What It Takes to Treat Serious Mental Illness
PBS
"Reporter Nichole Currie meets an applicant who was finally able to access benefits after connecting with an advocate with the Urban Justice Center’s Mental Health Project."Everything Is Changing in Social Security Disability Benefits – It Will Affect SSDI
La Grada
"As Ann Biddle, litigation supervisor at the Urban Justice Center’s Mental Health Project, explained in an SSA blog post, applicants must prove that their disability has prevented them from performing substantial work for at least one year or is expected to result in death."NYC Mayor Adams Insists Solitary Confinement Doesn’t Exist in Jails; Watchdogs Disagree
NY Daily News
Jennifer Parish, director of the Mental Health Project at the Urban Justice Center, said she visited men being held in the ESH unit at the Rose M. Singer Center on Tuesday. “Some reported being out of their cells no more than four hours a day and some less than that."Rikers Officials Never Took Basic Steps to Comply With Solitary Ban
The City
"Dr. Victoria A. Phillips, [part of UJC's Mental Health Project and] a founder of the Jails Action Coalition, said the mayor and his administration “waste our time,” and didn’t read their plan for how to enact the bill."Disability Benefits: Major Change Makes it Easier to Apply
AL.com
"People seeking SSDI and SSI benefits must complete a multi-step application process in order to be approved, including showing their disability prevented them from doing substantial work for at least a year or is expected to result in death, Ann Biddle of UJC's Mental Health Project wrote in an SSA blog post."SSA Simplifies Disability Benefits Application Process
Baseline Mag
"Ann Biddle of the Urban Justice Center’s Mental Health Project commended the reduction in work history requirements."Social Security Change ‘Will Make it Easier’ for Millions
Newsweek
"Decreasing the relevant work period from 15 to five years will make it easier for people to accurately report their work history," Ann Biddle, litigation supervisor at the Urban Justice Center's Mental Health Project, said."NYC Announces $7 Billion Design and Construction Contracts for Two Borough-based Jails
Archinect
Jennifer Parish of the Urban Justice Center told the Daily News: "Delaying completion of the Queens and Bronx jails is shameful and unlawful. Mayor Adams is failing in his responsibility to advance the plan to close Rikers."
New York City’s $7 Billion Jail Construction Project Delayed Beyond 2027 Deadline
Digital Chew
“On the Mayor’s watch, 31 people have died and countless others have experienced abuse, neglect, and violence at the Rikers Island penal colony,” commented Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda.‘A Little Perplexed’: Questions Raised Over City’s $4 Billion Contract for Construction of Queens Jail
Queens Eagle
“There is a realistic plan for reducing the jail population to meet the target of fewer than 3,300 individuals incarcerated in city jails, and a critical component is prioritizing decarceration of people with mental health concerns and expanding supportive housing and community mental health supports,” Jennifer Parish, the director of Criminal Justice Advocacy at Urban Justice Center's Mental Health Project.