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Agency Testimony

Commissioner Martin on mental hygiene division structure and funding stability

New York City Council · Jun 5, 2026 · starts 2:35:11 · 18 sec

Martin describes the mental hygiene division's 600 employees and $900M operating budget. He highlights baseline funding solutions for mobile treatment teams (IMT and AOT), clubhouses, and notes federal funding is concentrated in disease control, not mental hygiene.

Dr. Alistair Martin

While mental health care is integral to programming across the health department, our mental hygiene division leads that work and employs about 600 people with an operating budget of over $900 million for fiscal year 2027.

Dr. Alistair Martin

There are several components of this year's city budget that support our mental health programs.