AID Launches Mobile Crisis Response Program

Association for Individual Development (AID) launched a new “Mobile Crisis Response Team” (MCR-T) 24/7 service to provide in-person crisis intervention to Kendall County and Southern Kane County residents. AID MCR-T works with the National 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, AID Crisis Line of the Fox Valley (630-966-9393), local law enforcement, members of the community and other community organizations to receive referrals for in-person response.

MCR-T is available to any community member in our service area regardless of age, income or health insurance coverage. During the intervention, MCR-T will work with the individual in crisis to identify the needs related to the crisis. Once that is determine and the person is stabilized, MCR-T will provide referrals to community resources and therapy services such as the AID Behavioral Health Outpatient Community program.

“One goal of the MCR-T is to prevent the need for law enforcement to become involved in someone’s mental health crisis. It is also thought that by implementing mobile crisis response, it will reduce the number of people spending un-necessary amounts of time waiting to be seen in the hospital for a mental health crisis. If the mental health crisis does not pose an immediate dangerous risk to the person or the people around them, MCR-T should be considered as an option for immediate mental health crisis support.” Explained Alyssa Marrero, Program Manager of Mobile Crisis Response Team. “I am confident that the implementation of Mobile Crisis Response in our communities is one of the first steps towards a complete transformation in how mental health care will be treated in the future.”

For more information about the “Mobile Crisis Response Team”, call Alyssa at (630) 746-7738 or e-mail amarrero@aidcares.org.

To refer yourself or someone you know to the AID Mobile Crisis Response Team please call 988 or the MCR-T helpline at (630) 966-4357. A trained mental health professional is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to assist with connecting callers to the appropriate crisis intervention team in your area.

Celebrating more than 60 years of providing customized, consumer-focused programs and services in an equitable, inclusive manner, AID works with individuals with developmental, intellectual, physical and/or mental health challenges, those who have suffered a trauma, those experiencing immediate and/or chronic crises and those at risk to overcome personal, behavioral, societal and environmental barriers to achieve recovery, independence, self-reliance and to live the lives they choose.: Customized programs include: autism programs; permanent supportive housing; in-home support; career planning and vocational preparation; job placement and on-the-job coaching services; crisis support; street outreach; victims services; behavioral intervention; health and wellness; community education; and advocacy.

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