Chair Stevens questions transition plan for families losing prevention providers

Has there been an analysis on, like, where is the closest one, like, if those families are not being served there, where is the closest facility or place they would have to go?

Yes.

So that was part of the metrics that we looked when making a decision or a recommendation because we wanted to make sure that families can have services.

Again, that was our first beginning point.

Will families continue to have services?

Not only the family that are currently in the program.

Well, I know they'll be able to still have services, but I'm trying to understand, like,

what is like the distance like how like especially like prime example you said there's three in brooklyn where those are are those in the same area and then were there other programs like nearby

um because again like the we know that these are vulnerable families

We know that these are a lot of black and brown families.

I literally have a resolution about the harm that AC has done to black and brown families because we know of the past harm.

And so this to me is a disinvestment in those communities because we know we don't want to.

You know, criminalized poverty.

And a lot of these cases are often around poverty.

And so like, if I'm already struggling and now I have to like travel and have a burden, like I'm trying to get an assessment of like, what's the closest facility that they are going to have to go to?

Have you guys already thought about like what that transition plan is?

Like a lot of these families are vulnerable.

I don't, I barely wanted to talk to this social worker.

Now you think I'm gonna talk to a new social worker?

I'm not doing it.

So I'm trying to get a better understanding of what that's going to look like and understanding like the bigger impact of like how like and again I want to be clear I know that no one wants to ever have programs cut and I know that you guys don't want

to have things cut but I just need us to make sure as a city we're prioritizing different things and for me prioritization is young people and this is a place and families of like there's going whether we like to say it or not there's going to be harm

And for me, it's like, how are we mitigating this and how are we moving thoughtfully?

And I'm not saying that you're not, but what I'm saying is this is my concern.

This is why I'm focusing on this, because there is no way that families who are already vulnerable, families who already don't trust the system, are now going to say, all right, well, it's slots over here, so I'm going to go.

So I just am trying to have more of a concrete of like, like,

What does this transition look like?

What is the plan?

And how are we going to ensure that we are mitigating the harm of all these families?

I like to tell you that unfortunately for me, I have lots of experience on ending contracts because of the end of contracts in 2020 when we transitioned the system to the no RFP.

During that time, we had about 5,000 families or so that we were transitioning and that we did so successfully.

I like to say that we have very carefully thought about what would it mean for each individual families.