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New York state mental health crisis legislation introduced
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32774
Subject(s) - hotline , legislation , crisis intervention , mental health , state (computer science) , political science , intervention (counseling) , mental healthcare , medicine , public administration , law , psychiatry , engineering , telecommunications , computer science , algorithm
Six months following the designation of 988 as a universal number for a national suicide hotline commencing next summer, New York state lawmakers have introduced a bill establishing a mental health crisis hotline system allowing for crisis intervention and crisis care coordination.