A Primer on Crisis De-escalation

Jenna Suleski is a licensed mental health clinician and is a crisis services coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS). In her current role, she works with a multidisciplinary team providing assistance and oversight to emergency behavioral health programs and crisis services in Wisconsin. Jenna spent most of her career as a federal probation officer focusing on individuals with severe and persistent mental illness recently released to the community from incarceration. Jenna has worked in crisis services in both Milwaukee and Dane counties. As a crisis clinician in Milwaukee County, Jenna worked on a co-responder team with the Milwaukee Police Department responding to active behavioral health calls.