REMARKS
Offer of assistance through local crime victim programs and community resources
1:57:57
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60 sec
Commissioner Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez offers assistance to Council Member Zhuang through local crime victim programs and community resources to help seniors navigate the complex process of reporting fraud.
- The Department for the Aging has local crime victim programs in every borough
- They offer to use community resources to help individuals navigate the reporting process
- Cortés-Vázquez emphasizes that the navigation process can vary in complexity
- The goal is to utilize existing community resources to assist seniors in reporting fraud
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
1:57:57
I'm going I'm going to I'm going to offer you some assistance.
1:58:01
Alright?
1:58:02
They we have local crime victim programs in every borough.
1:58:06
And what I'm going to ask you is and also we have the resource center.
1:58:11
At NYCA aging.
1:58:12
What I will ask you is with those particular kind of cases, I would ask for you to use the community resource so that we can then help those individuals navigate what seems to be a complex or appears to be a complex process for them.
1:58:30
Alright?
1:58:30
And so that's what I would like to offer to you because, again, there is not one way to do this, but The goal here is to have community resources to help individuals navigate.
1:58:45
And and that navigation process could be simple or could be very complex.
1:58:50
And let's use the resources that we have in the community to help individuals navigate.
1:58:55
Alright?
1:58:56
Okay.
1:58:56
Thank you.
1:58:57
You're welcome.
