SOCIAL WORK WORKFORCE: New York City Health + Hospitals is launching a new training program to help social workers get clinical licensures in exchange for committing to work for the public hospital system. The program, announced Monday, will train and provide financial backing to social workers seeking a clinical licensure if they commit to staying in the system for two years. The initiative, which is funded by the van Ameringen Foundation, is aimed at boosting the mental health care workforce following a recruitment campaign that helped the hospital system hire 300 social workers over the last year and close the vacancy rate for the position from 15% to 8%, according to the H+H.
MAYORAL ENDORSEMENT: The Committee of Interns and Residents, a doctors’ union that represents resident physicians at New York City Health + Hospitals and within the private sector, endorsed socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani to become the city’s next mayor ahead of the Democratic primary later this month, the union said Monday. Mamdani is ranked first on the union’s slate due to his policies that support universal health care access, hold corporations accountable and invest in frontline health care workers, it said. The union ranked City Comptroller Brad Lander second on its ballot and Queens Sen. Jessica Ramos third.
