2016 Mobile Response & Stabilization Services (MRSS)
Peer Meeting 

 

 

Dates:

• April 20-21, 2016 (ride-along with NJ Mobile Response Unit on April 19)

• December 7-8, 2016 (ride-along with NJ Mobile Response Unit on December 6)

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Location: New Brunswick, NJ

 

Faculty: 

• National TA Network: Dayana Simons

• Milwaukee, WI: Bruce Kamradt, Steve Dykstra, Chris Morano

• Connecticut: Tim Marshall, Jeff Vanderploeg,

• New Jersey: Elizabeth Manley, Ruby Goyal-Carkeek, Wyndee Davis

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Description: Mobile response and stabilization services play an important role in preventing emergency room use, psychiatric hospitalization, residential treatment, and placement disruptions among children, youth, and young adults experiencing a behavioral health crisis. Innovative models include home- and community-based stabilization and case management services, on-site face-to-face therapeutic response; assessment; crisis intervention and stabilization; psychiatric consultation; psychopharmacology; and referrals and linkages to other services and supports. In this cooperative peer convening, participating states will gather in New Brunswick, New Jersey for two days of collaborative work with experts from Wraparound Milwaukee, Connecticut and New Jersey, focused on strategies for developing, implementing and sustaining mobile response and stabilization services for children, youth, and young adults in their states. There will also be an opportunity for 1-2 individuals from each state team to 'ride along' with a mobile response unit for 'hands-on' observation of New Jersey's model the day before the meeting begins.