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Experiencing a mental health crisis? Get help now

If you or someone you love is experiencing a mental health crisis, help is available immediately. Lakeview Center provides 24/7 crisis services in Northwest Florida, offering fast, compassionate support when it matters most.

Crisis & emergency care
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Recognizing a crisis

Lakeview Center’s emergency and acute care services teams provide specialized support to youth, adults and families who are showing signs of mental health issues that threaten stability within the home, school or community settings. Symptoms may include, but are not limited to:

  • Anger
  • Self-injury
  • Suicidal or homicidal thoughts or behavior
  • Extreme parent/child conflict
  • Seeing or hearing things
  • Depression or anxiety
Experiencing a crisis? Call now
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Mobile Response Team (MRT)

Our Mobile Response Team (MRT) provides immediate crisis intervention for individuals, families and communities throughout Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, and Walton counties.

  • Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  • Responds within 60 minutes by phone or in person
  • Provides on-site support wherever you are

MRT works to:

  • Reduce trauma
  • Prevent unnecessary hospitalizations
  • Divert individuals from emergency rooms or the justice system

After the crisis, the team connects individuals to ongoing care, including therapy, substance use treatment and psychiatric services

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Central Receiving Facility (CRF)

Lakeview Center’s Central Receiving Facility (CRF) serves adults in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties who are experiencing a mental health crisis and may need a Baker Act or Marchman Act screening. Our team:

  • Provides crisis screening and assessment
  • Stabilizes individuals in a safe setting
  • Connects patients to appropriate inpatient or follow-up care

The CRF ensures a coordinated, streamlined response and helps individuals transition quickly to the next level of care.

Experiencing a crisis? Call now
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What happens after a crisis?

As Northwest Florida’s leaving behavioral health provider, Lakeview Center connects individuals in mental health crisis to the services that best support long-term recovery, including:

Our goal is to provide a full continuum of care, helping individuals move from crisis to stability and recovery.

Experiencing a crisis? Call now