Moitri Datta, MD, FAPA:
What are "Transition-Age" Services?
In 1999, the US Supreme Court, in Olmstead v. L.C, quoted from the American Psychiatric Association amicus brief: “Some individuals, whether mentally retarded or mentally ill, are not prepared at particular times–perhaps in the short run, perhaps in the long run–for the risks and exposure of the less protective environment of community settings”; for these persons, “institutional settings are needed and must remain available.”
The High Court also quoted from a brief for Voice of the Retarded, et al: "Each disabled person is entitled to treatment in the most integrated setting possible for that person recognizing that, on a case-by-case basis, that setting may be in an institution.” (Emphasis ours.)
In its dictum supporting the need for ending disabled-discrimination based on age, at no time did the High Court suggest that segregation and discrimination by age could be proper under the Americans With Disabilities Act while patients were within institutions. "The ADA both requires all public entities to refrain from discrimination, see §12132, and specifically identifies unjustified "segregation" of persons with disabilities as a "for[m] of discrimination, . . ."
"See link: OLMSTEAD V. L. C.
Moitri Datta, MD, FAPA:
Dr. Datta, director of Transition-Age Youth Services at the hospital, is a Fellow of the APA, and board certified in both general and child psychiatry by the American Boards of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. After medical graduation (MBBS) and rotating internship in Ahmedabad, India, Dr. Datta took a residency in general psychiatry at New York’s, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, followed by a fellowship in child psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
She has been in the private practice of Adult & Child Psychiatry in the Bronx and Scarsdale, and consultant in Child Psychiatry at the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, as well as Attending at the Ittelson Child Research Center and several foster agencies in Rockland County and the Bronx. In 1981, she became Chief of the Psychiatric Inpatient Service, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center; and in 1985, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, after clinical instructorships at New York's Downstate Medical Center and Albert Einstein.
Trained in psychoanalysis, Dr. Datta has made several presentations at Winter Meetings of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and was actively involved in child psychiatry research at Columbia University; project title: "A Study of Completed and Attempted Suicide in Adolescents."
With Eddie Mae Barnes, MA, RN, Rye's Director of Nursing, Dr. Datta attended an important conference in Boston at the Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, on May 8, 2006, to expand their contributions to youth and adults treated at Rye. The topic: "Transition Age Youth-Challenges and Strategies for Change." The purpose: To deal with the "Challenges Faced by Young Adults with Disabilities as they Transition Into Adulthood." The conference was supported by the federal government, in that it included a talk by the former Massachusetts Commissioner of Mental Health, Eileen Elias; now Deputy Director, Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Disability.