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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

6:30 PM · 1h 46m
Topics tracked across meetings:
Human Services Grants - Quarterly Report (I) 2/3
Culture-Specific Human Services Organizations Presentations (I) 2/2
Section
Topic
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
Commissioner Membership
packet pp.3
Topics: Boards & Commissions
Staff report:
HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION Staff Liaison Hannah Roberts, Human About Services Coordinator Created in 2007, this commission advises the Email Hannah Mayor and City Council on matters concerning human services planning and funding. The commission plays a vital role in studying Regular Members emerging issues and concerns in the human 2024 – Huma Mohibullah services area to ensure that the basic survival 2025 – Madeline Fish needs of Issaquah residents are met and that 2025 - Trish Bloor support systems are in place to help people 2026 – Maury Edwards through economic and personal crisis. Each 2026 - Manny Brown year, the commission focuses on its workplan. 2027 - Jaime Fajardo 2027 – Keena Esemuede
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
3a
Minutes of October 18th, 2023
packet pp.5–6
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 10-18-23 Human Services Commission Minutes
4. AGENDA ITEMS
4a
Culture-Specific Human Services Organizations Presentations (I)
Director of Community Wellness and Social · 60 min · Faye Chien, Kin On Health Care Center - · packet pp.7–8
Topics: EquityArts & Culture
Staff report:
As a part of the 2023 Human Services Workplan, Commissioners are to conduct on-site visits to learn more about the funded Human Services organizations. Culture-specific organizations that applied to the 2023-2024 Human Services Grant have been prioritized for a site visit by the Human Services Commission. The goal of the visit is to learn about the work conducted by our community partners and to build authentic connections and relationships. Some visits may be scheduled during a special programing offered by the organization, some others may be scheduled at a time that works best for the staff/volunteers of the organizations and the Commissioners' schedule. All commissioners are invited to attend and lead Commissioner will provide a report out of their visit.
CEO
b
Human Services Grants - Quarterly Report (I)
10 min · Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator · packet pp.9–23
Topics: BudgetEquity
Staff report:
Provide an update on the Human Services Grants
5. REPORTS
5a
Chair and Commissioner Reports
Topics: Boards & Commissions
5b
Youth Report
packet pp.25
Staff report:
• City Council Regular Meeting – January 16th, 2024 • Human Services staff will provide an informational update regarding the Emergency Housing Program and Behavioral Health Program co-response.
5c
Staff Report
0:04 all right okay
0:07 okay I am going to call the um isal
0:10 Human Service Services Commission
0:13 meeting of November 15th to
0:16 order and um you do we have any public
0:21 comments that either came in by email or
0:24 however um yes we well we do not have
0:27 any public comments for today um however
0:29 I just want to note here um some
0:31 commissioner absence so we have um Kuma
0:35 um who is gone um this evening for an
0:37 excuse absent and we have um Rucker who
0:41 is online joining us who is present here
0:45 um also uh Preston was not able to make
0:47 it our youth representative and then Hae
0:50 is on his
0:52 way that should be everyone thank you
0:55 I'll remember to give you space no no no
0:57 that's totally fine and then sorry I
0:59 want to also know not here too we have
1:01 um Kayla who is our Human Services
1:03 intern who's also joining us online
1:05 great Anyan I hear
1:07 it other do it in turn absolutely great
1:11 wonderful okay so the next thing on the
1:13 agenda is approval of the October 18th
1:18 minutes does anybody want to make a
1:21 motion I motion that we approve the
1:23 October minutes anybody want a second
1:27 second is there any discussion
1:30 okay everybody that approved say
1:33 I anybody doesn't
1:36 approve okay looks like they passed
1:40 unanimously thank
1:42 you we're moving right into our agenda
1:45 items culture specific Human
1:48 Services and I'm GNA hand it to you yes
1:52 okay well thank you everyone U we are
1:54 excited to invite some of our Human
1:56 Services um nonprofit organizations um
2:00 just to kind of remind folks uh the uh
2:03 early on this year one of the work plan
2:05 items as a commission was to um to start
2:09 visiting some of these organizations or
2:11 have some presentations to learn more
2:12 about these organizations since we fund
2:15 42 programs we figured it'd be hard to
2:17 see all of them so as a commission we
2:19 all decided um that we'd focus on the
2:21 cultural specific organizations that
2:24 applied whether they received munding or
2:26 not through isqua um to learn more about
2:29 their organ orations and so this evening
2:31 we are inviting um some of those
2:33 organizations we are looking forward to
2:35 learning more about uh their services
2:38 how um they serve isoa residents um and
2:41 it's an opportunity for you to also ask
2:44 questions so I just want to invite you
2:45 all um as uh they do their presentation
2:48 um to leave your questions till the end
2:51 um so with that I am going to welcome
2:54 our first presentation uh we have B
2:57 jeene from Ken on healthc Care Center
3:01 um if you um f if you want to go ahead
3:04 and share your screen now we'd love for
3:06 you yourself and and say
3:09 hi okay hi everyone good evening hello
3:15 can you see me can you see the screen
3:17 you can see you and your
3:19 PowerPoints okay you can right yeah yes
3:23 okay um do you want me to start now yeah
3:26 you're good to go okay hi everyone so
3:30 it's good to meet everyone here tonight
3:32 um my name is uh F Chan I'm the wellness
3:36 and social service director at K kin on
3:39 healthc care center and um so this is
3:42 the agenda for tonight is very simple
3:46 okay okay so uh first of all I just want
3:50 to uh share about this uh kinon
3:53 continent of care so as you know we are
3:55 healthc Care Center we provide a whole
3:58 range of services to um seniors so uh we
4:02 have residential option including Adult
4:04 Family Home assistant living and skill
4:07 nursing and we have short-term medical
4:10 rehabilit Rehabilitation to help people
4:13 recover after surgery and we have
4:16 assistant uh to help people live
4:18 successfully at home and also we give uh
4:21 opportunity to uh for people to
4:23 volunteer and um give uh to support U
4:27 the community and U but tonight want to
4:30 focus more on the uh education um and
4:33 classes to help um senior to stay active
4:36 and informed because my department uh is
4:38 doing this part um here and um this is
4:42 our vision for my department uh we want
4:45 to build the best Asian senior Healthy
4:47 Living Community in Washington state and
4:51 our clients are all Asian seniors and um
4:54 how do we do that we uh use Healthy
4:56 Living programs and Social Services to
4:59 achieve that and first of all I want to
5:01 talk about Healthy Living
5:03 Program so Kon Healthy Living Program
5:06 aims to keep adult age 50 plus socially
5:10 mentally and physically active and
5:12 engaged as they age and we provide this
5:15 uh activity uh in person in two location
5:19 um in Seattle in Belleville but we also
5:22 have lots of online classes so um during
5:24 Co time uh many people stay online to
5:27 join our classes and it still go on
5:30 okay and um this are these are some of
5:33 our classes uh here so we have Fitness
5:36 wellness program um
5:39 technology um health education Workshop
5:43 um art and craft social events and
5:46 Medicare
5:48 okay and our next slide so here I just
5:51 want to uh yeah one of our fitness
5:54 program is called enhan Fitness it is a
5:57 lowcost evident based group exercise and
6:00 force prevention program that helps
6:02 older adult at all level uh of Fitness
6:05 become more active energize and
6:09 Empower and um over 99% of participants
6:13 say they would recommend enhan to a
6:15 friend um this program is proven to
6:18 improve physical function decrease
6:21 depression protect against false and for
6:24 injury provide a social benefit promote
6:27 a health Physically Active life
6:29 lifestyle reduce Medical Care
6:32 utilization costs decrease unplaned
6:35 Hospital
6:36 hospitalization decreased mortality
6:39 rates and um Grace is one of our
6:42 participant this is her story I just
6:44 want to share with you guys uh she
6:46 attended and handness uh with us uh for
6:49 the past five years and has witnessed
6:52 tremendous improvements in her overall
6:54 health and physical well-being she told
6:57 us proudly that her daughter was amaz
7:00 by The increased density in her uh 81
7:03 year old bones she even encouraged her
7:06 six brothers and sisters who are all 70
7:08 plus year old to
7:11 join um so the next um surface we want
7:15 to I want to share is social services so
7:18 we helped we help seniors and um and the
7:21 family members caring for them okay and
7:24 um so we provide family caregivers
7:25 Support Program uh we do assessment
7:29 caregivers and Care recipient care and
7:32 we also do um care planning and
7:35 consultation information and referral
7:37 services we uh provide caregiver
7:40 education Alzheimer and dimension
7:43 support C Counseling in home care
7:46 service and um our this all the services
7:49 are provided by our social worker they
7:51 are all bilingual and um and for this
7:55 program uh it's free for those who are
7:57 18 plus and caring for someon and uh but
7:59 they are not being
8:01 compensated and uh and also we provide
8:04 um lots of evident based workshop for
8:07 example chronic disease self management
8:09 class hypertension class diabetes self
8:12 management class and um aging Mastery
8:14 this is a new one we just started um
8:19 recently and um just want to share with
8:22 you this is Peter story so he is one of
8:24 our um participant who joined our
8:27 program family caregiver support program
8:29 and this is what he said um he said um
8:32 Family caregiver support program has
8:34 provided him with support which is
8:36 needed to find resources such as
8:38 affordable housing Health Care Providers
8:41 and rental assistance he really
8:43 appreciate kenon staff as they are
8:45 compassionate knowledgeable and
8:48 efficient and also want to share with
8:50 you uh some of the event we have we had
8:53 this year so Kenan had two public event
8:56 um one is the Luna New Year celebration
8:59 C ation in February and also Senior Day
9:02 in August so so some just want to share
9:06 with you some of the picture and
9:07 highlight so this is a Luna New Year
9:10 celebration in febrary so you can see we
9:13 have lion
9:14 dance and um we we have performances uh
9:19 um and uh we have some um cultural um
9:23 activity to celebrate in the new
9:26 year so uh for the kenon senior day we
9:30 hosted in rman this year uh so over 300
9:35 people came so this is
9:37 a so we have uh performances here um so
9:42 over 300 people came and we have senior
9:45 uh people are performing on that day um
9:48 they they really like it
9:50 yeah and um also some fun activity like
9:54 um painting colorography
9:56 and uh we also have information Booth
9:59 host by um some um nonprofit
10:02 organization and um other government
10:05 agency um they came and um gave
10:07 information to um to the public to um
10:10 many
10:12 seniors and also we have some we have
10:15 Workshop um and also I remember we have
10:18 uh injection Booth um we collaborate
10:21 with uh ICS they came and um gave um cob
10:25 shot to our seniors on that day too
10:28 yeah also want to mention some of the
10:30 collaboration we have right now um this
10:33 is quite new we recently collaborate
10:36 with B Min City Hall to provide
10:38 one-on-one Tech help to the community
