2025 Disability Rights and Justice Series: Civil Commitment

This program examines recent amendments to the Mental Hygiene Law expressly permitting involuntary confinement based on a patient's inability to "provide for their own essential needs," expanding the role of nurse practitioners, and easing the pathway for recurrent AOT petitions, as well as a discussion of recent federal policy changes on civil commitment and the horizon of mental health law.

Speakers

Reena Novotnak, Mental Hygiene Legal Service, First Department

Beth Haroules, New York Civil Liberties Union

Sadie Zea Ishee, Mental Hygiene Legal Service

Lisa D. Herman, Abrams Fensterman, LLP

Patrick K. Wildes, Albany Law School