Advocacy’s Strange Bedfellows: How New York’s Landmark Behavioral Health Budget Came to Be

• By: Ashley Brody, MPA, CPRP Search for Change, Inc.
• July 29th, 2026
• behavioral health advocacy, community-based services, deinstitutionalization, homelessness crisis, mental health policy, New York budget, serious mental illness, Summer 2026 Issue, supportive housing
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Governor Hochul's Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2023-2024 (FY 2024) included unprecedented investments in behavioral healthcare and related services for the most vulnerable residents of New York. This emerged in response to widespread homelessness, rapidly rising rates of suicide, and epidemics...