Make a support and crisis plan
Write early warning signs, daily supports, care steps, trusted contacts, safer-environment actions, crisis services, and emergency steps.
Mental Health Minute: Stress and Anxiety in Adolescents
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During the course primer, listen for ideas that change how you approach “Make a support and crisis plan.” Pause once to capture a useful point, then apply it while producing a private support and crisis plan with warning levels, actions, contacts, safer-environment steps, backup access, and review date.What this lesson is really solving.
Write early warning signs, daily supports, care steps, trusted contacts, safer-environment actions, crisis services, and emergency steps. This is lesson 6 because later decisions depend on a private support and crisis plan with warning levels, actions, contacts, safer-environment steps, backup access, and review date. A plan written during a steadier moment is easier to use when thinking and energy are limited. Use your own numbers, files, environment, and constraints so the result survives outside the course.
Understand the idea before touching the steps.
A plan written during a steadier moment is easier to use when thinking and energy are limited.
Follow these steps in order.
Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.
- 1
List your early signs, strong warning signs, reasons for living or staying safe, grounding steps, safer places, and people who can be contacted.
- 2
Add clinician, pharmacy, crisis, 988, local mobile crisis, urgent care, emergency department, 911, transport, and insurance information as applicable.
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Review the plan with a qualified professional or trusted support when possible, store it accessibly, and set a date to update it.
See the standard in context.
Casey saves the plan offline, shares the relevant part with a trusted friend, and reviews it with a clinician after the first visit. The learner saves a private support and crisis plan with warning levels, actions, contacts, safer-environment steps, backup access, and review date and notes the evidence or assumption behind the choice so it can be reviewed and improved later.
Inspect before you move on.
- The finished work visibly includes a private support and crisis plan with warning levels, actions, contacts, safer-environment steps, backup access, and review date.
- You tested the work against this common failure: Creating a vague list that omits urgent contacts, transport, access barriers, or what a trusted person should actually do.
- Another person could verify this mastery standard: The plan gives concrete actions at each warning level and can be found and used quickly by you or an authorized supporter.
Your deliverable
A private support and crisis plan with warning levels, actions, contacts, safer-environment steps, backup access, and review date.
Watch for this
Creating a vague list that omits urgent contacts, transport, access barriers, or what a trusted person should actually do.
Prove it—don’t just recognize it.
The plan gives concrete actions at each warning level and can be found and used quickly by you or an authorized supporter.
Quick knowledge check
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