New York State Department of Mental Hygiene

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Department of Mental Hygiene
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Formed1927
Jurisdiction New York
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The Department of Mental Hygiene (DMH) is an agency of the New York state government composed of three autonomous offices:

Contents

These offices are headed up by a commissioner who also serves on a council that performs inter-office coordination. [2] Their regulations are compiled in title 14 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations .

Addiction

The Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) provides funding, technical assistance, and oversight to a network of over 1,300 community-based addiction treatment programs, as well as 12 state-operated addiction treatment centers.

Mental health

The Office of Mental Health (OMH) is responsible for assuring the development of comprehensive plans, programs, and services in the areas of research, prevention, and care, treatment, rehabilitation, education, and training of the mentally ill. [3] Programs include inpatient, outpatient, partial hospitalization, day care, emergency, and rehabilitative treatments and services. [4] OMH regulates and licenses private mental health services, such private psychiatric centers, clinics, and treatment facilities, including those in hospitals and schools.[ citation needed ] OMH also regulates residential treatment facilities for children and youth operated by nonprofit corporations. [5] [6]

Developmental disabilities

The Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) provides services and conducts research for those with intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities (I/DD). It is one of New York State’s largest agencies, with a mandate to provide services and supports to more than 130,000 people [7] with intellectual or developmental disabilities and leads a workforce of more than 22,000 direct support staff, clinicians, nurses, researchers and other professionals throughout the state. It operates 13 Developmental Disabilities Services Offices which operate group homes for the individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in its care.

History

In 1836–1843 the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica (Utica State Hospital) was established, and in 1865–1869 the Willard Asylum (Willard State Hospital) was established for the incurably insane and mentally ill paupers in the poorhouses. [8] [9] [10] [11] Throughout the late 18th and most of the 19th centuries, families and county poorhouses provided care to the mentally disabled, but in 1890 the State Care Act made the state responsible for the pauper insane. [12] [11] In 1909 the Insanity Law was consolidated in chapter 27 of the Consolidated Laws of New York. [13]

The department was established in 1926–1927 as part of a restructuring of the New York state government, and was given responsibility for people diagnosed with mental retardation, mental illness or epilepsy. [14] [15] [2] Dr. Frederick W. Parsons was appointed the first department commissioner in January, 1927. [16] He was replaced by Dr. William J. Tiffany in 1937, who then resigned in 1943 over an investigation into handling of an outbreak of amoebic dysentery at Creedmoor State Hospital. [17] By 1950, the department had grown into the largest agency of the New York state government, with more than 24,000 employees and an operating cost exceeding a third of the state budget. [18] The state acceded to the Interstate Compact on Mental Health in 1956.

The Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse was transferred from the New York State Department of Health to the Department of Mental Hygiene in 1962. [19] In 1972 the Mental Hygiene Law was revised and reenacted. [20] In 1978, the Department of Mental Hygiene was reorganized into the autonomous Office of Mental Health (OMH), Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, and the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD). [21] [2] These three offices are headed up by a commissioner who also serves on a council that performs inter-office coordination. [2] In 2010 the OMRDD became the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD). [22] [23] [24] In 2012, the Protection of People with Special Needs Act (PPSNA) established the Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs to create uniform safeguards for people with special needs served in residential facilities and day programs by provider agencies that are operated, licensed, or certified by a multitude of state agencies, including the OMH, OASAS, and OPWDD. [25] [26] In 2019 the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse became the Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS). [27] [28] [29]

