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Major effort to close treatment gap in New York City faces criticism
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31817
Subject(s) - scrutiny , criticism , subject (documents) , government (linguistics) , political science , public administration , media coverage , sociology , media studies , law , library science , philosophy , computer science , linguistics
When New York City's first lady and mayor announced the comprehensive ThriveNYC mental health initiative in late 2015, observers hailed it as a groundbreaking demonstration of government commitment and a potential national model. In recent months, however, ThriveNYC has been the subject of criticism in the local media and intense scrutiny of funding that some say has generated too little in the way of results.