{"id":9092,"date":"2021-04-13T16:28:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/?p=9092"},"modified":"2023-10-30T20:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T00:00:28","slug":"as-new-yorkers-face-a-mental-health-crisis-we-cant-afford-to-lose-the-resources-thrivenyc-provides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/safe-horizon-in-the-news\/new-yorkers-mental-health-crisis-thrive-nyc","title":{"rendered":"As New Yorkers Face a Mental Health Crisis, We Can\u2019t Afford to Lose the Resources ThriveNYC Provides"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gotham Gazette<\/em>
\n By Joel Copperman & Liz Roberts
\nApril 13, 2021<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

As New York City continues to navigate the fallout of COVID-19, a new crisis is upon us. In October 2020, nearly 40% of New Yorkers reported symptoms of anxiety and\/or depression. In January 2021, The New York Times reported fivefold increases in psychologist services and long waiting lists for mental health care. A mental health crisis in New York City is playing out among family members in cramped apartments; among frontline workers providing essential services in grocery aisles, delivery trucks, and emergency rooms; and increasingly in the city\u2019s public spaces like sidewalks and subways.<\/p>\n

Our city is not unique in facing a public mental health emergency. However, one piece of good news is that we are uniquely prepared to respond.<\/p>\n

Though often maligned by some, the ThriveNYC initiative has consolidated and strengthened New York City’s broad spectrum of mental health services, from efforts to destigmatize asking for help to intensive 24\/7 treatment for people living with serious mental illness. While public policy efforts must be\u2014and are\u2014held accountable for resource allocation and results, ThriveNYC\u2019s innovation in how a large and complex city approaches its residents\u2019 mental health is the kind of groundbreaking civic initiative that has long-defined New York City.<\/p>\n

By and large, ThriveNYC has created a robust citywide infrastructure of mental health services that are now pivoting to rapidly respond to New Yorkers\u2019 increasingly urgent needs. Cutting funding to ThriveNYC\u2014as has been suggested by some candidates running for Mayor\u2014would cause significant harm to hundreds of thousands of individuals in need of assistance; individuals who currently rely on ThriveNYC programs. Such cuts would disproportionately impact communities of color and people who rely on publicly-funded health services, the very individuals and communities most severely impacted by COVID-19. And they would directly hinder the city\u2019s recovery from the mental health crisis surging in the pandemic\u2019s wake.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers have relied on the more than 30 programs ThriveNYC has funded since 2016.\u00a0This<\/span>\u00a0is possible through the partnerships ThriveNYC has fostered with more than 200 nonprofit organizations, many of which have been working for years to provide New Yorkers facing difficult challenges with the holistic, wraparound care they need not just to survive but to succeed. While these organizations receive funding from diverse sources, ThriveNYC\u2019s commitment to funding innovative approaches to mental health has allowed us to deliver the cutting-edge services that people in a city as complex as New York need and deserve.<\/p>\n

These innovative services mean help is available in schools, senior centers, homeless shelters, or wherever in the community someone calls home. It means support for mothers with newborn babies, for veterans, and for New York City employees. It means victim advocates in police precincts citywide. It means intensive services for individuals with serious mental illness involved in the court system.<\/p>\n

Community-based organizations funded by ThriveNYC are the frontline defense against the mental health crisis New York now faces, a crisis likely to be experienced as individual and community trauma long after the last vaccine is administered. Recovery as a city from this pandemic requires continuing investment in mental health. Let’s leverage the investment we\u2019ve made in ThriveNYC to help all New Yorkers bounce back.<\/p>\n

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\nJoel Copperman is the CEO of CASES and Liz Roberts is the CEO of Safe Horizon. We are joined in this statement by Muzzy Rosenblatt, Bowery Residents Committee, Amy Dorin, The Coalition for Behavioral Health, Traci Donnelly, The Child Center of NY, Michelle Yanche, Good Shepherd Services, David Garza, Henry Street Settlement, Mitchell Netburn, Samaritan Daytop Village, and Keith Little, SCO Family of Services.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve worked with Safe Horizon and contributed on the board of this amazing non profit for the past 7 years. With this being Mental Health Awareness month, I couldn\u2019t think of a more appropriate organization for this next feature. Safe Horizon is the leading victim\u2019s assistance organization in the U.S and has been in existence for over 40 years and serving over 250,000+ survivors.\r\n\r\nI \u2018ZOOM ROOMED\u2019 with Arisly Rodriguez, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker that has worked within Safe Horizon for about 9 years. She has worked closely supporting children and their families whom have experienced traumatic events throughout the entirety of her work within the agency. Safe Horizon is focused on moving victims of violence from crisis to confidence. She has had hands-on experience working within the Queens Child Advocacy Center as a Senior Case Manager and as a Clinical Forensic Specialist then moved into the role of a newer program, The Child Trauma Response Team (CTRT)<\/a>, as Clinical Director and now Senior Director of this program. Arisly helps to inform the clinical practice framework of CTRT along with all 5 Child Advocacy Centers<\/a> with a trauma informed anti-oppressive lens. Throughout these 9 years, Arisly continues to work collaboratively with the NYPD Domestic Violence Units, the District Attorney\u2019s office and other community based organizations. She is also a recent graduate of the NY Community Trust Leader Fellowship.\r\n\r\nCB: Arisly, thank you and Safe Horizon for taking part in the #THRIVEUP series! Can you tell us a little bit about Safe Horizon, their mission and accomplishments to date?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAR: Thank you, Christina! Happy to speak with you and the Thrive Global readers today!\r\n\r\nOur mission at Safe Horizon is to provide support, prevent violence and promote justice for victims of crime and abuse, their families and communities.\r\n\r\nWe also have programs that assist survivors of sexual assault, childhood sex abuse, and youth homelessness. We are based in New York City, serving survivors in the five boroughs. Our survivors are primarily referred to us through our hotline 1-800-621-HOPE (4673) which is open 24 hours, 7 days a week. We also receive referrals from our Crime Victim Assistance Program advocates based in NYPD precincts throughout the five boroughs. In my division, Child Trauma Response Team also referred to as CTRT, we receive also receive our referrals through our domestic violence shelters are based in New York City, serving survivors in the five boroughs.\r\n\r\nIn the past two years, for our domestic violence survivors, we have:\r\n