AGENCY TESTIMONY
Introduction and overview of ACS's role in immigrant services
1:13:15
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41 sec
Stephanie Gendell, Deputy Commissioner for External Affairs at the Administration for Children's Services (ACS), introduces herself and her role overseeing various offices, including the Office of Immigrant Services and Language Affairs (ISLA).
- Gendell is accompanied by colleagues from other agencies and ACS departments
- She mentions that she will summarize her testimony, with the full version available
Stephanie Gendell
1:13:15
Good afternoon.
1:13:16
I'm Stephanie Gandell.
1:13:17
I'm the deputy commissioner for external affairs at the administration for children's services.
1:13:22
In this role, I oversee a number of offices, including intergovernmental affairs, and also the office of immigrant services and language affairs, or ISla, as we refer to it.
1:13:31
In addition to my colleagues from other agencies, I'm joined today by Finina Oren, who's the Manhattan borough chief of the Division of Family Court Legal Services, which manages all of our Destitute minor filings in Family Court, as well as my colleague, the deputy commissioner for prevention services, Louis Eleanor, who did not fit at the table, but is behind me.
1:13:51
I'm going to summarize my testimony, but you have the full testimony.