{"id":109262,"date":"2026-01-23T00:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109262\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:35:08","slug":"zohran-mamdani-unveils-4m-plan-to-open-nyc-youth-health-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109262\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani unveils $4M plan to open NYC youth health clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> announced the opening of two mental health clinics for Big Apple youths Thursday at an event where he rubbed elbows with Democratic Party rivals.<\/p>\n

The clinics \u2014 which are being supported through a $4 million donation from MetroPlusHealth \u2014 will provide behavioral and reproductive care to teens and young adults aged 16-25.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are speaking about the health of young New Yorkers who are often reluctant to seek care or who don\u2019t have the health resources specifically tailored to their needs,\u201d Mamdani claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we know that as New Yorkers transition into adulthood, their lives, their priorities, they change,\u201d he explained at a press conference held in the new site of one of the clinics\u2013Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mayor Mamdani announced the opening of two new health clinics for young people in Brooklyn and Queens. Gabriella Bass for NY Post<\/p>\n

The clinics are a response to data that found that 90% of youth stop seeing their mental health provider after they reach the age of 21. Olga Fedorova\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

The clinics, dubbed \u201cElevate You,\u201d were formed in response to a statistic that found 90% of youths stop seeing their mental health provider after they reach 21, Mamdani\u2019s team noted in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hizzoner was joined by a slew of politicos at Thursday\u2019s ribbon cutting on the Woodhull clinic \u2014 including City Council member Chi Oss\u00e9<\/a> (D-36) and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso \u2014 both of whom he has had scuffles with since the November election.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Underlying tension between Mamdani and some of his one-time lefty allies appeared to be squashed at the event in Brooklyn Thursday. Olga Fedorova\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Mamdani raised eyebrows last week when he endorsed Democratic Socialists of America candidate Assembly Member Claire Valdez (D-37) to replace retiring Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez<\/a> (D-12) despite Reynoso\u2019s bid for the coveted district 12 seat.<\/p>\n

The mayor and Oss\u00e9 also had a reported tiff <\/a>when he declined to back the lefty council member for a primary run against moderate House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-8).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mamdani noted the new facilities will provide young people with vocational assistance along with health care to assist with college and career planning. Additionally, students will begin working with a care team at age 16 that will stay with them until they are 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new Elevate You clinics will be located at NYC Health + Hospitals Woodhull and Queens locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the opening of two mental health clinics for Big Apple youths Thursday at an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2898,57,9,56,63,65,22198,64,58,82],"class_list":["post-109262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-antonio-reynoso","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-health-and-hospitals","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}