Requires that members of a mobile crisis team include at least one certified peer specialist with lived experience with emotional and behavioral crisis situations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8016
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 1, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring that
mobile crisis teams include certified peer specialists with lived
experience with emotional and behavioral crisis situations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 11 of subdivision (a) of section 36.03 of the
2 mental hygiene law, as added by section 2 of part EE of chapter 57 of
3 the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
4 (11) "Mobile crisis teams" means a team licensed, certified, or
5 authorized by the office of mental health and the office of addiction
6 services and supports to provide community-based mental health or
7 substance use disorder interventions for individuals who are experienc-
8 ing a mental health or substance use disorder crisis. Members of a
9 mobile crisis team shall include at least one certified peer specialist
10 with lived experience with emotional and behavioral crisis situations.
11 Members of a mobile crisis team may include, but not be limited to:
12 behavioral health professionals, certified peer specialists without
13 lived experience with emotional and behavioral crisis situations, certi-
14 fied recovery peer advocates, credentialed family peer advocates, and
15 credentialed youth peer advocates.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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