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Interagency partnerships and future of the Community Care Plan
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Council Member Hudson inquires about interagency partnerships with parks and libraries, and the future of the Community Care Plan. Commissioner Cortés-Vázquez explains:
- Partnerships with Parks Department to address mental health issues among older adults using recreation facilities
- Collaboration with libraries to identify gaps in services for older adults and develop joint solutions
- The future of the plan involves continuing the comprehensive approach aligned with creating an age-inclusive city
Additional details:
- The department is implementing a systemic program to provide geriatric mental health workers to parks facilities
- The plan will continue to evolve, focusing on alternatives for different age groups (60-64, 65-80, 85+)
- There's a need for a shift in how state-level Medicaid and long-term care services approach the 85+ population
Crystal Hudson
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Can you explain a little bit more about the interagency partnerships with parks and libraries?
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What does that
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
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work?
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Sure.
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So That is the beauty.
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I wish the state would do this, and I'm so happy that Senator Jillibrand has now said for every state to have a state master plan.
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New York State State Master Plan needs, I'm not sure where it's going yet.
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But we have a model in New York, like the aging cabinet, that has really served us well.
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So one of the things that came out, Andrew, for your information, is we looked at parks department started thinking of don't you know, I always get everybody's name wrong.
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Parks department was looking at the older adults that they serve in their recreation facilities.
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Right?
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And one of the things that they found was like, a lot of these people are having mental health issues, low level mental health issues, and higher mental health issues.
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And so one of the things that we've done is say, alright, let's not look at this as a bifurcated program.
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Let's see how we could integrate.
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So we first started by sending them a worker, a community mental health worker, geriatric mental health worker once in a while.
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Well, now we've done it as a systemic program, and now we're linking them as if they were an older adult club the way we have hub and spokes.
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That's what.
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And the same thing with the libraries.
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Just looking at the partnership with the libraries.
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We met with with Dennis to start thinking about, okay.
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You do a lot with older adults.
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What is it that you need?
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Where are the gaps?
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And how do we work this together?
Crystal Hudson
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Great.
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Thank you for that.
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You mentioned the state master plan.
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Well, this plan is a 5 year road map, and we're more than halfway through its time frame.
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What's the future of the plan?
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And given great and growing needs of the city's older adult population, does NYC aging plan on introducing a longer term plan to the community care plan?
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
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So the answer is yes and yes.
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Alright?
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Yes.
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As I said and so the first
Crystal Hudson
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the first question was, what's the future of the plan?
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Which is
Chris Banks
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the future
Tara Klein
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of the plan?
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
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The future of the plan is to continue this.
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You can't you can't go back from looking at things comprehensively to go back to look at things in silo.
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It just makes no sense, particularly when the population is growing.
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So the future of the plan is to obviously continue this approach, particularly because it's aligned with an age inclusive city.
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So that's that's the trajectory.
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Now, what I would say is staging out what needs to be done, what are some alternatives for the 60 to 64.
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Pop up cafes are those the alternative.
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Is Parks Department, the alternatives.
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Start looking at it from what we are learning so far, and then going forward.
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And we know that for the 85 plus, the only way we're gonna really serve those individuals well if they want a continuing community is to have a a shift and a change in the way state because the state does the those Medicaid and long term care services.
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Is to have a shift in the way that they look at this population and look at an integrated approach to it.
Crystal Hudson
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Great.
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I'm gonna break here and and turn to my colleagues from for some of their questions starting with Council member banks.