Urgent need, crisis, abuse concern, or service breakdown
Get immediate Missouri crisis help
Call 911 for immediate danger; otherwise call, text, or chat 988 for mental-health, suicide, substance-use, or emotional crisis support.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
Use Missouri 988 crisis servicesBefore you start
- Current location, immediate danger, communication needs, diagnoses, medications, medical risks, triggers, calming strategies, contacts, ISP, and recent changes.
Who to contact
Use the official Regional Office, TCM or Support Coordinator, MO HealthNet, provider-relations, hearing, Constituent Services, crisis, or protective-report route that owns this step.
Step by step
- For immediate danger or a medical, fire, or law-enforcement emergency, call 911.
- For mental-health, suicide, substance-use, or emotional crisis support, call or text 988 or use chat.
- After immediate safety, notify the Support Coordinator and provider and request documented follow-up and ISP review.
Expected next
A crisis response plus a named follow-up owner, referral, assessment, ISP update, or service correction.
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Contact times, responders, event facts, discharge material, notifications, referrals, and updated plan.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Escalate according to immediate risk and ask crisis and developmental-services teams to name the post-crisis owner.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Get immediate Missouri crisis help checklist
A Beyond Childhood planning aid derived from the cited official sources.
- Owner and program
- Date started
- Documents supplied
- Written result or confirmation
- Current open dependency
- Next event and date
- Escalation contact
Derived from Use Missouri 988 crisis services
Official resources
Limits
911, 988, mobile crisis, crisis centers, DDD, Support Coordination, and provider procedures have different roles.
Beyond Childhood’s checklists and prompts are planning aids derived from official sources. They are not official forms, legal advice, eligibility decisions, or guarantees of funding, capacity, quality, or service.