Comments Requested on Mobile Crisis Team Services: An Implementation Toolkit Draft

Jan 21, 2025

Public comments are being accepted for Mobile Crisis Team Services: An Implementation Toolkit, a document offering guidance intended to support communities in designing, implementing, and continuously improving their crisis care systems, ensuring that individuals in crisis receive timely and effective support.

The Toolkit is a companion resource to the 2025 National Guidelines for a Behavioral Health Coordinated System of Crisis Care (The National Guidance). The National Guidance is built on three foundational elements that are essential within an integrated crisis care system with the goal that everyone should have access to:

Someone to Contact: Services like the 988 Lifeline and other behavioral health hotlines provide immediate, accessible support
Someone to Respond: Services like Mobile Crisis Teams that deliver rapid, on-site interventions to de-escalate crises and connect individuals to care as well as Crisis Outreach Teams that provide complementary crisis prevention and postvention
A Safe Place for Help: A wide array of stabilization services for behavioral health crisis and emergencies where people can receive immediate treatment and support as well as services that can aid in crisis prevention and postvention

Comments may be submitted through March 21, 2025 using the Mobile Crisis Toolkit Public Comment Submission form.

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration