Chair Stevens lightning round on prevention contract notifications and CPS vacancies

I'm going to do a lightning round just because I know that there's a couple of folks who still want to ask a few questions.

I guess my first question is just around the preventative service of contract.

Have we notified that are being cut?

Have we notified those providers in writing yet?

And have they received the date of when those contracts will be ending?

And if not, when will that be going out?

So, and I can be corrected, we have not notified in writing yet.

I did have an opportunity to touch base with each of the organization's leadership yesterday.

And we are waiting for kind of final approval on the budget, and then we'll move forward with written communication and then the timeline of the 90 days as stated earlier.

Okay, thank you.

The executive plan includes a budget headcount of 385 for protective services for areas.

How many vacancies are there currently in this program?

I'm going to do a couple of questions.

Were any vacancies in this program area eliminated as part of the mayor's savings?

If so, how many and why?

I'm going to turn that over to Deputy Commissioner Linares.

Hi again.

So we have the contract capacity for family support model again is 4,512.

Know that that's about 44% of our total capacity, which is 10,637.

In April, again, we had a total of 3,347 families that were participating in these services.

So we have over 1,000 contracted slot capacity to serve families in the family support programs.

That doesn't account for the other programs that we have available in the boroughs.

We do not anticipate that any of the families will be waitlisted.

And we want to talk, there's the different reasons why there are some vacancies.

So we've taken steps to increase utilization.

We have worked closely with DHS and NYCHA to make sure that we are in the community.

We do things like Family Day and invite prevention providers to the table so that they can connect with families in an effort to make sure that their utilization is increased.

Hence, I think we have, you can see an increase in our community.

Referrals, where we've gone up to about, from last year, the same time, about 20%.

Were you also asking, sorry, were you also asking about child protective?

Yeah.

Sorry, I misunderstood.

Okay.

So the plan doesn't have any new savings there.

We currently have 191 vacancies in the Division of Child Protection.

Our CPS, the actual Child Protective Specialist, budget position is 1,855, and there are 108 that are vacant.

108 that are vacant.