Chair Lee on nonprofit partnerships and language access for SCRI outreach
Lee asks whether HPD partners with nonprofits and how many languages are offered for SCRI outreach. Walpert says they use a language line and seek community partnerships. Lee encourages culturally competent nonprofit partnerships.
Tenants associations, also nonprofits, do you partner with any of those?
Because when I was on the nonprofit side for many years, I know that we helped a lot of our residents and constituents and, you know, do the casework like you're saying.
So are there partnerships like that?
And also how many different languages are you assisting them in?
We are always looking for partners.
This is a collaborative effort.
And so, yes, we do.
And as far as languages, we actually have a language line that assists us with our...
The city language line?
Okay, because sometimes that's questionable, I'm not going to lie.
But yes, okay.
I mean, I will admit it is better to have some sort of assistance than none.
But I would really encourage, especially there's a lot of culturally competent language proficient nonprofits out there as well.
So I know that they are doing this work on the ground.
And so it'd be great to see the partnerships there.