Commissioners

DMH

OMH

OPWDD

OASAS

See also

References

  1. ↑ Mental Hygiene Law § 5.01
  2. 1 2 3 4 Ward, Robert B. (2006). New York State government. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series (2nd ed.). SUNY Press. pp. 328–329. ISBN   1-930912-16-1.
  3. ↑ Mental Hygiene Law § 7.07
  4. ↑ Mental Hygiene Law § 7.15
  5. ↑ Mental Hygiene Law § 31.26
  6. ↑ NYS Executive Department (31 July 1981), New York State bill jackets - L-1981-CH-0947, New York State Library
  7. ↑ Neifeld, Kerri (February 13, 2024). "Joint Legislative Budget Hearing Testimony New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities" (PDF).
  8. ↑ "An act to authorize the establishment of the New-York state lunatic asylum". Laws of New York . 59th sess.: 110–111. 1836. hdl:2027/nyp.33433090740717. ISSN   0892-287X. Chapter 82, enacted 30 March 1836, effective immediately.
  9. ↑ "An act to authorize the establishment of a State Asylum for the chronic insane, and for the better care of the insane poor, to be known as 'The Willard Asylum for the Insane.'". Laws of New York . 88th sess.: 562–565. 1865. hdl:2027/nyp.33433090738380. ISSN   0892-287X. Chapter 342, enacted 8 April 1865, effective immediately.
  10. ↑ "An act changing the name of the several state asylums for the insane". Laws of New York . 113th sess.: 313–314. 1890. ISSN   0892-287X. Chapter 132, enacted 18 April 1890, effective immediately.
  11. 1 2 Katz, Michael B. (1996). In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse: A Social History Of Welfare In America (2nd ed.). Basic Books. p. 103-104. ISBN   9780465024520.
  12. ↑ "An act to promote the care and curative treatment of the pauper and indigent insane…". Laws of New York . 113th sess.: 303–308. 1890. ISSN   0892-287X. Chapter 126, enacted 15 April 1890, effective immediately.
  13. ↑ "Insanity Law". Consolidated Laws of New York . Vol. II. 1909. pp. 1617–1680. Chapter 32 of the Laws of New York, enacted 17 February 1909, effective immediately.
  14. ↑ "An Act to amend the insanity law…". Laws of the State of New York Passed at the Sessions of the Legislature . 150th sess.: I-II: 981–1082. 1927. hdl:2027/uc1.b4378095. ISSN   0892-287X. Chapter 426, enacted 30 March 1927, effective 30 March 1927. See also L.1909 c.32 and L.1972 c.251.
  15. ↑ NYS Executive Department (30 March 1927), New York State bill jackets - L-1927-CH-0426, New York State Library
  16. 1 2 "Frederick W. Parsons—An appreciation". Psychiatric Quarterly. 11 (4): 694–696. 1937. doi:10.1007/BF01562891. S2CID   9924134.
  17. 1 2 Castellani, Paul J. (2005). From snake pits to cash cows: politics and public institutions in New York. SUNY Press. p. 31. ISBN   0-7914-6439-3.
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  19. ↑ Pecorella, Robert F.; Stonecash, Jeffrey M. (2006). Governing New York State (5th ed.). SUNY Press. pp. 335–336. ISBN   0-7914-6691-4.
  20. ↑ NYS Executive Department (9 May 1972), New York State bill jackets - L-1972-CH-0251, New York State Library
  21. ↑ NYS Executive Department (11 August 1977), New York State bill jackets - L-1977-CH-0978, New York State Library
  22. ↑ "Governor Paterson Announces OMRDD to Become Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD)" (Press release). Albany, NY: Governor of New York. 13 July 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  23. ↑ L. 2010, c. 168, enacted 13 July 2010. A11197, 2009-2010 legislative session.
  24. ↑ Counsel to the Governor (13 July 2010), NYS Bill and Veto Jackets: 2010, Chapter 168, New York State Archives
  25. ↑ "Protection of People with Special Needs Act". Laws of New York . 2012. ISSN   0892-287X. Chapter 501, enacted 17 December 2012.
  26. ↑ Counsel to the Governor (17 December 2012), NYS Bill and Veto Jackets: 2012, Chapter 501, New York State Archives
  27. ↑ "NYS OASAS Announces Name Change From the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services to the Office of Addiction Services and Supports" (Press release). OASAS. 29 October 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  28. ↑ L. 2019, c. 281, enacted 13 September 2019. A7347, 2019-2020 legislative session.
  29. ↑ Counsel to the Governor (13 September 2019), NYS Bill and Veto Jackets: 2019, Chapter 281, New York State Archives
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  31. ↑ "Newton Bigelow, 87, Mental Health Official". The New York Times. February 9, 1991. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
  32. ↑ "In memoriam, Paul H. Hoch, M.D.". Psychiatric Quarterly. 39 (1): 140–141. 1965. doi:10.1007/BF01569455. S2CID   20999071.
  33. ↑ "Alan D. Miller, M.D., M.P.H.". Psychiatric Quarterly. 40 (1): 394. 1966. doi:10.1007/BF01562768. S2CID   11966048.
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  40. ↑ "About Our Executive Team". Office of Mental Health. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  41. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Milestones in OMRDD's History". Minnesota Department of Administration. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
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  43. ↑ "Mental Health Committee Nominates OPWDD Commissioner". NY Sentate. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  44. 1 2 "Head of NY agency for the disabled resigns". The Saratogian. 4 June 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  45. 1 2 "New York Governor Hochul launching purge of Cuomo officials". New York Times. 25 September 2021. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
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  47. ↑ "Message from the Chair". NYS Assembly. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
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