Farías asks how OCS will prevent funding lapses for small CBOs
Farías asks how OCS will protect small community-based organizations serving specific languages or cultural communities from funding lapses during the transition. Delany-Brumsey says preventing payment gaps is a core concern, especially for small providers that cannot float expenses.
And how will the OCS ensure that small community-based organizations that are often the only program
providers able to offer services in specific languages or particular cultural communities not experience a lapse in any of their funding during the transition?
This is a core concern of the transition that we're working to address.
We want to make sure that when we do ultimately move contracts over, that we have the structures in place already and that that structure has been in place for weeks, months, building up so that we can transition without any gaps in payment.
We want to ensure that all of our providers, but we know it's especially crucial for our smaller providers who can't float while there's a payment gap, that we are doing that work.
And that's crucial for NGBV's work.
That's crucial for the work of the Office of Neighborhood Safety, which works with very small providers, Office of Prevention of Hate Crimes.
All of our office really does attempt to work with both small, culturally specific organizations that are deeply embedded in their community, as well as some of our larger service providers who can cover more ground.
So we are very, very focused on ensuring that that does not.
Become an issue.