Crossposted from Cultivating Connections

King County launched its new Mobile Rapid Response Crisis Teams (MRRCT)¹ in December and the expanded program is providing much-needed relief to our communities while we build more crisis care centers for people to go in a mental health, drug or alcohol related crisis.

Mobile crisis teams are trained mental health workers and peer specialists with lived experience of mental health or substance use challenges. They travel to help people in a crisis where they are. The teams work to calm, stabilize, and solve the crisis in the field and then connect people to supportive services.

“Who better to approach somebody in distress than somebody who has also been in the same kind of situation as the person they are meeting?” stated Allen Nyribo, an MRRCT manager. Read more.