Behavioral Health Training Partnership

Advanced Crisis Core Training Opportunities

The Behavioral Health Training Partnership at the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay provides training for crisis workers, as required by Wisconsin DHS Chapter 34: Emergency Mental Health Service Programs. Upon completion of the Crisis Core Training, you have the opportunity to continue developing your crisis response skills through participation in advanced crisis trainings.

These advanced crisis trainings will not only satisfy the minimum requirement for mobile crisis response teams, but include specialty topics to further enhance your crisis knowledge, skills, and service delivery. Please ensure that you have already completed the Crisis Core Orientation training series.

Mobile Crisis Reponse Team Training 

Mental health and substance use crises have been increasing throughout the pandemic, and the federal government has recognized the need for an improved mobile crisis response. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Medicaid Services received planning grant funds to design an enhanced mobile crisis service, and partnered with the Behavioral Health Training Partnership at UW-Green Bay to create a new Mobile Crisis Response Team curriculum.  

This training curriculum will prepare mobile crisis workers to better respond in the community to individuals experiencing mental health and/or substance abuse challenges, operating in teams and in a way that increases the utilization of telehealth services. The expectation is that this training will allow for new potential mobile team members to work mobile crisis to help alleviate the current workforce shortage, and the utilization of telehealth teaming in mobile crisis will assist various rural or geographically spatial counties in providing mobile crisis services via teaming and with the ability to connect with specialty providers. Finally, these improved teaming services will better assist Wisconsin residents in working through their mental health and/or substance abuse crises through a more integrated system.

This mobile crisis response team training curriculum was supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $853,504.00 with 100 percent funded by CMS/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CMS/HHS, or the U.S. Government.