10:41 and um also with the north B Community
10:43 Center to give our evidence based
10:45 Workshop in the community and we we are
10:48 we were already trained by UDA memory
10:50 Hub to raise public awareness of the
10:53 manip and we are working with
10:55 Alzheimer's Association to increase
10:57 awareness and understanding of of
10:59 Alzheimer dementia in Asian
11:02 Community um these are the some of the
11:04 numbers in um
11:06 2022 so we have 378 active members and
11:12 14,25 to participant join our programs
11:15 and uh
11:16 1,818 classes provided and
11:20 273.5 hours spent by our 49 volunteers
11:24 and now 102 individuals receive family
11:27 caregivers support
11:29 so this is about all um thank you for
11:32 listening um if you have any question
11:35 let me know thank you thank
11:39 you thanks B
11:44 thanks wonderful Commissioners do you
11:46 have any any questions for B about
11:50 wonderful thank you he I'm curious about
11:52 how potential um people how people find
11:55 out about your
11:57 organization uh actually we we uh we
11:59 have a website and also I because we do
12:04 lots of Workshop um at different
12:06 locations so this is how people know
12:08 about us also by Word of Mouth um I
12:10 think most of the Asian seniors kind of
12:13 know about us King on because we are the
12:16 I I have to say we are the only um Asian
12:20 um nursing home and Assistant Living
12:22 Home in Washington state and um yeah and
12:26 um yeah beside a nursing home we also
12:28 Prov
12:29 um Community Wellness so we my
12:32 department is kind of doing the Outreach
12:34 so we we are trying to partner with um
12:36 different city like um city of
12:39 Belleville city of Seattle yeah so
12:41 that's how people get to know us and
12:43 also I um personally me and my
12:45 co-workers we attended many many uh
12:48 fairs recently um you know like the
12:50 government fairs um so we have boo yeah
12:53 we host booth there so provide to
12:55 provide information yeah I hope I answer
12:58 your question yeah hey myy Edwards here
13:02 um I'm wondering if you have any
13:04 demographics on how many people are
13:06 coming from isqua Valley uh that are
13:08 using your uh facilities yeah good
13:12 question so I don't have the number on
13:14 top of my head um but you know um the
13:17 number I share is kind of um including
13:21 uh people on the east side you know
13:23 bellev um Redmond isqua even s mamish
13:26 and Seattle so I don't have the
13:28 breakdown right now I can go back and
13:31 double check but um you know um because
13:33 of the limitation of uh our funding
13:36 resource if we can you know get more
13:39 funding from the city of isqua I mean we
13:42 can kind of um come to ISA quu to
13:45 provide some kind of activity and
13:47 workshop right now we are only providing
13:50 activity in person in um to location
13:52 Seattle and Beville so I believe maybe
13:55 some came and also some stay online to
13:57 join our program programs thank
14:04 you thank you f
14:07 um uh I have two questions if I you
14:10 don't mind yeah yeah yeah um the first
14:13 one is um so I appreciate the the
14:16 willingness to come to isapa um have you
14:20 connected at all with our senior center
14:22 ever um in the in the past uh not yet
14:26 but I'm this is my plan I'm because
14:28 quite new to this role I just started
14:30 working um at ginon in January so my
14:34 plan is to uh come to isqua you know to
14:37 connect to um seniors in isqua yeah
14:41 actually we have connection with
14:42 samamish already yeah we are providing
14:45 services to City of sish yeah because we
14:48 got a grand you know a small Grand from
14:49 the city of sish so yeah yeah well
14:53 that's something to consider if you are
14:54 interested in in moving some Services
14:57 into isqua um in the future I would love
14:59 to get you connected with our senior
15:01 center staff they we have a very active
15:04 Senior Center I'm always impressed with
15:06 the um just the wonderful events that
15:09 they have um the different activities
15:11 that they have so I can see a great
15:13 partnership there if if there's future
15:15 services in a squa um then the other
15:18 thing I wanted to more so statement
15:20 wanted to invite you um to we often have
15:24 two resource spares throughout the year
15:26 awesome I would be knowing that you like
15:29 to do boo I'll be sure to add you to our
15:32 information but usually they are in July
15:35 um a chalk art event as well as um in
15:39 September during the welcome week event
15:41 so I'll be sure to include you in that
15:43 communication okay that will that would
15:45 be awesome really appreciate that yeah
15:47 thank you thanks Commissioners I
15:49 appreciate that time any other questions
15:51 for
15:53 Fay okay wonderful well we really
15:56 appreciate your time great presentation
15:58 um um and uh we will I'm sure we'll be
16:01 in touch soon yeah stay connected thank
16:04 you Hannah really appreciate that yeah
16:06 thank you for coming you thank you thank
16:08 you
16:09 fa all right wonderful okay give me just
16:13 a minute I'm gonna have our next
16:18 presenter transition her to
16:21 presenter
16:23 um all right uh well next we have Laura
16:27 from isqua Foundation um so hi Laura we
16:31 can see you um you should have access
16:34 now to sharing your screen if you want
16:36 to introduce yourself and feel free to
16:39 um start whenever you're ready okay
16:41 thank you just trying to see how sure I
16:45 share my screen can you see my screen
16:49 that's great yeah okay hi everyone my
16:52 name is Laura ni I am uh the current ISF
16:56 isqua schools Foundation culture Bri
16:58 Bridges lead editor um I don't know if
17:02 any of you ever heard of culture Bridges
17:06 uh programs from isqua school Foundation
17:09 um so a little bit so first let me
17:13 introduce myself a little bit um I'm
17:15 actually born and grow up in Shanghai
17:18 China um but I came to us to uh study my
17:22 undergraduate and master in Michigan um
17:25 my major is in computer science and AI
17:27 data retrieval and I work for a online
17:31 content retrieval company for uh daily
17:34 publishing um as a retrieval manager for
17:37 eight years um after that I'm right
17:41 mostly involved in the PTA board work as
17:46 well as right now I'm on different board
17:48 uh PTSA board and also um be the member
17:52 of the council board um I started work
17:56 with Alysia our previous uh former
17:59 cultureal Bridges manager um at 2020 and
18:04 mainly to focusing on as the magazine
18:07 editing and the publishing
18:10 job so
18:12 um our is aqua School District
18:16 demographic on the past 20 years the the
18:20 the demographic is dramatically change
18:23 um from like
18:25 2002 we have 85 white students versus 15
18:29 students of color but right now 2020
18:33 based on 2022 23 data uh we now have 42
18:38 white students versus 80 58 students of
18:41 color so that means um and it's about
18:45 like 30% of families actually in issaqua
18:48 are not born in us um they are foreign
18:52 born so the um the the needs to share
18:57 the re resource like isaka Community
19:00 Resources and uh isaka School District
19:03 information to all those uh families
19:06 with different culture is really
19:09 necessary and really
19:13 important so about the culture Bridges
19:17 uh at the beginning it's really started
19:19 with two um two latino
19:23 families um they want to help their um
19:27 Spanish families to understand uh what's
19:31 the resources existing in the isqua and
19:34 also uh what um what's the programs and
19:37 what the uh School looks like in the
19:39 issaqua school district so I don't want
19:42 to go through all this uh detail uh
19:45 history but want to let you know uh this
19:48 is like starting 2013 and then
19:51 2014 we started with Spanish and English
19:55 uh magazines um and then we expanded to
19:59 four different languages and we start to
20:02 have three Bim monly Spanish English
20:05 magazine um and then we expanded again
20:09 to have 2018 start
20:12 2018 we have six different languages to
20:15 provide it to our isaka school district
20:18 families um and we started to provide
20:21 one annual family guide to talk tell
20:24 people about isqua school district uh
20:26 programs and a school system system and
20:28 then two quarterly Maxine uh with six
20:32 language versions so and then also at
20:35 the same time we helped issaqua School
20:38 District uh to build up all those uh
20:42 family events um to help all those
20:45 families from different countries to uh
20:49 come to our Workshop to come to our
20:51 events and we provide uh translations
20:55 and um to help them to understand what's
20:58 the difference different programs that
21:01 provided um to navigate the isaka school
21:05 district more frequently and then
21:07 easily
21:09 um and 2020 we added one more language
21:14 in our uh magazine which is Japanese
21:19 because the uh we realized the um the
21:22 population the Japanese population is
21:25 increased uh by that year um so so we
21:29 added uh become seven different
21:32 languages uh we still publish three quot
21:35 magazines um and that year also it's the
21:39 pandemic year uh we still help esaka
21:43 School District hosting 14 different
21:46 Zoom events um and then providing uh
21:50 translations uh help the people to
21:53 supporting the vaccination clinics to
21:56 different culture groups
21:58 um and last year
22:02 2022 we actually uh adding one more
22:06 Arabic language in our magazine um and
22:10 now and then we published three quely
22:14 magazines with eight different languages
22:16 plus one family guide e family guide uh
22:20 about isaka school district at the same
22:22 times we do still expand to help with
22:26 the isoa school District Family
22:29 Partnership team uh with 20 plus events
22:33 um and help to host it at lowincome
22:36 communities like Spanish uh communities
22:39 or any other lowincome
22:43 communities and right now uh we have
22:46 eight different editors and one cover
22:49 designer and myself we publish all the
22:53 magazines online um and talking about uh
22:57 all different
22:59 isaa Community Resources from different
23:02 um organizations and also we publish um
23:06 the school programs and then family need
23:11 um information like mental health all
23:13 those information we translated into
23:17 eight different languages as you can see
23:20 this is our this year's family guide um
23:23 on the right side and this is our uh
23:26 most recent
23:28 cb25 issues which talking about from
23:31 mental health to the middle school
23:34 programs and to uh special
23:37 education and also to the PTSA programs
23:41 so including so many different
23:45 things um as for for the um culture
23:49 navigation and one-on-one support in the
23:52 past couple years we do have supported
23:56 so many families about like 2021
24:00 2022 we supported about uh
24:05 300 um families uh with 30 minutes call
24:08 each year um this year from January to
24:13 June we still have about 27 family calls
24:18 um to different families however because
24:22 uh alysus uh leaving and then she has
24:25 her own nonprofit organization to uh
24:30 supporting the family espcially
24:32 supporting those families uh we decided
24:35 as the esaa school Foundation we no
24:38 longer do one-on-one support to the
24:41 family and also um because the ISD have
24:45 all their family Le on so we decided and
24:49 no longer do do the oneon-one support
24:52 anymore um but we still help uh
24:56 supporting the ISD family events
24:59 annually we H uh help with 15 to 20 plus
25:03 events and we reach almost two Southern
25:07 families around the district and based
25:10 on the uh current EVP data um the
25:14 language preference other than English
25:16 the family selected um they're uh about
25:20 like
25:21 400 spanishs speaking families 300
25:25 Chinese
25:26 families 20 Korean families and 70
25:30 Russian families um we know we all know
25:33 this number is really not much lower
