Farías questions on Ace's Place referrals and DYCD youth count
Dalton explains ACE's Place referrals occur through intake gender identity screening and later self-identification. Farías briefly asks DYCD whether the 40,000 youth served annually are unique or duplicated; Thorne confirms counts include outreach contacts and are duplicated.
How are referrals made for ACE's place?
Yep.
I'll start, and certainly if the Deputy Commissioner wants to add anything.
It's as we've described.
At intake, we ask everyone if they would like to complete a gender identity screener, and if they...
If their identity suggests ACE's place, then we would make that offer amongst other considerations.
And just to also note, again, this was, I think, stated by the deputy commissioner, but likely we do have a number of folks who...
Identify later, whether in their current shelter or to their case manager, in which case we, across all of our programs and shelters, would seek to make accommodations to have people in the right place.
Okay, thank you.
And sorry, I just want to jump to DYCD for one second and just ask, of the 40,000 young people you serve annually,
are those all unique numbers or are they repeat clients?
Coming through like you might you count somebody more than once if they're seeking services more than once.
Yes, they would be duplicated Okay, do you know how many of the 40,000 are unique?
Or like a percentage?
A lot.
We count outreach for outreach activities.
And so the outreach, we don't have unduplicated outreach.
There's thousands of people that we reach out to.
The drop-in centers.
Go out and do presentations at schools, other community-based organizations, and tabling events.
So that's part of that $40,000.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thanks.
If it's possible to break any of that down at a later date, we would love the follow-up.