Martinsburg mobile crisis integration partnership - the city of martinsburg, in partnership with the martinsburg initiative, will implement the martinsburg mobile crisis integration partnership to…

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded $749,432 to the City of Martinsburg on September 30, 2026, under the Center for Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.532) to establish the Martinsburg Mobile Crisis Integration Partnership.

The project will expand behavioral health mobile crisis and co-response capacity across Martinsburg in Berkeley County and Charles Town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, with limited response to surrounding municipal areas as operationally feasible. The initiative will strengthen coordination among 988, 911, public safety, crisis providers, hospitals, and treatment organizations to deliver community-based crisis intervention for children, youth, adults, and families experiencing mental health or substance use crises. Services will target individuals identified through law enforcement, fire/EMS, 911, 988, hospitals, behavioral health providers, schools, families, or self-referral, including those with suicidal ideation, serious mental illness, substance use or overdose risk, co-occurring conditions, trauma, homelessness, or justice involvement.

The project will serve a minimum of 200 unduplicated individuals in year one and 250 annually in years two through four. It will expand the behavioral health workforce, reduce unnecessary law-enforcement-only responses and emergency department use, improve stabilization and connection to care, and establish shared data systems for monitoring response timeliness and outcomes.

The period of performance runs through September 29, 2030. Place of performance is Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Martinsburg mobile crisis integration partnership - the city of martinsburg, in partnership with the martinsburg initiative, will implement the martinsburg mobile crisis integration partnership to strengthen behavioral health mobile crisis and CO-response capacity in martinsburg and charles town, west virginia. The project will expand the behavioral health workforce, improve coordination among 988, 911, public safety, crisis providers, hospitals, and treatment organizations, and provide timely community-based crisis intervention for children, youth, adults, and families. The initiative will reduce unnecessary law-enforcement-only responses, emergency department use, involuntary interventions, and repeated crisis-system contacts while improving stabilization and connection to care. The project will serve martinsburg in berkeley county and charles town in jefferson county, with limited response to surrounding municipal areas when requested, authorized, and operationally feasible. Capacity needs include limited behavioral health staffing within public-safety settings, inconsistent after-hours coordination, fragmented referral and dispatch procedures, transportation barriers, limited follow-up, and insufficient shared data for monitoring response timeliness, safety, diversion, and outcomes. The population of focus includes children, youth, adults, and families experiencing mental health or substance use crises who are identified through law enforcement, fire/EMS, 911/public safety answering points, 988, hospitals, behavioral health providers, schools, families, or self-referral. Individuals served may experience suicidal ideation or behavior, serious mental illness, substance use or overdose risk, CO-occurring conditions, behavioral escalation, trauma, family instability, homelessness, justice involvement, or repeated crisis-system contacts. The project will serve at least 200 unduplicated individuals in year 1 and 250 annually in years 2-4, for a minimum of 950 individuals. Capacity-building strategies include supporting a full-time project director/clinical integration lead, four full-time behavioral health CO-responders, a 0.5 FTE weekend and extended-hour CO-responder beginning in month 7, and a 0.25 FTE project evaluator. The project will develop a mobile crisis team services implementation plan within four months and launch the enhanced model within six months. Services will include police and fire/EMS CO-response, behavioral-health-only response when appropriate, crisis assessment, DE-escalation, suicide and overdose screening, stanley-brown safety planning, emergency rescue coordination, voluntary transportation, warm handoffs, and follow-up within 72 hours. The project will also implement mobile response and stabilization services for eligible children and families, proactive outreach for individuals with repeated crisis contacts, crisis-system mapping, partner training, formal operating protocols, continuous quality improvement, and sustainability planning. Project goals are to: (1) expand timely community-based mobile crisis response; (2) improve stabilization, diversion, and connection to treatment and recovery supports; (3) strengthen suicide, overdose, youth, and family crisis response; and (4) improve crisis-system coordination, workforce capacity, data quality, and long-term sustainability. Measurable objectives include completing the implementation plan within four months; launching enhanced services within six months; formalizing at least four partner agreements and implementing CQI within 12 months; training 50 crisis-system professionals annually; completing 72-hour follow-up and warm handoffs for at least 85% of eligible participants; meeting response-time standards for 80% of accepted responses by year 2; increasing community resolution from 60% to 70%; and reducing 90-day repeat crisis contacts by 15% from the year 1 baseline.