QUESTION
How is the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) distributing its workload among its team?
0:27:55
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Commissioner Manuel Castro describes the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Affairs (MOIA)'s staffing distribution across several departments, emphasizing the importance of outsourcing and partnerships.
- Legal services are mainly outsourced, with 3 staff overseeing this area.
- English learning programs and language access are managed by 3 and 20 staff members, respectively.
- Policy and external affairs have 11 and 15 staff members each.
- The success of MOIA is attributed to its collaboration with nonprofit providers.
Alexa Avilés
0:27:55
So I'm sorry Mhmm.
0:27:57
Commissioner.
0:27:58
Just could you give me could you give me a if we think about it as a pie chart, a general sense of the breakdown of the work, but you're very small, but mighty team engages in.
0:28:13
We have direct service.
0:28:14
We have technical assistance.
0:28:17
We have advocacy how would you characterize the distribution of work that your office manages?
0:28:25
If you could, obviously, it's not gonna be specific.
Manuel Castro
0:28:28
I think might be helpful to describe our staffing structure.
0:28:34
So we have currently 3 staff overseeing legal services time included.
0:28:46
Most of our work on legal services is outsourced, meaning that we contract with nonprofit providers to do this work.
0:28:54
Mhmm.
0:28:55
Our English learning program is staffed by 3 individuals.
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Our language access staff, as I mentioned,
Alexa Avilés
0:29:03
I'm sorry.
0:29:04
Commissioner, the the English programs are staffed by 3?
0:29:08
Yes.
0:29:09
Individuals?
0:29:09
Okay.
0:29:10
Yes.
0:29:11
3 for language access, 3 for legal services?
Manuel Castro
0:29:16
20 for language access.
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11 for policy and 15 for external affairs.
0:29:23
If you wanna further break down, Jessica, provide but I just wanted to give you a sense of our staffing to give you a sense of, you know, a small but mighty team takes a a lot of work.
0:29:37
We're only able to achieve so much because of our work in partnership with nonprofit providers.
0:29:44
Sure.