25:36 than the reality um but that is just
25:39 give you a Insight that the there is a
25:43 need to uh spr to to uh spreading the
25:47 words to different language into
25:50 different language and supporting all
25:53 those different groups in our isqua
25:56 community so um for almost as I said
26:01 just said for almost eight years culture
26:03 Bridges has supported ISD family events
26:06 and help with hundreds of individual
26:09 families and we are actually as the
26:12 isaka school Foundation uh we we're the
26:15 a pilot program and work closely with
26:19 ISD while the ISD doesn't really have
26:22 any cultural and uh Family Partnership
26:26 department but now now uh with isaka
26:29 school district has its own cultural and
26:31 Family Partnership team and they they
26:34 they are um pretty mature and their
26:37 family event has been expanded and well
26:40 known um as well as their their three
26:43 Leon are actively working with ISD
26:47 families so um as the isqua schools
26:50 Foundation like other pilot programs we
26:53 want to reduce the Redundant work so
26:56 culture bridg just um right now we
26:59 revisit our mission and goal and decided
27:03 to discontinue with the oneon-one
27:05 support and put our Focus back on the
27:09 online magazine publishing and but we
27:12 want to be continue to be a resource for
27:15 all the family in isaka school district
27:18 and isqua Community to to be able to
27:22 understand uh the district more more and
27:26 um navigations through the isqua um
27:31 school system and also all those
27:33 Community
27:34 Resources um in multiple languages in
27:38 eight different languages so um and up
27:42 we also continue work closely with isoka
27:46 school district F uh cultural and Family
27:48 Partnership team and supporting their
27:51 event family events um by helping
27:54 broadcasting to different culture groups
27:57 as well as um support physically
28:00 supporting them um showing some uh the
28:04 the the translation
28:05 work um culture Bridges we also continue
28:09 publishing the Community Resources from
28:12 isaka communities and then um before
28:18 2022 we actually uh have lots of P
28:22 printing out all the languages in their
28:24 paper copy um we and we actually print
28:29 uh over
28:31 4002 uh
28:33 4,250 copies uh 2, in English 1, in
28:38 Spanish 1, Chinese 250 in Korean 250
28:43 Russian and V Vietnamese uh Japanese and
28:47 Arabic uh we send all those copies to
28:51 ISD all the ISD schools and all the uh
28:55 English language learners ERS will get
28:58 our printed magazine by their own
29:01 languages or their preferred languages
29:04 and we also sending the uh paper copy to
29:07 community centers libraries
29:09 international stores um the the magazine
29:13 also distributed in all the family
29:16 events so we the partnership the
29:20 district cultural and Family Partnership
29:23 liazon also help us to give the Maxine
29:26 to the families that they ex uh assist
29:29 um the
29:31 PTSA face Co coordinators from all the
29:35 schools district magazines in the events
29:38 that they offer for new parents and for
29:40 their cultural and international fairs
29:43 so but unfortunately we are now only
29:47 published we stopped printing the paper
29:49 copy um and then we only published on
29:53 our online version since uh the end of
29:56 last year um however we feel like the
29:59 online version can spread more um expand
30:03 it more and then attract more audience
30:06 um than we actually the paper copies can
30:09 go to so in the past six months the uh
30:13 our online version has over um 90,000
30:18 Impressions and over 12 s reads for our
30:24 whatever the magazines or the articles
30:27 and we can we have the ability to send
30:30 in all this online version to the ISD
30:34 communication departments all different
30:37 uh language learner team um different
30:40 District team as well as um or the
30:44 community library we can still send in
30:46 uh to the libraries to the
30:48 communities um and then we using the
30:51 social medium to reach out to different
30:53 culture
30:55 groups and current ly um our publishing
30:59 cycle uh we have we still publish three
31:03 quarter quarterly ma online version
31:07 magazines and one yearly family guides
31:11 so the cycle with allocation of time is
31:14 for me is 20 hours per week and our
31:18 editors actually work uh more than 30
31:21 hours per per issues to help us
31:25 translating into eight different
31:29 languages and as you can see uh we still
31:33 uh work with all those Community
31:36 Partners and resources we publishing um
31:40 their information their events and their
31:43 activities um in our magazines and we
31:46 help um advertise their um programs and
31:52 we help people we publish the article
31:55 about them and in the Vine to help
31:58 different culture groups to understand
32:01 um and realize this is there is a
32:03 resources um in our
32:09 community thank you um this is my
32:11 presentation thank you so much if do you
32:14 have any
32:16 [Music]
32:19 questions yeah Lauren thank you for your
32:21 presentation this is uh Manny Brown um
32:24 your funding is it only through the city
32:27 do you get anything from state or or uh
32:30 federal or what so um so for the culture
32:34 Bridges we only right now we only got
32:38 the funding from isaka City of
32:41 isaka but for the ISF we do uh have
32:46 other grants opportunity but the just
32:48 for the culture Bridges uh we we right
32:52 now we only um have the funding grants
32:55 from the city of isqua
33:01 thank
33:02 you um Laura this is Trish I just have a
33:06 general question you know um you know
33:09 and we've been hearing this a lot how
33:11 International our community has become
33:14 over the years now is isqua any
33:18 different than any of our neighboring
33:22 communities yes so um as I say as I just
33:26 mentioned there is actually in isaka
33:29 there's about 30% of families are not
33:31 born in us which is means like foreign
33:34 born this is the number actually
33:36 relatively higher much higher than our
33:40 neighboring uh communities if you see
33:43 the King County um statistics the number
33:47 of King County uh our number actually is
33:49 surprisingly higher than others ah
33:55 interesting thank you
34:01 yeah go for it yeah this is Manny again
34:04 um now you mentioned that the school
34:07 districts started their own cultural
34:09 Foundation is that no the it's it's just
34:13 really it's the um it's called cultural
34:15 and Family Partnership team which uh
34:19 mostly they deal with is uh to help the
34:23 new families that um
34:28 that uh registered to the isqua school
34:32 district to um help them to uh enroll or
34:38 understanding how to how to enroll isaka
34:41 school district and uh how to navigate
34:45 programs and you know they they just do
34:48 the oneon-one the liazon do the
34:50 one-on-one uh to help each families and
34:54 then they their events is talking mostly
34:56 talking about is what's the programs
34:59 that District provided and to let them
35:02 understanding better what is the uh
35:05 school system looks like um so it's
35:08 really different um focus they mostly is
35:14 focusing on their um school um families
35:20 that attending their schools but for
35:22 cultureal Bridges we want to really uh
35:25 our targeting population is the entire
35:28 not only the ISD but entire isqua
35:34 communities thank you I asked a question
35:36 because um I was just wondering why
35:38 there were was redundancy in that area
35:41 but you cleared that up thank
35:43 you is that group that you're talking
35:47 about is that under the equity yes yeah
35:50 under theity yes it's it's really um so
35:55 that's a say like uh culture Bridges
35:57 really helped them to help the district
36:00 to started this Equity department and
36:03 started this uh cultural and Family
36:06 Partnership team uh we actually work
36:09 together very closely together to build
36:12 up this team and make it more mature and
36:16 now it looks like very you know
36:19 everybody would they have so they have
36:21 three leasons they know how to uh help
36:24 the families so that as the our our
36:27 culture Bridges we really want to do as
36:31 and and also it's meet our uh
36:34 foundations goal is to facing the entire
36:37 Community all the families so and our um
36:42 we say based on the budget and then all
36:44 this um this like the everything like to
36:48 control the budgeting and also um to um
36:52 maximize the efforts for the this Maxine
36:56 uh we want to really uh really put more
37:00 efforts on the magazine to help uh all
37:04 the families in the community and we
37:07 know there is a need for them um to
37:11 understand or to how to navigate to tell
37:14 them how to where is the resources
37:16 Community Resources they can find in
37:19 their own
37:25 language Laura Mor Edwards here um I'm
37:28 wondering how do we access if we want to
37:30 look at the
37:31 magazines is there a website we go to
37:34 Yes uh so we H we have a website under
37:38 uh isqua School Foundation main website
37:41 uh if you navigate uh to their ISF DN
37:45 website and there is a program if you
37:47 click the program uh menu there is a
37:50 cultureal Bridges web page there and
37:52 also you can like us on the Facebook um
37:56 and and also on the
37:58 Instagram thank you um commissioner s is
38:03 access to this magazine free or is there
38:06 a charge associated with everything is
38:09 free so everybody can access our
38:12 magazines uh any anybody that uh they
38:16 can understand all those eight languages
38:18 they can access our magazine without any
38:21 cost okay thank you yes and then the
38:24 same um the I want to also so right now
38:27 just share a really small story um like
38:31 our when I say I I want all the uh
38:34 everybody every families to realize this
38:37 is a really great resource for them um
38:40 there is one day when in the WeChat
38:43 group one one Chinese parent asking in
38:46 the group uh what's one of the um the
38:50 the curiculum the flash curriculum
38:52 what's the curric flash curriculum um
38:56 that ISD offered and to my surprise the
39:00 other parent Chinese parent refer
39:03 culture Bridges article culture Bridges
39:06 one of culture Bridge magazing article
39:08 flesh in Chinese to that parents so that
39:13 that is really something that um I see
39:16 as the the goal is to let those people
39:21 can use can use their language to tell
39:26 their
39:27 Community this there is a resource
39:30 available in our
39:34 community thank you Laura what a great
39:37 example really appreciate the
39:38 information as uh the foundation
39:41 cultural Bridges has gone through some
39:43 transition so I really appreciate that
39:45 thank you thanks yes there's anything
39:48 else for
39:50 Laura very informative thank Youk you
39:53 Laura thank you thank you so much thank
39:55 you it's my pleasure thanks all right
39:59 and very timely we have Lita joining us
40:02 from Indian American excuse me Community
40:06 Services welcome how are you
40:08 tonight I'm doing well thank you so much
40:11 Hannah for inviting me and hello
40:13 everyone I'm Lita opala as Hannah
40:16 mentioned I've met some of you at North
40:19 Bellview Community Center I think when
40:21 you visited our program I go by she her
40:24 and um it's an honor to be here here and
40:27 I'm here to talk to you a little bit
40:29 about uh the indian-american Immigrant
40:32 Refugee Community uh particularly the
40:35 community that does uh come from the
40:38 city of isaka and uh thank you so much
40:41 for uh supporting our work with uh
40:44 providing support services for seniors
40:46 for women for youth in our community for
40:49 providing that support for our cultural
40:51 navigation as well as the mental health
40:54 and small business work that we do and
40:56 Hannah if I can have that
40:59 presentation uh for the group here thank
41:06 you
41:10 great so and we can go to the next slide
