Alternative Mobile Services Association

The Alternative Mobile Services Association is a membership organization of professionals and peers with the purpose of researching, assessing, and identifying best practice models of mobile response services that support or are alternatives to traditional 911 emergency response, police services, and unnecessary hospitalization. Additionally, the association seeks to promote networking and cooperation among providers, jurisdictions and allied stakeholders interested in alternatives to conventional policing.

The Alternative Mobile Services Association supports street-level alternatives to police.

What are Alternative Mobile Services?

Mobile services encompass a variety of responses to the immediate needs and crisis situations in the community. Mobile services can include street outreach vans that provide supplies and support to the homeless, mental health agencies that provide in-person mobile response to clients in suicidal crisis (either immediately or within 24 hours), police programs that pair a clinician with a police officer to respond to mental health related calls, and hospital-based outreach programs which provide services in their community. A mobile service is simply any service that works with high-needs populations and meets them where they’re at, in their own space, to get them the help they need in a moment of need or distress.

What does the Alternative Mobile Services Association do?

Monthly AMSA Talks with expert speakers + Q&A
Weekly online newsletter
Access to compendium of articles, reports, and training videos
Annual hybrid conference - June 2025 in NYC!
National directory of mobile medical crisis services
Information about private, state and federal funding sources
Resource panel of conference speakers, subject area and field experts
Support study, testing and maintenance of a fidelity model
Access to materials from member agencies