TESTIMONY
Testimony: Anna Kaganova from Center for Family Life Testifies on Healthy Families Program
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3 min
Anna Kaganova, representing the Center for Family Life in Sunset Park, testifies on the success and impact of the Healthy Families Program. She details the program's comprehensive range of services, including case management, educational workshops, and service navigation for low-income immigrant families. Kaganova outlines the program's contribution to community stability and well-being, emphasizing the importance of culturally and linguistically competent services. The testimony addresses the increasing demand for social services, highlighting the program's role in supporting over 2,000 asylum seekers.
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Hello, customer, Miss Stevens.
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Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to share This important testimony about our very successful healthy families program.
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My name is Anna Kaganova, and I am representing Center for Family Life in Sunset Park.
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We are a neighborhood based social services organization that provide services in South Park, Brooklyn, CD 7.
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Our programs include a wide range of wraparound supports ranging from food pantry benefits access, immigration and non immigration legal services, employment and job placement supports, ASOL, cooperative Business Development, after school and youth development among others, serving 15,000 people in a year.
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Sunset Park, our neighborhood is a low income immigrant community, with many immigrant families hailing from Latino, Latin American, Asian, Middle Eastern, and Russian speaking decrease.
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Many immigrants in our neighborhood lack the language skills and familiarity with American Systems which make it challenging for them to assimilate to life in the United States.
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Our NDA healthy families program provides case management, educational workshops, service navigation supports to our clients, offering them the invaluable guidance and orientation, which help ensure that families are able to receive stability.
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Our program serves has served in the prior years over seventy people each year, and this year, we intend to serve 106 people.
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The supports in our program include job readiness, job placement, help obtaining identification, benefits access, help obtaining health insurance, housing referrals, workshops on tenants, immigrants, and workers' rights, financial literacy workshops, and individual accounts link among others, as well as help navigating public systems, including the health care and education system.
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And These wraparound supportive services offered through our healthy families program served to address multiple issues faced by families providing greater overall stability and well-being to the families we serve.
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Our services are also provided in a culturally and linguistically competent manner by bilingual and by cultural staff ensuring that all services are appropriate and relevant to our clients.
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In face of the current migrant crisis, we have served over 2000 asylum seekers at Center for Family Life, and we have witnessed the exponentially increasing need for support in New York, among from both long term residents and new arrivals.
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This our healthy families program is an incredibly valuable resource again in this phase of compounded growing need for social services in the city.
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And it helps families receive enhanced ability and well-being, creating a ripple effect in a community that makes it overall more resilient and thriving.
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Hence, this is a very important necessary program.
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Thank you so much.