Four NYC Council committees to meet in joint hearing on mental health in city schools

Four NYC Council committees to meet in joint hearing on mental health in city schools

The City Council is scheduled to hold a four-committee joint hearing Wednesday to conduct oversight and debate measures surrounding the mental and physical health of New York’s roughly one million school children.

The hearing comes as Councilmembers, parents and mental health experts raise alarms about a planned cut in funding for 60 school psychologists and nearly a quarter of the roughly 2,000 social workers embedded in public schools, despite Mayor Eric Adams' own warnings of an ongoing “of school mental health services under Bill de Blasio's administration in 2021 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the federal funding for the posts is set to expire in the fall.

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