| Maine Mobile Crisis Response Team Has Responded To More Than 3,400 Mental Health-Related Calls For Service. WGME reporting on the milestone, writes “In 2025 alone [mobile crisis response teams] supported more than 3,400 interventions, serving communities from Androscoggin County to northern Cumberland County… offering immediate, on-site mental health support for children and adults in distress.” The teams, composed of trained mental health professionals, arrive on scene and immediately begin “conducting risk evaluations… performing mental status exams to determine a person’s psychological state; and [deploying] de-escalation techniques.” They can “travel to homes, schools, and community locations… to stabilize individuals in the moment and connect them to longer-term care options” and help reduce “hospital visits or law enforcement [involvement].” Lane County, Oregon Brings Youth Mobile Crisis Team In-House, Making Responder Team Full County Staffers, Similar To Fire, EMS And Law Enforcement. For LookOut, Ben Botkin reports on the county’s historic move away from third-party providers to staff the mobile crisis team, and instead, bring the mobile crisis team in-house, to make them county-level staffers. Lane County “has been providing mental health services to children and adolescents for over 50 years,” NBC News reported, and the mobile crisis component has been a recent and successful advancement of that effort, expanding the team with “responders specifically trained to serve youth through mobile crisis response.” The 24/7 teams provide “services for youth up to age 18, and coordinates with the county’s mobile crisis service program for adults to decide which cases to take for youth who are up to 20 years old… handled 2,659 calls for children and youth in crisis” in just 2025. |
