Featured press / April 24, 2023 AMNY: How New York City’s ‘B-HEARD’ teams are changing the response to mental health emergencies
Featured press / April 8, 2022 News 12: B-HEARD program launches in South Bronx to combat mental health crises
Featured press / April 8, 2022 WNYC: The city is expanding a program that diverts some mental health emergency calls from police to social workers and medics
Featured press / March 17, 2022 CBS: NYC expanding B-HEARD mental health teams to parts of Manhattan and South Bronx
Featured press / January 4, 2022 Daily News: Letter to the Editor from Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health Director Susan Herman
Featured press / October 6, 2021 News 12: Mott Haven clubhouse offers services, resources to New Yorkers struggling with mental illness
Featured press / October 6, 2021 CBS New York: NYC’s Mental Health Clubhouses Proving To Be Valuable Resource For Those Suffering From COVID-Related Issues
Featured press / October 1, 2021 Watch: OCMH Director Susan Herman and other leaders discuss mental health for vulnerable New Yorkers at City & State Summit
Featured press / September 30, 2021 Pix11: NYC launches free mental health resources for nightlife workers
Featured press / July 26, 2021 NPR: Mental Health Response Teams Yield Better Outcomes Than Police In NYC, Data Shows
Featured press / July 23, 2021 USA Today: NYC is sending social workers instead of police to some 911 calls. Here’s how it’s going.
Featured press / July 22, 2021 Bloomberg: NYC’s Mental Health Emergency Response Pilot Shows Promise in Early Data
Featured press / July 22, 2021 NBC New York: NYC’s Non-Police Mental Health Pilot Increasing Rate of Those Getting Aid, Data Show
Featured press / July 22, 2021 NY Daily News: NYPD-free mental health emergency response teams plans to expand
Featured press Op-eds / June 9, 2021 Gotham Gazette: Letter to the Editor: Keeping 911 in the City’s mental health emergency response
Featured press / May 28, 2021 NBC New York: NYC Readies to Send Social Workers Into Uncharted Territory — 911 Mental Health Calls
Featured press / April 20, 2021 Watch: ThriveNYC’s Susan Herman and other leaders discuss mental health at City & State Summit
Featured press / April 13, 2021 Gotham Gazette: As New Yorkers Face a Mental Health Crisis, We Can’t Afford to Lose the Resources ThriveNYC Provides
Featured press / March 3, 2021 NY1: De Blasio administration briefs City Council on mental health response pilot program
Featured press / March 3, 2021 NBC New York: NYC to test no-police mental health crisis response in Harlem
Featured press / March 3, 2021 NY1: Emergency mental health pilot program to launch this spring in Harlem and East Harlem
Featured press News / November 10, 2020 USA Today: Pilot program will replace NYPD for mental health 911 calls in 2 neighborhoods