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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Nadia Chait, Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy at CASES
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Nadia Chait from CASES testified in support of the Crisis to Care investments, specifically $22 million for Intensive Mobile Treatment (IMT) teams. She shared success stories of clients who have benefited from IMT services, highlighting improvements in housing, education, and mental health treatment engagement.
- Described positive outcomes for client DG, including supportive housing placement, college enrollment, and consistent mental health treatment engagement
- Mentioned another client, Nicholas, who started community college classes
- Emphasized the effectiveness of IMT in meeting clients' needs and supporting their goals
Nadia Chait
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Good evening, Churchillman and Shirley.
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I'm Nadia Chait, the senior director of policy and advocacy at CASES.
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We serve over 12,000 people annually across a range of programs, including being the largest provider of mobile mental health treatment teams in New York City with seven intensive mobile treatment teams and nine assertive community treatment teams, including several that focus on serving folks with legal system involvement.
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I'm here today to support the Crisis to Care, investments, specifically the $22,000,000 for IMT.
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I think many of us have seen what many of our clients experience on their worst days.
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So I want to share what happens when folks actually get access to service and care.
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And so I want to talk about a recent client, DG.
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He's been with one of our IMT teams for about eight months now, and he was referred to us due to repeated episodes of aggression, a long history of mood disorders starting when he was quite young, and repeated challenges of engaging in mental health treatment.
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In the eight months in our care, we've been able to connect him to supportive housing.
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He's enrolled in college classes at Berkeley College, and is working toward his goal of having his own clothing brand.
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He's been able to build community connections, particularly important for him as he has a strained relationship with his family.
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We've linked him to job training and he's continued to meet with us and engage in mental health treatment services for the longest stretch for which he's engaged in mental health care in a very long time.
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I also want to share a little bit about Nicholas, another client of ours in an IMT team.
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Nicholas just started classes at the, Borough of Manhattan Community College in January of twenty twenty five.
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We have another client, who is just one math test away from finishing their high school equivalency exam.
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This is the result.
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This is what can happen when we support people and when we engage them in services that are actually meeting their needs and working with them every day.
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This is what works.
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It's not the
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Thank you.
Lynn Schulman
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Just give a summary of your closing.
Nadia Chait
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That's Fund IOT Fund Act.
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Thank you.
Lynn Schulman
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Thank you.
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