Current Projects

North Carolina Crisis Care Questionnaire: This survey aims to describe the landscape for behavioral health crisis care services in North Carolina. In collaboration with UNC colleagues Brianna Lombardi, Sapna Varkey, and Sally Bobbit, we are surveying mental health treatment facilities across the state to learn about the continuum of crisis response services facilities offer (any crisis response services, mobile crisis services, facility-based crisis, psychiatric walk-in services, behavioral health urgent care, and diversion services), as well as specific characteristics of the mobile crisis services offered (such as the age group or patient population for whom are eligible, the number or agencies that provide the referral, and the workforce staffing mobile crisis teams).
Understanding the behavioral health crisis care continuum: This project uses North Carolina Medicaid claims to 1) understand historic trends in crisis service utilization (defined as use of crisis psychotherapy, crisis intervention, mobile crisis, facility-based crisis, or crisis stabilization (either in residential or community-based)) and 2) identify healthcare utilization patterns in the 30, 90, and 180 days after an index crisis event (e.g., emergency department visits, inpatient psychiatric hospital visits, routine care , outpatient mental health treatment).