DBH Announces Creation of Bureau of Crisis Services

To streamline the department's efforts around behavioral health crisis systems, DBH has created a new Bureau of Crisis Services. The priorities of this bureau will be to:

• Bring together diversified crisis services under a single area;
• Establish accountability and responsibility for building, managing, and evolving a unified behavioral health crisis system within Ohio's community behavioral health system; and
• Assure interoperability and functioning for crisis services for a seamless and "invisible" experience for those in need.

The bureau will be led by Deputy Director Doug Day, who was recently promoted from his role in the Office of Behavioral Health Policy where he provided policy research, advice, support, and recommendations to many areas of the department, including senior leadership. Doug has been with the agency since 1995 when he joined the former Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS) as Medicaid Program Administrator.

The bureau will oversee all community crisis systems work, including the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Mobile Response and Stabilization Services (MRSS), and Adult Mobile Crisis Services.