DAYTON — By early April, Mobile Crisis Response teams will once again be hitting the streets in Montgomery County to help anyone who is experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis.

ADAMHS Board of Trustees has approved a new provider.

After months of community meetings, Dayton and Southwest Ohio based DeCoach Recovery Center will provide the services.

Mobile teams will be dispatched to reach any person in Montgomery County in their home, workplace, or other community-based location.

They’ll work to deescalate the crisis and help ease demand from 911 dispatchers and law enforcement.

People experiencing crisis should still call the suicide and crisis lifeline 988.

“We’ll be working with Sojourner and they will be transitioning those 988 calls that need a mobile response to DeCoach,” said ADAMHS Director of Treatment and Supportive Services Kimberly Priester.

 The mobile crisis response team was going out about 100 times per month in 2023.

ADAMHS and DeCoach will bring community members together once again throughout March to create policy and plans for the future.

“We will be able to have discussions and plug DeCoach in where some of those gaps are that were identified. So sequential intercept mapping process is just where you look at the crisis services and criminal justice system and you see where potentially there’s a need for some growth,” Priester said.

The Mobile Crisis Response will start with a pilot phase with shorter hours and availability with the goal of expanding to a 24-hour response across the county.