QUESTION
What kind of training is provided to the NYPD by the Department for the Aging, and does it include a focus on ageism?
1:22:28
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The Department for the Aging provides the NYPD with training on ageism and awareness of various services to refer individuals in need.
- The training focuses on ageism and the ability to refer individuals to services based on needs revealed during interactions.
- Officers are trained to identify and address issues like food insecurity.
- This knowledge equips officers to refer individuals to appropriate services, even if unrelated to the immediate issue.
- The goal is to make officers knowledgeable intermediaries, similar to the training provided to health professionals.
Crystal Hudson
1:22:28
Can you just talk a little bit more about the training specifically with the NYPD?
1:22:31
Is it training around ageism specifically, or is it too things.
1:22:36
Okay.
Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez
1:22:37
So it's un agism, but the other one is one of the services.
1:22:41
So you might think, you know, this person that has been victimized in their conversation with the police officer may reveal that their food insecure or that their food stands are are they they lost they no longer have their food stamps.
Crystal Hudson
1:22:58
Mhmm.
Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez
1:22:59
So the police officer will then will know that there is a service that they can refer them to to help them with that aspect, which may have had nothing to do with their the divisional.
Crystal Hudson
1:23:10
Yeah.
1:23:10
The industry.
Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez
1:23:11
Right.
1:23:11
So it's just to make them knowledgeable.
1:23:13
It's the same thing that we're doing with the health professionals.
1:23:16
It's to give them a knowledge in a sense of what the network of services are so that they could then be prepared to also serve as intermediaries.
Crystal Hudson
1:23:27
Thank you.