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Brownsville’s crisis table connects 77 percent of cases to help, but its city contract runs out in June 2027

More than 30 agencies and groups meet every other week on the neighborhood's most complex cases. Institute for Community Living CEO Jody Rudin says "we bring the systems to them," and her group wants the model funded and copied elsewhere.

Three images: a white and blue tent reading Brownsville Safety Alliance, Building Stronger Communities, over people at a sidewalk table, with a red don't-walk hand signal above; an excerpt of a report with the sentence "The current ONS contract ends in June 2027" highlighted in pink; a circular portrait of a smiling woman in glasses and a dark blazer.

Brownsville’s crisis table connects 77 percent of cases to help, but its city contract runs out in June 2027

More than 30 agencies and groups meet every other week on the neighborhood's most complex cases. Institute for Community Living CEO Jody Rudin says "we bring the systems to them," and her group wants the model funded and copied elsewhere.

Brownsville’s crisis table connects 77 percent of cases to help, but its city contract runs out in June 2027
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The Institute for Community Living released a three-year evaluation of the Brownsville Safety Alliance Situation Table on Thursday, finding that the Brooklyn initiative connected 77 percent of its cases to services that eased an immediate crisis and addressed longer-term risks, and calling for the model to be funded past 2027 and replicated in other neighborhoods.

The Situation Table brings more than 30 government agencies, community organizations, health providers, violence interrupters and other partners together every other week to coordinate rapid help for individuals and families in Brownsville who are facing several overlapping crises at once, such as eviction, mental health needs, unemployment and exposure to violence. The evaluation report, led by the Institute for Community Living with John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CAMBA, is the first in-depth review of the model.

More than 100 cases have been referred to the Table over its first three years, according to the report, and 77 percent were connected to services that reduced the immediate crisis and addressed key risk factors. The report describes the model as a multi-agency case coordination table that triages the neighborhood’s most complex cases and assigns coordinated, fast responses.

“These numbers aren’t separate challenges requiring their own solutions. They are interconnected. That’s exactly what the Situation Table recognizes and addresses,” said Jody Rudin, president and CEO of the Institute…

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