REMARKS
Council Member Cabán emphasizes the importance of specialized services for vulnerable populations
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Council Member Cabán concludes by emphasizing the importance of truly specialized services for vulnerable populations, using a personal example to illustrate her point about the value of targeted organizations and service providers.
- Cabán acknowledges the intention to provide individualized approaches but argues it's not always sufficient
- She uses a personal example of seeking therapy to illustrate the importance of specialized providers
- Cabán stresses the difference between general services and those offered by targeted organizations
- She concludes that while a baseline of individualized care is good, specialized services are often necessary
Tiffany Cabán
0:42:52
And and I just I I understand what you're saying, and I just kinda wanna, like, offer a broad statement to to kind of make a point.
0:43:01
Like, I I understand the intention to have a, like, individualized, customized approach for every person, and that is what professionals do in different settings.
0:43:10
And we can endeavor to do that.
0:43:11
But I do think that we have to acknowledge that there is a difference when like, let's say I am I'm gonna give a personal example.
0:43:17
I'm seeking therapy services.
0:43:18
Right?
0:43:19
Presumably, a whole host of organizations or clinics are going to say, hey, we do an individualized approach, and we come as you are, and we can do that.
0:43:29
But there's a reason why I then do the extra work to say, actually, no.
0:43:34
I need to find a therapist who is a woman of color, who is like queer identifying or specializes in that work, or has spent a significant amount of time focusing their practice on particular kinds of trauma histories.
0:43:51
And so, like, I think we can endeavor to do that, and that's great.
0:43:54
And it's the baseline, but I think we do have to acknowledge that there is a difference between some of these, like, really, really targeted organizations and service providers.
0:44:04
And I'll leave it at that, and thank you, chair.
