Crisis Services: How Mobile Crisis Response Teams Support Their Communities
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Description
(February 2026)
Mobile Crisis Response Teams are short-term, intensive services provided during a mental health crisis or emergency. They can help people cope with immediate stressors, identify and use resources, develop action plans, and can help avoid hospitalization. Teams are available throughout Minnesota and serve children and adults. In this webinar, staff from the Western Mental Health Center will share about the Mobile Crisis Response Team in their area and their co-responder program.
Jory Dove, LPCC, LADC is the Clinical Director at Western Mental Health Center in Marshall, MN. Jory has been a part of the Mobile Crisis Response Team for the last 6 years. Jory also started the Lyon County Co-Responder Program back in 2021.
Megan Benedict MSW, LICSW has been employed at Western Mental Health Center since September 2014 and a member of the Mobile Crisis Team since January 2016. She became the Program Supervisor in August of 2021. The majority of her employment is working with ages 0-18 as a Mental Health Professional in their School Linked and in-home programs. Her education includes a Bachelor’s in Social Work and Child Advocacy Studies Certification at Winona State University and a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of South Dakota.
watch time: 46 minutes
Eligible Certificate of Completion time: 50 minutes