MetrCCS 2026 Minnesota Mobile Mental Health Crisis Response Summit:
August 4-5, 2026 — Virtual Event
We invite you to submit a proposal to present virtually at the Annual Minnesota Mobile Mental Health Crisis Response Summit! Proposal deadline: Monday 4/1/26
Event goals
+ Provide top-notch training to mobile mental health crisis responders and their partners around the state to ensure that people experiencing a mental health crisis receive the best possible care.
+ Elevate the field of mobile mental health crisis response as a sustainable, skilled profession.
+ Build a well-rounded body of on-line training content that mental health crisis workers can access 24/7.
+ Knowing that many of you are seeking more depth of content, we hope to have a mix of entry level and more advanced offerings.
General approach
Help us build a dynamic, meaningful program. We welcome proposals from presenters from a broad variety of backgrounds. Priority will be given to proposals that demonstrate the following:
+ A diverse group of presenters
+ A grasp of the specific circumstances and conditions of crisis response.
+ Strong solution-based content to build clinical skills, tools and techniques.
+ Respectfulness, person-centered care and lived experience.
+ Cultural responsiveness and anti-racism.
+ An understanding/acknowledgement of the most current needs, including responding to the complexity of times and mass-trauma
+ An engaging, interactive approach to presenting.
Specific content
The following list is designed to provide ideas for possible presentation content. It is not an exhaustive list. We welcome your ideas on what content is most relevant/needed for mental health crisis responders at this time.
+ Crisis response for specific populations
– Age groups: children and adolescents: adults; older adults
– Cultural communities and tribal nations
– People with substance use issues
– People with physical, intellectual or developmental disabilities
– People with pending criminal charges
– LGBTQ; veterans; rural: other
+ Crisis worker support
– Secondary trauma
– Dealing with uncertainty
– Self-care
– Ethics
– Sustainability and business practices
– Advocacy and legislative updates
– Billing and documentation
– Financial models that are sustainable
– Creative staffing structures; credentialing
+ Specific skills in crisis response
– Assessment (e.g. threat of harm to self, suicidality; threat of harm to others; high-risk behaviors)
– De-escalation
– Working with family members
– Developing crisis and safety plans
– Using interpreters
– Collective grief, trauma and healing
– Best practices for stabilization
– Partnering/collaborating with other departments or organizations
+ Outreach
– Creative strategies to build awareness about crisis response. – Reducing stigma.
– Clarity about what crisis response is and is not.
– When to call 988 vs Crisis response vs another resource
– Collaboration and developing strong partnerships across systems. (e.g. with other hot/warmlines; governmental orgs.; schools; hospitals and EMS; law enforcement; case management; 988, 911, etc.)
Important Notes
Submit a proposal by Monday 4/1/26.
The planning committee reserves the right to exclude incomplete or inappropriate submissions. Presenters will be notified by May 31, 2026 of acceptance.
Archiving and curation of the content on the MetrCCS website. This training is provided for the purposes of strengthening the effectiveness of local mental health crisis response team members. The training will be provided live via webinar for those able to be present on the date of the training. Due to the nature of crisis response services, however, many team members will need to be staffing the crisis lines and/or out on a crisis call. Because of this, the webinar will be available for later viewing by crisis workers and summit attendees on the password-protected training portal of the MetrCCS website. MetrCCS will collect no fees for use of these training materials, nor will MetrCCS knowingly allow the materials to become available for public use.
Contact Kim Vanderwall at kim@vanderwallconsulting.com with questions.