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DCWP's outreach team structure and activities explained
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Carlos Ortiz explains the structure and activities of DCWP's outreach team in response to Council Member Hanif's questions. He describes the team's focus areas and outreach methods.
- The outreach team consists of five members with assigned turf areas
- Team members are assigned based on where they live and their language capacities
- Outreach activities include presentations to captive audiences, direct canvassing, and high visibility events
- Ortiz ranks the priority of outreach methods, with presentations being the highest priority
Shahana Hanif
1:22:28
For the five outreach folks that are on the team, what are their roles?
Carlos Ortiz
1:22:37
They're well, we've broken up that team's kind of ambit to focus on kind of turf areas that they cover.
1:22:46
The turfs really are focused partly a little bit on where they live, but also their language capacity as well.
1:22:52
I think both those things help them facilitating outreach both in the mornings and the evenings and weekends.
Shahana Hanif
1:22:57
And it's like street outreach, like what's the
Carlos Ortiz
1:22:59
So my my preference usually is for folks to be able to do presentations or remarks to captive audiences.
1:23:05
You know, we'll go to your monthly meeting, we'll we'll we'll we'll go to attend an association meeting, things like that.
1:23:12
The second preference I would have then is probably canvassing direct outreach, like meeting folks, you know, at high transit subway hubs, engaging with them with our literature, our worker bill of rights, our consumer tip booklet.
1:23:24
And then also we do high visibility events like tabling, for example.
1:23:27
So I kind of rank order that outreach and that sort of priority myself.
1:23:31
I think it's a way for us to really have dedicated time with New Yorkers because again, to reiterate, I think the work that we do is incredibly essential for folks living in New York City.