New York, NY –
City and state officials are pledging to repair a mental health system that they say regularly fails to identify mentally ill people who are potentially violent.
WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.
A panel of experts was convened last year following several high-profile criminal incidents involving the mentally ill.
The group issued a report echoing what many critics have been saying for years: the mental health system — comprised of hospitals, clinics and social service and law enforcement agencies – suffers from, quote, “poor coordination, fragmented oversight, and lack of accountability.”
The recommendations include creating joint city-and-state “monitoring teams” for troubled individuals and a database for tracking them.
The proposals are already being implemented and will cost an estimated $13 million in city and state funds.
For WNYC, I’m Fred Mogul.
Fred Mogul has been covering healthcare and medicine for WNYC since 2002. His beat takes him to hospitals, community clinics, doctors offices, health agencies, public schools and research labs across the metropolitan area. His work has appeared on NPR and in the New York Times, Time magazine and Philadelphia Inquirer, among others.
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