Mobile Outreach Program
The Mobile Outreach Program (MOP) provides outreach, engagement, alternative transportation, and assistance to individuals experiencing a substance use crisis. This community outreach program provides assistance to individuals needing intoxication or withdrawal management services based on best practices that are recovery oriented, trauma-informed, and person-centered. The program's goal is to assist individuals who are intoxicated and experiencing a crisis in accessing appropriate services and engagement opportunities for potential treatment. This decreases ambulance trips due to intoxication, inappropriate emergency room stays, and unnecessary interactions with law enforcement. MOP has served over 800 unique individuals in the past 12 months.
Individuals can be referred and transported to the Withdrawal Management Unit for non-medical services, the Clay County Receiving Center for medical detoxification or a hospital emergency department.
How does MOP help the community?
In 2025, an average of 62% of MOP transports diverted an emergency service response. Diversion transports are defined as ambulance transports to or from emergency departments and detoxification facilities that occur in response to referrals from the Fargo Police Department and/or dispatch, or transports identified by MOP staff as potential dispatches.
How does it work?
The primary goal of MOP is to connect with people in the community who may be affected by homelessness, mental health conditions or substance use disorders. Focus areas of MOP include:
- Assisting individuals needing intoxication or withdrawal management
- Reducing the burden and impact on public safety partners, ambulance service and emergency departments
How is MOP funded?
MOP is fully funded through a grant agreement with the North Dakota Health & Human Services Behavioral Health Division.