41:13 Hannah thank you um and actually just a
41:15 little bit on our mission we are an a
41:18 community- based organization that is 39
41:22 years uh of service in the in King
41:25 County providing both services for our
41:27 community um 35 of those 39 years we a
41:31 volunteer run 100% and it has only been
41:35 in the last four or five years that we
41:37 have really stepped up to capacity build
41:40 uh I am the first executive director for
41:42 that organization and we have uh four
41:46 other people on staff as well as a few
41:49 contractors who are there part-time
41:51 along with our many instructors for our
41:53 wellness program and Hannah if we can
41:56 move to the next slide so I just want to
41:59 give you uh this these are our 2022
42:02 numbers of course and uh wanted to give
42:05 you just a brief perspective on who we
42:07 are and how we are the
42:10 onetop safe space for our community uh
42:14 to reach out to because we operate out
42:17 of uh different popup centers uh we
42:20 don't have a community center of our own
42:23 we do have our office that is based in
42:27 together center Redmond and um we
42:30 operate on um different days of the week
42:33 in this different cities uh from
42:35 Belleview to Redmond
42:37 samamish uh we have a Far East presence
42:40 with isaaa center and mount Sai and um
42:44 we also operate one day Twi two days in
42:47 a month in the City of Kent and uh that
42:51 is how we have discovered that we can
42:54 have a daily touch point with with our
42:56 community we also provide Outreach uh to
42:59 the community through a welcome desk in
43:01 the Redmond Library as well as in um
43:05 Crossroads Mall on Wednesdays and uh
43:08 Outreach really provides us those uh
43:12 connections and helps us build trust
43:14 with our community the other part being
43:17 we are our staff is 100% Community run
43:21 our board is 100% from our community and
43:24 extremely diverse with uh two young
43:27 adults from the second generation that
43:29 we have and uh uh we have lgbtq senior
43:34 as well as uh uh women and small
43:37 business representation in our board um
43:40 so looking at who we what kind of
43:42 services we provide we go from Early
43:44 Childhood to youth to women's career
43:47 services and Senior Support Services we
43:50 are centered on wellness and a lot of
43:54 the work that we do is uh to connect
43:57 with Community by providing Wellness
43:59 programs by offering mental health
44:01 support groups and uh culturally nuanced
44:05 uh systems of mental health support by
44:07 offering free legal clinics um as well
44:11 as uh support for our domestic violence
44:14 clients uh doing a lot of emergency rent
44:17 assistance and basic needs as well as
44:21 vocational training to women in our
44:23 community and uh addressing the needs F
44:26 seniors from isolation to health
44:29 insurance and
44:31 Transportation uh to really connecting
44:33 an intergenerational programming with uh
44:36 uh offering program for Early Childhood
44:38 as well as the youth in the same as well
44:40 as our seniors in the same space uh with
44:44 our youth we have um a youth program
44:48 that's year round that meets on a weekly
44:51 basis on weekends and uh the youth
44:54 participate in leing leadership and uh
44:57 training projects they do a lot of
44:59 mental health uh first aid programming
45:02 they work with on peer tutoring uh where
45:06 they do tutor they reach across to the
45:08 4C Coalition and work with uh our black
45:12 uh youth in providing peer tutoring
45:15 program and they learn from each other
45:17 with that uh so each um year our youth
45:21 actually design their leadership program
45:23 and they identify the area of advocacy
45:27 and the areas of leadership they would
45:29 like to train in part of the reason we
45:31 do that is we want that Weekly touch
45:34 point with our youth because we want to
45:37 identify what are the gaps in supporting
45:40 our youth do they know where the
45:42 resources for mental health support are
45:45 do they know what kind of dinner table
45:47 conversations they want to have at their
45:49 family tables uh do they understand how
45:52 to Broach that conversation on gender
45:55 and on lgbtq and mental health or
45:59 academic peer pressure how do they bring
46:02 that up at home and where are those
46:04 resources that their parents can turn to
46:07 um so there's a lot of nuanced work that
46:10 happens by having those daily touch
46:14 points through social programming or
46:16 cultural programming that we provide and
46:19 um with that we actually have a network
46:22 of uh um mental health provider who are
46:26 from our community we have a network of
46:28 attorneys who provide us those low Bono
46:31 rates so we can run free legal clinics
46:35 and um that's just a gist of what we do
46:37 and moving on Hannah to the next
46:41 slide so this really gives you each of
46:45 these slides that I've set up really
46:47 provide the different support services
46:49 that we offer for from Early Childhood
46:52 as I've mentioned doing a lot of
46:53 Developmental screening we we are funded
46:56 by the best starts for kids King County
46:58 to do that for our community uh to going
47:01 down to the youth leadership program
47:03 that we talked about and uh moving to
47:06 the next one
47:08 Hannah uh with small businesses uh we
47:12 have found over covid that our small
47:14 businesses did not quite recover from
47:16 covid in Revenue um and so there's a lot
47:18 of technical assistance and marketing um
47:22 opportunities that we provide our small
47:24 business particularly the
47:26 microenterprise cohorts that we identify
47:29 who are um under five employee
47:33 businesses and who do not have
47:36 significant annual revenue who are
47:38 struggling to uh pay those bills
47:41 struggling for that roof over their head
47:43 uh because our small businesses haven't
47:45 recovered from covid and they are
47:47 primarily in the child care restaurant
47:51 food uh retail kind of uh areas uh with
47:56 our seniors we do provide those weekly
47:59 popups uh programming that I talked
48:01 about where our seniors connect over
48:03 Wellness programming having yoga as
48:06 their
48:06 centerfold um where they discover
48:09 friendships that they would not have had
48:11 before if they had not reached out to
48:13 these popup centers and there there they
48:17 have an opportunity to see the different
48:20 resources that are available for them
48:22 when and if they need and uh um uh as an
48:27 example in the last uh in 2022 itself we
48:32 had at least 56 seniors reaching out to
48:36 us for emergency food services and that
48:40 50 out of those there were 13 seniors
48:43 who lived in the city of issaqua and did
48:46 reach out to us and I will tell you that
48:49 that very often uh South Asian Community
48:52 is considered privileged considered
48:54 economically powerful
48:56 uh is a tech working Community well how
48:59 how is it that in an annual basis we
49:02 provide emergency rent assistance
49:05 equivalent to at least 200,000 to single
49:08 women who are domestic violence clients
49:12 and we provide food and basic needs
49:16 assistance as well as income eligible
49:18 mental health support to seniors in our
49:21 community so part of this is who are
49:24 those individuals who live in those
49:26 layers of our community who are either
49:30 um uh women who are coming out of
49:33 abusive relationships and trying to uh
49:36 find a place of their own or who are
49:39 those Tech workers who are contract
49:41 subcontractors and don't quite they
49:43 single income earners they cannot afford
49:46 a home in East King County they cannot
49:49 afford to live in um they live in
49:52 crowded apartments and cannot really
49:53 afford to buy that home but on the other
49:56 hand are struggling with that income
49:58 with extended families that are not
50:00 quite two or three member or four member
50:02 families rather they have six to seven
50:04 member families members right so how do
50:07 they support these members and how do
50:09 our seniors uh struggle to find a place
50:13 in those families how do they discover
50:15 what uh what connections they can have
50:19 when they are so isolated um and do not
50:22 have access to Transportation because we
50:24 all know that access and R bu bus
50:27 services have longer than acceptable
50:30 rate times at this point so moving on to
50:33 the next
50:35 slide and I just wanted to focus a
50:38 little more today on our crisis Services
50:41 uh to identify to you the truly nuanced
50:44 layers that are there in the Asian
50:47 indianamerican Refugee Community um and
50:50 we can actually move to the next slide
50:51 to Hannah because I think I have a
50:53 deeper dive into that um so with the
50:56 legal services the way we have set them
50:58 up we have these low Bono legal clinics
51:01 where our attorneys are paid low boner
51:04 rates and uh we have zero weit time for
51:08 free legal clinics for our clients who
51:10 experience domestic violence and there
51:13 are several of our clients who come from
51:15 samamish isqua Redmond and bellw on an
51:19 average we have five to six legal
51:22 clinics a week we are not able to meet
51:24 that demand and right uh five to six
51:27 legal clinics have at least 12 members
51:30 who come in for counseling from that
51:33 attorney and uh of those at least three
51:37 in a week come from the city of issaqua
51:40 and on an average in an uh unique number
51:44 of clients that reach out to us for
51:46 domestic violence from the city of isaka
51:49 in 2022 we had 41 domestic violence
51:53 clients who did reach out and those are
51:55 the only the ones that actually reach
51:57 out to us they are not the ones who do
52:00 not reach out to us and who live in
52:02 those kind of situations because of the
52:04 stigma so here in case I am pointing out
52:08 to you that we are not the privileged
52:11 economically powerful immigrant
52:13 community that is stereotyped as
52:17 individuals with tech jobs and
52:19 comfortable incomes even individuals
52:21 with tech jobs when they are
52:23 subcontractors they bring home some 75
52:25 to 80k a year and 75 to 80k while that
52:29 is a significant income for many
52:31 individuals it does not really offer you
52:33 the opportunity to thrive in a city or
52:36 in East King County where affordability
52:39 of homes is pretty high um so talking
52:42 coming back to crisis Services thank you
52:44 Hannah oh you're good um coming back to
52:47 crisis Services the need for free legal
52:51 clinics the fact that we cannot
52:53 accommodate them and then that do you
52:56 simply offer that legal clinic and walk
52:58 away no as an organization we have
53:02 mental health providers we offer free
53:04 mental health counseling as well as
53:06 support groups and our counseling is
53:09 free of cost for income eligible clients
53:12 uh we cover that cost for them we offer
53:15 support groups that are culturally
53:17 nuanced we make sure that our the basic
53:21 needs of food medical and roof over your
53:24 head are covered for domestic violence
53:26 clients who particularly are in that
53:29 income range that we can cover their
53:32 their needs um talking about U visa for
53:36 an average domestic violence client when
53:38 they step into that space with a legal
53:40 clinic they also have to more often than
53:44 not file for a u Visa because they are
53:47 on a dependent visa and when they step
53:49 out of that abusive relationship they
53:52 either have to go home to a very
53:55 stigmatized Society or they have to find
53:58 an independent life here in America and
54:02 for that they have to file a u Visa
54:04 average cost of a u Visa is
54:06 $110,000 an average retainer that a
54:09 attorney asks you to put down is
54:11 anywhere from 7 to
54:13 $8,000 how does someone who is working
54:17 in a grocery store or who does not have
54:20 work permits and has to actually file
54:23 for that U Visa apply and take care of
