Mental Health, Office of
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Mission
The Office of Mental Health’s (OMH) mission is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a particular focus on facilitating hope and recovery for adults and children with serious mental illness or emotional disturbances.
Budget Highlights
The Executive Budget recommends $3.9 billion in All Funds appropriations for the Office of Mental Health (OMH), which represents a net increase of $274 million from the 2014-15 Enacted Budget. The Executive Budget also recommends a total workforce of 14,569 FTE.
Over the past four years, Governor Cuomo has taken substantial steps to expand community services and transition individuals to more appropriate community settings. This budget will build on these efforts to:
- Provide investments that will be used to assist in the transition to managed care and the expansion of health home capacity; increase the number of children’s community services with additional HCBS waiver slots; provide additional funding for community residences; and increase support for the Personalized Recovery Oriented Services program (PROS).
- Provide funding for additional supported apartments to facilitate the transition of individuals from adult homes and nursing homes to the community, as well as additional congregate care beds primarily associated with the NY/NY III program to reduce homelessness.
- Invest $15 million in full annual spending for additional community services. These investments, which build upon $44 million of enhancements that are continued from 2015, will be used to expand a variety of community services based on regional needs reflecting stakeholder input, and are expected to reduce the need for more costly inpatient beds.
- The budget proposes to increase support for approximately 13,000 supported housing units by using a portion of JP Morgan settlement funds to increase rental subsidy amounts (roughly $750 annually on average) in areas facing the greatest fair market value cost pressures.
- The budget also includes funding to support a 2 percent salary increase for direct care and clinical not-for-profit workers.
In addition, the Executive Budget will provide enhanced services with the goal of reducing recidivism and the risk of violence in the community. OMH will provide additional in prison assessments and treatment for high risk inmates, maintain individuals in OMH facilities when appropriate, and provide more aggressive community services through the use of additional Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams and supported housing and related services.
For more information on this agency's budget recommendations located in the Executive Budget Briefing Book, click on the following link:
Briefing Book – Mental Hygiene (PDF)
| Category | Available 2014-15 |
Appropriations Recommended 2015-16 |
Change From 2014-15 |
Reappropriations Recommended 2015-16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Operations | 2,197,002,000 | 2,197,002,000 | 0 | 3,076,000 |
| Aid To Localities | 1,362,391,500 | 1,414,485,000 | 52,093,500 | 43,457,400 |
| Capital Projects | 90,165,000 | 312,472,000 | 222,307,000 | 1,821,302,000 |
| Total | 3,649,558,500 | 3,923,959,000 | 274,400,500 | 1,867,835,400 |
| Program | 2014-15 Estimated FTEs 03/31/15 |
2015-16 Estimated FTEs 03/31/16 |
FTE Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administration and Finance | |||
| Special Revenue Funds - Federal | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| Special Revenue Funds - Other | 375 | 341 | (34) |
| Enterprise Funds | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Internal Service Funds | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| Adult Services | |||
| Special Revenue Funds - Other | 9,692 | 9,645 | (47) |
| Capital Planning | |||
| Capital Projects Funds - Other | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| Children and Youth Services | |||
| Special Revenue Funds - Other | 1,577 | 1,577 | 0 |
| Forensic Services | |||
| Special Revenue Funds - Other | 2,228 | 2,498 | 270 |
| Research in Mental Illness | |||
| Special Revenue Funds - Other | 447 | 447 | 0 |
| Total | 14,380 | 14,569 | 189 |
Note: Most recent estimates as of 01/21/2015