program: Its budget has long been opaque and difficult even for city budget watchdogs to track, and the program's leaders have admitted that the program's success or failure is difficult to measure, according to MSNBC. Now, our Amanda Eisenberg reports that one of Thrive's biggest and costliest mental health initiatives was beset by confusion and mismanagement in its first 18 months. Facebook Twitter Email Print ThriveNYC program's chaotic rollout State legislators escalate Trump taxes threat City files warning shot to Brooklyn yeshivas By LAURA NAHMIAS, NICK NIEDZWIADEK and DANIEL LIPPMAN 04/09/2019 07 20 AM EDTPresented by Airbnb In recent months, the 1.2 billion mental health program founded by Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McCray, has come under intense scrutiny. The Mental Health Service Corps was touted as a means of deploying hundreds of new social workers and psychologists across underserved communities to administer to mental health needs where they are needed the most and also promised the workers, many just out of graduate school, a unique chance to gain clinical hours toward their professional licenses while earning a paycheck. Program workers were to provide free therapy to New Yorkers and screen for depression, anxiety and substance use disorder, according to the city's description. But POLITICO conducted interviews with more than a dozen people involved in the program who described a culture of mismanagement that may have rendered the first iteration of the effort ineffective and hampered participants' work toward eventually becoming licensed.
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