REMARKS
Multi-agency approach to addressing subway surfing
1:59:40
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3 min
Representatives from NYC Public Schools, NYPD, and DYCD explain their collaborative approach to addressing subway surfing. Key points include:
- NYC Public Schools focus on non-punitive measures, emphasizing care and engagement with students
- Efforts to avoid court involvement for youth, including diversion programs
- NYPD's multifaceted approach involving home visits, school outreach, and data-driven targeting
- Inter-agency collaboration through regular meetings and information sharing
- The approach emphasizes prevention and support over punishment for involved youth.
- There's a strong focus on inter-agency cooperation and learning from each other's perspectives.
- Agencies are working to create comprehensive, youth-centered solutions to the subway surfing issue.
Mark Rampersant
1:59:40
Yeah.
1:59:41
So I'll talk to you from, the relationship established, with, New York City Public Schools and the NYPD.
1:59:47
The work around just really advising and and bringing it to to our attention that young people have been deterred, from, you know, on riding on outside of the train.
1:59:58
Short of what I shared with you, it's really it's not coming not from New York City Public Schools as a punitive measure.
2:00:04
We want young people to know that we know.
2:00:06
Right?
2:00:07
We know at the school level, and we care.
2:00:09
And here are some of the ways by which we wanna show you we care.
2:00:12
We're partnering with our our village, which includes all of the stakeholders outside the school to tell us about your behaviors outside, and let me tell you about what we're gonna do for you in school.
2:00:22
We need to engage young people, and that's what we're doing, to redirect some of those energies to something a little bit more or a lot more positive than getting on the top of the train.
2:00:32
And some of what you heard today about the sense of belonging and the sense of wanting to be a part of something greater in in the social media stuff, that's one piece of it.
2:00:40
But we've learned in conversations with some young other young people that time time is different.
2:00:46
Right?
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Young people who support themselves after hours because mom works 2 jobs.
2:00:52
Right?
2:00:53
And there are other family members that are not in place at the in the house.
2:00:56
And I speak specifically about one young person who we're mentoring who was a subway surfer, and I mean an avid subway surfer, and can tell you about how often they go up and when his friend went down, how they celebrate, right, his death, right, by going up and doing it again in his honor.
2:01:14
Right?
2:01:14
And so we are intentional about allowing young people the space to share the reasons why and help them find different ways by way ways by which they can fill that gap.
Kevin Dantzler
2:01:26
May I also just add, in terms of complementing the, increased NYPD enforcement, we're trying our best to not to make sure our children aren't court involved.
2:01:36
So as I mentioned before, we have the New York City Law Department who works as another partner in this effort.
2:01:40
We have the Department of Probation, another agency partners in this effort to find out about diversion programs.
2:01:45
And to your point, how can we, if someone is on probation, how can part of their probation requirement be that they contribute to our PSAs?
2:01:54
And so to your point, we're trying to make sure we pull everyone together.
2:01:57
We're not here to celebrate.
2:01:58
It's great we collaborate and that's awesome.
2:02:00
But a question was asked before before about how we measure effectiveness.
2:02:04
Changed behavior is the best indicator of the effectiveness of our efforts.
2:02:08
And we're working hard on that.
Joseph Gulotta
2:02:10
Yeah.
2:02:11
And from the MRBD point, it's ours is multifaceted.
2:02:13
It's not just about the contacts we have.
2:02:15
It's about the home visits.
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It's about the 16 schools we visited that hit almost 3,000 students already.
2:02:21
It's getting the YCOs engaged in this and getting to the right schools and attracting and using data to make sure we're hitting the right students in the right place.
Jessica Hernandez
2:02:32
And in regards to our partnership, and we meet, every every 2 weeks, right, that we meet, it's it's actually an opportunity for us to have a discussion, not only with NYPD, but with everyone as to, you know, us having conversation of those youth development principles or what what what is going what is the behavior, what's going on, and just having conversations that maybe inter agencies we never really had a conversation because we all have our responsibility in our role.
2:02:59
But coming together to be able to learn from each other so then that way we know what we need to do, whether it's the curriculum or just the changes in agency that we need to kind of, like, look into.
2:03:08
So this is definitely something that we it's it's still we're still working on it, but it is actually something that is we're all learning from it.
