Help Fund Quality Programs For Geriatric Mental Health!

Dear Advocates,

Please tell your legislators to fund quality programs for geriatric mental health! The Geriatric Mental Health Alliance of New York State has a two item legislative geriatric mental health ask, which includes:

• Additional state-of-the-art service demonstration programs for $3 million; and
• A Center for Excellence that would disseminate best practices in geriatric mental health and provide technical assistance for $1 million.

We all need to act now!

We urge you to please send in the attached letters to the Chairs of the NY Assembly and Senate Aging and Mental Health Committees supporting these two items. Simply read the letters, fill in your contact information, sign and send.

Here are links to the four letters:

Letter to Senator Martin J. Golden, Chair, NYS Senate Committee on Aging
Letter to Senator Thomas P. Morahan, Chair, NYS Senate Committee on Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Letter to Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz, Chair, NYS Assembly Committee on Aging
Letter to Assemblymember Peter M. Rivera, Chair, NYS Assembly Committee on Mental Health

The process is moving very rapidly, so it is critical to get in letters as soon as possible. Please let us know when you have mailed in these letters by emailing Yusyin at yhsin@mhaofnyc.org.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Kim Steinhagen
Director