QUESTION
How is the fiscal 2025 budget addressing youth-specific mental health services, and how does it compare to fiscal year 2024?
3:10:06
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The fiscal 2025 budget includes significant investments in youth-specific mental health services, with an introduction of three major initiatives.
- The mental health access digital hub receives a baseline funding of $2.8 million.
- An additional $7 million is allocated to expand clubhouse capacity.
- School tele-mental health services are funded with $109 to $110 million annually.
- These investments represent a continued focus on enhancing mental health support for youth.
Linda Lee
3:10:06
There's a lack of focus on mental health of children and youth, and many parents are unaware of the mental health services that their children's schools provide.
3:10:15
In addition, many critical mental health services in schools have been reduced with the results of the budget cuts.
3:10:21
And there are not enough school, social workers, and clinicians available to deal with all the needs.
3:10:26
And so and I've been hearing conflicting things from school principals as well as parents in terms of how the budget cuts have impacted, you know, the the school social workers.
3:10:35
And so how much of the fiscal 2025 budget is for youth specific mental health services?
3:10:41
And how does that compare to the funding levels for FY 24?
Jacques Jiha
3:10:45
Yeah.
3:10:46
Last here we invested in 3 major initiatives that were announced as part of the state of the city.
3:10:56
This is the mental health access digital hub.
3:11:01
We are putting, like, almost, like, 2.8 $1,000,000 baseline.
3:11:08
We did an expanded clubhouse capacity.
3:11:12
Again, that is like $7,000,000 was added baseline.
3:11:17
And we also had the school telemetal health.
3:11:22
And that is a 109 to $10,000,000 a year that was added, okay, just to address these 3 programs.