Q&A
Concerns about services at Samaritan Village shelters
2:41:44
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Council Member Chris Banks raises specific concerns about the lack of services at Samaritan Village shelters in his district, particularly a 200-bed women's shelter and a men's shelter.
- Banks reports that residents claim no services are being provided
- He mentions a men's shelter where some residents with mental health issues are not receiving adequate support
- Banks expresses concern that the current system is 'keeping poor people poor' instead of providing necessary services
- He asks what is being done to assist residents, especially those with mental health issues, to become productive
Chris Banks
2:41:44
Can you tell me the services that, Samaritan Village provides?
2:41:48
There's a 200 bed woman shelter right on Van Sicklin in New Lots.
2:41:53
And, from even speaking to some of the residents that live there, they say there's no services being provided to them.
2:41:59
So I don't know what you're seeing on your level, but it's not trickulating down to the ground of the folks who who are are in the shelters.
2:42:07
Just like the 2 the, 100, and I think, I think it's a 200 bed men's shelter right on Blake, right across on the Betty Shabazz Clinic in East New York.
2:42:17
They they a lot of the residents a lot of residents in there that have mental health issues, but there's some residents in there that don't have mental health issues and want services.
2:42:26
We've had conversations with them, and they're saying that they're not getting the services from the particular service provider.
2:42:32
So what are you doing to make sure, that we're not just, like I I would always say, keeping poor people poor and and and keeping this business as shelter and going and really providing services to the residents so they could become productive.
2:42:48
And even those folks who have mental health issues, what are we doing to assist them to help them?
Molly Wasow Park
2:42:53
Sure.
