Chair Stevens presses on transition process details and council member involvement

Could you talk to me a little bit about what the transition processes look like?

I know that's one of my biggest things, like how are we working with organizations on this transition process and what is that going to look like?

You know, especially where, you know, there's cases where they might not have gotten that site, but they have another site.

And so, yes, we would love for those.

Folks who work in the program to stay, but if some people are going to go to the new sites, and I just think like this reshuffling is going to cause a little bit of a chaos, and so just trying to understand like how are we preparing,

Not only the providers, but schools and families around this transition and what it's going to look like.

Do we have like documents?

Are we like working on like toolkits?

And then also how will we be involving the council members who I know a lot of them are already getting a lot of calls and pushback and want to make sure that the local council members are part of those conversations with these transition processes.

So that's a great segue because part of this process is a real coordinated effort between all those stakeholders for, again, the best

transition as possible because the timeline is difficult and there's a lot of concerns about incoming change, right?

So the first part is there's core components of the plan that focus on transition meetings between all the different stakeholders, knowledge transfer.

Have the transition meetings already started to take place?

Yeah, starting to take place, right?

We're also keeping in mind that we are in a protest and appeal period, right?

And to make sure that we're coordinating all those engagements, as well as being thoughtful about them in that process

in a respectful way, thinking about what staff retention may look like, connecting with the school leaders,

family and school communication, and coordinating with New York City Public Schools centrally, and doing district-level engagement and principal-level engagement, because some instances, it's a good change that they're really anticipating for and they've been working for a long time towards.

And then what our role is really kind of that central point to lift and escalate if there are some challenging conversations along the way and what we'll be tracking along that path.

So one thing that we already started is engaging with those new CBOs and welcoming them in and really thinking about like readiness check.

Where are they as an organization?

Where are they in terms of the staffing supports, coordination, what types of activities they're looking towards doing, connecting them with the school leader.

So every single principal as part of the announcement was provided as who the CBO was and the contact information and coordinating with public schools where there are some instances where there's some disconnect.