REMARKS
Addressing health and safety challenges in New York City
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Speaker Adams discusses the city's health and safety priorities, focusing on maternal health, mental health, and the need for comprehensive solutions to these challenges.
- The council recognizes maternal mortality as a public health emergency
- Adams highlights the mental health roadmap, emphasizing community-based programs and a strong continuum of care
- The speaker calls for avoiding shallow, short-term responses and addressing the dysfunction in the mental health care system
Adrienne E. Adams
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The most important obligation we have to our communities is to ensure their health and their safety.
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This body has consistently centered maternal health and recognized that maternal mortality is a public health emergency.
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We will continue to confront this crisis and work to eliminate it.
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The ongoing mental health crisis led us to advance our mental health road map, which recognizes it is essential to expand investments in proven solutions such as community based programs, a strong continuum of care, and robust workforce.
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True progress towards positive mental health outcomes in our city requires a greater commitment to effective solutions.
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We must avoid shallow and short term responses that fail to produce concrete resolutions.
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A healthier and safer city requires that we fix the dysfunction that forces people in need of mental health care into jails unequipped to help them and often worsens their condition.
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It also demands that our city return towards progress in closing Rikers for a more effective system.