S7269 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
Relates to establishing the New York state council on mental health emergency and crisis response to make recommendations on topics including but not limited to: (i) identifying best practices for response to mental health crises; (ii) initiatives to increase training opportunities and participation of mental health professionals, and other qualified individuals as members of mobile crisis outreach teams; (iii) identify training needs and methods to improve diversion from hospitalization after response from a mobile crisis outreach team; (iv) identify the need for establishing mobile crisis outreach teams in each region of the state and accessing alternatives to hospitalization; (v) public education and outreach on the benefit of mobile crisis outreach teams and how to access their services; and (vi) any other recommendation deemed appropriate by the council.
- Title
- Relates to establishing the New York state council on mental health emergency and crisis response
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2024-01-03
- In committee
- Mental Health
- Introduced
- 2023-05-19
- Law section
- Mental Hygiene Law
Sponsors
- Kevin S. Parker State Senator, District 21
Co-sponsors
- John C. Liu State Senator, District 16
Heard in committee
- Mental Health NY State Senate committee