New York Stonewalls Over Accounting Issues At $850M Mental Health Program Run By Mayor's Wife

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2019/02/26/with-obscure-budget-and-elusive-metrics-850m-thrivenyc-program-attempts-a-reset-873945

While it plans to be more deliberate in the future, Thrive staff did not provide internal goals or benchmarks by which to judge its progress to this point.
For instance, Thrive’s metrics show that between July 2016 and October 2018, 189,070 Naloxone kits were distributed throughout hospitals, syringe exchange programs and other sites where opioid overdose is common. But there is no corresponding data on how many were used or how effective the outreach was.
Social media ads promoting Thrive have reached millions of people, according to the metrics, but the data doesn’t show how many people actually used the program after learning about it. 
In the case of diversion programs, which aim to keep individuals with mental health and substance use problems in treatment instead of jails, Thrive only tracks the number of people released under supervision and those screened during pre-arraignment — not if or how city-funded intervention worked. -Politico