July 1

Welcome to AMSA, Youth Villages, with specialized crisis services in Tennessee and Oregon, and services for kids and families in 29 states.

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AMSA Talks - Ben Winger of New Orleans Health Dept.

Ben Winger is Program Coordinator for the New Orleans Health Department's Alternative Dispatch Program. In this June 2025 AMSA Talks, Ben recounts his long career in public services for New Orleans, from law enforcement to nursing to city administration of it's mobile crisis - or as Ben puts it, Alternative Dispatch - program.

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FUNDING

Technology Grant for Youth Mobile Crisis Response Teams

Thanks to a generous grant from the Morgan Stanley Foundation’s Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards, Trek Medics is offering one year of free access to, and use of, its Beacon Crisis Dispatch platform to Youth Mobile Crisis Response Teams (MCRTs) in order to help improve the coordination of rapid crisis care for youth and young adults experiencing mental health crises.