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Funding for mental health mobile treatment teams

2:29:42

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73 sec

Council Member Kevin C. Riley inquires about the funding allocation for mobile treatment teams in the executive plan. The administration explains that the $47.3 million allocation is to replace expiring funding from the American Rescue Plan, not for program expansion.

  • OMB prioritized backfilling the program to prevent it from being discontinued
  • Additional resources for expansion were not included due to limited funding
  • Future assessments will determine if more resources are needed
Kevin C. Riley
2:29:42
Thank you, chair.
2:29:44
Good afternoon to the administration.
2:29:46
Thank you so much for being here today.
2:29:48
Just a few questions.
2:29:49
In the executive plan, d o a DOHMH was allocated 47,300,000.0 for mobile treatment teams in fiscal year twenty twenty six.
2:29:58
We first thought that this was funding that was gonna be expansion of the program, but later realized that this is rather to replace expiring funding from the American Rescue Plan.
2:30:09
These are critical services that have proven to be effective and we have requested in our budget response with the administration to add another 30,000,000 to expand these teams.
2:30:18
Why wasn't there an additional funding added to the executive budget for the mobile treatment teams?
Jacques Jiha
2:30:23
As you know, funding is very limited.
2:30:27
So what we first do to begin with was to say, hey, the program is funded with stimulus dollars.
2:30:34
Let's try to make sure we could backfill it to begin with.
2:30:38
To make sure because otherwise if we don't find those resources to backfill the programme, basically the programme would go away.
2:30:47
So that's the first thing we have to do.
2:30:48
Okay.
2:30:49
And then as we go forward and then we will do an assessment of the program to see if additional resources are needed.
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