787 - Open Air Care Connections: Mental Health Care in Brooklyn's Iconic Prospect Park

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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About this episode:

Open Air Care Connections is a pilot project between Prospect Park Alliance, various community organizations, and the New York City Health Department. Born from the COVID-19 pandemic and built with basic public health principles like equity, access, and dignity, the program connects Brooklynites with much-needed services like mental health care, housing, and food access—all through casual conversations in Brooklyn's iconic Prospect Park.

Guests:

Jared Grant is a community health worker and program assistant with NHS Brooklyn.

Morgan Monaco is the president of Prospect Park Alliance.

Jonathan Timal is a community health worker and program assistant with NHS Brooklyn.

Dr. Ashwin Vasan is the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Host:

Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast, an editor for Expert Insights, and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Show links and related content:

An Open-Air Approach to Mental Health Treatment—New York Times
Alliance Launchs Open Air Care Connections—Prospect Park Alliance

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1:17.3	How are you doing?
1:19.2	It's a simple question, a greeting, an interaction between people.
1:23.5	With strangers, it's usually just a pleasant exchange, an acknowledgement of existence in the checkout line at the corner store, or a head nod when sharing a bus seat.
1:31.7	But what about when it's something more?
1:34.0	A beginning, an in-road.
1:36.2	How are you doing when asked by someone who genuinely cares about your well-being?
1:41.4	Someone who wants to know if there's anything causing you stress or pain,
1:45.4	someone who could potentially help connect you with resources to solve whatever problems
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