QUESTION
How can Breveport Senior Center in NYCHA be utilized for senior and young adult programs?
1:02:49
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Commissioner Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez expresses willingness to explore the use of a closed medical center in NYCHA for senior and young adult programming.
- Darlene Mealy suggests using the vacant space to segregate but also allow interaction between seniors and young adults.
- Commissioner Cortes-Vazquez indicates openness to visiting potential city-owned facilities due to the advantage of not paying rent.
- The aim is to promote intergenerational programming by co-locating services with the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) and Department for Youth and Community Development (DYCD) sites.
- The need for additional space is to accommodate more participants in programs such as knitting, which fosters intergenerational learning.
Darlene Mealy
1:02:49
They've been accented for a facility.
1:02:51
That's where I remember it.
1:02:53
I got my vaccination there.
1:02:56
It was a medical center where you could get your dental done, everything.
1:03:00
It's closed now.
1:03:02
Would you be available at least to come see that space that maybe we can really keep it separate from our seniors and our young adults, they they interact with each other.
1:03:14
That's fine.
1:03:15
But just to give them a little bit more space, the space is not being utilized.
1:03:19
I already spoke to Nitro.
1:03:21
I would love to see how Dibda can help also where maybe some of the fundamentals
Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez
1:03:26
are always available to visit with any of you, but more importantly, to visit with any older adult facility because we are always in need of potential facilities.
1:03:37
So I'd be more than happy to visit any potential facility, especially if it's city owned property.
1:03:44
Because that means no rent.
1:03:46
And so we're always looking to explore those opportunities.
1:03:50
Now, if if it's co housed with an old with a aycd site, if it's one of those cap zones, We want to encourage that they stay collocated because we want to encourage Yeah.
Darlene Mealy
1:04:04
They do the same
Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez
1:04:04
generational programming.
1:04:06
We do not, you know, They just need more space.
Darlene Mealy
1:04:10
That more space that more children could come in and more seniors could come in.
1:04:15
They have the knitting.
1:04:16
They have every to that day, I teach in the young people how to knit.
Crystal Hudson
1:04:20
So Thank you.
Darlene Mealy
1:04:22
It is good.
1:04:22
So thank you.
1:04:23
I'm looking forward.