Crisis Receiving Center

They provide outpatient and telemedicine. Whichever one you start at the usual pattern is to step down through the levels rather than stop at once, and Smithfield is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Suffolk, 4.3 miles away.

They offer a pregnancy program. Call rather than wait, because this is the one case where timing changes the options and Suffolk may not have a second place set up for it.

They treat young people from 12 up, so a parent calling from Suffolk about a teenager is in the right place.

Outpatient only, and nothing within 14 miles of Suffolk has beds either, so a residential stay would mean traveling further than that.

Compare what each one actually provides rather than how each one describes itself. Paying a marketing company for referrals is common in this field, so who answers the phone is not always who treats you. Ask what kind of person this program would turn down, because a real answer exists.

Family sessions, education evenings and a visiting schedule are the usual shape of it. Visiting is usually restricted in the first week and opens up later. Ask how often the family sessions meet and whether they happen in person.

Somebody works through a short list, and the clinical detail comes later at an assessment. The person answering is usually trained to screen rather than to treat, so a full history is not needed yet. It is fine to say you are only gathering information.