REMARKS
Explanation of referral networks and mental health services
2:42:53
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Commissioner Molly Wasow Park explains the referral networks and mental health services available to shelter residents in response to Council Member Banks' concerns.
- Park emphasizes the importance of having a strong referral network beyond on-site services
- She mentions mobile health crisis teams, ACT teams, and shelter-based mental health teams for serious needs
- The commissioner highlights the importance of connecting residents to primary care physicians and employment services
- Park notes that all services are voluntary and not required for shelter residence
- She acknowledges that the system is always a work in progress
Molly Wasow Park
2:42:53
Sure.
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Absolutely.
2:42:55
I'm happy to follow-up on specifics of of different sites offline.
2:42:59
But, generally speaking, right, making sure that though that that we have viable on on-site services, but also really important is that we have a strong referral network.
2:43:13
I don't wanna be in a situation ever where somebody's access to mental health care, for example, is contingent on their being in shelter.
UNKNOWN
2:43:19
Right.
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So one
Molly Wasow Park
2:43:20
of the things that is really important to us is that that our providers are are referring out to community, for people with more serious behavioral health, needs that could mean, completing an application for one of the city's mobile health crisis teams.
2:43:35
Right?
2:43:36
IMT, ACT, things like that.
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And we actually have shelter based ACT teams.
2:43:40
I'm sorry.
2:43:40
You're gonna I'm gonna have to look up what ACT stands for.
2:43:42
But they're they're, state and city mental health team funded mental health teams that are really designed to deal with people with the most serious needs.
2:43:51
For other people, that is making sure that they have access to primary care physicians.
2:43:55
Right?
2:43:55
That that that that kind of referral has been met.
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It could mean, you know, connection to the right employment services.
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All of this is, voluntary.
2:44:07
Nobody's required to to receive services in order to be in shelter.
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It is it is always a work in progress.
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And and as I have said earlier,
Chris Banks
2:44:18
I been a work in progress for quite some time.
