Chair Lee on Office of Community Safety and youth clubhouses
Lee asks about the Office of Community Safety's role with clubhouses. Martin says there's no plan to shift current mental health services to OCS, though he's begun conversations with the OCS commissioner. Lee also asks about state youth clubhouses; Martin says DOHMH likely won't oversee them.
And will the Office of Community Safety have any role in the oversight of the mental health clubhouses?
If so, what will that role be?
Yeah, thank you for that question, Chair.
We've been at the work of community mental health for the last several decades here at the department.
And from our standpoint, we're eager to work with anyone who's come into the table with solutions and resources.
And we're eager to work with the Office of Community Safety.
I just spoke with the commissioner this week, and we've begun the process of beginning to lay the foundation of that work that we will share.
At present, there's no plan to shift any of our current mental health services to the Office of Community Safety.
Okay.
I'll go back to that in one second.
But to your point, the state, going really quickly to the youth clubhouses, because the state budget proposed, as you mentioned, the 15 additional youth clubhouses.
Are you going to be overseeing or managing any of those 15 youth clubhouses?
Under DOHMH?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
We may have to circle back.
We typically do not.
We have the clubhouses that are sort of our responsibility, but let's circle back to what the details on that.
Okay.