Posted on: July 19, 2022 04:38 PM

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City is short staffed to handle mental health crisis

Beside love and hotels, hospitals that house the formerly incarcerated under the mental health have more residents calling the new hotline, 988. However the call to connect to the NYC Health Dept is short staffed. The Mayor announced $55 million to expand the program in Manhattan from Harlem where the pilot under B-Heard went live with then Mayor. The Bronx is the next location to add more diversion and crisis centers to handle calls. Then Brooklyn and Queens.

Beside self-defense and de-escalation techniques, the job is brutal as most people end up in the emergency rooms handling such cases which require police support.

For the last 10 days police reported burglaries, robberies, assaults including attempts in the Glen Oaks vicinity due to the mental health center where formerly incarcerated are being under care. The same with other vicinities in the city where such locations are along with hotels.

Here is the link for hiring, https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/bheard-social-workers/