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 a mad, Black, queer, trainer, facilitator, and writer. 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.

Nze centers their lived expertise as a psychiatric survivor of Igbo descent in their work. 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. They are the currentExecutive Director of Yarrow Collective, a peer-led organization in Colorado. Before Yarrow, Nze served as the Co-Executive Director of SOAR (Supporting Opportunities for Advocacy & Resilience) and Director of Solstice House Peer Respite.

Nze has worked within and alongside numerous 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 protections, disability justice, and policy advocacy and reform. They have extensive knowledge in peer support spanning areas including fidelity and practice, national standards, statewide certification processes, program implementation, workforce development, supervision and leadership, peer support curriculum writing and development, and peer support training and facilitation in the US. Their work has been featured in Mad in America, Unapologetically Black Unicorns, and The Center for Mad Culture’s Mad Tea podcast.

Outside of work their interests include gothy stuff, horror movies, deathwork, watercolor painting, handbuilding pottery, and pitbulls. Nze feels most whole when surrounded by trees. After long afternoons spent at the peer respite, they can be found hiking in the woods alongside their dog familiar (Pluto) or stargazing in a field.