The Brandywine Program's 24-hour emergency acute care services are designed to treat children and adolescents with severe mental-health problems and who are at risk for in-patient, psychiatric hospitalization.

When notified a child or an adolescent is in crisis, Brandywine Program clinicians go directly to the client to provide intensive crisis stabilization and mobile intervention. A team of master's level clinicians, led by a full-time clinical director, works with the child or teen and his or her family to develop effective solutions to current and potential problems. During this short-term program, consulting child and adolescent psychiatric teams provide treatment support.

• May be at risk for out-of-home mental-health treatment;
• Must have recently engaged in violent, self-destructive, or similar high-risk behavior;
• Must have family members willing to participate in intensive family therapy; and
• Must meet the eligibility criteria of the Division of Child Mental Health Services.