QUESTION
What are the particular needs of asylum seeking children being handled, including language assessment and support for trauma-informed care?
1:25:09
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The administrator explains how the educational needs of asylum seeking children in NYC shelters are being addressed.
- The Department of Homeland Services (DHS) works with the Department of Education (DOE) to provide services
- DOE staff rotate through the asylum seeker shelters, just like regular DHS shelters
- Interpreters are available at the asylum seeker shelters for language assistance
- DHS tries to have staff on-site who speak the languages of the asylum seekers
- Language line services and ASL interpretation are used when needed, with short wait times
- Referrals can be made to use the language access system of Health + Hospitals for additional support
Diana I. Ayala
1:25:09
I appreciate that according to DHS asylum seekers sent census as of June 2nd, there were 8692 asylum seeking families with children in DHS shelters, inclusive of 10239 school age children.
1:25:24
How are the particular needs of a sudden seeking children, including language assessment to how support trauma informed care handled?
1:25:31
So
Joslyn Carter
1:25:34
the educational leads, we work with Department of Education.
1:25:39
Right?
1:25:40
And they the same way that we have DOE at our who rotate through our regular DHS shelters, we have that same connection with DOE.
1:25:49
So they're coming through, you know, to our our asylum seeking shelters.
1:25:54
Right?
1:25:54
So when we open those shelters, DOE does get a feed that we've opened those shelters, and then they are coming on-site to really make that close connections for school.
1:26:02
There are interpreters available.
1:26:05
We are at our assigned seeking sites.
1:26:11
If there's no language, people don't seem to sing language, we are really pushing to make sure that we have people who speak the language.
1:26:18
On-site at these at these shelters, and we've done pretty good and and, you know, good enough on making sure that we have the language access.
1:26:25
But we do use language act language line if needed.
1:26:28
We have ASL if needed.
1:26:30
And our, you know, wait time for language access is about 8 seconds.
1:26:33
We found in 2023, so there's no real wait for that.
1:26:36
At this point.
1:26:37
So and we can refer all h and h do we use h and h's system to refer if we need to?
1:26:44
And so we've made it, you know, support for all of our families.
1:26:47
Not just in the asylum seekers part of our system, but in our entire system.
