Youth Mobile Crisis Intervention Services

Psychiatric Emergency Services for Children and Young Adults

Our Youth Mobile Crisis Intervention (YMCI) Program is designed for children and young adults (20 years old and younger) and is staffed by qualified crisis professionals with extensive experience caring for children and young adults with mental health and/or substance use disorders.

Crisis clinicians and family partners travel directly to the child in crisis for an in-person assessment (telehealth services are also available) and work to de-escalate, assess, and stabilize the individual on-site. The team can also provide up to seven days of ongoing crisis counseling, support and stabilization for patients and their families. The YMCI team’s goal is to keep children safe and support families in their homes.

Youth Mobile Crisis Intervention is a key component of wraparound care: A comprehensive, holistic, family-focused approach to responding to children or youth experiencing severe mental health or behavioral challenges.

YMCI is available to anyone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Lawrence A/YMCI
12 Methuen Street
Second Floor
Lawrence, MA 01840
978-620-1250 / 877-255-1261

Communities Served: Andover, Lawrence, Methuen, and North Andover

If you live outside of these areas, please call 877-382-1609 and you will be directed to the closest mobile crisis services.

Areas We Serve

We serve communities in Greater Boston, the North Shore and the Merrimack Valley. From our Salem, Lawrence, Lowell and Haverhill sites, we serve anyone within these areas and the surrounding towns, including:

If you live outside these areas, please call 866-523-1216.