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Inquiry about personnel and budget needs to reduce mental health service wait times
2:55:02
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Council Member Sandy Nurse inquires about the personnel capacity and budget needed to reduce wait times for IMT and FACT teams. DOHMH officials are unable to provide immediate answers but commit to following up with the requested information.
- Council Member Nurse asks for specific information on personnel and budget needs to reduce service gaps
- DOHMH officials state they will need to follow up with this information
- The exchange highlights the need for more detailed planning and resource allocation to address mental health service wait times
- Council Member Nurse emphasizes the importance of knowing what resources are needed to improve service delivery
Sandy Nurse
2:55:02
How how much how many people, what would be the personnel capacity that you would need or dollar amount to reduce that gap and get everyone connected to the service they need for those IMT and fact teams?
Michelle Morse
2:55:21
That's a number I think we'd have to follow-up with you about.
Sandy Nurse
2:55:23
Yeah it would be great for
Linda Lee
2:55:26
us to know what do you
Sandy Nurse
2:55:27
need to reduce that whatever referral period.
2:55:32
It's a wait list if even if you don't want to call it that, but knowing how much how many people you need, what money do you need to recruit for it, what money you need to retain people to do that, so that we can drop that down.
2:55:48
And then I had one other question.
2:55:49
I'm sorry if it's not fully relevant to you all, but I had a question about respite centers, or I don't know if we're calling them respite centers still, the local law we passed.