MOST

Mobile Outreach Safety Team (MOST)
MOST helps Carson City residence and visitors experiencing mental health crisis, substance abuse or suicidal crisis. MOST specializes in connecting individuals in crisis with available community resources. A co-responder team consisting of a licensed clinical social worker and a behavioral health peace officer.

Who’s on the team?
• Two deputy sheriffs trained in crisis intervention (CIT)
• Two licensed clinical social workers specializing in mental health
• Numerous support agencies

What does MOST do?
• Responds to mental health emergencies
• Assess clients for immediate and long-range needs
• Assess threat to self and others
• Crisis De-escalation
• Identify available resources and assist in accessing those resources to reduce the risk of harm to client and community
• Jail diversion
• Emergency/Hospital diversion
• Trains CCSO personnel, other law enforcement agencies and community providers in Crisis Intervention Team Training (CIT)
• Provides clinical consultation for other professionals and serves as a clinical expert on multi-disciplinary review teams
• Assists community providers with client discharge planning and case management
• Represents the Sheriff’s Office in community and mental health activities as a member of boards and committees
• Reports to Sheriff’s Administration as subject matter experts
• Conducts public and private workplace threat assessments
• Members of the Carson City Sheriff’s Office Crisis Negotiations Team (CNT)
• Collaborates with diversionary courts (Mental Health Court & Misdemeanor Treatment Court)
• Collaborates with Jail Psychologist

Why the MOST concept?
Established to assist community members with quality of life issues involving mental health. Concept also contributes to less use of force incidents, less hospital/ER stays, less incarcerations involving discretionary offenses, lifts a burden on dispatch calls and deputy responses involving mental health crisis.
Community Resources:
• Mallory Crisis Center (775) 445-8889
• Carson City Community Counseling Center is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC) (775) 885-1544
• Vitality Unlimited is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC) (775) 461-0025
• Carson City Health & Human Services (775) 887-2190
• Partnership Carson City (775) 841-4730
• Fish (775) 882-3474
• Ron Wood Center (775) 884-2269
• Northern NV Dream Center (775) 443-4090
• National Alliance Mental Illness (NAMI) (775) 241-4212
• 24 hours Suicide Crisis Line 988

For emergencies, call 9-1-1.
For non-emergencies, call MOST as (775) 350-5118, Monday – Thursday 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. or email most@carson.org. Please provide a complete description of the concern you would like MOST to assist with.