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Explanation of BRC's subway outreach process

1:35:45

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Administrator Joslyn Carter explains the process of BRC's outreach in the subway system. The outreach is conducted 24 hours a day, focusing on end lines and subway stations with high numbers of homeless individuals.

  • BRC operates in subways 24/7
  • Outreach focuses on end lines and high-density stations
  • DHS team conducts ride-alongs to monitor the process
Kevin C. Riley
1:35:45
Can you explain the process of BRC going out to the subways and doing outreach?
Molly Wasow Park
1:35:50
Sure.
1:35:51
Administrator Carter, you want to speak to the details?
1:35:53
Thank
Joslyn Carter
1:35:55
you, council member.
1:35:57
BRC is in the subways twenty four hours a day just engaging those who are experiencing homelessness underground.
1:36:06
And so, they are both at end lines and at subway stations where they rotate through based on in terms of the numbers that we're getting.
1:36:16
We look at where we're seeing high numbers of those who are homelessness who are homeless on the ground.
1:36:22
My team is out just doing ride alongs just because of that that report that came out in 2017.
Kevin C. Riley
1:36:28
Do you typically see more homelessness towards the end of a subway
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