Mind the Gap: Inside New York City’s Mental Health Crisis

• By: Bruce Collins, PhD
• September 16th, 2026
• B-HEARD, budget, community mental health, health equity, mental health workforce, New York City, psychiatric emergency, unmet need
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Nearly a million New Yorkers cannot access the mental health care they need. A broken workforce, a fraying safety net, and deep inequities are forcing the nation's largest city to reimagine how — and for whom — mental health care is delivered. The Emergency Room at Midnight The...

Congressional Mental Health Policy Reform: Hope or Hype?

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Columbia University School of Social Work
• July 1st, 2016
• access to care, behavioral health services, community mental health, evidence-based practices, mental health policy, mental health reform, mental health workforce, quality of care
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Since the tragic killings in Newtown, CT in 2013, most politicians have mistakenly maintained that mass murder is largely a consequence of a “broken” mental health system. In Washington, and elsewhere, elected officials have been promising to “fix” the system, and to their credit they have...