Council Member Brewer Questions ELL Program Coordination
Council Member Gale Brewer asks how MOIA coordinates ELL programs across libraries, DOE, and other agencies to ensure efficient resource allocation.
I mean, I I mean we know, and you kind of hit it on the nail with both of your questions that English learning is is the pathway for civic participation as Lorena mentioned, but ac economic mobility and and just long-term stability for immigrant communities in in our city through our English language um yeah English learning and support centers.
We know they're designed in a way to strengthen language um skills, but really connect them immigrant New Yorkers to larger services.
Um, you know, we see this as an important, it's a value, it's an important program that we uh administer at Moya um and we would love to continue those conversations with the council on how to provide additional support for adult literacy okay thank you very much thank you council member thank you thank you chairs um thank you all for being here I have a couple of scattershot questions um in terms of um in terms of the immigration legal support hotline um if I recall it sounds like the number of calls that you've received that there have been a good number of improvements to the hotline um do you have a sense of what of what the increase is in usage from the prior fiscal year.