QUESTION
What staff and resources are allocated for legal services at the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Affairs?
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The Mayor's Office for Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) has three staff dedicated to legal services and is looking to fill three program manager vacancies.
- MOIA collaborates with various agencies and manages a portfolio of immigration legal service programs, including Action NYC and the Haitian Response Initiative.
- Currently, MOIA employs three staff members specifically for legal services work.
- There are three vacant program manager positions that MOIA aims to fill.
- MOIA plays a programmatic management role in these services, working with agency partners for contract and fiscal support.
Alexa Avilés
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Is there dedicated staff to support legal services at the agency level if if yes, how much is budgeted, is a budgeted head count, and how many positions are funded.
Manuel Castro
0:49:31
And Jess will respond to that.
Jasniya Sanchez
0:49:35
So we work closely with our, you know, partner agencies, especially those that run legal services.
0:49:43
And I can let Tom sort of talk about more in terms of like how we collaborate with them.
0:49:48
But currently, we have 3 staffers including Tom, that lead the legal services work in our office as well as 3 vacancies.
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Under that portfolio.
0:50:04
And again, one of the things that I would like to mention is that while that's the case and it's a small team.
0:50:11
Right?
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You know, the you know, we always work across teams to be able to lead the work.
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But I can let Tom sort of talk about our, you know, how we collaborate with all of that.
Alexa Avilés
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And what the roles are that are vacant currently?
Jasniya Sanchez
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Program manager positions.
Alexa Avilés
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Thank you.
Ana Galiana
0:50:35
Yeah.
Tom Tortorici
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Thank you, Gerard, and commissioner and Jazz.
0:50:42
So Within Moya's immigration legal service programs
Jasniya Sanchez
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Mhmm.
Tom Tortorici
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Our housed Action NYC, the Action NYC hotline, the Haitian Response Initiative, the immigrant rights workshop, and the rapid response legal collaborative, as well as the newly created asylum seeker legal assistance network or Aslan as the commissioner described in his testimony.
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Mhmm.
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They each involve interaction with various agencies.
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Our primary partner is HRA and the Office of Solar Justice, who my HRA holds the contract.
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Within their agency, and we serve as programmatic manager.
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And that's the case across most, if not all of our programs.
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Moia takes the lead programmatic management role and the agency provides contract and fiscal support as well as acting as the vehicle for the for that procurement.