Monthly Archives: February 2024

Meeting people’s mental health needs (Op-Ed)

As New Yorkers, we’re all too familiar with images of our neighbors in need of care and support. We may see them asking for money or food, sleeping on park benches or subway cars, or walking in cold weather without a shirt or shoes.

D.A. Bragg Kicks Off Mental Health Initiative In New York Daily News Op-Ed

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today wrote an op-ed in the New York Daily News about the official launch of a proactive approach to address the City’s mental health crisis as the Office’s Neighborhood Navigators hit the streets for the first time. D.A. Bragg also called on all stakeholders, from law enforcement to elected officials and more, to come together and solve this issue, and offered immediate action-items.