Gutiérrez asks Judy Blumenthal what was missing from administration testimony

And then my question for you, Judy, thank you for your testimony.

I guess my question to you, just hearing from the admin, was there anything that you, that you, her, didn't hear that you feel like were not?

Just based on kind of like the expansion potentially or, or how we need to show up for families.

Was there something that you didn't hear that you wish you would have heard or something that you love that you heard?

Um, I think that accessibility is, is certainly something that we run into our spaces are, uh,

trauma-informed spaces for newly arrived families to the city.

These families are, they will stay with us until they feel that they and their child are ready to move into the New York City programs, but like their understanding of the system of how to apply and how to

navigate those programs and get into those programs.

is not very straightforward for them.

And that's speaking for the DOE as well as Head Start.

In terms of other things that I...

Can I ask, when they feel like it's not accessible, is it specifically just a language barrier or just like, what does this all mean?

Because obviously they're coming from different countries.

They don't do things the same way.

I think it's a language barrier.

I think there's also a level of a bureaucracy barrier maybe that's there for it.

A lot of them are also, you know, in the political climate, feeling very hesitant to give information like their zip code and stuff like this.

So those tend to be the things that we run into when it comes to when we try to help them integrate into New York City spaces.

In terms of...