NAMI Finger Lakes Crisis File

for Serious Situations Involving Mental Illness





If  a crisis erupts with your or your ill loved one, then use these Emergency Numbers for Ithaca, NY (we call this The Crisis File).  This is information we hand out in our NAMI Finger Lakes Family-to-Family course, and we have posted it here so that anyone can access it.

 

These numbers will put you contact with not only emergency services, but also agencies and people who can help with related issues (such as treatment, homelessness, trouble with the law, unemployment, etc.). 

 

If your home situation has deteriorated to the point where your ill relative must leave or must be taken to the hospital for treatment, then we have prepared a sample Intervention Plan. 

 

Note that the Ithaca and Tompkins County Area Code is  607

 

NAMI Finger Lakes Crisis File Emergency Numbers

                (Ithaca and Tompkins County: Area Code is 607)

 
Medical/illness/fire: 911

Suicide Prevention & Crisis Service of Tompkins County: 272-1616

Hospital: Cayuga Medical Center: 274-4011 Web page: (http://www.cayugamed.org)
  • Behavioral Services Unit Desk 274-4304
  • Behavioral Services Unit Patient phone 274-4336 (answered only during visiting hours)

Police: (Cornell and Ithaca College information listed below)

          

             Ithaca Police: Emergency Police Number: 24 hours/day: 272-3245

  • Critical Incidents Team: 272-9973 Press 2 for Dispatch: Describe the situation. Dispatch will decide if Critical Incidents Team is needed.

  • Mike Gray: 272-9973 ext 2

   Cayuga Heights Police: 257-1011 Will get voice mail if office is not open.

   If you need help, don’t      leave a message – press 1. Call will go to dispatch.

   Tompkins County Sheriff (779 Warren Road) Administration: 257-1345
    Sheriff’s office: 272-2444

   NY State Police (1850 Dryden Road, Freeville, NY 13068) 607-273-4671 or 347-4440
   Sergeant/Station Commander: Kelly A. Daley (kdaley@troopers.state.ny.us)

Mental Health Clinic (201 E. Green St.):
   Administration: Commissioner: Bob DeLuca: 274-6300 (rdeluca@tompkins-co.org)
   Administrative Assistant: Judy Degrusso

   Medical Director: John Bezirganian, M.D.

   Dual Recovery Coordinator: Richard Shaw:274-6300

   SPOA – Single point of access: Richard Shaw:274-6300

   Out Patient Clinic (Court-ordered intake) 3rd Floor: 274-6230
   Outpatient Supervisor: Susan Spicer
   Forensics: Linda Riley
 

   General Intake (Adults & Children) 4th Floor: 274-6200
   Supervisor General Intake: Margrethe Bang-Termansen

NAMI-Finger Lakes (www.namifingerlakes.org)

     Office 273-2462 or Deb Grantham 277-5148

     E-Mail:  namifl@lightlink.com

     NAMI-Finger Lakes Support Group Facilitator: Jean Walters 273-2462

NAMI - New York State (www.naminys.org)

     1-518-462-2000 or 1-800-950-3228: 

Family & Children’s Services of Ithaca (www.fcsith.org)
   127 West State Street 273-7494 Web page: (http://)

Mental Health Association of Tompkins County (www.mhaedu.org)
   Adult services coordinator: David Bulkley - 273-9250
   614 W. State Street, Ithaca, NY 14850

American Red Cross/emergency housing www.tompkins redcross.org/homeless_shelter.html 
   John Ward: Homeless Services Director
   (607) 273-1900 Extension 27 (jward@tompkins-redcross.org)

Lakeview: (Housing) - www.lakeviewcommunitiesgroup.org
   114 S Geneva St (607) 277-4768

NYS State Office of Mental Health: (www.omh.state.ny.us)
   (212) 831-7007

Cornell University Public Safety
   Emergency Dispatch - 255-1111
   Administration - 255-7302

Ithaca College Campus Safety
   Emergency Dispatch - 274-3353

Tompkins Work Force New York (www.tompkinsworkforceny.org)
   Disability Program Navigator: Kevin Nickerson 722-7570 ext. 136
 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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