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Targets and implementation of Know Your Rights workshops
3:19:51
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3 min
Council Member Avilés inquires about predetermined benchmarks for Know Your Rights workshops in schools and other community settings. MOIA officials discuss their goals and implementation strategies.
- The Immigrant Rights Collaborative aims to complete 240 workshops, prioritizing HERRCs and schools
- MOIA is working with the Department of Education to identify schools with dense immigrant populations and mixed-status families
- Avilés expresses concern about a perceived reduction in Know Your Rights services, particularly in schools
Alexa Avilés
3:19:51
And in terms of Know Your Rights workshops, I know you're gonna send us where they're happening in schools, is there a predetermined number or a benchmark that you're working on in terms of what you want to see happen in community at the various stakeholder groups?
Lorena Lucero
3:20:12
For the IRS, for the Immigrant Rights Collaborative?
Alexa Avilés
3:20:15
For either.
3:20:16
I mean, this is part of the confusion.
3:20:18
Y'all need to change the names and make some clarification here.
3:20:22
But for both, either or.
Lorena Lucero
3:20:25
For the Immigrant Rights Collaborative, and then I'll pass it to Jazz in regards to the immigrant rights workshops.
3:20:31
So the benchmark is our North Star is to complete 240 and to again prioritize hercs and and schools.
3:20:44
I don't have and I think you're looking for a specific percentage here in regarding to the DOE and other sites, but I don't have that in front of me.
3:20:53
But we are again, I think the benchmarks here are to target schools that have immigrant dense immigrant dense neighborhoods but also have students with mixed status population.
Alexa Avilés
3:21:07
Yep.
Lorena Lucero
3:21:07
That they would be better suited at telling us than we are them.
Catherine Gonzalez
3:21:12
So our goal would
Lorena Lucero
3:21:13
be to cover all of them, but we're working with the Department of Education to make that determination.
Alexa Avilés
3:21:20
Got it.
3:21:21
Again, I will tell you in January, we saw we could see Moya's efforts.
3:21:27
In February, not so much.
3:21:30
Really, March, very little.
3:21:34
And it's it's a little concerning.
3:21:36
And we have seen a retraction of actual workshops in schools happening.
3:21:41
And this is not a question of remote or in person.
3:21:44
This is like, this service is not there.
3:21:47
So I'd love to follow-up with you offline on on what is happening here because the on the ground situation is very distinct from what you are articulating.
Manuel Castro
3:21:58
And, Chair, if I can just add.
3:22:01
I think this speaks to some of the challenges when an emergency occurs in the middle of a fiscal year and we have to rapid review response.
3:22:10
And this is part of the work that we've done to adjust to the needs.
3:22:16
And we'll we'll make an assessment of what worked, what didn't work.
3:22:19
We welcome feedback from from council and and our nonprofit partners and providers and community members.
3:22:25
In the meantime, we continue to adjust as things are ever changing with respect to federal policies.
3:22:31
And but if you have seen a, you know, maybe reduction activities is simply because, you know, we're updating and putting out new information and you'll likely see much more.
3:22:44
Some of the a lot of our work that happens occurs through our nonprofit contracted providers which, you know, are doing a lot of work to provide these trainings.
Alexa Avilés
3:22:54
Yeah.