Healthy

Enhance Health Care Access and Mitigate Impact of Federal Policies on Health Coverage

• Increase funding for NYC Care from $100 million to $200 million.
• Increase funding for the Access Health initiative from $3.6 million to $4.5 million.

Support the Mental Health Needs of Children and Families

• Restore funding for the City Council’s Mental Health Initiatives and provide a 3% increase across programs to match the citywide human services COLA initiative.
• Increase funding for the Court-Involved Youth Mental Health initiative from $3.43 million to $6.85 million.
• Increase funding for the NYC 988 Crisis Prevention and Intervention Hotline initiative from $5.15 million to $6 million.
• Invest $3.75 million to expand school-based mental health clinic services in up to 50 clinics.

Enhance access to anti-hunger programs and services

• Increase funding for the Community Food Connection (CFC) program from $75 million to $100 million.
• Increase funding for Health Bucks from $500,000 to $700,000.

Housed

Strengthen Housing Voucher Access for Families

• Implement CityFHEPS eligibility expansion as required by law.

Ensure Runaway and Homeless Youth have safe housing and services

• Increase bed rates for Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) Providers to $70,000 to cover full costs and sustain safe places for runaway and homeless youth.
• Restore and baseline $1.6 million for Peer Navigator positions and $1.6 million for housing specialists in the DYCD-RHY System.

Educated

Continue the path toward universal birth-to-five care

• Restore and baseline $5 million for ECE outreach, ensuring necessary information reaches families so they can make informed decisions regarding ECE programs.
• Restore $10 million for the Infant and Toddler Child Care pilot, expanding child care access to families with children 0-2 years old in high-need neighborhoods
• Restore funding for PromiseNYC and baseline funding at $50 million.
• Continue working with the State to ensure sufficient funding for child care vouchers and prepare to address shortfalls with city funding. 

Ensure continuation of services for K-12 education

• Restore and baseline $5 million for the Mental Health Continuum
• Restore and baseline $31 million for Learning to Work
• Restore and baseline $12 million for Sensory Exploration, Education and Discovery (SEED) programs, for students with intensive sensory needs
• Restore and baseline $6 million for Restorative Justice Practices in schools
• Restore and baseline $4 million for Immigrant Family Communication and Outreach
• Restore and baseline $3.3 million for Student Success Centers

Safe

Ensure that the youth services system is well resourced and accessible to all New York City youth regardless of disability, citizenship, language or zip code.

• Expand access to afterschool and summer programs, such as COMPASS, SONYC, and Summer Rising, by increasing the proposed Price Per Participant.
• Add elementary afterschool seats and continue move towards year-round contracts for afterschool programming so all families are guaranteed the level of afterschool/summer care they need.

Enhance services for systems-involved youth and families

• Invest $3 million to provide interim transportation for students in foster care awaiting bus service.

Ensure that prevention, alternatives to incarceration, and reentry services are well-resourced and funded.

Fund the initiatives of the New York City Youth Justice Coalition, including:

• Restore and baseline $4.1 million for the Intensive Mentoring/Parents and Children Together (IMPACT) program
• Restore and baseline $5 million for the NextSTEPs (Striving Toward Engagement and Peaceful Solutions) program
• Increase funding for the Community Justice Reentry Network from $20 million to $40 million
• Increase funding for the Anti-Gun Violence Employment Program from $5 million to $8 million
• Increase funding for the Youth Enrichment Services (YES) Program from $7.5 million to $8.5 million
• Increase funding for Atlas from $24 million to $59.1 million
• Increase funding for the Neighborhood Opportunity Network (NeOn) program from $2.5 million to $3.2 million
• Increase funding for the WorksPlus Program from $2.6 million to $3.7 million
• Restore and baseline $130,000 for the Adolescent Portable Therapy