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Narcisse offers Council and churches as outreach partners

New York City Council · Oct 28, 2026 · starts 0:35:25 · 1 min 47 sec

Narcisse offers the 51 Council members and churches as outreach partners, noting many uninsured residents may be reached through houses of worship. Jimenez and Long welcome invitations to constituent-facing events and ask members to share their communities' needs.

Mercedes Narcisse

And I think we can be a source of partnership, 51 of us, and as well as the churches.

Mercedes Narcisse

We know that when you go to church, you get people.

Mercedes Narcisse

So on Sunday morning or Saturday, we can get more.

Mercedes Narcisse

So keep on promoting it throughout because most of the folks that we will find uninsured, a lot of them may end up in churches that you're not going to see on the street or other places.

Dr. Jonathan Jimenez

I'm glad you mentioned that.

Dr. Jonathan Jimenez

We'd love to be at every single event that you all have.

Dr. Jonathan Jimenez

Constituent facing because agreed we never know when we're going to encounter someone

Dr. Jonathan Jimenez

who doesn't have a primary care doctor.

Dr. Jonathan Jimenez

And it may be even a friend of someone who doesn't have a primary care doctor, but finding out about NYC Care is crucial, and we want to be everywhere that we can.

Dr. Ted Long

And to make that offer concrete, if there are events or places where you think we should go, you know your community is better than we do.

Dr. Ted Long

Let us know.

Dr. Ted Long

We have teams and community-based organizations that we talked about that we can have go to the events to talk to people, to enroll people.

Dr. Ted Long

So I think, again, now people are in more questions than ever.

Dr. Ted Long

Given everything going on with Medicaid.

Dr. Ted Long

So use us.

Dr. Ted Long

We want to be there with you.

Mercedes Narcisse

That's the reason I'm talking about it like this, because I know with whatever going on in the city of New York from the federal, we're paying the price in New York City.

Mercedes Narcisse

So we have to be very smart around it and trying to get our brothers and sisters, the new arrivals out there, help them out.

Dr. Ted Long

Absolutely.

Mercedes Narcisse

And we see, I mean, we lived it from COVID that diseases, infectious diseases is not in a bubble.

Mercedes Narcisse

It can spread to every one of us and we all can be affected.

Mercedes Narcisse

So the more we align with that, knowing that we're all in it together, the better we'll do.

Dr. Ted Long

Definitely.