{"id":119155,"date":"2025-08-04T21:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119155\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T21:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:21:11","slug":"city-council-advocates-celebrate-50-million-mental-health-and-safety-investment-call-on-mayor-adams-to-prioritize-rikers-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119155\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council, advocates celebrate $50 million mental health and safety investment, call on Mayor Adams to prioritize Rikers closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, joined by fellow councilmembers and mental health advocates, celebrated on Monday the $50 million investment in mental health and safety initiatives made in the fiscal year 2026 adopted New York City budget.<\/p>\n<p>At a press event on the steps of City Hall, Speaker Adams called on Mayor Eric Adams to prioritize the implementation of the allocated funds and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/police-fire\/rikers-island-federal-receivership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">legally-mandated closure<\/a> of the Rikers Island jail complex.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/city-council-advocates-mental-health-safety-investment-call-prioritize-rikers-closure\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tCity Council, advocates celebrate $50 million mental health and safety investment, call on Mayor Adams to prioritize Rikers closure &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, joined by fellow councilmembers and mental health advocates, celebrated on Monday the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[8070,74347,5229,13237,5310,74348,74349,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,24672,74350,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-119155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-adrienne-adams","9":"tag-advocates","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-city-budget","12":"tag-city-council","13":"tag-jail-reform","14":"tag-mental-health-resources","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-pm-newsletter","23":"tag-rikers-island","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114972595614415619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}