Q&A
Expansion of Know Your Rights workshops and immigrant rights training
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Council Member Jumaane Williams inquires about the expansion of immigrant rights workshops and training for other city agencies. Commissioner Manuel Castro and Chief Policy Advisor Lorena Lucero respond, detailing the expansion of Know Your Rights Workshops and the creation of the Immigrant Rights Collaborative.
- MOIA is expanding Know Your Rights Workshops and exploring ways to amplify this work
- The Immigrant Rights Collaborative involves 12 providers giving 240 additional presentations from January to June 30th
- Trainings will prioritize shelters, faith-based institutions, schools, and libraries
Jumaane Williams
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But before I ask about that, I do wanna ask I know, Moya is, partnered with organizations to provide, and organize, immigrant rights workshops.
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Will the office be expanding and doubling down on those, and will the agency be able to train other city agencies in that regard?
Manuel Castro
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Our Know Your Rights Workshops.
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Yes.
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I don't know if I skipped this over in my testimony because I shortened my my remarks, but, we are expanding, the work that we do with our Know Your Rights Workshops program, I think, in significant ways.
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And we're exploring, other ways to to amplify and and grow that work.
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But, yes, I think this is some of the most critical work that we are engaged in, to make sure that people are empowered with appropriate information, about their rights and what to do, in the event that they are confronted with federal immigration authorities.
Jumaane Williams
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So I just wanna know if the how much RFP is going to if if at all, and are we training other agencies?
Lorena Lucero
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I I see you're watching the Time Public Advocates.
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I'm gonna try to quick, run through this.
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But, we expanded our current program that we have, which is called the immigrant rights workshop through those providers, which were 17.
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We expanded it to create the immigrant rights collaborative.
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It's 12 providers who are gonna be providing trainings From January until June 30th, there's gonna be 240 additional presentations that are gonna be given.
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The biggest difference here is that we are, indicating where these trainings will happen and prioritizing shelters, faith based institutions, schools, and libraries.
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And that's some of the work that that we're doing with the Immigrant Rights Collaborative.