New York City when it comes to mental health services? (schools, income)

[homenj]

How do you think NYC does as it comes to mental health awareness and treatment?

Has anyone worked in or know of anyone who has worked in lower income schools? Do you feel treatment for mental health can be better in these types of schools?

[Cida]

Originally Posted by homenj

How do you think NYC does as it comes to mental health awareness and treatment?

Has anyone worked in or know of anyone who has worked in lower income schools? Do you feel treatment for mental health can be better in these types of schools?

Compared to what? I wasn't even aware that it's considered the city's job to get involved with mental health for local schools.

[Pruzhany]

If the NYC DOE hasn't changed to much over the decades, those at the top and those at the bottom have numerous programs in place.

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-l.../mental-health

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learning...ucation-in-nyc

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learning...rocess/the-iep

https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/childservi...mhservices.pdf

As students have increased and the amount of people who work in these fields have dropped then what was once a low student to counselor ratio and exponentially grown into a high student to counselor ratio. Pouring additional millions of dollars into it has made some dings but not dents in the shortage of professionals in NYC. Thus it's ratings compared to other cities is mixed compared to other cities.

https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/...e-going-unmet/

[homenj]

Originally Posted by Pruzhany

If the NYC DOE hasn't changed to much over the decades, those at the top and those at the bottom have numerous programs in place.

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-l.../mental-health

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learning...ucation-in-nyc

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learning...rocess/the-iep

https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/childservi...mhservices.pdf

As students have increased and the amount of people who work in these fields have dropped then what was once a low student to counselor ratio and exponentially grown into a high student to counselor ratio. Pouring additional millions of dollars into it has made some dings but not dents in the shortage of professionals in NYC. Thus it's ratings compared to other cities is mixed compared to other cities.

https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/...e-going-unmet/

Thanks!

[PruSue]

Originally Posted by homenj

How do you think NYC does as it comes to mental health awareness and treatment?

From what I see, NYC (and it’s peculiar mindset) let mentally ill people sprawl
all over the place--where ever they feel like plopping themselves.... on the subway,
all over the streets/alleyways/doorways, park benches…ETC

They need to literally pick these people up off the floor/subway seat, park bench & get these mentally ill homeless people off the streets.

[Pruzhany]

Originally Posted by PruSue

From what I see, NYC (and it’s peculiar mindset) let mentally ill people sprawl
all over the place--where ever they feel like plopping themselves.... on the subway,
all over the streets/alleyways/doorways, park benches…ETC

They need to literally pick these people up off the floor/subway seat, park bench & get these mentally ill homeless people off the streets.

NYC has already done mentally ill sweeps. But since numerous dedicated centers hove closed down through the decades then hospitals can only hold them for a few hours, medicate some and then a release of them somewhere in the city. This dark side of the system calls ambulette or ambulance into service to collect them up from hospitals and then dump them in a location far from the center of the cities late at night. Every once in awhile a video pops up of this happening. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s current version is called ThriveNYC. New name, same program.