Chair Lee on school-based mental health clinics

And then actually that's a perfect segue to the school-based mental health clinic question I had, which is you said 400 schools was for the continuing?

For the overall.

For the continuing, we support 50 schools.

50, right.

Primarily in the South Bronx, Brownsville, and those 50.

Schools are supported in two ways for clinical support.

They're supported by the five expansion of clinicians in some of the hospitals, which are Lincoln Hospital, Morisania, Kings County, Woodhull, and East New York.

So the students who didn't get access to the clinical support there, we then embedded 16 schools, mental health clinics, into the schools.

That's separate and apart from the other.

Plthora of clinics that already exist within the school system.

Awesome.

And then for the school-based mental health clinics, how many students have been served so far in FY26?

In terms of the continuum, if that's what you're speaking to, the mental health overall clinics are under my colleague here, but the continuum itself,

We have a total of 2,330 clinical services that have been provided this year, and that includes a range.

Perfect.

And then for the school-based mental health clinics, how many have been provided?

I don't know.

We can look into that, how that's tracked.

What I can say is that out of the 250 clinics that we have in the DOE, they service approximately 400 schools and around 180,000 students.

That's in addition.

To our social worker and our school counselors that are also part of our ecosystem of mental health and wellness support, because I do want to echo

that those services are there in a tier.

Not every student will necessarily need a clinical intervention, but when needed, we have, I think, a very robust

footprint, and we need to continue to do more so that our parents know all of the supports that exist within the system, and children are getting those direct services from our schools.

Great.

And then which services, because I know the, at least for the school-based mental health clinics, they're mostly Medicaid reimbursement.

And so what are the services that are not covered by that program?

I mean, sorry, well, I mean, that are not covered under the Medicaid funding.

What are the clinical services that are not covered under the Medicaid funding?

Sorry, let me re-ask.

So the school-based mental health clinic services are excluded.

And how many, wait, excluded from the Medicaid reimbursement, but that's with the Article 31s, right?

Correct.

Okay, so the Article 31s get the reimbursement.

And what's the gap, if any, for services?

In the school-based mental health clinics that maybe are not covered by the reimbursement.

See, we can get back to you on the specific questions about the reimbursement.

What I do want to emphasize that because we also have an ecosystem of social workers across our school system that are working in-house, that that's another layer of support that can get done.

And if you want more specific nuances about the reimbursement, we can definitely get back to you on that.