New York Assisted Outpatient Treatment (Kendra's Law) Criteria (MHL 9.60)
Checks the seven MHL 9.60(c) criteria for a New York assisted outpatient treatment order against the petition date.
Open the tool → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Petition date
- 2026-09-18
- Age
- 34
- (2) Suffering from a mental illness
- Met
- (3) Unlikely to survive safely without supervision
- Met
- (5) Unlikely to take part in treatment voluntarily
- Met
- (6) Needs AOT to prevent relapse likely to cause serious harm
- Met
- (7) Likely to benefit from AOT
- Met
- Hospitalization dates, comma-separated
- 2023-07-18, 2025-01-10
- Current or recent confinement began
- 2026-02-18
- Confinement ended; blank if still confined
- 2026-05-18
- Records reviewed for all three history prongs
- Yes
Result: Meets all seven criteria: 2 of 2 hospitalizations fall inside the window once the recent confinement extends it.
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What you enter
- Petition date (YYYY-MM-DD)
- Age (years)
- (2) Suffering from a mental illness
- (3) Unlikely to survive safely without supervision
- (5) Unlikely to take part in treatment voluntarily
- (6) Needs AOT to prevent relapse likely to cause serious harm
- (7) Likely to benefit from AOT
- Hospitalization dates, comma-separated (YYYY-MM-DD)
- Most recent serious violence (YYYY-MM-DD)
- Earlier AOT order expired (YYYY-MM-DD)
- Deterioration since that order expired
The other 3 fields
- Current or recent confinement began (YYYY-MM-DD)
- Confinement ended; blank if still confined (YYYY-MM-DD)
- Records reviewed for all three history prongs
How this is calculated
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law (MHL) 9.60(c) (Kendra's Law). Read the source ↗
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.