Campus Assessment & Stabilization Team | California State University Long Beach

Campus Assessment & Stabilization Team | California State University Long Beach
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Campus Assessment & Stabilization Team (CAST)
Mobile mental health team supporting the Long Beach community with a humanistic response to urgent matters at CSULB.
Who is CAST
CAST is a team of mobile mental health professionals, in collaboration with law enforcement, responding to crisis and urgent needs of the CSULB campus and surrounding community with a humanistic and trauma-informed approach.
CAST Services
CSULB has made mental health a campus-wide focus and priority. CAST will support students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding community experiencing a mental health and/or behavioral health crisis.
CAST Goals With Outreach
Reduction in voluntary/involuntary psychiatric hospitalization
Reduction in use of force during a crisis situation
Link participant to at least one support resource
How CAST Supports
CAST will effectively engage individuals, triage their needs, and link them to on and off campus resources through community partnerships. CAST can support with the following:
Emergency/Crisis Calls
Referrals
Conducting Welfare Checks
Outreach and Educational Activities
Ways We Support
CAST looks at all resources on and off campus to support the needs of each member of our Long Beach community. On Campus services:
Alcohol & Drug Support Services
Basic Needs Services
(Meal Assistance, Emergency Housing, Emergency Aid)
BMAC / Disability Services
Campus Assessment, Response, and Evaluation for Students (CARES)
Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS)
Domestic Violence Services
Eating Disorder Services
Employment Services
LGBTQ Services
Student Health Services
Title IX
Ways to Initiate CAST
Call 911
or the
University Police
Non-Emergency Line at
(562) 985-4101