UNION COUNTY, Ohio (WSYX) \u2014 If your child gets hurt at home, you don\u2019t think twice about calling 911 and getting EMS there. What if there were a service like that for when your child is having a mental health emergency? There is, and one family that made the call is praising the service.<\/p>\n
Mental health experts like to talk about \u201cbig feelings\u201d when they discuss how kids are coping today. When 11-year-old Odin was having those feelings, it led to conflict and tension at home — and led his father, Josh, to feel like he was losing control.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I realized I needed help was when I had exhausted most of my options, and I wanted to revert to something that was going to be ineffective,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s not a matter of just, you know, swatting the kid on the butt to correct him anymore, right?\u201d<\/p>\n
So Josh and his wife called the MRSS team, which stands for Mobile Response and Stabilization Services. Just like EMS comes to where your emergency is, so do experts in mental health. A family can call the line and team members will come out within 60 minutes to support the family anywhere they are in the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey came out and not only showed us as parents ways to give him additional support. They worked with him in a way that not only calmed him down, but was able to work through things that he was struggling with,\u201d said Josh.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it could be a mental health problem, family escalation at home, grief, loss, substance use, you name it, the family can call,\u201d said Elizabeth Aniakawa, with Maryhaven.<\/p>\n
In Union County, there were almost 200 calls last year, leading to more than 90 visits by the team.<\/p>\n
You can call the MRSS service in your county by dialing 988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNION COUNTY, Ohio (WSYX) \u2014 If your child gets hurt at home, you don\u2019t think twice about calling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[53926,64,63,53924,53925,17724,53923,137,514,34245,515,53922],"class_list":["post-67888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-988-hotline","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-community-support","tag-conflict-resolution","tag-emergency-services","tag-family-support","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-crisis","tag-mentalhealth","tag-mobile-response-and-stabilization-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}