Q&A
Exploring the future vision and expansion of the B-HEARD program
2:59:28
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110 sec
Council Member Cabán asks about the 'dream world' vision for the future of the B-HEARD program, encouraging officials to think big about potential expansions and improvements.
- Laquisha Grant emphasizes the goal of providing the most appropriate response to every mental health call, ideally including a mental health professional
- Jason Hansman envisions having a mental health clinician involved in every response for de-escalation and navigation of care
- The ideal scenario involves adjusting team composition based on dispatch decisions while ensuring mental health expertise is always present
- Cabán encourages officials to 'dream bigger' for a more robust program
- The discussion highlights the aspirational goals for mental health crisis response in New York City, while also revealing potential limitations in current thinking about program expansion
Tiffany Cabán
2:59:28
Okay.
2:59:29
I'll leave it at that.
2:59:30
I'll leave you with a very I think this is a good question.
2:59:33
When I spoke to the Denver Star program, I asked them, hey, what's in your dream world?
2:59:40
Like, what's the next step?
2:59:41
For the program.
2:59:42
What what what would you do?
2:59:43
And they said, in our dream world, if we had all of the resources, any anything and everything we wanted, we would actually already be in the community.
2:59:51
The same way that you see police off officers, like, on the beat in in the neighborhood.
2:59:56
That's how we want our teams.
2:59:58
We don't just wanna be responding to calls.
2:59:59
We don't wanna be ever present and available to have these interactions.
3:00:05
In y'all's dream world, What's the next step for be heard?
Laquisha Grant
3:00:14
As a city, we wanna make sure that we are providing the most appropriate response to every mental health.
3:00:23
Call every mental health situation.
3:00:26
As often as possible, that includes a mental health professional.
Jason Hansman
3:00:38
I mean, I I agree.
3:00:39
I think I think it's it's it's dream world, dream thinking, blue sky.
3:00:44
It is ensuring that every response has a mental health clinician to be able to do both the escalation and to help someone navigate that that's issued situation and to get someone to to the care that they need.
3:00:57
That might that the composition of that team might change based on, again, the the dispatch decision, but having a mental health clinician at a very And every call, I think, is is is kind of the the dream.
Tiffany Cabán
3:01:11
Thank you.
3:01:12
Thank you, chairs.
3:01:13
I I encourage y'all to dream bigger so that you're chasing something more robust, but thank you.
