Three months after Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan to ramp up involuntary commitments for the severely mentally ill, he rolled out what he billed as the “second phase” of his mental health strategy on Thursday, in the form of a three-pronged effort to tackle youth mental health, overdose deaths and severe mental illness.
The plan, titled “Care, Community, Action: A Mental Health Plan for New York City,” would put $22.8 million toward funding initiatives to tackle parts of the city’s ongoing mental health crisis that was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
