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Chair asks about referral sources and solicitation to expand

New York City Council · Oct 27, 2026 · starts 1:09:44 · 55 sec

Won asks whether OCH has approved CBOs as referral sources and whether it plans a solicitation to expand the network. Harry says OCH has 28 CBOs and is continuing to work with agency partners to expand.

Julie Won

OCH's referral source director names two referral sources, SBS's Workforce One, Career Centers, and HRA's Business Link, along with several union referral systems.

Julie Won

Has OCH approved any community-based organizations or other, yeah, you shared the community-based organizations.

Julie Won

And other workforce providers as referral sources?

Julie Won

And does OCH plan to issue a solicitation to expand the network?

Julie Won

And if so,

Julie Won

When?

Douglas Harry

So we do, like I mentioned earlier and read through the list of the 28 CBOs, we do, because we are early on in the implementation, we're continuing to work with our agency partners to make sure that the CBOs, and like I said earlier, we're really

Douglas Harry

happy to work with the council to make sure that we are getting more CBOs plugged into this.

Douglas Harry

And so we look forward to continuing to expand opportunities for more CBOs to connect with community hiring.

Douglas Harry

And so we're happy to continue to collaborate on that.