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Mental Health Examiner Description
The Carbon County Mental Health Examiner provides:
- Mental health examinations
- Clinical assessments
- Documentation and/or medical notation
- Recommendations to the Carbon County Attorney’s Office for any person who has been placed on an Emergency Detention as required by Wyoming State Statutes
On a weekly basis the Mental Health Examiner also provides:
- Initial mental health assessment services to inmates incarcerated in the Carbon County Detention Center
The Mental Health Examiner also provides:
- Brief mental health services, assessments and intervention
- To assist and evaluate inmates for adjustment to the incarceration environment
The Examiner will also:
- Complete a risk assessment on potentially suicidal inmates in the Detention Center
- Provide any necessary follow-up assessments
The Mental Health Examiner
- Is a member of the Sheriff’s Office medical file review team
- Will assist medical staff and the administrative team at the jail with a review of an inmate’s medications and behavioral health concerns
The Mental Health Examiner provides:
- Annual Suicide Prevention Training to
- Carbon County Sheriff’s Office detention staff
- New employees
- Annual Suicide Prevention Training and Mental health training for
- Other Carbon County law enforcement agencies
- Other community agencies and organizations upon request
Help is Available Now!
- If you or someone you know is in immediate danger of harming themselves
- Please call 911.
- If you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts
- Call the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
- 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
- Or text “WYO” to 741-741 for the Crisis Text Line
- People call/text to talk about lots of things:
- Financial troubles
- Relationships
- Sexual identity
- Depression
- Illness
- Loneliness
- And Others
- Call the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
- Talking with someone about your thoughts and feelings can save your life. The U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the Crisis Text Line operate 24/7 and offer free support to anyone.
Resources:
- Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS):
- Suicide Fact Sheet:
- Wyoming Suicide Prevention Resource Guide: With Help Comes Hope
- Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS):
- Suicide Fact Sheet:
- Wyoming Suicide Prevention Resource Guide: With Help Comes Hope
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Denise Rice
LCSW, ACSW, LAT