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Council member inquires about kinship care empowerment book and program
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Council Member Crystal Hudson asks Professor Carole Cox about the book she referenced in her testimony. Cox shows and describes her book 'Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren' and discusses the success of her empowerment program, including its adaptation to a virtual format during COVID-19.
- The book focuses on empowering grandparents who are raising their grandchildren
- The program was successfully offered virtually to about 100 grandparents across New York City during the pandemic
- Cox emphasizes that older people, including minorities, can effectively use technology, countering common misconceptions
Crystal Hudson
1:29:42
That's okay.
1:29:43
Can you just share the name of the book again that you referenced?
1:29:51
Could you hold it back a little bit from your camera?
Carole Cox
1:29:46
Yes.
1:29:46
This is Empowering Grandchild Empowering Grandparents.
1:29:50
Can you see it?
1:29:56
Okay.
1:29:56
We've
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it.
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Grandparents raising grand.
1:29:58
That was the initial book, but we've done many, many articles on it.
1:30:02
And I just wanted to say that during COVID, the program was taken online and was offered virtually to prob almost, I think, over a hundred grandparents in the city of New York, Five boroughs.
1:30:16
And a virtual program, when we talk about and this I've written about and talked about so much.
1:30:22
Thank you.
1:30:22
When we say that people can older people and particularly older minority people cannot operate technology, it's absolutely nonsense.
1:30:30
They loved it.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
1:29:55
Yeah.
Benjamin Driver
1:29:56
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