Q&A
Challenges in reaching and engaging families in Southeast Queens
2:12:20
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Council Member Williams highlights the difficulties in reaching and engaging families in Southeast Queens, emphasizing the need for targeted outreach strategies. She expresses concerns about the visibility and utilization of the local Family Enrichment Center (FEC).
- Southeast Queens faces challenges in connecting residents with various services, including housing and food assistance
- The council member questions how families involved with ACS or in foster care are made aware of nearby FECs
- There's a perceived lack of awareness about FEC activities and who is actually using their services
- The council member, despite frequently passing by the local FEC, is unsure about its operations and community impact
Nantasha M. Williams
2:12:20
Yeah.
2:12:21
In Southeast Queens, that's, like, a very big problem amongst many different types of service providers and service provider industries, like, even with housing or food.
2:12:32
It's like you really have to meet people where they are.
2:12:36
It's like a marketing word-of-mouth kind of, like, issue in Southeast, so I I'm just thinking about, you know, like, family court or, like, the Queen's field office.
2:12:47
Like, if they have a client that's in a particular program, whatever program they're in, or even, like, foster care families that might be
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2:12:54
Absolutely.
Nantasha M. Williams
2:12:54
Down the block from the FEC.
2:12:56
How is a foster care family or another family made aware of something that is in close proximity to where they live?
2:13:04
And I just don't know if that's happening.
2:13:08
And I, like and I pass that FEC all the time.
2:13:11
It's, like, on the way to my house.
2:13:12
It's on the same block as my office, and I live also off the same block as my office to go home, so I pass it a lot.
2:13:19
And I'm always wondering, like, what is happening there and who is actually going inside of that space?
2:13:24
And so, yes.
2:13:26
Sorry that I'm in this slew of questions, but when you when you the chair mentioned FECs, I'm like, I have so many random questions I didn't even realize I had.
2:13:32
Just naturally being in the community and interacting with different stakeholders.
