Integrated Mobile Crisis Response Team (IMCRT) - For children, youth, and families in crisis

Mental Health - Adult, Mental Health - Child & Youth, Services for Children, and Services for Youth

Provided by Island Health

An interdisciplinary team that provides rapid, mobile, community-based response for children, youth, and families in crisis across southern Vancouver Island.
The Integrated Mobile Crisis Response Team (IMCRT) is comprised of child and youth mental health clinicians who work alongside adult mental health clinicians, social workers, nurses, and plain-clothes police officers to provide a rapid, mobile, community-based response to children, youth, and families in crisis. The team provides consultation, mobile response, crisis intervention, psychiatric assessment, stabilization, referral and short-term follow-up for individuals experiencing any of the following:
  • Acute Depression
  • Psychosis (sometimes associated with Schizophrenia)
  • Mania (usually related to a Bipolar Affective Disorder)
  • Suicide Risk
  • Bizarre/Uncharacteristic Behaviours
  • Acute distress related to other psychiatric conditions
  • Aggression/Conduct problems with children
  • Post Traumatic Stress
  • Severely debilitating Anxiety

How to Access
  • Serves individuals of all ages and families in situational or psychiatric crisis and where there is imminent risk to self or others
  • The program serves southern Vancouver Island as far as Sooke and Port Renfrew, the South Malahat, and the Peninsula, and provides phone consultation to residents on the Gulf Islands (emergency mental health team on Salt Spring Island can be accessed through IMCRT).
  • IMCRT is available every day of the year from 1:00 PM until Midnight
  • Children, youth, and families can access this service by calling the Vancouver Island Crisis Line at 1-888-494-3888.
  • Physicians and other mental health professionals may access the team directly through a confidential pager number (see below).

1-888-494-3888 (Vancouver Island Crisis Line)

Website: https://www.islandhealth.ca/our...

Available 7 days a week from 1:00PM to 12:00AM (midnight)

Cost: No cost

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Availability

Service area: Brentwood Bay, Gabriola Island, Galiano Island, Langford, Mayne Island, North Saanich, Pender Island, Penelakut Island, Saanich, Saanichton, Salt Spring Island, Saturna Island, Sidney, Sooke, Victoria + show cities

Service area cities: Brentwood Bay, Gabriola Island, Galiano Island, Langford, Mayne Island, North Saanich, Pender Island, Penelakut Island, Saanich, Saanichton, Salt Spring Island, Saturna Island, Sidney, Sooke, and Victoria

Service Types Provided
Mental Health - Adult
Mental Health - Child & Youth
Services for Children
Services for Youth
Ways to Access
  • Mobile Services
  • Provided 1:1 in-person
  • Provided at multiple locations
  • Provided by phone

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