Public schools are required to provide a fair and appropriate education to all students – including those with mental health challenges. But in NYC, families face a complex process that can take years to obtain the right services for their child.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.By law, public schools are required to provide a fair and appropriate education to all students – including those with mental health challenges. But what happens in reality is that families are forced to navigate an incredibly complex system, in a process that can take years to obtain the right services for their child. Apublished by ProPublica and news outlet The City looks at glaring inequities in this system.
We also have a mental health care system that has, for a very long time, been inadequate to serve kids’ needs. Kids cannot get the mental health care that they need in their communities. Over the past decade, New York state has shut down hundreds of beds and programs for kids with very severe and very acute mental health needs – all based on a promise that there was going to be a massive expansion of community-based services for kids. That expansion hasn't happened.
Well, I found it extremely hard. My daughter, for one, is on the autism spectrum disorder. So in the community we live in, the only option that we had, unfortunately, was the psychiatric ER, where I took her when she was in a mental health crisis. Basically they threw their hands up and I pleaded with them to just keep her overnight. There was physical aggression that was involved that never was an issue prior to the pandemic.
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