DCPAP Warm Line (302) 513-0929

Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.



DCPAP Webpage

DCPAP January Quick Stats

DCPAP Live Psychiatric Consultation

DCPAP Training – Bullying & Cyberbullying

Be A DCPAP Champion

NAMI DE Events To Add To Your Calendar

Black History Month: Focus on Health & Wellness

Resource Spotlight: Mobile Response & Stabilization Services (MRSS)

Resource Links: New DPBHS Prevention Helpline & More

In The News: Surgeon General Reports on

Impact of COVID on Children’s Mental Health

Childhood Adversity Effect on Adult Illness & Mental Health

What American Mental Health Care Is Missing

Eating Disorder Awareness Week

DCPAP Connecting the Docs: “How To” 

Let’s Connect: Reach the DCPAP Team

MHA-Black History Month

Fox13 Article–‘Black Minds Matter’: Focusing on mental health

and African Americans in February

NAMI–Identity-and-Cultural-Dimensions–Black-African-American

Black Brown Delaware Therapists

The Mental Health Coalition–Black History Month

UDaily–How Are Black Girls Doing? by Andrea Boyle Tippett

The MRSS program provides a risk assessment and support services for up to 30 days for children and youth in crisis. The "crisis" is determined by the family/caller and typically includes an increase in concerns related to behavioral health that is impacting the functioning of the child.  Upon calling the MRSS crisis call center, a caller will connect with a call center clinician/dispatcher who will identify the concerns of the caller and determine a course of action regarding the support needed for the child in crisis. If a risk assessment is needed at that time, a clinician will be dispatched to complete the assessment within an hour of the call. The risk assessment consists of questions that identify a variety of risk-related concerns such as suicidal ideation, self-injurious behavior, risk of harm to others, substance use, fire setting behavior, trauma, increasing depression, anxiety, or conflict, etc. The average length of a risk assessment is approximately 2 hours. Once the assessment is complete, the clinician collaborates with the family as well as a licensed clinical supervisor to make a plan for maintaining the safety of the child. A course of action such as voluntary or involuntary admission to an inpatient psychiatric facility or safety planning and connecting with behavioral health support in the community will be considered. Collaboratively, the crisis clinician, the child, and the child's legal guardian will create strategies for stabilizing the immediate safety of the child and choose providers that best meet their needs for ongoing treatment. 

If you are seeking support for a child under the age of 18 in crisis, please contact the MRSS call center 24/7 at 1-800-969-4357.

Delaware Helpline – 211

Delaware HOPE Line

24 Hours/7 Days Week

1-833-946-7333

Division of Prevention & Behavioral Health Services

Mental Health Resources

Mental Health Association Delaware (MHA)

NAMI and NAMI Delaware

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 

Psychology Today

Treatment Connection

February 8, 2022 by Kelly Livingston

Photo by Susan Walsh/AP 

Pandemic's impact on youth mental health 'devastating':

Surgeon General

Dr. Vivek Murthy said addressing the issue is "not just medical, it's moral."

February 13, 2022 by Thomas Insel, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002-2015. He is the author of Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health.

What American Mental Health Care Is Missing



Scientific research alone cannot address the challenges that Americans with mental illness face.

National Eating Disorder Awareness Week is February 21 – 27, 2022

Thank you to Drs. Peebles & Weaver from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)

for their recent presentation around Managing Pediatric Eating Disorders.

Check out our learning management system in the near future to view this presentation (and others). Enduring CME credit or certificate of participation available for all trainings.

Register Here

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

Let's Connect!

Phone:

Warm Line (302) 513-0929

Monday-Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

DCPAP Webpage:

https://kids.delaware.gov/dcpap/



Email:

DCPAP Team

DSCYF_DCPAP@delaware.gov

Richard Margolis, MD,

Project Director

richard.margolis@delaware.gov

Joseph Hughes, MBA,

Project Manager

joseph.a.hughes@delaware.gov

Mindy Webb, LCSW,

Behavioral Health Care Coordinator

mindy.webb@delaware.gov

DCPAP Disclaimer Details:

Requests to DCPAP result in the sharing of clinical concerns and considerations based on information presented during professional-to-professional psychiatric consultation. It does not infer a direct patient contact by the consulting psychiatrist nor a direct psychiatric evaluation of a specific patient. Clinical assessment may not be complete and may require further direct patient and record assessment by the treating clinician, or referral of the patient for direct assessment by a psychiatrist or appropriate mental health professional.