The Cost Effectiveness of Crisis Intervention Admission Diversion Savings Can Offset the High Cost of Service

Building Community Capacity to Help Persons with Mental Illness

“…There are important benefits from these diversion programs: mentally ill individuals are more likely to get the needed mental health services; law enforcement officers are able to focus on the conduct of their duties; public defenders, prosecutors and judges benefit from reduced case loads; and the community benefits from the cost savings of fewer incarcerations and unnecessary psychiatric hospitalizations (Bengelsdorf, Church, Kaye, Orlowski, & Alden, 1993).…”

Is phase‐specific, community‐oriented treatment of early psychosis‐ an economically viable method of improving outcome?

“…Many studies have examined only the costs of services. The absence of sufficient amounts of evaluation data from well-conducted studies of comprehensive models of care in real-world settings to link with costing data has enabled crucial decisions on funding of programmes to be made on cost criteria alone (19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25). Conversely, most economic evaluations of particular treatment models have occurred in 'demonstration sites', and may not be generalizable to naturalistic settings (26).…”

Helping Persons with Mental Illness: Partnerships between Police and Mobile Crisis Units

“…The few empirical evaluations that have been conducted found generally positive effects for MCUs such as higher satisfaction rates by PMI and their support persons served by MCUs (Ligon & Thyer, 2000) and greater levels of engagement in follow-up treatment (Kiseley et al, 2010). Additionally, studies have shown a decline in psychiatric hospital admissions with the use of MCUs (Bengelsdorf, Church, Kaye, Orlowski, & Alden, 1993;Guo et al, 2001;Reding & Raphelson, 1995;Scott, 2000). In fact Scott (2000), comparing law enforcement-based MCU calls to those that followed regular police procedure, found that MCU calls had fewer psychiatric hospitalizations and lower costs.…”