AM NY: It’s Time for Albany to Help New Yorkers in Mental Health Crisis
May 28, 2022Baerga v. City of New York, CCIT-NYC, Disability Justice, News, Transforming Mental Health Crisis Response
In an op-ed for AM NY, healthcare and psychiatry professional Michael Zingman, MD MPH, addressed the need to transform mental health crisis response in New York, including passing the Treatment Not Jails Act. Zingman’s op-ed aligns with NYLPI’s work in cases such as Baerga v. City of New York, a class-action suit filed by NYLPI addressing the need to remove police as first responders to mental health crisis.
Read more at AM NY.
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