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When mental health crises require more than a phone conversation, these mobile units come to help

Most calls to crisis lines are resolved on the phone. But when a call needs an in-person response, a mobile crisis unit often swings into action. The alternative, some fear, is relying on police.

Teralynn Turner, Crisis Intervention counselor; Dawn M. Curry, divisional director of Behavioral Health Services; Cedric McNear, Mobile Care Team counselor; and Adriane Y. Parks, director of the Mobile Crisis Unit, at HUP at Cedar Hospital after dropping off a client. All are staff of the Consortium in West Philadelphia.
Teralynn Turner, Crisis Intervention counselor; Dawn M. Curry, divisional director of Behavioral Health Services; Cedric McNear, Mobile Care Team counselor; and Adriane Y. Parks, director of the Mobile Crisis Unit, at HUP at Cedar Hospital after dropping off a client. All are staff of the Consortium in West Philadelphia.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer