Mental Health Trainings

Community-Based Crisis Intervention Training

This training covers assessment and removal to hospital care as outlined in the Mental Hygiene Law 9.58. The objectives of this training are to:

1. Acquire foundational skills for community-based mental health outreach, engagement, and safety.
2. Understand and apply an anti-bias, anti-racist lens when engaging with and assessing people in behavioral health care contexts.
3. Recognize the potential impact of alcohol and drug use during assessments in behavioral health contexts.
4. Identify predictors of violence when assessing individuals of behavioral health service delivery.
5. Execute removals to hospital care under Mental Hygiene Law 9.58, including:
• Understanding eligibility criteria and circumstances for 9.58 removals
• Knowing who can perform assessments and the assessment process
• Completing necessary paperwork and understanding the distribution process
• Collaborating effectively with EMS and NYPD
• Implementing supervision, reporting, and evaluation practices

Training facilitators are behavioral health professionals with extensive field-based expertise in working with individuals facing mental health, substance use, and other challenges.

If you have questions about the training, contact 958training@health.nyc.gov.

Participants

This training is designed for mobile outreach staff at all levels who provide crisis and community outreach to people in a mental health crisis or who are experiencing homelessness.

The training provides 9.58 designation under the Mental Hygiene Law for qualified mental health professionals, including social workers (LMSW/LCSW), psychologists (PhD/PsyD), registered professional nurses, and physicians operating on a mobile outreach team approved by the NYS Commissioner of Mental Health. As training capacity is limited, these professionals get priority.

Social workers who complete the full training will receive continuing education units.

Timing and Registration

The 14-hour training is virtual and must be taken over two consecutive days. It is offered once a month. Registration for each training closes one week in advance.

Register for Community-Based Crisis Intervention (9.58) Training.

Involuntary Removal Training

This training covers the involuntary removal of people in possible need of immediate hospitalization, under certification of a physician designated by the Director of Community Services as outlined in the Mental Hygiene Law 9.37.

The training reviews the law and the procedures involved in involuntary admission.

If you have questions about the training, contact 958training@health.nyc.gov.

Participants

This training is for psychiatrists who work as part of a mobile crisis or other outreach team and wish to be able to authorize involuntary removals.

Timing and Registration

This is a one-hour virtual training offered on the third Friday of every month.

Register for Mental Hygiene Law (9.37) Training.

Required Documents for Registration and Attendance

You must provide the following documents when you register for or attend either training:

• Verification of employment
• Current copy of employment ID
• Verification letter of role on a removal team
• Name and approval by supervisor (letter on business letterhead)
• New York State identification — provide one of the following:
• State driver’s license
• State Enhanced or REAL ID
• Verification of New York State Department of Education Registered License
• Send copy of current registration of license listed in the Office of the Professions by the State Department of Education.