Chair Stevens asks about locations of four prevention programs being cut
Stevens asks for details on the four programs being eliminated. Linares confirms three in Brooklyn and one in Queens, totaling 360 slots with 199 active families currently receiving services. Stevens presses on proximity of alternative services for affected families.
And a couple of the programs actually were in Brooklyn that's being cut, correct?
Yes.
Can you talk about the four programs?
Can you tell us what's the total number of contracts that are under this program that are being eliminated and where they're located?
Yes.
So before I answer that, I wanted to mention that when we look at
Things like families in the Bronx versus Brooklyn, we were very intentional in thinking about where our capacity was.
So we try to have a bird's eye view of our entire system before we think about where to make a recommendation.
Once we did that, then we landed in the catchment that we did, which are three programs in Brooklyn and one in Queens.
Once we determined
We looked at things like, are there other providers?
So it was one in Brooklyn.
I'm sorry.
Three in Brooklyn and one in Queens.
Once we looked at the catchment and determined that these were the areas where we had the more capacity, where we had less
SCR costs compared to other areas, where we have other prevention providers available in those areas.
Once we did that, then we narrowed down to those areas.
Then we said, okay, so now let's look at the providers that are in the areas and let's think about their own performance against the key performance indicators that we have identified.
And those are utilization, the number of families that they served.
And we didn't look at a point in time, so we didn't look just at today, how you were doing, but we were intentional in looking at fiscal year 24, fiscal year 25, and we also looked at the remaining
what's passed in fiscal year 26.
So we wanted to have a very comprehensive understanding of how those programs were faring against those KPIs.
The other thing that we had to consider was whether those programs were serving a special population.
Once we did that, then we brought it down to those four providers that were put forward as recommendations.
How many clients are served by those programs?
How many?
So in family support programs, we serve citywide a total of 4,512.
As of April, we had a total of 3,347 families that were receiving, participated in services or family support.
For these four programs, we have a total of 360 slots.
Currently active in those active families that are actually receiving services is 199.
In those programs.
In those programs.