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Human service centers describe limits of evening mobile crisis coverage; law-enforcement partnerships used to fill gaps
Summary
Presenters told the Appropriations Committee mobile crisis teams can cover their regions by day, but night coverage beyond local areas is constrained by staffing and travel time. Centers said they rely on Veil/Eval partnerships with law enforcement and regional collaboration to handle rural calls.
Directors representing multiple human service centers told the Appropriations Committee that daytime mobile crisis coverage is robust in most regions but after-hours coverage beyond a local radius is limited by staffing and travel time.
Elena Zeller of Southeast said the center "responds fully to the region during the day" with a sizable crisis team but is "limited at night" because night staffing rotates and putting a worker on a 45‑minute to one‑hour drive would reduce coverage for the busier Fargo metro area. She said…
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