Call (902) 429-8167 or 1-888-429-8167 (toll free)
The Mental Health Mobile Crisis Team (MHMCT) provides intervention and short term crisis management for children, youth and adults experiencing a mental health crisis. They offer 24/7 telephone intervention throughout Nova Scotia - (902) 429-8167 or 1-888-429-8167 (toll free) - and mobile response (1:00 pm to 1:00 am) in most communities in Halifax Regional Municipality.
Note that this video is four years old and it does not mention the 24/7 telephone crisis intervention service that is now available throughout Nova Scotia.
From this document:
Mental Health Crisis vs. Psychiatric Emergency
A mental health crisis is:
Thoughts of suicide, distorted or psychotic thinking, intense anxiety, depression, unable to cope.
- an acute disturbance of thinking, mood, behaviour or social relationship that requires an immediate intervention;
- which involves an element of unpredictability, usually accompanied by a lack of response to social controls; and
- which may be defined as a crisis by the client, the family or other members of the community.*
A mental health crisis does not necessarily require hospital-based assessment/triage services and can be effectively supported in the community by a team of service providers.
A psychiatric emergency is when a person is an immediate danger to him/herself due to compromised thinking and/or judgement. A psychiatric emergency requires hospital-based treatment services – Call 911 or attend a local emergency department.
* Consistent with B.C.’s Mental Health Reform Crisis Response / Emergency Services
Also see:
Mental Health Mobile Crisis Team
Mental Health Mobile Crisis Team - Overview Document (2007)
Video focuses on mental health (2013)
N.S. mental health supports reach rural areas (2013)
Meet Halifax's mental health mobile crisis team (2012)
