Mobile Crisis Unit

The Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board's Mobile Crisis Unit (MCU) takes emergency services into the community, responding to critical situations throughout the 399 square miles of Fairfax County. Most of the MCU’s work is in response to requests from police and hospitals, but the unit also works closely with Fire and Rescue, the Sheriff’s Department (evictions), the Department of Family Services (Adult and Child Protective Services), Board of Supervisors’ staff (constituent concerns), and the county’s Department of Human Resources.



The Mobile Crisis Unit also maintains three rapid deployment teams that can be called up at any time to respond to a hostage or barricade situation, to provide stress management (debriefings) after a critical incident, or to respond to disasters in our region (as they did on September 11, 2001). The Mobile Crisis Unit provides extensive training to the police departments of Fairfax County, the Cities of Fairfax and Falls Church and the Towns of Herndon and Vienna, including week-long classes in crisis intervention and crisis negotiation.