The Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) coordinates activities related to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. ODI works to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes through guidance and support.
ODI drives policy change at the agency to ensure better experiences for New York’s most vulnerable citizens and marginalized population groups, including:
Advisory Committee for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA)
ODI supports the IDEA Committee in their mission to reduce disparities in quality, access and treatment outcomes for members of marginalized populations.
Cultural Competence Research
New York State has two Centers of Excellence for cultural competence:
These centers work with ODI to ensure mental health care equity across the state. Their research informs best practices for the delivery of mental health services to underserved populations affected by disparities due to cultural, linguistic and systemic barriers.
Language Access
It is New York State policy to provide access to services in your language. ODI ensures that these services are available to anyone who needs them.
Reasonable Accommodations
It is our policy to provide reasonable accommodation in all our programs and services. ODI processes all agency requests for accommodations.
Workforce Diversity and Inclusion
ODI coordinates Statewide activities to increase the diversity of OMH’s workforce. Our goal is an inclusive and respectful environment across our work sites. We support National CLAS Standards in our workforce development efforts. This means we “Recruit, promote, and support a culturally and linguistically diverse governance, leadership, and workforce that are responsive to the population in the service area.”
Mailing Address:
New York State Office of Mental Health
Office of Diversity and Inclusion
44 Holland Avenue
Albany, New York 12229
Main phone number:(518)473-4548
Email: officediversityinclusion@omh.ny.gov
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Questions related to OMH’s diversity and inclusion efforts should be directed to OMH’s Diversity and Inclusion Officer.