Mental health professionals will soon be available in all family shelters across New York City, after a bill requiring on-site mental health services was passed by the City Council last week.
Mental health services will be either in person or virtually and include psychotherapy services, psychiatric assessments to diagnose mental illness, conducting diagnosis follow-up or coordinating clinical treatment plans, liaising with or providing referrals to emergency medical or psychiatric care providers or providing medication monitoring or management.
Shams DaBaron is a homelessness rights advocate in New York City who recalls his experience as a single parent raising his son in family shelters throughout his junior and high school years. While DaBaron told amNewYork he did everything he could to protect him from the trauma that comes with being homeless, he still sees how traumatized his son was from spending roughly seven years in shelters — and without access to mental health services in the system.
There were 21,805 children in families who slept in DHS and HPD shelters each night, according to DHS data from December 2022. On March 7, the DHS counted 12,713 families with children in shelters. “The bill is subject to appropriation, so a separate budget item providing the necessary funding to implement it is required,” Nortz said in a statement. “Many of the affected shelters are not legally authorized to employ these licensed professionals. They would have to contract with private practices — an option that is expensive and in short supply given the demand for private-pay patients.”
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