REMARKS
Council member shares observations from her visit to a Family Enrichment Center
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Councilmember Althea V. Stevens shares her experience and observations from visiting a Family Enrichment Center (FEC) in her district, highlighting concerns about visibility, outreach, and accessibility.
- The FEC was difficult to identify from the outside, potentially limiting its visibility to the community
- The councilmember, despite her position, was unaware of the FEC's existence prior to her visit
- Concerns were raised about the limited outreach strategies, primarily focused on schools
- The councilmember emphasized the need for broader outreach to reach families not connected to local schools
Althea V. Stevens
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I mean, I I I recently went to, my family at Richmond Center, my district, which I thought was really nice, but it didn't have, it was hard to identify.
0:26:34
Like, I walked past, like, 3 times because it's in the Bronx, and it's it's nice once you go inside, but I think even that, like, and that was one of my feedback when I went there was saying, like, how would anyone know it was here?
0:26:45
I didn't know it was there.
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I'm a whole council member.
0:26:48
They had never reached out to me, I never knew that they were there, and so how does families know that?
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I know they said they work really closely with some schools, but again we are then missing we're still missing families if we're only focusing on doing outreach in schools because that was the that's what they said their primary outreach was, was in schools.
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And so there's a lot of families and even in that area, there isn't a lot of providers in that area, which I thought was a good place, but if you're only going to the schools, what happen if your kid isn't in school?
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What happens if this is a, you know, at a a a person who just moved to the neighborhood, like, it's so many other factors.
0:27:21
What if they don't go to school in the neighborhood?
0:27:23
I think that for me, it's, like, why aren't we looking to do more partnerships or things like that.
0:27:27
So that's why I'm asking about what the evaluation process looks
Luisa Linares
0:27:33
like for the FECs.
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And then,
