QUESTION
What are the costs and benefits of new training and RFP programs for the Department of Corrections?
3:03:17
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3 min
The New York City Department of Correction continues its staff training programs and introduces new education-focused initiatives costing $14 million.
- Training is ongoing for the Division of Programs and Community Partnerships staff, focusing on anger management, conflict resolution, and other evidence-based curriculums.
- The new $14 million programs address additional educational needs, including GED instruction and English as a second language courses.
- These initiatives are a response to needs expressed by those in the Department's care, targeting both the 18 to 21 age group and adult population.
- The programs aim to expand post-secondary education opportunities and reintroduce tutoring services.
Sandy Nurse
3:03:17
Just trying to kinda wrap my head around this because we made the cut, and there was some work that was being done already by DOC staff.
3:03:24
There were some other Mokje providers there.
3:03:29
Now you've got to onboard people.
3:03:31
You also mentioned earlier that now you have to train people.
3:03:35
You mentioned there's a series of trainings that would need to happen over a period of time.
3:03:40
I think you said July through December, there were gonna be trainings.
3:03:44
So I'm just curious of the cost.
3:03:47
I mean, if you had folks who are already in the door, they've built the relationships they already know what they're doing.
3:03:53
Now they get abruptly taken out of the off of the island and and and the relationships are suffered to some degree.
3:04:02
Now you've got to spend money training people that hadn't done the work before or new people.
3:04:07
It's just like, what's the cost analysis here or the cost benefit, and then to to abruptly come back and have, you know, a new RFP set of RFPs go out for 14,000,000.
3:04:19
I understand you're saying there's a new need with institution of higher learning.
3:04:24
But what would be the difference in the programs that would be coming into the RFPs than what existed in the past.
Francis Torres
3:04:33
Thank you for the question.
3:04:35
Madam chair, let me just provide some clarity on what I had responded to Speaker Adams.
3:04:43
The training that has been done and the training that will continue is for the staff members assigned to the division of programs and community partnerships who are presently doing the insourcing.
Sandy Nurse
3:04:57
Were they already doing the in sourcing?
3:04:58
Is this new training?
Francis Torres
3:04:59
No.
3:05:00
It's continued training.
3:05:02
It's ongoing.
3:05:02
It's ongoing training.
3:05:04
Okay.
3:05:06
We're not reinvesting in their training.
3:05:09
We're just ensuring that they continue to be refreshed.
3:05:14
On an ongoing basis.
3:05:17
Those are the staff members that will continue to do anger management that will continue to do conflict resolution, that will continue to do interactive journaling and other evidence based curriculum.
3:05:34
When it comes to the new programs, that these $14 will target.
3:05:42
These are new programs, and I'll share with you one specifically.
3:05:48
The supplemental programming on education is supplemental because we currently have our partners at the Department of Education who target the eighteen to twenty one year olds.
3:06:02
However, their additional needs, not just for the 18 to 21, but also for the adult population.
3:06:11
It is a need that has been expressed to us by those assigned to our care.
3:06:17
So this particular Programming component was never afforded on the video based targeted approach.
3:06:25
It is completely new it will afford us the opportunity to increase the number of GED instructors It would allow us for the first time in many years to bring back English as a second language instruction will allow us to do touring and significantly will allow us to expand our post secondary.
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