54:26 their basic needs through this so just
54:29 giving you some of that uh some of those
54:33 basic needs as well as crisis needs that
54:35 we offer in addition to that we actually
54:38 offer a women's Career Services Program
54:41 where we have volunteer mentors who work
54:43 with women in our community to identify
54:46 what their strengths are help them
54:49 partner with vocational training
54:51 institutes like Lake Washington
54:52 vocational training college or BW
54:55 college or Green River Community College
54:58 we've also identified certain institutes
55:01 which provide certified nursing Aid
55:03 training and found that the lowest
55:06 hanging fruit for our crisis clients is
55:09 to get trained if they can and if they
55:12 wish to as a CNA which is a certified
55:15 nursing Aid it costs $800 and in 12
55:18 weeks you come out as a CNA if you are
55:22 certified if you can take that test to
55:25 become certified and that client is
55:27 always clubbed with a mentor so that
55:30 they can actually go through that CNA
55:32 training with the help of this Mentor
55:35 come out certified and then we help
55:37 place them in E either an assisted
55:40 living center or with another agency
55:43 where they can potentially make $3 to
55:46 $32 an hour which is a far higher hourly
55:51 rate than $15 an hour or $10 an hour on
55:55 cash jobs in grocery stores so that's
55:58 our really that's our big hope is
56:00 through the women's crisis program and
56:02 Women's carer Services Program we
56:04 identify low hanging true uh fruit in
56:07 terms of training uh crisis clients so
56:10 they can earn decent wages or honorable
56:13 wages and we can go on to the next uh
56:15 slide Hannah so this pretty much shows
56:18 you the rise in the number of uh clients
56:22 that we've had particularly in the
56:23 crisis area from 2019 to
56:26 2022 you can see the gray bar which is
56:29 2022 for legal clinics for rent
56:32 assistance for food assistance for
56:34 mental health support that they are um
56:38 absolutely going up by the year partly
56:41 because of the support that we get from
56:44 cities like you as well as the increase
56:47 in awareness and the need has always
56:49 been there how have we Amplified our
56:52 services is more um partly because of
56:56 the support we have received from you so
56:58 thank you for that and we can move to
57:00 the next slide Hannah this is just a
57:03 quick peek into who we are um our senior
57:08 uh senior programming which meets as a
57:10 popup Center moving to the next one
57:15 um women's Career Services um and a
57:18 mentor who is working with uh some of
57:21 our clients and the next
57:23 slide that's our Early Childhood Program
57:27 meeting the fire the fire department and
57:30 discovering safety sessions to the next
57:33 one our youth group that is going out to
57:37 do restoration projects and during their
57:39 time in these projects they develop
57:42 bonds they do peer uh peer uh natural
57:46 helper training that helps them
57:48 understand what it means to be good peer
57:50 peers to each other and moving to the
57:52 next
57:53 slide another sample of our crisis
57:56 client sitting down with a
57:58 mentor and the next slide this is our
58:02 senior youth intergenerational space
58:04 where meditative art is being uh
58:08 instructed by one of our community
58:10 artists we do these often on weekends
58:13 where our youth come together with our
58:15 seniors and gives our seniors an
58:17 opportunity to discover um conversation
58:20 with uh youth so that they can take
58:22 those conversation convers ations home
58:25 to their grandchildren because often
58:27 times we hear from our seniors how there
58:30 is so much silence in the home when you
58:32 go back because uh you don't have a
58:35 conversation top topic to have with your
58:38 grandchildren and this gives them an
58:40 opportunity to discover more about uh
58:43 youth who are bicultural as well as an
58:45 opportunity to learn how to have that
58:48 communication with their grandchild it
58:49 also gives our youth an opportunity to
58:52 develop those relationships with senior
58:54 years in our
58:56 community so that's pretty much a quick
58:59 uh that's actually a a night market
59:03 which happens annually in June where we
59:06 provide space and platform to at least
59:08 50 to 60 of our small businesses and uh
59:12 the last night market we had in 2023 we
59:15 had over 5,500 community members who
59:18 reached out and attended this um Night
59:21 Market where they met with several of
59:23 our small businesses and and a
59:24 requirement for our small businesses to
59:27 participate in an event like this is
59:29 they had to have a Ubi they had to have
59:32 a business license they had to have a
59:34 catering license so some of it is you
59:37 get that platform with us if you comply
59:40 in the Regulatory Compliance area um so
59:44 I think I'm done with that but I'm I'll
59:46 open for questions thank
59:48 you thank you Lita Commissioners any
59:52 questions um L this this is U Manny we
59:55 we've met and uh I'll say it again
1:00:00 wow so especially for the uh the size of
1:00:03 Staff you have is you guys do amazing
1:00:06 work thank you thank you and it's so
1:00:10 good to see
1:00:17 you well it truly was a wonderful
1:00:19 presentation are Commissioners any
1:00:21 questions or details that you're
1:00:23 interested in a complete
1:00:26 presentation well we know how to reach
1:00:28 out to you we know where to reach you
1:00:30 yeah AB thank you for pulling some isad
1:00:33 numbers and some specific information I
1:00:35 think that
1:00:39 here if we have further questions can we
1:00:41 go to
1:00:43 i.org or what's your what's your uh your
1:00:48 website uh it is IAC
1:00:51 swa.org and that pretty much uh
1:00:56 has content that describes the different
1:00:59 programs we have however if you need any
1:01:02 further details on where those are
1:01:05 happening or if you'd like to visit or
1:01:07 if you need any numbers for the city of
1:01:09 isaka please do reach out to me and uh I
1:01:12 think Hannah has our email and I can
1:01:15 absolutely I can even take some time to
1:01:17 do one-on-one meetings if you need to
1:01:19 wonderful thank you
1:01:22 you all right well that that wraps up
1:01:26 your H presentation thank you so much
1:01:28 really appreciate it thank you good the
1:01:31 rest of your evening thank you good
1:01:34 night all right well we have one more
1:01:37 presentation um I'd like to invite uh
1:01:40 Nikki I think I have you here um from
1:01:45 mcrc hi um this is actually Kiza Sheriff
1:01:49 um hello one of the can you can you hear
1:01:51 me we can hear you we just only see your
1:01:55 background living room picture that's
1:02:00 okay yeah you was working I don't know
1:02:03 what happened here hang on a second on
1:02:08 instead
1:02:09 looking huh no it's uh it's pretty okay
1:02:13 hang on a second um I've I've always had
1:02:15 trouble with uh with zoom so okay how
1:02:19 about
1:02:23 now all right
1:02:25 all right cool all right I've always had
1:02:28 trouble with uh with with with with with
1:02:30 with teams so my name is k Sheriff I'm
1:02:33 the co-founder of uh mcrc and I'm here
1:02:36 um to talk about that um Nikki asked me
1:02:39 to step in and and help uh present I
1:02:42 believe Hannah we sent you the deck did
1:02:45 you get that I don't know if I did me we
1:02:50 sent it we sent it last night oh
1:02:57 it would have C it would have come from
1:02:59 me all right let me pull it up let
1:03:02 me okay if not I'll have it handy so I
1:03:06 can share happy to share
1:03:18 it okay thanks for your
1:03:23 patience
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1:03:34 seeing
1:03:38 it okay resend it to me right now or if
1:03:42 you want I can have I can give you
1:03:44 access to share your screen you why
1:03:47 don't I send it to you because you know
1:03:50 um give me a second I'm going to email
1:03:52 it to you right now okay um yeah I see
1:03:55 it has gone
1:03:57 so um from me
1:04:02 huh okay um can you send me the right
1:04:05 email please again
1:04:10 it's um it's Hannah h m a
1:04:16 HR isqua w.gov here I'll put it in the
1:04:19 chat for you thanks everyone for your
1:04:21 patience
1:04:22 r h and NR at
1:04:28 esqua
1:04:32 go still looking through my just in
1:04:38 case did you check sh I know that's what
1:04:46 wondering it takes a minute it's on its
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1:04:51 you really appreciate kids are yeah so
1:04:55 um while the while the presentation is
1:04:57 coming through let me just uh tell you a
1:04:59 little bit about uh about mcrc uh we it
1:05:03 stands for Muslim Community Resource
1:05:05 Center and we are the social and
1:05:08 humanitarian program of maps the Muslim
1:05:11 Association of pesan which is the
1:05:14 largest mosque here in western
1:05:17 Washington um Nikki uh who's my wife
1:05:20 also is a founder and CEO and I'm I'm um
1:05:24 the I'm also a director and uh I'm a
1:05:27 co-founder with mcrc so a little bit
1:05:30 about mcrc um you know we've been here
1:05:33 like almost we've been serving the
1:05:35 community here for almost 15 plus years
1:05:38 and um you know while and we offer a
1:05:41 portfolio of services a wide portfolio
1:05:44 of services um that starts from you know
1:05:47 rental support to transitional housing
1:05:49 for single women to emergency rental
1:05:52 assistance to food programs
1:05:54 a free medical clinic a free legal
1:05:57 clinic um we have a senior programs for
1:06:00 single women we have counseling services
1:06:03 there's a whole Suite of interconnected
1:06:05 services that we offer at uh through
1:06:09 mcrc and the services are free and open
1:06:12 to anyone in need we don't have
1:06:14 geographical boundaries uh we do not
1:06:17 discriminate based on any um you know
1:06:20 any any any criteria um so our services
1:06:23 are open free to all um we are located
1:06:27 um at the together Center here in in
1:06:30 Redmond uh we have clients who coming
1:06:33 who are coming in from different East
1:06:35 Side cities um plus all the way all the
1:06:38 way from south from Federal Way all the
1:06:40 way north um through um to Lynwood ble
1:06:45 and Everett so oh thank you you you have
1:06:48 the slides if you can go to the go to
1:06:49 the next um next slide it's really mcrc
1:06:53 is inspired by our our Islam if you go
1:06:56 to the one slide before it's inspired by
1:07:00 our Islamic faith that teaches us to
1:07:02 love for Humanity what you love for
1:07:04 yourself and that's really what inspires
1:07:07 us and what drives us and you know
1:07:09 motivates us to to serve the community
1:07:11 if we go to the next slide I think I was
1:07:13 starting to touch on this a little bit
1:07:15 briefly so we have a a we have a whole
1:07:20 portfolio of interconnect interconnected
1:07:22 service and I'll talk a little bit about
1:07:24 of our services uh we I also talked
1:07:26 about no limitation by location right
1:07:28 unlike some service providers where you
1:07:30 have to be within certain zip codes to
1:07:32 be able to get Services we serve clients
1:07:34 across the broader P Sound area to the
1:07:36 best extent we can um you know as long
1:07:40 as you know we are able to we try to
1:07:41 help them in whatever capacity we can um
1:07:44 our our access we have a low barrier
1:07:46 access to our services our intake
1:07:48 processes designed to be quick and easy
1:07:51 um and uh we pride ourselves with with
1:07:54 quick turnaround um you know Turn Turn
1:07:56 Around within 24 to 48 hours um we you
1:08:00 know it's all about human dignity we
1:08:01 don't want people to kind of like you
1:08:03 know having to come back again and again
1:08:04 say hey what happened to my request
1:08:06 what's going on so we pride ourselves
1:08:08 with quick turnaround and again we
1:08:10 believe in Partnerships um so we have a
1:08:13 slew of partners that we work with um so
1:08:16 if we are unable to help them we pick up
