Matching the best-suited professional to each call
If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis on campus, call (951) 827-5531. Select option 1 for a crisis consultation 24/7. In the event of an emergency, please call 911 and/or UCR Police & Campus Safety at (951) 827-5222.
Student Well-Being Intervention & Follow-Up Team (SWIFT)
Student Well-being, Intervention, and Follow-up Team (SWIFT) is a newly created department in the Division of Health, Well-being, & Safety (HWS) focused on crisis response and intervention. The SWIFT team’s mission is to strengthen the response to students experiencing a mental health crisis by providing a means to dispatch a mobile mental health counseling team, enhancing the ability to provide access to resources, and minimizing the need for law enforcement.
For more information or non urgent questions, email swift-hws@ucr.edu.
SWIFT Services
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Provides trauma informed crisis support, stabilization and de-escalation to UCR students on campus.
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Provides on-site risk assessment and evaluation and treatment planning.
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Provides no-cost transportation to higher levels of care when needed via the SWIFT van.
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Provides follow-up care, including linking students to aftercare resources, ongoing treatment, supportive services on and off campus.
Student in Crisis?
For a quick guide on supporting students in crisis consult the Red Folder. If this is a life-threatening emergency, call 9-1-1 or go to your nearest hospital emergency room.
SWIFT Mobile Crisis Van
Supporting Highlanders in Crisis
The SWIFT Mobile Crisis Response Van is a transportation service brought to you by Mental Health & Equity funds to aid highlanders to access specialty and higher-level behavioral health services when needed. A critical objective is to ensure that individuals experiencing a mental health crisis while on the UCR campus are provided with the highest level of care and support possible with the least restrictive means and highest level of access.
What is the SWIFT Mobile Crisis Van used for?
- The SWIFT Van provides transportation to access specialty and higher-level behavioral health services when needed to behavioral health or sexual violence related support and treatment services.
- The SWIFT Van will be dispatched as needed within HWS departments pertaining to SWIFT services (see main menu) to support UCR community members and is not available for general transportation use.
- If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis on campus, call (951) 827-5531. Select option 1 for a crisis consultation 24/7 over the phone.
- This is not an ambulance or emergency service.
- In the event of an emergency, please call 911 and/or UCR Police & Campus Safety at (951) 827-5222.
