Sec. 207e. As used in this section and section 207f: (a) "Behavioral health practitioner" means either a mental health professional or a professional trained in substance use disorder treatment and rehabilitation services. (b) "Community agency" means a public or private agency or organization that provides services toward preventing, improving, or resolving health, mental health, social, or environmental problems that affect individuals, families, specific groups, or communities, including a community mental health agency. (c) "Community crisis responder clinician" means a behavioral health practitioner specifically trained in community crisis response. (d) "Community crisis responder peer" means an individual with experience related to mental illness or substance use disorder who is specifically trained in community crisis response. (e) "Community crisis response" means a program in which appropriate calls to existing 9-1-1 dispatch centers and other existing crisis lines, including the Michigan crisis and access line and 9-8-8 systems as those systems are implemented in this state, are responded to by 1 or more community crisis responder clinicians or community crisis responder peers, alone or, when public safety needs require, with law enforcement for the purposes of stabilization, de-escalation, harm reduction, screening and assessment, and connection to mental health, substance use disorder, social, health, or other services and supports as needed. (f) "Council" means the mental health diversion council established under the department or another council or body as determined appropriate by the department. (g) "Local unit of government" means a city, village, township, or county or a delegate of a city, village, township, or county, for the purpose of grant application and implementation. (h) "Telehealth" means that term as defined in section 16283 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16283. History: Add. 2021, Act 162, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2021
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