This mobile crisis intervention team helps stabilize people experiencing acute crisis, by staying with them in the home, or removing the person to a temporary residential setting until the crisis de-escalates. This model can be an effective alternative to emergency psychiatric hospitalization in many circumstances.

The New Bridges team also provides a jail diversion service that coordinates treatment for chronically mental ill and/or developmentally disabled adults who commit non-violent misdemeanors and felonies. The program will be successful in reducing the number of people who are mentally ill from being incarcerated, by working with law enforcement and judicial agencies.