QUESTION
What is being done to transfer asylum-seeking families to dedicated shelters and services?
1:20:54
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The administrator explains that since 2022, asylum-seeking families have been transferred to dedicated asylum seeker sanctuary sites to provide appropriate services.
- The Department of Homeless Services initially placed asylum seekers in the regular shelter system
- They later began opening dedicated asylum seeker sanctuary sites
- Families are being transferred to these sites to receive services tailored for asylum seekers
- The regular shelter system does not have expertise in serving asylum seeker needs
- The goal is to resettle asylum seekers and provide access to work opportunities
Diana I. Ayala
1:20:54
Do you know anything about that and how many families in total have an extra transfer?
Joslyn Carter
1:20:59
So accounts member, since 22 when the crisis started, initially because we didn't realize how big this was going to happen.
1:21:11
We were placing asylum seekers families into a regulated system.
1:21:15
Right?
1:21:16
Just Mhmm.
1:21:17
And so that was started.
1:21:18
And then we started to open asylum seekers sanctuary site.
1:21:22
We just started to open those.
1:21:24
And so since 2022, we have been transferring families into these particular sites really dedicated to get you know, pay attention and get their services less geared to that.
1:21:36
Earlier today, with mom talked about, like, she had been in a in a shelter that had not happened.
1:21:41
So what we wanna do is to have families kinda get to that because, like, in a tier 2, that's not what our expertise has been.
1:21:47
Right?
1:21:47
We are a regular tier 2.
1:21:49
I mean, I work in the tier 2 show that it's not my expertise.
1:21:51
I could tell you that.
1:21:52
That's not my we're all learning, but that's not what we're experts at.
1:21:55
And so we have been transferring.
1:21:57
Families to that.
1:21:57
So I don't have a number of that.
1:21:59
But I do know, you know, 24 hours is not the right time.
1:22:03
We should really be planned for, and or it should have been a 48 hour, it should have been in the right language.
1:22:08
I'm not so sure what happened there.
1:22:10
And so that is something that we have been doing.
1:22:12
We've where we talked about just making sure that we're getting this asylum seeking families in, you know, in a place where they can get those services.
1:22:20
I am going to follow-up after this because I don't know what happened with the mom that was talking about when she gets to this place.
1:22:26
I'm gonna I was, you know, texting during that?
1:22:28
Testimony.
1:22:29
I'm like, okay.
1:22:30
I need to follow-up on that one.
1:22:32
But this is something that we've been doing.
1:22:34
This is not something that's been that we'd started.
1:22:36
So I know that that didn't happen.
1:22:38
But this is something we have been doing since we started this week, but we because we really wanted to get the appropriate service that's geared towards I'm asylum seekers so that they can get, you know, what they need to do and get resettled and get their services and get their working, you know, opportunity to go to work.
1:22:53
Right?
1:22:53
That's that's what I want us to be able to do.
1:22:56
This is something that we have been doing throughout, and we have talked about this.
1:22:58
I mean,
