Mental Health Update

Send an E-Letter Here!

The Bring It Home Campaign is thrilled to see that Governor Hochul’s executive budget proposal for State Fiscal Year 2023-24 makes significant investments in the community mental health housing system that will go a long way toward ensuring rates can support our heroic workforce and help residents on their road to recovery.

Governor Hochul’s proposed Executive Budget contains an unprecedented proposal to invest close to $1 Billion in NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH) funding for enhanced community services including:

·    $39 million in state funds for residential rate increases

·    3,500 new units of OMH housing over 5 years

·    2.5% human services Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA)

These funds will go a long way toward closing the $96.1 million gap created by years of underfunding.

We need everyone’s help to urge the legislature to keep these funds in New York’s FY 2023-2024 budget. In addition, while the proposal included a 2.5% human services COLA, we need your help to advocate for full funding of the COLA, at 8.5%.

Please share the link below with your co-workers, friends, and family members and ask them to send an e-letter to your local state representatives, legislative leaders, and the Governor in support of the $39 million in funding and an 8.5% COLA.

SEND AN E-LETTER HERE

We encourage you to send the e-letter as many times as you can!

Our goal is to send at least 100,000 letters by time the final budget is completed towards the end of March!

How to Send an E-letter

Sending an E-Letter is very easy to do!

Just click this link, then enter your street address, zip code, and full name and a digital copy of an E-letter will be generated addressed from you to your State Legislators, Legislative Leaders, Legislative Committee Members, and the Governor! You can then either choose to e-mail it to her OR print and mail a hard copy.

We encourage you to send the E-letter as many times as you’d like and please share this link to anyone who would also be willing to send it!

Thanks for helping us Bring It Home!

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The Bring It Home Coalition

Bring it Home is a coalition of community-based mental health housing providers, mental health advocates, faith leaders, and consumers and their families, urging New York State to adequately fund these community-based housing programs for individuals with psychiatric disabilities. Full recovery and community reintegration depends on stable housing opportunities. Through education and advocacy, Bring it Home is working to bring Better Funding for Better Care to New York.