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ABOUT MERA
MERA Response Team provides preventative care and crisis intervention with its CIT unarmed response team uniquely designed to assist in fulfilling this commitment. MERA utilizes assistive technology along with an array of services focused on trauma informed care and first response to crises experienced by individuals with mental illness.
Additionally, MERA integrates Wisconsin state-licensed and certified mental health counselors for substance abuse treatments, elderly care, and family support services to children, adolescents, and adults. MERA Response Team will help reduce mental health crisis, lower substance abuse, and lessen the burden on Milwaukee Police resources. The ultimate goal is to improve efficiencies and community relations while leveraging a community-based organization. Beyond the initial crisis interaction, MERA will focus on ongoing support including evidence-based treatments such as music therapy, peer support, cognitive therapy, ongoing counseling, and continued family involvement to name a few.
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We are also pleased at the engagement of members of the advocacy and professional community in its development. To this end, we are hopeful to see other sector leaders champion this effort as a vital component of our crisis response system. We look forward to formalizing our partnership with Housecall and the MERA Response Team and working collaboratively with other system partners to advance this strategy.
Honorable mentions
Montréal Cain
Founder & CEO
Dr. Lakeia Jones
LEAD Clinican
Lauren Hubbard
MERA Response Team Chair
James Bell
Chairman Board of Directors
Star Cunningham
FQHC Committee Chair
Dr. Celeste Jackson
Vice Chair Board of Directors
N'Zinga Khalid
Communrtv Outreach &
Engagement Chair
MARA Frier
CFO / Treasurer