1:08:17 the phone and actually do a warm hand
1:08:19 handoff to a potential partner and and
1:08:22 who who can um help serve serve this
1:08:25 client and last but not the least one of
1:08:27 the things that we are able to do is to
1:08:32 serve people in a culturally appropriate
1:08:35 manner our volunteers come from over 35
1:08:38 different countries and are staff speaks
1:08:41 many languages so we can relate to our
1:08:44 to clients unique cultural and
1:08:45 linguistic situation uh especially with
1:08:48 Refugee demographics you know um that's
1:08:51 that's something that we found a a lot
1:08:53 or people who are coming from you know
1:08:56 um different um social backgrounds maybe
1:08:59 from um you know they're coming from
1:09:00 Afghanistan or Iraq or any one of these
1:09:03 places so um the social and cultural
1:09:06 context is so important and they feel
1:09:07 very comfortable talking to our case
1:09:09 manager staff because they share the
1:09:11 same background then if you go to the
1:09:16 slide um so again I already talked about
1:09:19 that right we don't discriminate on the
1:09:21 basis of race color religion or any any
1:09:24 any other distinguishing factors um we
1:09:26 are also listed on the King County 211
1:09:28 hotline we get a lot of referrals um you
1:09:31 know from the King County 211 emergency
1:09:34 hotline for food and gas cards and and
1:09:37 rental assistance emergency utility
1:09:39 assistance and everything else we get a
1:09:40 lot of referals through that and from
1:09:43 from a funding we're grateful for the
1:09:44 city city of iseka who who funds some of
1:09:47 our programs um you know we've got some
1:09:49 Eastside Human Services Grants now from
1:09:52 from from a few of the East Side cities
1:09:54 as well as some from the south um South
1:09:57 King County but a lot primary um source
1:10:01 of donation for us is through individual
1:10:03 contributors uh our individual donors
1:10:05 and our community members uh again
1:10:08 inspired by you know what our faith
1:10:10 teaches us about loving for Humanity
1:10:12 what we love for ourselves this is an
1:10:14 opportunity to put our faith in action
1:10:15 so a lot of our our primary donors are
1:10:19 our community members who um who I who
1:10:22 who donate generously to um to the work
1:10:24 of mcrc please U if you go to the next
1:10:28 slide um so again this is of s a set of
1:10:32 programs that we offer right um from
1:10:35 food programs so we have um we we we
1:10:38 serve um you know at at eight different
1:10:41 shelters across um the East Side um hot
1:10:45 meals um we also Pro have a program for
1:10:48 non-p perishable food we have something
1:10:51 called of we food and gas cards I mean
1:10:54 our clients actually termed it Lifesaver
1:10:57 cards because it
1:10:59 really changes people's lives um you
1:11:02 know we we provide these gas cards um or
1:11:05 or cards that can be used for either
1:11:07 food or gas and we've seen a lot of
1:11:10 clients who come in who are unable to go
1:11:12 to a job interview because they don't
1:11:14 have gas for the car coming into our
1:11:17 office and picking up a $25 gas card so
1:11:19 that they can fill up their gas tank so
1:11:22 they they actually go to an interview
1:11:23 and it changes their lives and actually
1:11:25 some of our clients have have um renamed
1:11:28 this program to be our Lifesaver program
1:11:30 so we call it um our Lifesaver cards
1:11:33 right so it's it's it especially with
1:11:35 the price of gas um and the number of
1:11:39 people who don't have access to um you
1:11:43 know the this kind of services this is
1:11:45 one of our biggest programs um that that
1:11:48 we run um Housing Services we have six
1:11:51 um um six shelters transitional housing
1:11:54 for single women where we provide
1:11:57 socially and culturally appropriate safe
1:11:59 haven for single women who are trying to
1:12:00 build their lives um we have we focus
1:12:03 primarily on eviction prevention uh if
1:12:06 someone has gotten uh we realize how
1:12:09 expensive it is to get back on on your
1:12:12 feet if you already have been evicted
1:12:14 from the home so we try our best to
1:12:16 prevent eviction from happening so
1:12:18 whether it's us helping for the full
1:12:20 extent of the whatever is due for the
1:12:22 eviction or working in Coalition with a
1:12:24 bunch of other partners to prevent a
1:12:26 family from being evicted we that's we
1:12:29 we focus on that we also have a program
1:12:32 um where um if someone is fleeing
1:12:35 domestic abuse situation or some or some
1:12:38 other situation where they don't have um
1:12:41 housing um yeah and but but there's
1:12:43 something coming up in the the near
1:12:45 future we we also have a program for
1:12:47 motel vouchers we're able to provide 3
1:12:50 to Five Nights emergency motel vouchers
1:12:52 so they can go have a safe place to stay
1:12:55 until they sort out their um their
1:12:57 there's housing
1:12:58 Arrangements our Refugee service program
1:13:01 is another big large program that that
1:13:03 that that we operate I mean you know was
1:13:05 just over the last few years with all of
1:13:07 the influx of refugees from Iraq from
1:13:10 Syria um now in Afghanistan and Ukraine
1:13:15 that's a huge program that we offer we
1:13:18 have our own uh Furniture Warehouse um
1:13:22 that's also located in Redmond families
1:13:23 can come in pick up furniture or any
1:13:26 other household items that they may that
1:13:28 they may need um we have a and plus we
1:13:31 have um you know program to match
1:13:33 refugees with local families to uh to
1:13:35 get them back on the pro on the feet and
1:13:37 provide them mentorship and support so
1:13:39 we do all of that in the middle we have
1:13:42 our community health clinic it's a free
1:13:43 health clinic that operates um you know
1:13:46 during Co it was operating um you know
1:13:48 online but now we've reverted back to um
1:13:54 a inperson clinic that uh along with a
1:13:59 with a coalition of Partners we operate
1:14:01 that clinic um you know the clinic
1:14:03 happens here in Redmond uh we have we
1:14:05 see clients who are underinsured
1:14:07 uninsured visiting parents um anyone who
1:14:10 needs access to you know free medical
1:14:13 care um we the Community Health Clinic
1:14:16 provides that along as part of the
1:14:18 clinic we also provide a lot of
1:14:19 emotional Wellness consultations uh it's
1:14:22 a free service that connected to a
1:14:24 emotional Wellness consultant for
1:14:26 Behavioral Health if they facing with
1:14:29 substance abuse or anything at all we
1:14:31 are able to provide that basic triage
1:14:33 and basic consultation when families are
1:14:35 struggling with uh behavioral and
1:14:37 emotional uh issues um one the only
1:14:41 service here um the two Services here
1:14:44 one of the two Services here that is
1:14:46 most only for Muslims here is our
1:14:48 funeral services um you know because a
1:14:50 lot of our in the Muslim Community when
1:14:53 people pass away there are some
1:14:55 religious rituals that need to be
1:14:57 performed plus also assistance with the
1:14:59 cost of um you know providing the
1:15:01 funeral services so we provide this
1:15:03 funeral services also at our at our
1:15:05 location we provide we have a legal
1:15:08 clinic it's all it's online and we're
1:15:09 going to switch back to a um a regular
1:15:12 in-person Clinic we we were partner with
1:15:15 the King County Neighborhood Legal
1:15:17 clinics as well as with uh another
1:15:20 partner called milaw middle easn law
1:15:22 association and provide a a whole
1:15:24 portfolio of you know free legal
1:15:26 consults around family law immigration
1:15:28 law um you know housing disputes wills
1:15:31 and estate planning for is open to
1:15:33 anyone um and then the this is the
1:15:35 second service that that we offer that
1:15:37 is mostly for Muslims is around you know
1:15:40 um around marriage um services around
1:15:43 counseling and and and premarital
1:15:45 counseling um so and then the last but
1:15:48 not the least is one of the biggest
1:15:49 programs that we also run is um is uh
1:15:52 Senior Services it's called Golden times
1:15:54 and we have a program to bring seniors
1:15:57 in our community together on um to to
1:16:01 socially get them connected so it's
1:16:03 inperson meetings as well as you know
1:16:05 online you know yoga sessions and
1:16:07 laughing therapy it's a it's a it's a
1:16:10 set of programs all geared towards you
1:16:12 know getting our seniors more connected
1:16:14 and you know making them you know feel
1:16:16 part of the whole uh whole community so
1:16:19 that's all all of the portfolio of
1:16:21 services that we offer so when a client
1:16:22 walks
1:16:23 to our office um you were able to kind
1:16:26 of like get them connected to the
1:16:27 portfolio of our services plus also
1:16:30 working with Partners getting them
1:16:31 connected to other services that our
1:16:33 partners may offer if you move to the
1:16:36 slide um so I want to focus on isqua
1:16:40 right so you know um so for the uh so is
1:16:45 this isqua yeah I think this no uh this
1:16:48 is overall so we looked at looked at the
1:16:50 at the data that we had from January to
1:16:53 August this is as of August 30th right
1:16:55 you know what types um where when people
1:16:57 come into our office um here what do
1:17:00 they come in most for so
1:17:03 44.1% of the clients who came in came in
1:17:06 for referrals and information they don't
1:17:07 know where to turn they don't know where
1:17:09 to go for assistance especially you know
1:17:12 people who are refugees immigrants they
1:17:14 don't know where to go so they first
1:17:16 stop they come to our office we provide
1:17:18 them with information referrals so
1:17:20 that's our you know 40 44% of the people
1:17:23 that came into our office came for
1:17:24 referrals and information um emergency
1:17:27 utility assistance we have had clients
1:17:29 seniors who have their um electricity
1:17:32 shut off and they have an outstanding
1:17:34 bill um you know they have an um shut
1:17:37 off notice and we were able to help them
1:17:39 with emergency utility assistance
1:17:40 eviction prevention you know um 37% of
1:17:45 the clients again who came and this is
1:17:47 between January and August 30th 37% of
1:17:50 the clients came to us for eviction
1:17:52 prevention and we were able able to help
1:17:53 them food and gas cards um about 10% of
1:17:56 the clients were U came to us for food
1:17:58 and gas cards so um so these are you
1:18:01 know just kind of like give you a sense
1:18:03 of all of how our services break down
1:18:05 and if you kind of like go to the next
1:18:06 slide uh it's a slice of the same data
1:18:09 but just for the city of isqua we looked
1:18:11 at you know the demographics of the
1:18:13 people who came from the city of isqua
1:18:15 what what did they come to us for uh SE
1:18:17 almost 70% came to us for referrals and
1:18:20 information you know the new to the
1:18:23 community they don't know where to go
1:18:24 for help or you know they don't know
1:18:26 where the food bank is or they come to
1:18:27 us for hey uh you know where do I go for
1:18:32 um you know um for get rental assistance
1:18:35 so about 70% of them came for
1:18:38 information referrals 21% came to us
1:18:41 with eviction notice that we were able
1:18:43 to help um you know and then food and
1:18:46 gas cards about 6% uh food and gas Cs
1:18:49 and emergency UTI so you can see what
1:18:51 the what the data shows around for the
1:18:53 city of city of isqua our demographics
1:18:56 people come to us from you know
1:18:57 different cities on the east side um and
1:19:00 we able to help them in in in different
1:19:03 so the um so I'm going to pause here and
1:19:07 open it up for um any any any questions
1:19:10 but before I do that I'd like to
1:19:13 highlight one one aspect right one of
1:19:15 one of the things that we also do is to
