AGENCY TESTIMONY
Collaboration with tenant associations and advisory councils
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Ryan Murray emphasizes the importance of collaboration between NYC Aging, NYCHA, tenant associations, and advisory councils in managing Older Adult Centers (OACs) in NYCHA facilities. He explains the roles of these various stakeholders and their impact on OAC operations.
- NYC Aging recognizes the importance of NYCHA's relationship with tenant association presidents (TA presidents)
- OACs are required to maintain advisory councils of older adult participants who hold regular meetings
- In NYCHA facilities, there can be overlap between TA presidents, resident councils, and advisory councils
- TA presidents are viewed as important stakeholders in OAC operations
- NYC Aging looks to TA presidents for support in navigating issues within buildings and advocating for older adults' services
Ryan Murray
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As the PAC program continues to develop through NYCHA, more OACs are involved in those changes, and the approach to those transition is on a site by site basis.
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Additionally, we take seriously NYCHA's relationship to the tenant association presidents or the TA presidents at NYCHA and their commitment to the developments and the community residents who utilize common areas and shared spaces like the OAC.
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As you may remember, NYC aging OACs are required to maintain advisory councils of older adult participants who host regular meetings and hear complaints or suggestions regarding how centers are run and managed.
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In NYCHA facilities, these can be some inevitable overlap between the TA presidents, the resident councils, the advisory councils, all serving older adults in those locations.
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Similar to our partnerships with NYCHA, we view the TA presidents as important stakeholders in our operation at our centers and look to their support navigating issues, whether it's in the buildings, or advocating for older adults for services in the centers more broadly.