OVERSIGHT NOW: BHEARD is failing, City Council can help
A few weeks ago, the City quietly released new B-HEARD data, which evidence the program’s failings. Rather than publish a report with quarterly statistics, as they have done in the past, the City opted to publish yearlong averages (which helped conceal the program’s increasingly poor performance as the year progressed) and removed the previously published data briefs. Fortunately, our coalition had saved every report, so we were able to conduct a longitudinal analysis, which revealed that many of the data points are trending in the wrong direction. This proves once again that the program is not working with its continued reliance on 911 dispatch and lack of peers.
This is why we are calling on New York City Council Mental Health Committee Chair Linda Lee and the Public Safety Chair Kamillah Hanks to hold a joint oversight hearing on the B-HEARD program.
Follow the prompts to email, call, and tweet at the Committee Chairs Lee and Hanks.
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OVERSIGHT NOW: BHEARD is failing, City Council can help
A few weeks ago, the City quietly released new B-HEARD data, which evidence the program’s failings. Rather than publish a report with quarterly statistics, as they have done in the past, the City opted to publish yearlong averages (which helped conceal the program’s increasingly poor performance as the year progressed) and removed the previously published data briefs. Fortunately, our coalition had saved every report, so we were able to conduct a longitudinal analysis, which revealed that many of the data points are trending in the wrong direction. This proves once again that the program is not working with its continued reliance on 911 dispatch and lack of peers.
This is why we are calling on New York City Council Mental Health Committee Chair Linda Lee and the Public Safety Chair Kamillah Hanks to hold a joint oversight hearing on the B-HEARD program.
Follow the prompts to email, call, and tweet at the Committee Chairs Lee and Hanks.
To access content and images to use on twitter, use on this toolkit