Peer Support in Mobile Crisis Teams

July 15-16, 2026, 8:30 - 11:30am CDT each day
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $35 members; $70 partial members; $99 nonmembers
Continuing Education Hours: 6.0

Course Description

With the roll-out of the 988 crisis call line, all 50 states committed to a behavioral health crisis system that includes three essential components: crisis call lines, mobile crisis teams, and crisis stabilization centers. In Wisconsin, as in most other states, the emerging system of care for people experiencing crisis will involve peer support services.

This interactive training will present information about the current and near-future system of care for people experiencing behavioral health crisis and roles that peer support specialists fill in the continuum of care for people experiencing behavioral health crises. There will be opportunities for questions, discussion, and networking during this training.

About the Trainer

Nze Okoronta

Nze Okoronta (they/them) believes the crisis is not our people or our communities, but the systems that respond to them. They are known for work surrounding non-carceral peer respites, warmlines and hotlines, harm reduction and drug user support, Mad Pride and Mad Liberation, mutual aid, and building peer-led, community-based alternatives to crisis care. They have focused their career on creating alternative pathways for people to experience distress without force or punishment, and to build true sanctuary in community.

Nze has worked within and alongside organizations and communities doing work around alternative responses to mental health crisis, harm reduction and drug user support, alternatives to policing, mobile crisis teams, civil and human rights advocacy, disability justice, public health and policy. They have extensive knowledge in peer support spanning areas including fidelity and practice, national standards, statewide certification processes, workforce development, supervision and leadership, curriculum development, training and facilitation.

Nze feels most whole when surrounded by trees. Outside of work their interests include gothy stuff, horror movies, deathwork, watercolor painting, pottery, and pitbulls.