Relates to establishing the New York state council on mental health emergency and crisis response to make recommendations on topics including but not limited to: identifying best practices for response to mental health crises; initiatives to increase training opportunities and participation of mental health professionals, and other qualified individuals as members of mobile crisis outreach teams; identify training needs and methods to improve diversion from hospitalization after response from a mobile crisis outreach team; identify the need for establishing mobile crisis outreach teams in each region of the state and accessing alternatives to hospitalization; public education and outreach on the benefit of mobile crisis outreach teams and how to access their services; and any other recommendation deemed appropriate by the council.
Relating to the provision of behavioral health crisis services, including the operation of crisis centers and mobile crisis outreach teams; authorizing a fee.
Directs the commissioner of mental health to conduct a study of child- and youth-targeted mobile crisis outreach teams in New York state, and deliver a report including the findings and recommendations of such study to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly.
Directs the commissioner of mental health to conduct a study of child- and youth-targeted mobile crisis outreach teams in New York state, and deliver a report including the findings and recommendations of such study to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly.