have proposed a bill <\/a>which would allow organizations and agencies to create “Neighborhood Street Teams”, or groups of professionals in health care, homelessness outreach and housing. Under the legislation, the groups would be able to share previously confidential information about individuals in order to better provide the care they require. <\/p>\nBottcher says the Tom Harris, President and CEO of the Times Square Alliance approached them to address gaps in that part of the City. <\/p>\n
“As you know, they’ve had their issues in Times Square with homelessness, mental illness, and they’ve flagged this issue for us because they’ve experienced the lack of coordination between all the different stakeholders on the street. So our legislation, by establishing clear guidelines, the ability for them to form multidisciplinary teams that will help us be more effective when we’re out in the street offering services,” Bottcher says. <\/p>\n
He says the shared information would be subject to privacy and security protections, and exchanged electronically through a secure data-sharing platform. <\/p>\n
“Cities around the State will have the ability to create these, and it will create guidelines through which they can communicate with each other, information guidelines with respect to the information that they’re allowed to share, what they’re not allowed to share. This has been working in California. It’s been a growing model in California. They’ve expanded it to city after city. We should do it here in New York,” Bottcher says. <\/p>\n
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