Q&A
Involvement of CBOs in PACT/RAD conversions and concerns about social services
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4 min
This chapter delves into the involvement of Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) in PACT/RAD conversions and addresses concerns about the effectiveness of social services in these developments. Council Member Banks raises questions about the selection, funding, and oversight of these organizations.
- CBOs are part of the team selected during the original PACT partner selection process
- Funding for CBOs comes through the PACT partner
- NYCHA monitors the services provided by CBOs through regular reporting
- Council Member Banks expresses concerns about the appropriateness and effectiveness of services provided by some CBOs
- Social services provider scopes are initially based on surveys of residents' needs and can be adjusted over time
- NYCHA agrees to follow up with more detailed information about specific developments and CBO activities
Chris Banks
0:26:42
So the CBOs that provide any services to the nitrile well, to the pack rad pack residents Were these CBOs part of the transition as soon as the conversion took place?
Gillian Connell
0:26:58
Yep.
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They're in place when the conversions happen.
Chris Banks
0:27:00
Okay.
0:27:01
And getting back to the actual numbers, are you looking at the amount of money that they're receiving and suppose how many residents they're serving on those numbers, can you provide those numbers to us too?
0:27:19
Let's see.
Gillian Connell
0:27:19
Yeah.
0:27:19
Yeah.
0:27:20
So And
Chris Banks
0:27:20
what the scope of work that they're doing?
Gillian Connell
0:27:23
For the social services providers specifically are just that PAC partners are having with
Chris Banks
0:27:27
Yeah.
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The social service providers.
Gillian Connell
0:27:30
We can follow-up with that information.
0:27:32
I don't have
Chris Banks
0:27:32
that information.
0:27:33
You're supposed to provide oversight over those particular right.
0:27:37
The I noticed some of the CBOs that have a a part of the RadPack conversions who was supposed to be providing on the social services.
0:27:54
What exactly is the scope do they Is there, like, a scoping that's done?
0:28:00
Because I know when one particular development, you have a CBO that is providing services.
0:28:07
But when you look at the services they're providing, it it's not beating the need the need of the development, particularly if you have a development that has a high unemployment, but yet you're focusing on doing jazz parties and things that, you know, I wanna know exactly where's the money going, and they're really providing the services to really help these residents.
0:28:34
Because as we've seen over the the years, since a lot of the conversions have taken place, we've seen a lot of aggressive aggressive behaviors by a lot of the developers and some of these groups that have taken over the the the rad packs.
Gillian Connell
0:28:49
So the social services provider scopes are initially built based on surveys of residents' needs.
0:28:55
So if over the course of, you know, the project as it moves forward, if those needs change, there should be reassessing the scope can be adjusted as well.
0:29:04
Okay.
Chris Banks
0:29:05
Just want a little dive a little deeper into that.
0:29:09
And, hopefully, we'll we'll get some clarity as to what these CBOs are doing, and if they're really meeting the need of the residents.
0:29:16
And, you know, I I I know a particular development, London houses where I think it's a university settlement that is actually the CBO, and I I it's I'm I'm a little confused as to the services they are providing.
0:29:34
And I had I I reached out to them and asked them you know, I had a meeting with them, they asked them, you know, did they do a a a a some type of needs assessment before they came into the development?
0:29:50
And their focus have been doing SIP and Paints and all these other things.
0:29:56
But when I asked them about the, you know, the issues with doing the one shot deals, things that nature assistant folks would rent issues or unemployment or workforce development.
0:30:09
I was told that that's not in their work scope, well, particularly workforce development.
0:30:13
So that that definitely is problematic when you have high unemployment in a lot of these public housing developments, especially to help the entire city.
0:30:22
So it's just good to know where monies are going and are they really being utilized to help the residents.
0:30:28
And if if, you know, if they're part of this get rich game of the Rad Pak program, then that needs to be, you know, that needs to be made clear.
0:30:37
We are now gonna I'm gonna move to allow my colleague, my council member, Sanchez, to pick up her questions.
