The role of a Crisis Stabilization Unit is to provide stabilization and treatment services to persons who are in psychiatric crisis. Many people with mental illness can be treated at the unit and returned to the community without an inpatient admission to the state psychiatric hospital. The beds offer time-limited residential treatment services designed to serve adults with severe mental health episodes that if not addressed would likely result in the need for inpatient treatment. The more quickly a person receives treatment, as opposed to being “held” without treatment, the less likely his or her condition will worsen. An individual can receive involuntary and voluntary treatment at a Crisis Stabilization Unit. After treatment, individuals will already be connected with their local Community Mental Health Center. As of July 2020 there were 13 Crisis Stabilization Units that include 172 beds. Previously, there were eight, 16-bed Crisis Stabilization Units across the state. The funding shift from DMH programs to the DMH Service Budget in FY19 allowed additional crisis stabilization beds to open in CMHC regions that did not have CSUs: LifeCore Health Group (Region 3) opened eight crisis beds in Tupelo; Community Counseling Services (Region 7) opened eight beds in West Point; Singing River (Region 14) opened eight beds in Gautier; Hinds Behavioral Health Services (Region 9) opened 12 beds in Jackson; and Region One Mental Health Center opened eight beds in Marks. In FY20, the CSUs served 3,525 individuals. In FY21, the CSUs served 3,022 individuals. In October 2021, the additional funding that had been made available to Region 11 was utilized to open an eight-bed CSU in Natchez, bringing the total CSU beds in the state to 184. In FY22, the CSUs served 3,108 individuals.