Blaz’s mental aid fix ripped

MAYOR DE BLASIO’S ambitious $850 million ThriveNYC program fails to get money to the right places — or the right people, a mental health expert charges.

“The money is not going where it should,” DJ Jaffe, executive director of the Mental Illness Policy Organization, said Friday.

“The problem is we’re not using the mental health budget on the seriously mentally ill,” said Jaffe. “The homeless guy eating food out of the garbage is not getting help through that.”

Jaffe’s comments came two days after an NYPD officer was executed by a Bronx man with mental problems. Cop killer Alexander Bonds was taking anti-psychotic drugs, and was examined — and released — at a Bronx hospital only four days before the Wednesday killing.

De Blasio came under fire after leaving the city to join G20 protesters in Germany as the family of slain officer Miosotis Familia made plans for her funeral.

But Jaffe said the misdirection of funds was a far more troubling issue than the mayoral travel plans.

“We’re spending suicide funds on kids where it isn’t a major problem,” said Jaffe. “De Blasio’s training 250,000 New Yorkers on mental health first aid to ID asymptomatic people. I would take that $8 million and put it toward the most seriously mentally ill.”

Gov. Cuomo has ordered an investigation into St. Barnabas Hospital after Bonds was treated and released there. A hospital spokesman said Bonds, 34, spent eight hours at St. Barnabas before he was released.

De Blasio said the city would conduct a probe of its own into the decision to turn Bonds loose. The killer’s girlfriend also called 911 multiple times on the Fourth of July in an effort to get Bonds off the streets.