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Despite Covid-19’s Emotional Traumas, Student Mental Health …

WebWhen New York City released its "Bridge to School" plan in late August, officials called on teachers to make students' mental health needs their top priority.The Covid-19 pandemic – combined with months of quarantine, widespread job losses, and a national reckoning on racial injustice – “have resulted in significant stress, trauma, grief, …

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For City Retirees, and Taxpayers, Four Questions About Future …

WebTo most City retirees and their doctors, such details may matter very little – at least at first. Retirees will present a new insurance card at doctors’ reception desks, and the doctors’ billers will submit invoices to a different entity.

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Kids' Mental Health, by the Numbers

Web72 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA. (212) [email protected]. Ten years ago, New York State pledged to reinvent mental health services for young people. Instead, writes Center for New York City Affairs senior editor Abigail Kramer, the system is “more inundated than ever with sick children and …

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New York City Over-Pays for Health Insurance. City Workers Still …

WebWho is the biggest buyer of private health insurance in the Big Apple? New York City government: Its insurance plans cover some 1.25 million people – roughly a quarter of privately insured New Yorkers – at an estimated cost of almost $9.5 billion in the current fiscal year.

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Community Hiring is the Right Medicine for New York City’s Ailing

WebLegislation enabling Community Hiring leverages the City’s considerable economic power to prioritize hiring and developing the skills of residents of low-income neighborhoods and other economically disadvantaged workers, putting them on a career path to more secure livelihoods and a better shot at getting into the middle class.

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The Astoria Project: Employment, Health, and Well-being in One …

WebThe Astoria Project survey of over 700 Astoria residents captures the multi-dimensional impact on a single New York City neighborhood during the Covid-19 pandemic, bringing together economic findings, reflections on health and mental health effects, and new perceptions of risk now enveloping routine daily activities.

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Enough to Make You Sick: Curbing High Private Hospital Costs

WebAmericans spend more on health care than people in other developed countries, and New Yorkers spend a whole lot more than other Americans. According to the non-profit Health Care Cost Institute, “per-person spending on health care services in New York, NY was $5,855, 20 percent above the national median in 2020.”

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Inequality & Poverty — Center for New York City Affairs

WebThis report examines New York City’s app-dispatch driver pay standard and finds that in the first year of the pay standard (pre-pandemic) driver pay increased by about nine percent, passenger fares rose slightly but not much more than in Chicago without a pay standard, passenger wait times declined significantly, and some of the pay increase was absorbed …

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Child Welfare — Center for New York City Affairs

WebWhen New York City released its "Bridge to School" plan in late August, officials called on teachers to make students' mental health needs their top priority."Many of our young people are in pain,” City officials wrote. But as students finally resume classes – remotely this week and in classrooms next – they will find that many social workers and other mental health …

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Covid-19 and Hospital Inequality; Why It’s Getting Worse, and …

WebThe Covid-19 pandemic is hitting the underfinanced hospitals serving thousands of poor and working-class New Yorkers the hardest. Now it’s up to State and City policymakers to straighten things out and make New York City’s hospital system work better for everyone. 

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In Covid-Era New York, Suicidal Kids Spend Days Waiting for …

WebAs the Covid-19 pandemic grinds on, hospitals around New York State report a growing crisis for children who need mental health care: Suicide attempts and other psychiatric emergencies are up, inpatient units are full, and very sick kids regularly spend days in loud and crowded emergency rooms, wait

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Hospital Care in Black and White: How Systemic Racism Persists

Web72 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA. (212) [email protected]. In New York City, skin color helps determine where a patient receives hospital care. It’s a form of systemic discrimination that undermines the health of Black New Yorkers.

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The City Wants Lower Insurance Costs. It Needs a Basic Rethink.

WebIt Needs a Basic Rethink. New York City government wants to buy a new basic insurance plan for more than one million beneficiaries (City employees and their dependents). It wants to cut the nearly $10 billion a year it currently pays for coverage by $1 billion annually, maintain the same level of coverage, and keep it premium-free for …

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Even as Youth Suicides Rise, New York State Cuts Funds For Kids’ …

WebCommunity-based services are often more effective than programs that require kids to come into a clinic, mental health experts say. If a child loves to draw but is aggressive with other kids, a behavioral specialist might take her to a neighborhood art class, where she can practice her social skills while doing something she feels good about.

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Child Welfare Watch: Baby Steps — Center for New York City Affairs

WebPoverty, chronic stress, and New York’s youngest children Scientific research has firmly established that early childhood experiences can have a tremendous impact on our lifelong well-being. When infants are exposed to chronic stress or trauma, the effect can be toxic, stunting brain growth and ch

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The Next Mayor Can End New York’s Maternal Health Emergency

WebCENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY AFFAIRS. 72 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA. (212) [email protected]. There is a maternal health emergency in New York City. It’s deeply rooted in racism. And it’s one the next mayor can do a lot to stop.

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Kids and Covid-19: A Mental Health Crisis Looms

WebInvestigation. Action. DONATE. Kids and Covid-19: A Mental Health Crisis Looms. By Abigail Kramer. Every Friday morning, Dr. Wanda Fremont logs onto her computer to video-conference with patients. Most are teenagers who have recently attempted to commit suicide. Some attacked family members during episodes of out-of …

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New Edition of CWW

WebScientific research has firmly established that early childhood experiences can have a tremendous impact on our lifelong well-being. When infants are exposed to chronic stress or trauma, the effect can be toxic, stunting brain growth and changing the trajectories of their lives.

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Home Care in Crisis: Part Two. In a Privatized System, Who Fails …

WebDespite its spotty record, Centers Plan’s MLTC has booked an amazing 3500 percent enrollment growth since 2014. It is the State’s largest MLTC contractor – no small feat in a system increasingly dominated by large national for-profit companies including Integra (Anthem), Fidelis (Centene), Senior Whole Health (Molina), Aetna Better Heath, …

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Four Steps to an NYC ‘Healing Revolution’

WebAction. DONATE. Four Steps to an NYC ‘Healing Revolution’. Isolation. Anxiety. Depression. Grief. These are the emotions that cloud the days and haunt the nights for so many New Yorkers in this second full winter of Covid-19. Yet to me, and many people in my community, the constant news of people dying, the failure of social support …

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Upcoming Event: Poverty, Chronic Stress, and New York's …

WebCenter for New York City Affairs at The New School presents a Child Welfare Watch forum: Baby Steps: Poverty, Chronic Stress, and New York's Youngest Children Friday, October 4, 8:30-10:30am Tishman Auditorium Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, Ground Floor Ch

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