City offers mental health help to young Sandy victims
Many of Superstorm Sandy’s youngest victims are still suffering, more than two years after the devastating hurricane, according to officials at the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. They have launched an ad campaign aimed at letting parents know that help is available for their children.
The Dept. of Health (DOH) launched the ad campaign on Monday to remind residents of hard-hit neighborhoods like Coney Island that free mental health services are available for children and adolescents. Mental health evaluation and treatment can be provided for free through the NYC Child and Adolescent Resiliency Enhancement Services (NYC CARES) program.
The NYC CARES program is available at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in the Rockaways and the Staten Island Mental Health Society on Staten Island.
The DOH ads, which have been posted in bus shelters in Sandy-affected neighborhoods, will run for two months.