QUESTION
Council Member Stevens Ask About Services the Healthy Families Program Provides
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60 sec
Council Member Althea Stevens questions the scope of services provided by the Department of Youth & Community Development's Healthy Families Program. Deputy Commissioner Mike Bobitt outlines the extensive range of assistance offered, including support for obtaining SNAP benefits, securing Social Security, emergency food assistance, employment, and addressing domestic violence and mental health issues. The program also aids families in avoiding eviction, accessing heat and utility payment assistance, and obtaining crucial documents.
Speaker 1
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The healthy program assists assist families and accessing resources for a range of needs, including domestic violence, substance abuse, health, and nutrition, and as and assistance in obtaining government benefits and social services.
0:36:28
The family health program addresses a broad spectrum of issues.
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What are the primary care providers are addressing in those communities?
Speaker 3
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Healthy families programs, as you rightly point out, have a broad array of services and opportunities that they can they can work with families around.
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So that could include snap, pretend if securing social security benefits, emergency food assistance, transportation services, employment or domestic violence supports mental health services, safe, temporary shelter, helping families avoid eviction, heat assistance, utility payment assistance, documentation such as Social Security cards, driver's license, birth certificates, it's a pretty broad range of activities that they engage in.