QUESTION
Do shelter residents meet with social workers for exit strategy planning?
0:18:38
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5 min
Council Member Ayala's inquiry into interactions between shelter residents and social workers reveals a significant lack of structured exit planning support.
- Council Member Ayala asks about shelter residents' access to social or caseworkers for exit strategy planning.
- A testimony, interpreted from French, suggests there is no meaningful engagement with social workers or caseworkers for such planning.
- Ayala points out the city's claim of comprehensive case management during shelter transitions, questioning its accuracy.
- Testimonies indicate that external volunteers, not shelter staff or assigned social workers, primarily provide assistance to residents.
Diana I. Ayala
0:18:38
When Wallin In Shelter, have you had the opportunity talk to a social worker or a caseworker to plan out your to to plan out a long term plan for exit of shelter.
UNKNOWN
0:18:58
System social.
UNKNOWN
0:19:32
Aveca Alazil?
0:19:41
Filmmakasa.
0:19:58
No address.
0:20:04
Yeah.
0:20:05
I stopped doing modeling in address.
UNKNOWN
0:20:10
I was in a office somewhere in Wall Street and they gave me an address that would help him.
Diana I. Ayala
0:20:21
So he didn't speak to he had not they haven't spoken to anyone.
UNKNOWN
0:20:48
Okay.
UNKNOWN
0:21:05
No.
0:21:05
From what I understand, they someone gave him, sir, address.
0:21:08
At that address, it was some type of an office.
0:21:10
And at that office, he he he has some type of procedure, and he gave a lot of documents.
0:21:16
You know, to, you know, to explain his case and all that.
Diana I. Ayala
0:21:18
And that happened one time?
0:21:29
Okay.
0:21:29
I'm asking this question because the city has argued that there is extensive case management that happens during the transition of folks.
0:21:39
And so it's important for us to understand whether or not that is happening and to what extent it is happening.
0:21:47
Because the idea is that during that process, folks would be, you know, there would be some sort of exit plan strategy.
0:21:58
So if somebody had a family member someplace else, then we will have a better understanding of that.
0:22:05
If they're not meeting with someone regularly, then that is not, in fact, what's happening, and that's what I'm trying to ascertain.
UNKNOWN
0:22:12
Okay.
0:22:20
Plus class.
0:22:37
Just for me, shelters have not been helpful up until now.
UNKNOWN
0:22:43
Mhmm.
0:22:47
There's dusof Senzala.
UNKNOWN
0:23:04
So he said in the shelters per se, we don't get much help.
0:23:07
We get a lot of help from Outsideers, basically, people who just come into the shelters, bring this food, help us with any type of procedure that we need.
0:23:16
These are the people that help us, people that just outsideers.
Diana I. Ayala
0:23:20
So how how are they informed do they have to leave?
UNKNOWN
0:23:23
Excuse me.
0:23:23
What?
0:23:24
Okay.
0:23:24
My question.
0:23:31
I don't mean to mention their name on the organization.
0:23:33
They haven't given me the rights.
0:23:41
But those people are really the ones who are helping us in So apart from them, he was just underlining that apart from them, he has not seen proper health.
0:24:11
He said these people that he just previously mentioned are the only ones will bring them close, will bring them food to help them with any type of procedure.
0:24:18
They are the only ones.
Diana I. Ayala
0:24:19
Okay.
