Council member Erik Bottcher calls for B-HEARD expansion in western Manhattan

Council member Erik Bottcher calls for B-HEARD expansion in western Manhattan

Council member Erik Bottcher called on the mayor to expand a program that of mental health crisis responders in response to a “humanitarian crisis” unfolding on the West Side of Manhattan In a letter to Mayor Adams, Bottcher urged him to bring the Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division (B-HEARD) into all the precincts covering his West Side council district. The pilot program, which launched in 2021, sends FDNY paramedics and e…