Therapist Luke Forney (left) and responder Evan Thiessen drive to a home in Bozeman, Mont. after receiving a call about a resident having a psychiatric crisis. The mobile crisis team in Bozeman has ...

The mobile crisis teams for the Fairbanks area have had a busy year, with 140 calls alone in November and 1,144 calls from January 1 to Nov. 30 in 2025. Last November, crisis teams responded to 70 ...

In recent years, mobile crisis response teams respond to 911 calls about people in mental crisis, to avoid involving police. But some crisis units have now closed for lack of consistent funding.

It was a snowy afternoon in Bozeman, a city of nearly 60,000 nestled between mountain ranges in southern Montana. Temperatures were hovering in the mid-30s. The city's mobile crisis team had just ...