QUESTION
How is the Department for the Aging identifying new partners like India Home to serve in Brooklyn?
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Council Member Shahana K. Hanif inquires about the Department for the Aging's process for identifying new partners and providing support to them, using India Home as an example, to better serve the community in Brooklyn.
- Hanif discusses her background as a first-generation Bangladeshi familiar with India Home for about 15 years.
- She raises concerns about the impracticality of Brooklyn residents traveling to Jamaica, Queens to access India Home's services.
- The council member stresses the need for local support in Brooklyn to make services more accessible.
Shahana K. Hanif
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you learning?
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I mean, I I know about India home and, you know, I'm a a 1st generation Bangladeshi and I've been hearing by India home for at least the last 15 years.
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But my community, the the community I represent is in Brooklyn.
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And if I ask these folks to go to Jamaica, that is about a day trip.
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Coming back and forth is an impossible journey.
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So would love to know how DIFTA is either identifying new partners, how DIFTA is supporting capacity building of groups like India home to be able to come into neighborhoods like Kensington in my district.