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(1) "Coordinated care organization" has the meaning given that term in ORS 414.025.

(2) "Crisis stabilization center" means a facility licensed by the Oregon Health Authority that meets the requirements adopted by the authority by rule under ORS 430.627.

(3) "Crisis stabilization services" includes diagnosis, stabilization, observation and follow-up referral services provided to individuals in a community-based, developmentally appropriate homelike environment to the extent practicable.

(4) "Mobile crisis intervention team" means a team of qualified behavioral health professionals that may include peer support specialists, as defined in ORS 414.025, and other health care providers such as nurses or social workers who provide timely, developmentally appropriate and trauma-informed interventions, screening, assessment, de-escalation and other services necessary to stabilize an individual experiencing a behavioral health crisis in accordance with requirements established by the authority by rule.

(5) "Peer respite center" means voluntary, nonclinical, short-term residential peer support provided:

(a) In a homelike setting to individuals with mental illness, substance use disorder or trauma response symptoms who are experiencing acute distress, anxiety or emotional pain that may lead to the need for a higher level of care such as psychiatric inpatient hospital services; and

(b) By a peer-run organization and directed and delivered by individuals with lived experience in coping with, seeking recovery from or overcoming mental illness, substance use disorder or trauma response challenges.

(6) "Veterans Crisis Line" means the crisis hotline maintained by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and the United States Department of Health and Human Services. [2021 c.617 §1]

Note: 430.626 to 430.629 were enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but were not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 430 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.


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