Farías questions DYCD on street outreach team locations
Farías asks how outreach teams determine where to go. Tracy Thorne explains Streetworks operates north and south vans, with weekly locations based on field observations and drop-in center feedback, covering parks, subways, and other youth congregation sites.
In terms of the street outreach team, how do you folks determine where the outreach team needs to go?
Is it data aggregated?
Is it, again, a word-of-mouth situation where we're hearing from folks that are already receiving services that there's a big need in a community?
Yeah, thank you for that question.
The street outreach is run by Streetworks, a Safe Horizon program, and they determine every week they send out a list of where they're going to be.
There's a north and a south van, and it's based on what they see when they're out there.
It's based on what they're hearing from young people at the drop-in centers, and so it changes.
Their locations change as needed, but they cover parks.
subways, and any other places that they're hearing that young people are.
And is it they're providing services on site, like immediate care that's needed or a resource that's needed, but also helping bring folks into a drop-in center?
That's correct.
That's absolutely correct.
Thank you.