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Council member inquires about kinship care empowerment book and program

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Council Member Crystal Hudson asks Professor Carole Cox about the book she referenced in her testimony. Cox shows and describes her book 'Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren' and discusses the success of her empowerment program, including its adaptation to a virtual format during COVID-19.

The book focuses on empowering grandparents who are raising their grandchildren
The program was successfully offered virtually to about 100 grandparents across New York City during the pandemic
Cox emphasizes that older people, including minorities, can effectively use technology, countering common misconceptions

Crystal Hudson

1:29:42

That's okay.

1:29:43

Can you just share the name of the book again that you referenced?

Carole Cox

1:29:46

Yes.

1:29:46

This is Empowering Grandchild Empowering Grandparents.

1:29:50

Can you see it?

Crystal Hudson

1:29:51

Could you hold it back a little bit from your camera?

Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez

1:29:55

Yeah.

Carole Cox

1:29:56

Okay.

1:29:56

We've

Benjamin Driver

1:29:56

got

Carole Cox

1:29:56

it.

1:29:56

Grandparents raising grand.

1:29:58

That was the initial book, but we've done many, many articles on it.

1:30:02

And I just wanted to say that during COVID, the program was taken online and was offered virtually to prob almost, I think, over a hundred grandparents in the city of New York, Five boroughs.

1:30:16

And a virtual program, when we talk about and this I've written about and talked about so much.

1:30:22

Thank you.

1:30:22

When we say that people can older people and particularly older minority people cannot operate technology, it's absolutely nonsense.

1:30:30

They loved it.

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Testimony by Carole Cox, Professor of Social Work at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service