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DCWP commissioner explains current outreach strategies and materials
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Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga explains DCWP's current outreach strategies and materials in response to Council Member Hanif's questions. She discusses the agency's approach to outreach, including days of action, partnerships, and the use of social media.
- DCWP's outreach covers multiple issues, not just immigration services providers
- The agency conducts days of action and partners with various organizations for outreach
- DCWP uses social media (HelloDCWP) to disseminate information
- Specific materials include the Consumer Bill of Rights for immigrants
Vilda Vera Mayuga
1:17:09
Okay thank you, thank you council member.
1:17:12
So our budget is, I apologize because I didn't bring numbers on our outreach team for the budget specifically.
1:17:20
We can certainly circle back with what that is.
1:17:24
It wasn't too long ago we just testified for the budget.
1:17:29
It's not broken down for ISP specifically in terms of outreach.
1:17:35
I think one of the things that we try to do when we do outreach, yes, we'll have days of action like we had recently for this specifically.
1:17:43
And last year, we were having the one on worker bill of rights, right, once we put out that bill of rights that you know based on the legislation passed by this council and we'll have another one of those coming up again closer to the summer.
1:17:57
But generally our outreach will cover a number of issues if not general overviews of the agency because we do want people to try to understand the different things that they can come to us for.
1:18:09
And sometimes it also obviously depends on who we're partnering with if they have a particular area of focus that we want to stress whether it's deliveristas, right, we're gonna make sure that they know about those rules that apply to them or again just making reference to our free tax program.
1:18:24
Okay, these are the things we want you to pay attention but also know these other piece about us generally and try to get people, honestly I try to just get people to follow us on social media because it's the way that information is received by most people, right?
1:18:35
HelloDCWP for anybody who's listening who's not following us yet to please follow us and get information that way.
1:18:43
So there's no specific numbers in terms of outreach for ISPs because it's just all of outreach.
1:18:50
And we can get back to you on what that number is.
Shahana Hanif
1:18:53
So you're saying like every sort of material includes a menu of the services offered or the rights that
Vilda Vera Mayuga
1:19:01
I see.
1:19:01
No, not every we have specific ones, like for example, immigration the Consumer Bill of Rights for immigrants.
1:19:07
That's going to be one thing.
1:19:09
There's obviously a budget that was spent on that in terms of photocopies and distribution of that.
1:19:15
I just don't have the numbers in front
Hannah Strauss
1:19:17
of me.
Carlos Ortiz
1:19:17
Yeah, I would say Yeah, go ahead.