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QUESTION
How many social workers currently staff B-HEARD and what is the vacancy rate?
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The be heard program, a part of NYC Health and Hospitals, employs 39 social workers, and all positions for active teams are filled.
- NYC Health and Hospitals reports 39 social workers are employed under the be heard program.
- Mitch Katz clarifies that these are separate from fire department EMS workers.
- Upon inquiry, John Ulberg was initially uncertain about the vacancy rate, but Mitch Katz confirms that there are no vacancies for the program's active teams.
Mercedes Narcisse
0:46:23
How many people currently work and be heard?
0:46:25
Do you know?
0:46:26
And what is their vacancy rate?
John Ulberg
0:46:28
Yeah.
0:46:28
I think the current number is about 39 staff.
0:46:32
39.
Mitch Katz
0:46:33
That but that's our staff.
0:46:34
Our staff.
0:46:35
Yeah.
0:46:35
39 social workers that we're predicting.
0:46:38
Right?
0:46:38
That's not the people at the fire department EMS.
Mercedes Narcisse
0:46:42
And you know about the vacancy, the vacancy rate in there?
John Ulberg
0:46:47
No.
0:46:48
I know.
Mitch Katz
0:46:49
To the best of my knowledge, we feel all of the teams that are currently running.
0:46:54
Yeah.
0:46:54
Okay.