1:19:19 empower um people so we in our office
1:19:22 office we have two staff members who are
1:19:25 full-time staff members one of them is
1:19:28 um is a is an Afghan Refugee himself who
1:19:31 came in about few years ago we were able
1:19:34 to he had great skills we were able to
1:19:36 put we were able to you know give him
1:19:38 employment so he's he's able to support
1:19:41 himself and his family um plus some of
1:19:43 our part-time staff they also you know
1:19:46 one of the part-time staff is a is a 23y
1:19:49 old again Afghan girl who came um you
1:19:53 know as a as a as a refugee a few years
1:19:55 ago and you know nowhere no nowhere to
1:19:58 turn to right and again we were able to
1:20:00 give her the vocational skills for her
1:20:02 to become um you know um um to become
1:20:06 productive um so she she also works
1:20:09 works with us so we have about two two
1:20:11 full-time staff and then we have about
1:20:13 three uh part-time um uh employees the
1:20:17 rest of them are volunteers including
1:20:18 myself and Nikki who's who's the fund
1:20:21 and CEO they're all all volunteers
1:20:23 and really we're able to um do this with
1:20:25 the support of a community as well as
1:20:27 with support of our donors as well as
1:20:30 the and along with the city of isqua who
1:20:33 helps fund some of the programs um that
1:20:36 we um that that we offer so I'm going to
1:20:38 pause here and open it up for any
1:20:42 questions thank you so
1:20:49 much well hi my name is TR all I can say
1:20:54 is I mean I I hear about mcrc all over
1:20:58 the place your organization um is very
1:21:01 well known and I think has made a big
1:21:05 impact on on the east side yeah thank
1:21:08 you thank you appreciate appreciate all
1:21:11 your support um you know we seeing more
1:21:14 and more as um you know rents in this
1:21:17 area increase we're seeing a lot more of
1:21:19 challenges with people who coming with
1:21:22 eviction eviction prevention notices I
1:21:24 mean just in the last 6 months we've
1:21:27 seen a 30% increase in the number of
1:21:29 people with eviction prevention eviction
1:21:32 eviction notices that are showing up at
1:21:34 our offices and we try to do our best
1:21:36 but you know um we just seeing you know
1:21:39 with the rents and the inflation just
1:21:41 just skyrocketing we are seeing more and
1:21:43 more people uh facing eviction um
1:21:48 so my Edwards here if you wanted to
1:21:51 access your information at our Leisure
1:21:53 could we go to Maps do you have a part
1:21:56 of that website yes yeah if you go to
1:21:59 Maps rm.org mcrc or go to mcrc
1:22:03 seattle.org that's the easiest go to
1:22:05 mcrc seattle.org it'll redirect you um
1:22:09 to the page and you know you will see
1:22:10 all of our all all of our services here
1:22:14 okay yeah on that page also um you know
1:22:17 you will be you'll find a a link to
1:22:20 schedule free um the the Health Clinic
1:22:23 appointments you'll see a link to uh for
1:22:27 an assistance request form you know
1:22:29 everything is in one place and a lot
1:22:31 more information about how to reach us
1:22:32 and how to contact us and please stop by
1:22:35 we are located in in redond at the
1:22:37 redond together Center so please stop by
1:22:40 we'd love to you know host you and and
1:22:42 show you around and um and and show you
1:22:45 a little bit about the work that we
1:22:47 do thank you I went to your health
1:22:53 yeah when was that
1:22:56 again in the May the summer right yeah
1:22:59 that was awesome yes yeah it was great
1:23:02 yeah great and we have a upcoming Clinic
1:23:05 that's coming up this Saturday actually
1:23:07 so if there's anyone who needs you know
1:23:10 and and this Clinic is in in partnership
1:23:12 with you know other service providers so
1:23:15 we have a free uh pet clinic too where
1:23:19 where people can bring the pets who are
1:23:21 people who are low-income familyes Ames
1:23:23 or unhoused if they have pets that need
1:23:25 vaccinations or if they need you know
1:23:28 any checkup for their for the pets we
1:23:30 have uh we have a section there for for
1:23:33 pets um we have a dental free dental
1:23:36 clinic uh a mobile van where people can
1:23:38 come in and get dental checks uh
1:23:40 checkups done as well as we have the
1:23:42 physical Clinic um you know that U that
1:23:45 that that you you you've probably seen
1:23:47 right where we have a all volunteer
1:23:50 doctors who come in and provide provide
1:23:51 the services
1:23:53 we also have a partner organization
1:23:54 called Essentials first that will also
1:23:55 be there providing hygiene items and and
1:23:58 everything else so yeah please if
1:24:00 there's any if there's a need that
1:24:01 clinic is happening this Saturday
1:24:03 November 18th in Redmond at a mosque in
1:24:07 Redmond thank you all right all right
1:24:11 thank you so much for your time this
1:24:12 even because I really appreciate please
1:24:14 give Nikki our best I will thank you all
1:24:18 right all right thank you take care bye
1:24:20 bye you thank you
1:24:25 Commissioners what a wonderful
1:24:29 full presentation my the whole time
1:24:34 too Hannah when um the girl from um the
1:24:38 cultural Bridges was talking and by the
1:24:39 way they're online I mean it's really
1:24:41 it's very professional I'm really
1:24:43 impressed um there was is there another
1:24:46 organization in isqua called the
1:24:48 circle yes is that new yes it is it was
1:24:51 a gr through grassroot
1:24:53 organization that uh the city of isqua
1:24:56 funded through human services grantom
1:24:58 and we're funding them again this year
1:25:00 um so they I think you missed the
1:25:02 presentation we had uh yes and so
1:25:05 they're um they do a lot of cultural
1:25:08 navigation uh Services I'd love to share
1:25:11 more about there was a link in one of
1:25:12 the magazines I was like I don't know
1:25:14 what this is so yeah very very uh they
1:25:18 they also do like the Hispanic Heritage
1:25:21 Month uh with human services D deos
1:25:24 mores were they were they an outcome of
1:25:27 cultural Bridges and the ISA schools
1:25:29 Foundation or more Alisia spinner do you
1:25:33 know her I don't know that no um she she
1:25:37 was a staff member she was the manager
1:25:39 at cultural Bridges um and then uh
1:25:43 earlier this year transition um
1:25:45 full-time she started the c um gosh just
1:25:49 about two years ago okay very
1:25:51 interesting it's a very new organization
1:25:54 miss that now I I don't think we've had
1:25:56 a presentation yet not from Alisia no
1:25:59 and so she's been invited and and she
1:26:01 there's still opportunities so hopefully
1:26:03 she'll I know she loves talking about
1:26:04 the circle so I'm sure she would love to
1:26:06 join us um she she's very
1:26:10 busy yeah very interesting good I'm glad
1:26:13 we got a chance to talk about it um well
1:26:15 I do want to call out the time it's 8
1:26:17 o'clock but we still do have a few items
1:26:19 on our agenda I'll leave it to to you
1:26:23 all if you would like to continue on and
1:26:26 move forward with our agenda items or if
1:26:28 you would like to
1:26:31 postpone okay game oh I I'd like to keep
1:26:34 going yeah because it postpone
1:26:37 January true you won't see each other
1:26:40 till January okay you don't have that
1:26:43 much left any all right so Hannah you're
1:26:46 on oh Hannah
1:26:50 yeah thanks all right bucker thank you
1:26:53 so much for joining us this
1:26:55 evening thank you yeah those
1:26:57 presentations were terrific I appreciate
1:26:59 it take care all right safe
1:27:03 travels all right well I'll make this
1:27:06 freaking
1:27:08 Snappy so I am going to share my screen
1:27:11 here and um really the goal for this
1:27:15 presentation here
1:27:18 um is to just give you all an update
1:27:22 on how the Human Services Grants um
1:27:25 quarterly three uh performances so what
1:27:27 we do is every um quarter they submit
1:27:30 their invoices and reporting to say how
1:27:32 many residents they've sered that Porter
1:27:35 what where they're at with their service
1:27:37 units um and so what I do is I pay their
1:27:41 invoices as well as monitor them so you
1:27:45 s no they get paid quarterly so they
1:27:49 take what we granted them and you divide
1:27:51 it by for right and then you pay them
1:27:54 quarterly yes yes exactly um they
1:27:56 certainly do have an option um we give
1:28:00 folks an option if they have met their
1:28:02 Service Unit say Q2 and they met their
1:28:05 annual goal they certainly could um
1:28:08 invoice for the entire year um so it's a
1:28:11 re a service reimbursement model um we
1:28:14 will be talking about Advanced payment
1:28:17 options there was just an educational
1:28:18 event about that and so that's something
1:28:20 that um as a commission we will be
1:28:22 talking more about how to better support
1:28:25 some of our nonprofit organizations um
1:28:27 but currently we're under the
1:28:28 reimbursement model I'm just thinking
1:28:31 that you know every quarter and team
1:28:33 they do a lot of work oh yeah right and
1:28:36 to be able to have to put that
1:28:38 information out every quarter is you
1:28:40 know something else put on their plate
1:28:43 right yeah so um yeah yes exactly that
1:28:47 there's a possibility that that they can
1:28:50 adjust that yeah yeah yeah it's
1:28:52 definitely in talks and uh coming from
1:28:55 nonprofit work and and being on the
1:28:57 other end of having to enter in that
1:28:58 data it is a lot of time taken away from
1:29:02 direct service um so it is something
1:29:05 that is definitely in conversation of
1:29:06 how we can better support um some of
1:29:09 these
1:29:11 organizations so um again we have 40 um
1:29:14 I want to talk a little bit just step
1:29:15 back a little bit just to remind folks
1:29:17 of our Human Services Grants I think
1:29:20 these are just some interesting numbers
1:29:21 I wanted to share so um this last cycle
1:29:25 uh we had um over $1.3 million in
1:29:29 request and we had an increase from
1:29:32 500,000 the previous cycle to
1:29:37 720 um as you can see this is a 40 uh
1:29:41 percent 40% of what was requested is
1:29:45 what we had to get so as you can as
1:29:47 you're thinking about this next cycle
1:29:49 we're going to have a similar issue of
1:29:51 the there's way more need than what we
1:29:53 can offer um so we have 40% of what was
1:29:57 asked uh you'll also see here that we
1:30:01 81 um total uh applications uh we
1:30:05 focused on um 42
1:30:08 programs um and so only 52% of those
1:30:11 programs received
1:30:16 funding and again this is um just a
1:30:19 recap of the K Services Grant
1:30:23 uh we had
1:30:26 55672 we awarded 34 organizations of
1:30:30 those 34 organizations there were 42
1:30:33 programs and um what was estimated to be
1:30:37 served was just under 5,000 residents I
1:30:40 will say we are well over that already
1:30:43 Q3 um and then again we from our Human
1:30:47 Services strategic plan we um we kind of
1:30:50 categorized the programs
1:30:52 um in these uh four categories and you
1:30:55 can see um how much funding and how many
1:30:58 programs went to each
1:31:01 category um I won't say the numbers out
1:31:03 loud any questions here
1:31:07 though all right so how how did how did
1:31:10 the organizations do in Q3 so what what
1:31:13 we look on is are they submitting their
1:31:15 reports on time or are they
1:31:17 communicating maybe that they're having
1:31:19 some issues and it's going to be late um
1:31:22 are there reports complete are there any
1:31:23 missing items that require some followup
1:31:26 and then uh we also look at the service
1:31:28 unit goal um which I'll go in a little
1:31:30 more detail what that means and then we
1:31:32 also have a Resident Annual goal that
1:31:34 we're seeing if there ultimately at um
1:31:40 75% um so what I want to just note here
1:31:43 is of the 42 programs we receive 40 of
1:31:47 the reports so the following data is
1:31:49 from 40
