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EMERGENCY SERVICES | NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES

Provides telephone and face-to-face crisis intervention services for individuals whose emotional distress may range in severity from difficulty in coping with daily stress to the crisis of a psychotic episode. Enhanced Mobile Crisis Services provide rapid mobile response for individuals experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder crisis. A trained two-person team can meet the individual at home, workplace, or another community setting, providing support and comfort including safety plans, peer support, care coordination and follow up and, if needed, temporary overnight accommodation.

Last Assured

10/03/2024

Physical Address

181 Crawford Road, Newport, VT 05855

Hours

24Hours/365Days

Voice

(802) 334-6744

Other | Also 24-Hour Emergency Services

Fax

(802) 334-7455

Voice

(800) 696-4979

Toll-Free | Regular Business Hours

Application process

By Telephone

Eligibility

Anyone of any age experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder crisis

Service area

Caledonia County, Vermont Orleans County, Vermont Essex County, Vermont

Agency info

NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES

Northeast Kingdom Human Services (NKHS) is the designated community mental health agency for Caledonia, Essex and Orleans Counties under contract with Vermont Department of Mental to provide acute and long-term behavioral health care services to people with a wide range of emotional, behavioral and other mental health problems, substance abuse and/or developmental challenges. NKHS provides emergency and crisis intervention services for adults, children, adolescents and their families; and substance use treatment services, including the Public Inebriate Program and the IDRP (Impaired Driver Rehabilitation Program).