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">County Mental Heath Agencies throughout the state of California and Community-Based Mental Health Agencies providing mental health services to their community.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">As part of your mental health agency team, our trained mental health crisis line counselors will answer a designated telephone line which identifies calls from your agency. CSS can integrate your treatment plan for individual clients to ensure continuity of care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our crisis line counselors, assess for risk, institute guidelines for self care and/or mobilize your on-call capability for immediate intervention avoiding costly and unnecessary hospitalizations when possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As part of your treatment team, we develop a supportive realistic relationship with your clients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our counselors will respond to your clients utilizing interventions that support your treatment goals.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Our customized database is state of the art technology designed for after-hour mental health services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each business day a report will be faxed to your office detailing all calls. Your agency will also receive a call statistic summary report every month.</span></p>
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