QUESTION
Council Member Stevens Asks DYCD About Universal Application Questions Across Programs
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Council Member Althea Stevens questions the Department of Youth & Community Development (DYCD) about the consistency of health care inquiries across their program applications, including for the Summer Youth Program (SYP) and Healthy Families. Mike Bobbitt, Deputy Commissioner, clarifies that they use a universal application model, which includes health care questions for all programs as part of their anti-poverty efforts. This systemic approach aims at broadening access and support, encompassing not just families but also seniors and students.
Speaker 1
0:42:10
But I just have a clarifying question because you had mentioned earlier that, like, on like, in the applications you're asking if they want access to health care and things like that.
0:42:20
And you're saying that that is part of the healthy families.
0:42:23
Like, that's part of their paperwork for when they're going into to get these services.
0:42:28
Correct?
Speaker 3
0:42:30
Yes.
0:42:30
And so the the question, as a friend, is if you don't have health insurance, do you wanna be contacted about it and we asked that as part of the healthy family's application, but also part of all the other anti poverty program application.
0:42:45
So we ask you to seniors, we ask it of, you know, even the NDA high school.
Speaker 1
0:42:50
So my question is, and even and even if we wanted to just look at the NDAs, why don't we ask those same questions?
0:42:55
For kids who are applying for, like, SYP, the after school program, like, then why do we just not use that that matrix across the board then.
Speaker 3
0:43:04
We we we did actually.
0:43:06
I forgot to mention.
0:43:07
We piloted it and then we've expanded it across the the agency.
0:43:11
Okay.
0:43:12
So we do.
Speaker 1
0:43:12
Gotta check-in with that one.
Speaker 3
0:43:14
We have a unit.
0:43:14
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1
0:43:15
I gotta check-in with that one because I had that one.
Speaker 3
0:43:18
Identify yourself then.
Speaker 7
0:43:19
Hi.
0:43:20
Ebony Jordan Wilson, assistant commissioner for community development.
0:43:23
So we have a universal application at BYCD.
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So those questions appear on on all of them.
0:43:28
Thanks.
Speaker 1
0:43:29
I gotta check-in.
0:43:30
I haven't seen an application in 2 years.
0:43:31
So I'll go look.
0:43:32
I'll look, and I'll I'll bring it back.
0:43:33
I'll let y'all know.