QUESTION
How is community engagement implemented for the new streamlined program?
1:10:09
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Community engagement for the new streamlined program relies on widespread communication through partners and various platforms.
- The Pathways advising coalition, including partners like Goddard Riverside Options and Make the Road New York, disseminates information through their community presence.
- Direct communication is established with school leaders, district family support liaisons, and via social media and email listservs.
- Special efforts are made to distribute print materials in accessible community spaces like subway entrances and shelters.
- The strategy aims to ensure updates and essential information reaches a broad audience, including those in underrepresented communities.
Rita Joseph
1:10:09
And what does community engagement look like in terms of once to make sure parents and families and even outside entities know about the acceptance of key need this new streamline program.
Melanie Mac
1:10:26
Thank you for the question, Chair.
1:10:27
The Pathway's advising coalition that Kristen started to name, it has a number of partners, some which might be recognizable to the council, Goddard Riverside Options, Make the Road, New York, I mentor, a college bound initiative, the list kind of goes on in terms of folks who are very steeped in our communities also very steeped in this work of college college and career success.
1:10:57
And so across the ways that we, of course, communicate directly with school leaders and their identified teams.
1:11:05
We, of course, communicate with districts and their family.
1:11:09
Support liaisons city wide so that anything, whether it comes to, you know, fee waivers, welcome letters, changes to FAFSA, there is a steady drift of communication.
1:11:20
But I think that through the Pathways advising coalition and our communication with our community partners, we lean really heavily on how do we make sure that messages get shared through their platforms, whether they're social media, whether it's their list serves, whether it's their presence in different community spaces.
1:11:41
We are also doing some planning on how we look at communities where we need to be really thoughtful about what print materials need to be available at the entrance to subways.
1:11:53
Where do you print materials need available in shelters, to access advising resources, and to access updates that are really important for the decisions twelve creators are making.
1:12:04
So those are some of the examples of the ways that we we aim to ensure that the message really is, you know, resonating with the the help of some of our community partners who have who occupy different places and spaces that that we do.
Rita Joseph
1:12:20
Yeah.