When NY's Network of Homeless Psychiatric Services Fails Everyone

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 15, 2022

Andy Newman, reporter for the New York Times, where he writes about social services and poverty in New York City, and Anthony Carino, MD, director of psychiatry at CUCS/Janian Medical Care, a healthcare program for people impacted by homelessness, talk about the patchwork of psychiatric services available to homeless New Yorkers and why, in some cases, high-need individuals with documented violent histories fall through the cracks leading to dire outcomes, as was the case with Martial Simon who pushed Michelle Alyssa Go onto the subway tracks.

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