NYC Council Introduction 722

intro.nyc/0722-2024 2024-2025 Legislative Session
Requiring at least one mental health coordinator at any location where refugees, asylees, and migrants receive services from city agencies or providers upon their arrival in the city of New York.
Status: Committee Committee on Immigration
Sponsored by Lynn C. Schulman
Introduced: March 19, 2024

This bill would require the Mayor’s Office of Community Health to have at least one mental health coordinator at any location where refugees and migrants receive services from the city. The locations will include emergency congregate housing, shelters run by the Department of Homeless Services, and resource centers that provide various social services to refugees and immigrants. The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs shall determine further locations as necessary.