Deputy Commissioner, Community Program Policy and Management
New York State Office of Mental Health
Bob Moon is a social worker who has spent all his career working on mental health system reform, focusing on issues of access, equity, fiscal viability, cultural humility and the comprehensiveness and quality of community services. He started his career in Washington, DC., at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, as the Coordinator of a federal court-ordered implementation monitoring committee that oversaw the planning and establishment of a more community-driven and recipient and family-member focused system of services. This included the expansion of community housing, establishment of the first Assertive Community Treatment teams in the District, and a full array of other services and supports. He then moved to NYC where he worked for 17 years at the New York City Health + Hospitals Corporation, in the Office of Behavioral Health. H+H is a public benefit corporation, and the nation’s largest public hospital system that includes eleven acute care hospitals, Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Programs, and a vast array of outpatient behavioral health services including 12 ACT teams, and multiple mental health and substance use clinics. At the Office of Behavioral Health, he worked on quality improvement initiatives, fiscal viability, implementation of the Epic EHR, crisis services, and most importantly the inclusion of peers as staff on inpatient acute care units, and in clinics and emergency services. In 2015, he joined the NYS Office of Mental health, first as the Director of the New York City Field Office and now as the Deputy Commissioner of Community Services where he oversees the program and managed care policy aspects of the OMH statewide community system – this includes treatment, crisis stabilization, housing, homeless services such as the Safe Options Support program, psychiatric rehabilitation, and other services OMH offers to promote a recovery-oriented system for all New Yorkers across the lifespan.
Sunday, April 26, 2026
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM MDT