File #: Int 1022-2023    Version: * Name: Mental Health Roadmap Legislative Package - Pilot program establishing community centers for individuals with severe mental illness in high-need areas.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
On agenda: 4/27/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law in relation to a pilot program establishing community centers for individuals with severe mental illness in high-need areas
Sponsors: Kevin C. Riley, Linda Lee, Keith Powers , Carlina Rivera , Farah N. Louis, Shahana K. Hanif, Crystal Hudson, Diana I. Ayala, Robert F. Holden, Sandra Ung, Rita C. Joseph, Shaun Abreu, (in conjunction with the Brooklyn Borough Presiden
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), in consultation with the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health, to create a pilot program that would establish community centers for individuals with severe mental illness in high-need areas of New York City. The pilot program would be required to start within 180 days after the bill becomes law. One year after the start of the pilot program, DOHMH would be required to report to the Council on the impact and effectiveness of the pilot program and with recommendations about expanding or making such pilot program permanent.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1022, 2. Int. No. 1022, 3. April 27, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-27-23, 5. Committee Report 5/4/23, 6. Hearing Testimony 5/4/23, 7. Hearing Transcript 5/4/23

Int. No. 1022

 

By Council Members Riley, Lee, Powers, Rivera, Louis, Hanif, Hudson, Ayala, Holden, Ung, Joseph and Abreu (in conjunction with the Brooklyn Borough President)

 

A Local Law in relation to a pilot program establishing community centers for individuals with severe mental illness in high-need areas

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this local law, the following terms have the following meanings:

Community center. The term “community center” means a community-based location designed to support the recovery of individuals with severe mental illness that provides wraparound services and opportunities for social connection for such individuals, including group activities and programming, job readiness skills and transitional employment opportunities, educational opportunities, and access to medical and mental health providers, in a non-residential setting.

Department. The term “department” means the department of health and mental hygiene.

b. Pilot program. The department, in consultation with the office of community mental health and any other appropriate agency, shall establish a community center pilot program. Such program shall establish community centers in at least 5 high-need areas of the city of New York, as determined by the department. 

c. Implementation. The pilot program required by subdivision b of this section shall commence no later than 180 days after the effective date of this local law. On or before the date such pilot program commences, the department shall conspicuously post on its website a list of the community center locations established by such pilot program.

d. Report. No later than 1 year after the commencement of the pilot program established pursuant to subdivision b of this section, the department shall submit to the speaker of the council a report containing information regarding such pilot program, including the cost of such pilot program, an analysis of the impact and effectiveness of such pilot program, recommendations for expanding or making such pilot program permanent, and any other recommendations regarding such pilot program.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LS #11718

4/13/23