The Adams administration is planning to resign the city’s non-police mental health response team program , or B-HEARD, shifting it from the purview of the FDNY.

Under the changes announced by City Hall, NYC Health + Hospitals , which currently operates the program with FDNY, would entirely run the program.

“This new model for B-HEARD will allow our FDNY EMTs the opportunity to focus further on other emergency response units as part of our city’s efforts to improve ambulance response times and use our resources more efficiently, while still addressing mental health emergencies we continue to see playing out in our city,” Mayor Adams, who leaves office at the end of the year, said in a statement.

The shift away from a public safety response bears some similarity with the future Mamda

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