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Overview and statistics of the SHOW (Street Health Outreach and Wellness) program
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Dr. Mitch Katz provides an overview of the SHOW program, its operations, and key statistics on its impact and reach across New York City.
- Since 2021, SHOW has conducted 269,000 street engagements and 32,000 medical consults.
- The program has distributed 82,000 hygiene kits, 5,000 Narcan kits, and 3,000 fentanyl test strips.
- SHOW units are deployed in specific zip codes across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens, targeting areas with high concentrations of homeless individuals.
- More than half of the people visited have come for repeat engagements, indicating the program's effectiveness in building trust and providing consistent care.
Mercedes Narcisse
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Thank you.
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I want to to acknowledge we've been joined by my colleagues, Ressler and Paladino.
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Okay.
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SHOW program.
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The fiscal twenty twenty six preliminary budget funding level for the SHOW program is 8,300,000, an unchanged amount from the fiscal twenty twenty five adopted budget, but a decrease of 1,100,000.0 from the fiscal twenty twenty five current budget.
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SHO is a street medicine program that brings medical care to homeless individuals, including substance abuse intervention.
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What update could you provide about this program in terms of number of the people served?
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Can you share the number of events served by Borrow and the overall success of it?
Dr. Mitch Katz
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Yes.
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Thank you.
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We're we're very proud of the the SHOW program.
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And, again, it is a quite an innovative model of saying you can give people appointments Mhmm.
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But if they don't show, all you've done is created, you know, blocks in the schedule that can't go to other people and you haven't done anything for them.
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When you put a van in front of a place where there are a large number of homeless people, it turns out they come.
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Especially if you provide culturally appropriate services, which in this case includes sanitary kits, socks, food, things that that are important to people.
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Mhmm.
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And then we're able I mean, we now even have the through virtual care, we can get a psychiatrist on the screen to evaluate somebody right from the street.
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We have started people on buprenorphine to deal with their opioid addictions all from the street.
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So just to give you a a sense of the numbers, since 2021, we have done 269,000 street engagements and 32,000 medical consults.
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We have distributed 82,000 hygiene kits, 5,000 Narcan kits, 3,000 fentanyl test strips.
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So we have in by borough, which you asked, we have one show unit in South Bronx in ZIP code one zero four five one.
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Brooklyn is served by one show unit in the Bedford Stuyvesant Bushwick zip code 11221.
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which does in general have the highest number of homeless people, at least street homeless people.
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We have three units, one in zip code 1002 in Lower East Side, 1 in Harlem at 10027, and one in Washington Heights 10033.
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And then Queens is served by a show unit, deployed in Elmhurst Jackson Heights in Corona.
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So, in general, we found that more than half of the people who visited have come for repeat engagements, and that we have, been able to get people, you know, who were once very tentative about treatment, especially substance treatment.
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We've actually been able to get them into treatment by having the Chauvans.
Mercedes Narcisse
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Why is the funding reduced in the current budget and why isn't it baseline to expenditure?
Dr. Mitch Katz
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So as you know, because we discussed it at last year's hearing, the Chauvin due to a peg reduction in fiscal twenty five ended two of the show units.
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However, we are now flat funding, so we there are no further cuts.
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But, yes, there was a a peg in fiscal year twenty five.
Kristy Marmorato
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Thank
Mercedes Narcisse
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you.