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QUESTION

How is outreach conducted for informing communities about humanitarian parole and TPS paper assistance?

1:10:22

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Molly Schaeffer describes the outreach efforts towards asylum seekers within the shelter system, emphasizing on-site inquiries and connections to legal support upon their arrival.

  • The Mayor's Office of Asylum Seeker Operations (OASO) targets shelter residents for outreach.
  • Upon arrival at their centers, individuals are asked about their legal status and needed paperwork.
  • Shelter staff connects residents to legal support sites for further assistance.
  • The Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) manages outreach for individuals not in the shelter system.
  • The focus is on connecting individuals with the legal support they require.
Rita Joseph
1:10:22
How do you do your outreach for communities to know that they you have the service of whether they apply they're eligible for humanitarian parole, or how do they get the CPS papers in order.
1:10:33
How are you doing the outreach?
Molly Schaeffer
1:10:34
So the asylum application help center and our satellites is really focused on the people in our care, so it's really focused on our shelter residents.
1:10:43
And so that we do on-site.
1:10:45
So the second that you walk through our doors at our arrival center, we ask series of questions about your legal status and about your paperwork so that we know what pathway you're in.
1:10:56
And then we can shelter staff is able to connect you to these sites.
1:11:01
My colleagues in Moia have the more the broader landscape of people not in our shelter system and sort of connect them to legal support.
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