Q&A
Introduction and overview of B-HEARD program
1:04:35
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56 sec
Council Member Linda Lee begins her questioning about the B-HEARD program, emphasizing the goal of expanding and improving mental health crisis response services. She acknowledges the challenges faced by NYPD in responding to mental health situations and expresses interest in learning how to better utilize and expand services like B-HEARD.
- Highlighted the need for more programs like B-HEARD
- Recognized NYPD's limitations in responding to mental health crises
- Expressed desire to understand how to improve and expand B-HEARD services
Linda Lee
1:04:35
I have so many questions.
1:04:37
So please bear with me.
1:04:39
And, again, I think as mentioned on the previous panel, the goal is to have more programs and services like be heard and to have it work well, and how can we improve it, and how can we figure out how to expand it, I have 4 precincts alone in just my district, for example, and I think all of us recognize that, you know, folks in NYPD, they know they're not mental health professionals and that a lot of times they are not equipped to necessarily respond to these situations the best.
1:05:05
So how do we use services like this?
1:05:07
And so I'm gonna just start my questions a little bit off script from what I have here because I'm going based on your testimonies.
1:05:14
And just really quickly, I haven't heard of the crisis residents is actually.
1:05:20
And I think this could be is this like the crisis respite centers?
1:05:22
Can you just clarify that?
1:05:24
Because it could be an incredible resource, but I don't know if people know what this program is.
1:05:29
So if if you could just expand on that a little bit.
