Singing River Services: Mobile Crisis Response Teams
What are Mobile Crisis Response Teams?
In an effort to expand crisis services in the community, DMH has provided grants to the local Community Mental Health Centers to establish Mobile Crisis Response Teams.
Mobile Crisis Response Teams provide community-based crisis services that deliver a solution-focused and recovery-oriented behavioral health assessments and stabilization of crisis in the location where the individual is experiencing the crisis.
Mobile Crisis Response Teams work hand-in-hand with local law enforcement, Chancery Judges and Clerks, and the Crisis Stabilization Units to ensure a seamless process.
Mobile Crisis Response Teams ensure an individual has a follow-up appointment with their preferred provider and monitor the individual until the appointment takes place.
Who can be served by a Mobile Crisis Response Teams?
Mobile Crisis Response Teams target individuals experiencing a situation where the individual’s behavioral health needs exceeds the individual’s resources to effectively handle the circumstances.
How can Mobile Crisis Response Teams help?
Without mobile crisis intervention, an individual experiencing a crisis may be inappropriately and unnecessarily placed in jail, holding facility, hospital, or inpatient treatment program. The goal is to respond in a timely manner to where the individual is experiencing the crisis or meet the individual at a designated location such as a local hospital.
Who makes up a Mobile Crisis Response Teams?
A Mobile Crisis Response Team is staffed with a Master’s level Mental Health Therapist, Community Support Specialist, and Peer Support Specialist.
How can I access a Mobile Crisis Response Team?
Individuals, families, law enforcement, clergy, ERs, chancery courts, and anyone concerned about an individual who is experiencing or at risk of a psychological crisis can request assistance from a Mobile Crisis Response Team. The teams are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week throughout a CMHC catchment area.
