Q&A
MOIA's meetings with language access coordinators
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Young Kwon from MOIA explains the frequency and content of meetings with language access coordinators. These meetings are part of an ongoing process to improve language access implementation across city agencies.
- MOIA held 12 overall convenings with language access coordinators this year
- 9 convenings focused on updating language access implementation plans
- Additional meetings included orientation for new coordinators and discussions on monitoring
- Meetings cover topics such as best practices, local law 30 basics, and the monitoring system
Alexa Avilés
1:59:45
How often does Moya convene the language access coordinators and is attendance mandated?
1:59:53
And can you give us a sense of what is discussed in these meetings?
Young Kwon
1:59:57
Yeah.
1:59:57
No.
1:59:57
Definitely.
1:59:58
As mentioned in the testimony, we believe that language access isn't just a checklist, but an ongoing process that means improvement.
2:00:07
So we and we utilize the anchors, the 2 anchors, the language implementation plan and the reporting as a way to convene language access coordinators.
2:00:18
So this year was special year where most agencies had to update their language access implementation plan.
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So the year to date, we had 12 overall convenings with the language access coordinators.
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The 9 of the 9 of the convenings were dedicated to language access implementation plan updates.
2:00:38
So we sectioned out our plans into different sections, and we focused on one section in each convening, sharing best practices for language access coordinators to kind of cross pollinate some of these best practices together, and also highlight some of the practices that was really great great to know node from the each agencies.
2:01:06
We also had one orientation for newly appointed language access coordinator, which we cover the the basics of local law 30, but also the maturity model, how we approach language access.
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Additionally, we this this month, we convened 2 convenings around monitoring.
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So kind of walking them through the reporting process, how we are re envisioning the monitoring system, and how we look towards strengthening it in the next years.
