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Council Member Linda Lee's remarks on community organizations and immigrant issues
7:31:07
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Council Member Linda Lee expresses appreciation for various organizations and their culturally competent services. She encourages a social work intern to stay in the field and highlights issues faced by immigrant communities, particularly regarding public assistance benefits.
- Emphasizes the need for more social workers in the field
- Discusses the impact of the 2016 'public charge' incident on immigrant communities
- Mentions ongoing work with the Federation and other organizations to address these issues
Linda Lee
7:31:07
And just wanted to say I know I I'll be very brief because Churchill is gonna cut my head off, because I keep delaying it, but I just want to say I miss being in the trenches with you guys.
7:31:16
I love all your organizations, Amber and the Federation in leading the charge with a lot of these organizations.
7:31:23
So thank you for all of your hard work and offering the culturally competent and linguistically competent services which we so desperately need.
7:31:32
And are you a social work intern for your master's degree?
7:31:35
Okay, please stay in the field.
7:31:37
We need more social workers.
7:31:38
Please don't leave.
7:31:39
We need more social workers, so don't go anywhere.
7:31:42
But I just want to thank all of you guys, like you guys are doing the tremendous work and we love you guys.
7:31:47
So one thing I want to say for the record though is that this happened the last time in 2016 about, and I know this is your former ED, Joanne Yu's point that she makes which is that a lot of our immigrant communities because they were fearful of getting deported, because when that whole public charge incident happened they got off food stamp benefits and a lot of other public assistance and they still have not been able to get back on through HRA and so that's another issue I just wanted to highlight that I know you guys are working on with the Federation as well as your organizations and that's something we need to keep paying attention to so thank you.