Mental Health Services

(Airs 02/13/25 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Alice Bufkin, Associate Executive Director for Policy and Advocacy at the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, part of the Campaign for Healthy Minds Healthy Kids – a coalition of behavioral health, mental health, and substance use providers, advocates and families - about the need to ensure that all children and adolescents in New York receive the high-quality behavioral health services they need.

More than 200 advocates and stakeholders were at the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vermont for the 10th annual Mental Health Advocacy Day this week.

Behavioral Health Services North is celebrating the opening of a new residential crisis center in Plattsburgh that will focus on providing mental health crisis support services.

Elected officials gathered Wednesday in downtown Albany to announce major efforts to boost mental health programs and services.

City and county officials are launching a new pilot program designed to assess the needs of mentally ill, addicted and unhoused individuals in the Lark Street neighborhood of Albany.

Within the Hudson City Court, a designated mental health court is now holding sessions.

New York Congressman Paul Tonko welcomed U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to Albany this morning for a panel discussion about mental health investments.

New grants will expand mental health services for students at SUNY Plattsburgh.

Albany County officials are hailing a pilot program augmenting 911 services a success.