Northern Kentucky Mental Health Mental Retardation Regional Board

For more than 30 years, northkey community care has partnered with northern kentucky school districts by placing therapists in schools to provide the social, emotional and behavioral help students need. Currently, northkey serves over 42 schools in eight counties. Northkey therapists integrate with the school team and become a valuable resource for the students, parents and school personnel. Once on-site in the school, the therapist provides treatment and support for students including consultation and resources for parents and school staff. School based services make it possible to reach and provide services to clients who might otherwise go untreated because of transportation or scheduling conflicts.

Northkey's jail services provides assessment and training services for jails and other components of northern kentucky's justice system. Jail triage assesses local inmate risk of harm to self or others and provides some inmate crisis counseling. Consultative feedback is provided to the jails, which enact protective protocol or engage other inmate assistance. Northkey also conducts evaluations to assist courts in determining whether a person alleged to be incompetent requires a court-appointed guardian or conservator. Assessments aid criminal courts to determine a defendant's competence to stand trail and/or criminal responsibility at the time of an alleged offense. The northkey collaboration continues with law enforcement in the northern kentucky police crisis intervention teams (cit) effort. Cit is an internationally recognized model used to improve safety and overall interactions between law enforcement and individuals in behavioral health crises. Northkey and regional officers conduct two 40 hour cit trainings per year.