Q&A
Q&A on coordination between organizations and DOHMH for traumatic incidents
1:14:32
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Council Member Linda Lee engages in a Q&A session with community organization representatives about coordination efforts following traumatic incidents. The discussion focuses on how organizations, DOHMH, and schools work together to address youth mental health in these situations.
- Representatives explain that most crisis intervention is handled internally by their organizations
- There's a focus on collaboration with schools for mental health education and awareness
- The lack of coordinated top-down outreach from DOHMH is noted
Linda Lee
1:14:32
Thank you all for the work you do in the community.
1:14:34
I know each of your organizations very well.
1:14:37
I just have a couple questions related to 1103 and your perspective as providers in the community.
1:14:43
So if there is a traumatic incident that happens in the community, is there any sort of outreach done by DOHMH?
1:14:52
I know that you all are usually in touch with the precincts because it involves some kind of report that happens, whether it's an incident in the home or something that happens within the community.
1:15:01
But, is there any coordination with you all, plus DOHMH, plus the public school system when it comes to addressing the youth when it comes to these traumatic incidences?
1:15:15
Or is that something where you all do it on your own through your after school programming?
1:15:18
If you could just speak any any of you can answer, but if you could speak to the coordination aspect.
Bella SoYoung Park
1:15:28
Yeah.
1:15:28
I can provide a brief explanation about that.
1:15:31
I my understanding is that we mainly kinda do it among ourselves.
1:15:35
So that a lot of the crisis intervention would look like calling the police, may involve a lot of traumatic incidents and experiences on behalf of clients.
1:15:41
That is the fastest way to legally get a lot of the work done, especially for our organization as we serve with domestic violence cases and
Linda Lee
1:15:53
sexual assault.
1:15:54
So, unfortunately, I think that's the round that we're taking right now.
1:15:59
Okay.
1:15:59
And then, usually, I feel like it's, involving the parents, but then the youth sometimes are sort of the the I don't wanna say afterthought, because that's not necessarily true.
1:16:10
But it's often focused on the adults, if there's like a DV between the partners.
1:16:16
And so, obviously, that's gonna have a very traumatic experience on the family, the children.
1:16:21
And so, for organizations like yours, it I guess, I'm just trying to get at, what the sort of coordination is.
1:16:29
Because a lot of these bills that we're proposing, we wanna make sure that the outreach also is being done from top down.
1:16:36
I know that you guys are working on the ground, but I'm just curious about what the outreach looks like, if at all, with, the Department of Health to you guys as providers working with the families.
Adeline Zhao
1:16:48
I can also talk a little bit about, like, what our organization has done so far.
1:16:53
So we do have the children and youth program, and, in in within the children and youth program, we have a team of youth interns.
1:17:01
And, usually, what we have them do is, we as like, we do collaboration with all of the schools that the children that the youth are from.
1:17:09
And we will go to the schools and talk about mental health and talk about how to respond to, incidents and to just, like, you know, do a little bit more, like, public psychoeducation on that matter.
1:17:21
And that's, like, what we have been so doing so far in terms of, like, collaboration with the school at that level.
1:17:27
Okay.
