Teams of mental health and social workers will be deployed in Central Brooklyn as first responders to 911 calls where someone is in emotional distress, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday.
The announcement was made during Hizzoner’s executive budget unveiling speech at the Kings Theatre, where he said his proposal would include $55 million to expand the Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division (B-HEARD) program — which began as a pilot in Harlem and was expanded to Washington Heights and parts of the South Bronx earlier this year — to Central Brooklyn, eastern Queens, and the rest of the South Bronx.
