Mobile Urgent Treatment Team
 for Foster Parents

The BMCW is pleased to announce a new initiative that will assist foster parents with the behavioral challenges of foster children and help stabilize placements.

Wraparound Milwaukee has been awarded a grant of $700,000 over two years by the Department of Health and Family Services to provide additional mental health services to foster families in Milwaukee.

The grant will support a group of specialists who will operate within the Mobile Urgent Treatment Team (MUTT) to provide immediate mental health services 24-hours-a-day to foster youth and their foster families. The foster parent will have phone access to the team and in-home crisis service as needed. Following a crisis call, the team will develop a 21-day response plan to provide crisis intervention, follow-up services and a Crisis 1:1 stabilization worker. A long-term crisis stabilization plan will also be developed for those children deemed at risk of recurrent mental health, emotional, or behavioral crisis. 

The desired outcome of the program is to help foster parents cope with crisis situations, thus lowering the incidents that necessitate removing children from placement. We estimate the specialist will respond to 500 calls a year.

The MUTT-FF response team can be reached at (414) 257-7621.

Last Revised: July 24, 2008