Governor Kathy Hochul announced a billion-dollar plan to address the gap she says exists within our health care system. Hochul said it’s an all in effort to strengthen and finally invest properly in the mental health care system.
“We must meet this crisis with the urgency that it demands,” said Governor Kathy Hochul.
It’s a public safety crisis Hochul said spreads all across New York State. Local agencies here in Buffalo said the comprehensive plan to fix the mental health care system comes at a crucial time.
“With the pandemic, followed by the massacre on Jefferson in May, now this snow storm and the Damar Hamlin situation,” said Elizabeth Woike-Ganga, President and CEO of BestSelf Behavioral Health. “All of those situations have really created a collective trauma.”
Many of those events are Woike-Ganga said requests for services have skyrocketed.
