Q&A
Local Law 39 and its potential impact on data collection
1:10:13
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31 sec
Commissioner Hendon briefly discusses how Local Law 39 will help address the challenges of data collection and outcome measurement for veteran mental health services.
- Local Law 39 is expected to facilitate the collection of data from various agencies and health offerings in the city
- The law will require reporting on this collected data
- Commissioner Hendon also mentions an ongoing 2024 military veteran community family survey, which may provide valuable insights
James Hendon
1:10:13
As I said to the council's credit, think local law 39 is gonna help us get at this.
Alicia Kershaw
1:10:17
Yeah.
James Hendon
1:10:17
This is I mean, that's really the and and so we're looking forward to being able to get all that data from all of various agencies and all of them as well health offerings in the city and then report that.
1:10:25
So I think that's gonna be a big one.
1:10:26
And I just want to flag that, you know, we we do have our 2024 military veteran community military veteran community family survey where we're we've gone through the survey phase.
1:10:36
Now there's a a focus group phase of that.
1:10:38
So we're hoping that maybe those results give us something that can be a value to answer this.
1:10:42
It's a very good question.
