Q&A
Inquiry into the decision-making process for B-HEARD program expansion to new neighborhoods
2:30:46
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112 sec
Council Member Erik D. Bottcher questions the decision-making process for expanding the B-HEARD program to new neighborhoods.
- Bottcher asks which neighborhoods will receive the B-HEARD program next when the expansion freeze is lifted.
- Laquisha Grant from the Mayor's Office of Community Mental Health states that the decision has not been made yet.
- The discussion reveals that the expansion decisions are based on 911 call volume and other operational considerations.
- Bottcher requests data on the volume of mental health 911 calls for specific precincts in his district, which the office agrees to provide after the hearing.
Erik D. Bottcher
2:30:46
Thank you very much.
2:30:48
Who's getting the be heard program next?
2:30:53
When the freeze is lifted and you get the green light to expand the program, which neighborhoods will start getting behavioral health responses to behavioral health 911 calls.
Laquisha Grant
2:31:08
We have not made that decision yet.
Erik D. Bottcher
2:31:11
You stated that the decisions with respect to which precincts get these programs is based chiefly on the volume of 911 mental health calls.
2:31:24
Where do the precincts in city council district 3 on the west side of Manhattan?
2:31:30
The first, the 6th, the 13th, the 10th, Midtown South, Midtown North?
2:31:35
Where do those fall with respect to the volume of mental health 911 calls.
Laquisha Grant
2:31:41
We don't have that data with us, but one slight correction, the decisions around which communities we expand to are based off are partially based off of 911 call volume, but also based off of other operational considerations.
Erik D. Bottcher
2:32:01
On 16th September, I emailed and requested and you you're nodding.
2:32:09
So you you got the email.
2:32:11
I requested a list of precincts in order of the volume of 911 mental health calls, followed up on Friday asking that that he brought to this hearing.
2:32:25
Is that a request you're familiar with?
Laquisha Grant
2:32:28
Yes.
2:32:29
Okay.
2:32:29
We're not able to to pull that data in advance of this hearing, but we can get you that data.
Erik D. Bottcher
2:32:36
Okay.
2:32:36
You can pull it after the hearing.
Laquisha Grant
2:32:38
Sure.
