QUESTION
Council Member Stevens Asks DYCD About Promotion and Client Recruitment for Healthy Family Programs
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In this Committee on Children and Youth meeting, Council Member Althea Stevens inquires about the number of families served by DYCD's Healthy Family Programs in the previous year. Deputy Commissioner Mike Bobbitt responds with specific figures and discusses the methods used by program providers to promote services and recruit clients. These include leveraging community relationships, meeting RFP requirements for community partnership agreements, and utilizing marketing materials focused on the needs of potential clients.
Speaker 1
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How many individuals' families did the healthy programs serve last year?
Speaker 3
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Last year, 5143 individuals' families.
Speaker 1
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What methods of program providers use to promote these services and recruitment of the clients?
Speaker 3
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Many providers operate the contracts out of their main administrative site, and they leverage existing community relationships they have.
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Some of the community partnership oh, excuse me.
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3 community partnership agreements are required by the RFPs.
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That's a minimum of the providers may have more than those
Speaker 1
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those 3.
Speaker 3
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Community partnership, like, a referral agreement, like, and make and receive
Speaker 1
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
Speaker 3
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Referrals.
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Yeah.
Speaker 1
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I'm sorry.
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I'm a little out of it.
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Yes.
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Yes.
Speaker 3
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No.
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I'm I I I I I appreciate that you you're holding up very well.
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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And, additionally, we have some marketing materials that we made available.
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They're a very client focused, which I'll share with the counselor.