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Eric Adams: “We opened the clinics in neighborhoods with the highest…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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New York City Mental Health Initiative Announcement with Mayor Eric Adams

Published | Video Starts at 09:35

How do we use these locations as early identifiers for housing, for mental health need, for food needs. He has really utilized the health and hospital as an early identifier to help some of these long systemic problems. We opened the clinics in neighborhoods with the highest rates of school intervention and suspension. That's proactive. The goal is prevention and intervention. We created an upstream solution to downstream problems. This initiative also builds on our Mental Health Continuing Partnership, which serves over 20,000 students in 50 schools. (09:35–09:42)

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