New York To Spend $34 Million To Expand ‘Safe Options Support’ Initiative For Homeless Housing 

New York Governor Kathy Hochul said the state will budget $34 million for the Safe Options Support program, administered by the Office of Mental Health (OMH), which is expanding to New York’s Finger Lakes, Capital Region, Southern Tier, Hudson Valley, Erie County, Westchester County, and Long Island regions. The program had an initial budget of $25 million in the 2023 fiscal year. ;

The program launched in New York City in 2022. The program’s 14 teams have logged about 15,000 outreach encounters, enrolled more than 1,200 clients with serious mental illness into the program, and helped . . .