The state’s initial call for additional supports for New York’s mentally challenged in fiscal 2025, including $6.2 million to provide mental health specialists and peers in mental health courts, has drawn praise from Empire State legal circles.
“Long overdue,” Assembly Judiciary Chairman Charles Lavine, D-Glen Cove said of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s acknowledgement of the need to address mental health during her recent State of the State address.

Abrams Fensterman mental health hygiene attorney Carolyn Reinach Wolf. Courtesy photo

