QUESTION
How does the administration plan to increase families with children exiting from shelter into permanent housing by 20-25% by 2030?
1:19:09
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The administration has two initiatives to help families with children exit shelters into permanent housing. Through the Department of Homeless Services (DHS), the city has the Girls Groomed to Lead (G2L) program which provides financial empowerment and savings for young girls. DHS also has a pilot with New Destiny Housing to provide navigators for 100 families experiencing domestic violence to help them obtain permanent housing vouchers and exit shelters.
- G2L aims to empower young girls through financial education and savings
- The New Destiny pilot provides navigators to help 100 DV families obtain vouchers
- Navigators assist these families in finding and securing permanent housing
- Both initiatives are part of the Women Forward NYC plan
- The goal is to increase placements of families with children by 20-25% by 2030
Diana I. Ayala
1:19:09
You you mentioned that through the woman forward, the administration is committed increasing families with children exiting from shelter into permanent housing by 20 25% by 2030.
1:19:20
Can you elaborate on how they hope to achieve this goal?
Joslyn Carter
1:19:22
So for DHS, it's the administration.
1:19:24
Mhmm.
1:19:24
So for DHS, we have 2 initiatives.
1:19:26
We have our 2 6000, which will it's our gross 1000.
Diana I. Ayala
1:19:29
I love them.
1:19:30
They're so cute.
Joslyn Carter
1:19:32
Yeah.
1:19:32
They are cute.
1:19:33
Right?
1:19:33
So girls girls, and so they're doing a series of financial empowerment savings for the young ones.
1:19:40
And so that's part of the women's forward initiative.
1:19:44
And the second thing that we have is the pilot with new destiny.
1:19:48
For a 100 families with domestic violence in the DHS system with nitrous sectioned vouchers.
1:19:57
So they have navigators to help them to exit shelters.
1:20:01
So navigating to help them to seek permanent housing.
1:20:06
And so there's lots of work happening there so that we can help them to get out.
1:20:09
And so that's our 2 part of that housing forwarded initiative that's happening within the administration.
