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.
What are Mobile Crisis Emergency Response Teams?
Mobile Crisis Emergency Response Teams provide community-based crisis services that deliver solution-focused and recovery-oriented behavioral health assessments and stabilization of crisis in the location where the individual is experiencing the crisis.
Mobile Crisis Emergency 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 Emergency 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 Emergency Response Team?
Mobile Crisis Emergency Response Teams target individuals experiencing a situation where the individual’s behavioral health needs exceed the individual’s resources to effectively handle the circumstances.
Funding for the M-CeRTs is a result of monies provided by the Mississippi Legislature to address expanding community-based mental health services.
How can a Mobile Crisis Emergency Response Team help?
Without mobile crisis intervention, an individual experiencing a crisis may be inappropriately and unnecessarily place in a 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 the local hospital.
Who makes up a Mobile Crisis Emergency Response Team?
A Mobile Crisis Emergency 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 Emergency 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 Emergency Response Team. The Teams are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week through a CMHC catchment area.
For more information about accessing a Mobile Crisis Emergency Response Team in Lee, Itawamba, Union, Monroe, Benton, Pontotoc, or Chickasaw Counties, Call 1-866-255-9986
