CCIT-NYC: See Their Faces. Say Their Names.
Baerga v. City of New York, CCIT-NYC, Community Justice, News, Racial Justice, Transforming Mental Health Crisis Response
CCIT-NYC is a coalition of more than 80 mental health advocacy and other community organizations, consisting of hundreds of community stakeholders, working to transform how New York City responds to mental health crises. CCIT-NYC has proposed a mental health crisis response system that replaces police with teams of trained peer specialists and independent emergency medical technicians, based on input from two 100-plusmember community focus groups and a review of relevant research.
Learn more at the CCIT-NYC page.
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