QUESTION
What services are available to migrant families experiencing homelessness?
1:17:27
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50 sec
The administrator explains that migrant families seeking shelter initially go through the intake process at Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing (PATH) but are then transported to the arrival center.
- Migrant families must have immigration status to receive public assistance benefits.
- PATH intake staff determine if a family seeking shelter is considered a 'migrant' or 'asylum-seeking' family.
- Migrant families are not processed at the standard PATH intake sites but are sent directly to the arrival center.
- There is no mention of what specific services, if any, are available to migrant families at the arrival center.
Diana I. Ayala
1:17:27
Because, I mean, it's you know, you Yeah.
1:17:30
You there's usually other underlying factors that are contributing to this situation or programs and services that people are not aware exists that they make qualify for.
1:17:39
Are those services also available to migrant families that are coming into the past?
1:17:42
I don't know if they're well, if you have any more families that are coming into the past, at this point.
1:17:47
But
Joslyn Carter
1:17:48
so if a silent seeking family comes to path, we we do once we realize it's a silent can family, we do transport them to the arrival center.
1:17:57
So if they come through our our front door once we realize that they transport it to the arrival centers, so they're not processed at orientation site.
Diana I. Ayala
1:18:04
But at some point, they were were they also beneficiaries of all of these services?
Joslyn Carter
1:18:09
Unfortunately, you have to have the immigration status to be able to get public assistance So that's that's something that you're not billed before.
