Mental-Health Crisis Prevention Expert

Role Title: Mental-Health Crisis Prevention Expert

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

micro1 is engaging Mental-Health Crisis Prevention Experts to contribute to a customer-focused project centering on mental-health safety and crisis prevention frameworks. In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters. This engagement is ideal for contributors passionate about advancing safe digital mental-health practices and creating resources that support individuals at risk.

Scope of Work

• Develop and refine structured taxonomies related to self-harm, eating disorders, emotional dependency, and suicide prevention.
• Design comprehensive frameworks for detecting potentially harmful advice or crisis signals within digital environments.
• Create and validate rubrics for clinical response standards that prioritize mental-health safety and crisis intervention protocols.
• Establish benchmark guidelines to evaluate risk, support vulnerable individuals, and minimize harm across digital platforms.
• Contribute expert insight to the development of mental-health safety evaluation tools, focusing on adolescent and adult populations.
• Review, annotate, and classify real-world scenarios for AI training, ensuring high accuracy and ethical alignment.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary expert community to ensure all deliverables meet the highest standards of clinical credibility and care.

Preferred Qualifications

• Licensed clinician (therapist, psychiatrist, or psychologist) with significant crisis-care and clinical safety experience.
• 5+ years of direct practice within mental-health crisis response, adolescent mental-health, or related care settings; 8–20 years preferred for advanced assignments.
• Demonstrable expertise in self-harm prevention, suicide prevention, eating disorders, or emergency mental-health support.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; experience creating clinical documentation, guidelines, or evaluation frameworks.
• Advanced degree, professional certification, or equivalent proven operational experience in psychology, psychiatry, or similar domains.
• Experience with clinical risk assessment, digital mental-health platforms, or relevant research is a plus.
• Commitment to upholding ethical standards, privacy protections, and evidence-based practice in all project contributions.