About this live event

Learning Objectives

• Describe the three pillars of a comprehensive crisis system, including crisis call centers, mobile crisis response, and facility-based crisis services.
• Identify key outcome measures and emerging evidence related to the effectiveness, quality, and cost impact of behavioral health crisis services.
• Discuss policy, regulatory, workforce, financing, and implementation considerations that influence the development of crisis systems and opportunities for clinician engagement.

Target Audience

Live event Instructor(s)

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  Margie Balfour, MD, PhD

  Founder and Principal, MultiPass Consulting; Executive Policy Advisor, Connections Health Solutions

  Dr. Margie Balfour is a psychiatrist and national leader in behavioral health crisis care. She is the founder of MultiPass Consulting and serves as Executive Policy Advisor at Connections Health Solutions, where she helped transform Tucson’s Crisis Response Center into a nationally recognized model. Dr. Balfour is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona and has contributed to national crisis care policy, including co-authoring the National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s Roadmap to the Ideal Crisis System and helping develop SAMHSA’s national crisis care standards. She earned her MD and PhD from the University of Cincinnati and completed residency and fellowship training in Community Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.