Q&A
Discussion on considering high-traffic areas like Times Square for B-HEARD expansion
2:32:38
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Council Member Erik D. Bottcher inquires about considering high-traffic areas like Times Square for B-HEARD program expansion.
- Bottcher asks if factors like Times Square's 50 million annual visitors would be considered in expansion decisions.
- Laquisha Grant from the Mayor's Office of Community Mental Health is unable to speak specifically to that consideration.
- The discussion reveals that various operational considerations are taken into account, but specific decisions about expansion locations have not been made.
- Grant mentions that other mental health crisis resources, such as mobile crisis teams, are available citywide in areas where B-HEARD is not currently operating.
Erik D. Bottcher
2:32:38
Okay.
2:32:41
Other factors to be taken into consideration does with the fact that Times Square, for example, gets 50,000,000 visitors per year, would that be a factor that you'd consider in the expansion of this program?
Laquisha Grant
2:33:02
I I can't say.
2:33:04
I wouldn't be able to speak to that.
2:33:06
There are a number of different operational considerations that go into to the decisions around the communities that that next get team.
Erik D. Bottcher
2:33:17
In your conversations and your collective conversations, what neighborhoods are under consideration as you just talk about where the program goes next, what areas do you have in mind?
Laquisha Grant
2:33:35
That decision has not been made yet, but I will say that we do have a number of other mental health crisis related resources in the communities where be heard does not currently exist.
2:33:47
And my colleague from the health department, Jamie, has talked about some of those things like mobile crisis teams, which are citywide and can be accessed through 98.
