Specifications include, but are not limited to: Minnesota has encountered a serious crisis in children and adult intensive services, particularly among inpatient treatment providers due to workforce shortages. Before the additional impacts of the pandemic, Minnesota’s intensive behavioral health services system has faced growing pressure stemming from increased complexity in individual’s behavioral health needs as well as a dearth of treatment options at the inpatient level. Increases in aggression and risk have meant children and adults requiring more intensive options for treatment as well as more robust intensive community services to act as a safety net to prevent out of home placement and/or inpatient hospitalization are needed but severely lacking. The goal of the mobile transition team is to ensure children and adults nearing the completion of their treatment are provided assistance in identifying aftercare/ discharge options in addition to those services already being offered within the program. Mobile transition teams will engage directly with hospitals to assist in carrying out aspects of the treatment plan related to step-down and transition to lower levels of care or community-based services.
