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Outposted therapeutic housing units initiative
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The city is implementing an outposted therapeutic housing units initiative to create secure clinical units within three NYC Health and Hospitals facilities for people in DOC custody with serious medical or mental health conditions.
- Mayor Adams directed the city to move forward with all three sites in March 2024
- The administration has allocated significant funding for the construction of these units
- This initiative aims to provide better access to hospital services and resources for vulnerable individuals in custody
Deanna Logan
1:41:44
The Lipman report underscores the importance of our outposted therapeutic housing units initiative, which will create secure clinical units within three New York City health and hospital facilities for people in Department of Correction custody who have serious medical and or mental health conditions and benefit and those individuals would benefit from the better access to hospital services and resources.
1:42:14
In March of twenty twenty four, mayor Adams directed the city to move forward with all three sites in order to best serve the most clinically vulnerable people in custody.
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The administration added a hundred and 60,000,000 in fiscal year twenty five September capital plan and 32,000,000 in the fiscal year twenty six preliminary capital plan for the construction of these three critically important units.
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We, this administration, invested 910,000,000 in total for capital construction.