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DCWP's outreach efforts and community engagement
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Carlos Ortiz, Assistant Commissioner of External Affairs, details the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection's (DCWP) outreach efforts and community engagement strategies.
- DCWP has conducted about 2,000 outreach events in the past three years
- Approximately 600 of these events had audiences or subject matter directly related to immigrant issues
- The agency emphasizes maintaining relationships with community-based organizations
- DCWP leverages its resources to reach communities that might otherwise lack access to their services
- Ortiz stresses the importance of continuously reinvigorating these community relationships
Carlos Ortiz
0:50:33
I mean I would say also on the outreach side, just to jump in quickly, chair.
0:50:37
I'm sorry.
0:50:38
That in the past three years, we've done about 2,000 outreach events.
0:50:41
I would say 600 of those were with audiences or subject matter that directly pertained or had an immigrant focus.
0:50:50
I think I've for me, it's incredibly essential that the agency maintains relationships with community based organizations that leverages our resources appropriately to to reach into communities that otherwise wouldn't have access to us.
0:51:03
It is an ongoing project.
0:51:04
As the commissioner maintained, we always have to reinvigorate those relationships, but it's something that we're committed to doing and sustaining.
Julie Menin
0:51:11
I mean, one recommendation would be to work with sister agencies, DOE, HRA, where there's going to be a lot of touch points and making sure you're doing a robust advertising campaign that again is disseminated through those sister agencies I think would be really important to do.