February 22, 2023
Our Rally for Healthy Minds, Healthy Kids mobilizes advocates and champions, like you, to be a part of our movement to end New York’s mental and behavioral health crisis.
In this rally recording we bring together advocates, caregivers, youth, service providers and elected leaders to call on Governor Hochul and the State Legislature to ensure that state budget investments prioritize children, youth and families amid decades of chronic disinvestment in the children’s behavioral health system.
Carlos F. Rosales – Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York
Alice Bufkin – Associate Executive Director for Policy and Advocacy at Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York
Brad Hansen – Public Policy Director at Families Together in New York State
Shoshana Hershkowitz – Statewide Organizer at Citizen Action of New York
Shannon Zielinski – Care Coordinator at Villa of Hope; Board Member at the New York State Coalition for Children’s Behavioral Health
Preem Cabey – Member of our HMHK Community Leadership Council
Nura Anwar – Advisor for our HMHK Community Leadership Council
Christina Hauptman – Member of our HMHK Community Leadership Council
Tiara Springer-Love – Director of Youth Power at Families Together in New York State
Mashrafi Anwar – Member of our HMHK Community Leadership Council
Diane Tanner – Member of our HMHK Community Leadership Council
Tamara Begel – Member of our HMHK Community Leadership Council
Cathy Salazer – Member of our HMHK Community Leadership Council
Carol Murdie – Member of our HMHK Community Leadership Council
Cody Hauptman – Member of our HMHK Community Leadership Council