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Clarification on policy application to mental health and disability shelters
1:09:09
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Council Member Cabán seeks clarification on whether the new policy applies to mental health shelters and shelters serving people with disabilities. Commissioner Park and Administrator Carter provide responses, explaining the policy's potential application to various shelter types.
- The policy could affect people with disabilities, as they are not concentrated in specific shelters
- Mental health shelters are not initially included in the pilot's first phase
- Clarification is provided that individuals without mental health issues placed in mental health shelters may be subject to the policy
Tiffany Cabán
1:09:09
So I have a couple of follow-up questions.
1:09:11
I just want to be clear for the and I thank you for for sort of fleshing that out.
1:09:15
But just to be clear for the record, that means that this policy would be applicable to mental health shelters or shelters that serve people with disabilities, correct?
1:09:24
I understand the process you laid out, but I just want to be clear
Molly Wasow Park
1:09:26
on Right.
1:09:26
People with disabilities are not concentrated in any one shelter, so somebody with a physical disability could, yes, be affected.
1:09:34
It would impact what is considered to be a viable housing office.
1:09:41
And the hospital shelters?
1:09:42
Administrator Carter, are there any mental health shelters in the first phase of the pilot?
1:09:47
No.
Joslyn Carter
1:09:49
Oh, sorry.
1:09:52
Commissioner, at this point, no.
1:09:53
The pilot does not, but it really depends actually let me take that back.
1:09:59
Because in the mental health shelters, if a person is placed there who may not have a mental health issue, they're just placed there and they're not following or not working towards exiting to permanency, they may be, subject to Okay.
1:10:15
ACFS ACPS.