1:31:50 reports
1:31:53 so again service units really depend on
1:31:56 the program and what's being provided so
1:31:59 for example if it's a shelter um it's
1:32:02 going to be most likely um measured in
1:32:04 uh how many number of beds um if it's
1:32:08 case management that can be in uh 30
1:32:11 minute increments can be hour
1:32:13 increments um it's uh emergency
1:32:16 assistance um financial assistance
1:32:19 usually looks like how many households
1:32:21 or how many uh financial assistance were
1:32:24 provided um so again it varies but it um
1:32:28 it's in within the contract and you can
1:32:32 92% of these organizations are meeting
1:32:35 Service Unit goal um which is great and
1:32:39 there's still room for those few who are
1:32:41 not quite meeting their service goal um
1:32:44 to U increase their numbers in fact I am
1:32:47 working with those who are not U meeting
1:32:49 their service unit and making some game
1:32:52 plans of basically how do we promote
1:32:54 their organization promote their
1:32:56 services get them connected to other
1:32:58 programs here in isqua so they can meet
1:33:00 those and when you say they didn't meet
1:33:01 goal that doesn't that's not to say that
1:33:03 they have they're not at a they're
1:33:05 making progress towards that goal
1:33:07 exactly Yep they're making progress
1:33:08 towards that goal they we look at right
1:33:11 they we want to see them close to
1:33:13 75% of their annual goal at this point
1:33:16 of the year um and then uh and that
1:33:20 again that's that reimburse
1:33:23 uh that's set up in the
1:33:25 contract um and then as far as resident
1:33:28 goals we just had one organization not
1:33:31 meeting residents goal um and again I
1:33:34 don't think there's going to be concern
1:33:35 for them to get to it their annual
1:33:38 goal so everyone's doing very well uh we
1:33:42 were on a little bit later end this year
1:33:45 um I saw um 88% which is actually the
1:33:48 lowest I've seen uh having reports
1:33:50 submitted a a little bit later um so
1:33:54 again nothing to worry about but you
1:33:57 provide like justification as to why
1:33:59 it's late or um there's some
1:34:01 organizations saying hey we're gonna U
1:34:03 we have staff on vacation um that's
1:34:05 going to be late or um so there's
1:34:07 certainly some reasons or there's some
1:34:09 technical issues um and there's at times
1:34:13 there's sometimes where I have to email
1:34:14 them and say hey we would love to see a
1:34:16 report I'd love to pay pay you for your
1:34:19 services um so just a reminder and again
1:34:22 I think it's to Manny's point of you
1:34:24 know this is this takes a lot of time
1:34:27 collecting this data buy basically they
1:34:30 have to ultimately buy or build a system
1:34:34 um extract data and very much know this
1:34:38 coming from nonprofit works
1:34:41 so at some point too right so yep
1:34:44 exactly anybody helping okay are you you
1:34:47 know low income you know so yeah
1:34:51 commonly I've heard uh direct service at
1:34:54 least s 25% of direct service staff have
1:34:59 to have their time for like notes and
1:35:02 entering data and that kind of
1:35:04 information like the medical industry
1:35:06 yeah all the people that work in
1:35:08 insurance and you know trying to connect
1:35:12 yeah yeah if it's not documented it ever
1:35:14 happen that's unfortunately would you
1:35:17 say are do most programs are they having
1:35:21 trouble with Staffing or they are they
1:35:23 doing well with full Staffing um I've
1:35:26 seen a little mix of both and we'll talk
1:35:28 about that in some of the challenges
1:35:29 there's definitely some organizations
1:35:31 that I think are having a hard time with
1:35:33 Staffing especially if it's volunteers
1:35:35 but I will say comparatively um from
1:35:38 even a year ago um I would say that's
1:35:41 not the common challenge as much as I am
1:35:44 seeing a larger Improvement um but happy
1:35:48 to report we had 100% complete woohoo
1:35:53 um so again I think it's helpful just to
1:35:54 like pull in so one of part of their
1:35:56 reports they get to share narratives
1:35:58 which express some of their highlights
1:36:00 their challenges they share
1:36:02 stories um and so I think a few things
1:36:05 that I wanted to note here um so reclaim
1:36:08 um if you're familiar they're a shelter
1:36:10 over snami Valley um if you haven't had
1:36:13 a chance to visit them they are just
1:36:15 very unique um for a very low to no
1:36:20 barrier shelter for folks um and I think
1:36:24 this is a a status worth noting um this
1:36:27 last quarter 10 people moved from their
1:36:29 shelter into permanent housing and if
1:36:32 anybody knows how difficult it is to get
1:36:34 into permanent
1:36:35 housing um that's a really big
1:36:38 successful number so huge shout outs um
1:36:40 to the to their work that they're doing
1:36:43 and um their partnership is with
1:36:45 Plymouth Housing um which is a
1:36:47 organization that we also work with um
1:36:50 and they're uh a Supportive Housing in
1:36:53 Eastgate there it's a new building great
1:36:55 great great Housing Opportunity you all
1:36:57 have seen it right as you drive oh yeah
1:37:00 yeah I'm down there all the time they're
1:37:03 quite nice units so yeah um and then
1:37:06 again I just they they noted in their
1:37:08 narrative that I'm very excited for them
1:37:09 they received some funding I know
1:37:11 they're working on some first um
1:37:13 expansion for their services um so they
1:37:16 have a new permanent Supportive Housing
1:37:17 program that's going to um focus on um
1:37:21 permanent Supportive Housing for five um
1:37:25 seniors old elderly um and then in
1:37:28 addition they also have um funding for
1:37:30 transitional housing um who will be
1:37:33 primarily working with um uh Native
1:37:36 American women um in domestic violence
1:37:39 situations um so I know that's something
1:37:41 they've been working on for a long time
1:37:42 so it's really excited to hear some um
1:37:44 some funding go through for them so more
1:37:47 to come on
1:37:48 that um the is AOSS Circle speaking up
1:37:52 um they do again just some some in
1:37:56 incredible Services I mean they they
1:37:58 really they go into the family's homes
1:38:01 they really build that
1:38:02 relationship um and so couple things I
1:38:05 wanted to highlight um that they do is
1:38:08 um in their giving Circle which is
1:38:10 basically they have this system where
1:38:12 people can request their needs such as
1:38:14 we need hangers we need a couch we need
1:38:17 a TV um and they kind of help process
1:38:20 those um donations um they supported 11
1:38:24 families um they registered 13 new
1:38:26 families to the food bank which we we
1:38:28 are hearing more and more such an um
1:38:31 such an increase of uh food
1:38:34 insecurity um and so to hear that is
1:38:36 really wonderful and then also have
1:38:39 seing them get um famili supported uh
1:38:42 with rental assistance with
1:38:43 organizations that we also
1:38:45 done um I thought this was an
1:38:49 interesting story um um and says a lot
1:38:52 about just who they are um it says
1:38:54 during these months we helped an
1:38:55 individual who had a heart attack um
1:38:58 again not really in their privy they're
1:39:00 not MediCal experts um but he felt
1:39:02 comfortable to call them at 400 a. to
1:39:04 ask can I call 911 what do I do um so
1:39:08 they were able to get him the ambulance
1:39:10 and probably have um some life-saving
1:39:12 measures there and get him to the
1:39:14 hospital to get him the services that he
1:39:16 needs but we've heard that more and more
1:39:18 if there's anybody who's undocumented or
1:39:20 maybe doesn't speak English um they're
1:39:22 so afraid of going to the hospital or
1:39:24 getting their medical needs um and so
1:39:26 the fact that they had somebody that
1:39:28 they felt that they could call at 4: am
1:39:30 I don't know about any of you I would
1:39:31 not want to be called at 4 AM um but
1:39:34 here they are um ready to support them
1:39:36 in an emergency like that so I think
1:39:37 that's such a great example of some
1:39:40 cultural navigation services that I
1:39:42 think clearly Sav somebody's life um and
1:39:46 then they're they're always expanding I
1:39:48 feel like they're always um innovated
1:39:49 doing new things um and an example in
1:39:52 their narrative was um English as a
1:39:54 second language class um and um Spanish
1:39:58 classes using Mexican textbooks and play
1:40:01 groups um for Spanish English and and
1:40:05 Russian all right what else do we have
1:40:09 uh challenges that we're seeing I think
1:40:12 not a surprise ultimately just an
1:40:14 increase in need um and uh for the food
1:40:19 bank um they're just seeing this overall
1:40:21 Trend uh
1:40:22 35% increase um from last year of um
1:40:26 families accessing their
1:40:30 services um kid Vantage I think had a
1:40:33 similar um number that they shared with
1:40:35 us um that also shows that um they're
1:40:38 seeing an increase of um uh reoccurring
1:40:42 order so the same child is receiving
1:40:45 Goods more than one time that would get
1:40:48 40% um and so
1:40:51 that is again just showing more of that
1:40:57 need um okay and so where we're at again
1:41:00 is um uh in January is when the Q4
1:41:04 reports are due so um sometime in
1:41:07 February or March I do plan to come back
1:41:09 um to the commission with some more
1:41:10 information about some annual um updates
1:41:13 of overall how did they do it the their
1:41:15 first year in the
1:41:19 cycle and great
1:41:22 perfect
1:41:24 wonderful well any other questions or
1:41:27 anything
1:41:30 else you're still awake good I had one
1:41:34 question um when you when you talk about
1:41:37 80 there were 80 programs made requests
1:41:39 40 programs were funded but not all of
1:41:42 those were funded at 100% of what they
1:41:44 requested right correct yes yes um it's
1:41:47 it's we always encourage um Oran
1:41:50 organizations to just ask um what their
1:41:53 need is and we will'll see what what
1:41:56 where we can meet them okay I have a
1:41:59 question about the community service uh
1:42:01 Community responders uh you had some um
1:42:05 openings yeah as have those been filled
1:42:08 yes and no so we've have um we currently
1:42:14 have um one we have air Shaban he's been
1:42:18 our uh Behavioral Health coordinator for
1:42:21 the last two and a half years so he's
1:42:22 still here and then three open positions
1:42:25 one of them has been filled um with um
1:42:29 clip I met him once he just just started
1:42:32 and um he's our Behavioral Health
1:42:36 supervisor okay so that position has
1:42:38 been filled and we are currently inter
1:42:40 interviewing for two um for the two more
1:42:43 um position people for him to supervise
1:42:45 yeah yes
1:42:47 exactly so but we have interviews
1:42:49 happening now so that really great good
1:42:51 good news yeah so hopefully we'll have
1:42:53 an update in January with some good news
1:42:57 okay it would be nice to have Cliff come
1:43:00 to one of our meetings yeah yeah maybe
1:43:02 um in February I know Monica's GNA be
1:43:05 here um in well I'll be on vacation um
1:43:08 so she'll be covering for me and giving
1:43:10 some updates about the uh some of our
1:43:12 programs so that could be a great
1:43:14 opportunity to meet him yeah that'd be
1:43:19 great
1:43:21 okay well um it's 8:15
1:43:24 now and
1:43:27 um I don't I don't really have a chair
1:43:29 report does does anybody want to share
1:43:34 anything this category is chair and
1:43:36 commissioner reports I did not make it
1:43:40 to um The Day of the Dead yes they allow
1:43:44 more yes it was a wonderful event yes
1:43:48 and I know that Heime did and we were
1:43:50 hoping would be here yeah
1:43:53 yeah um yeah um so that sorry real quick
1:43:58 are youth report Preston does not have
1:44:00 any updates he couldn't make it today
1:44:02 but no updates from him and then our
1:44:04 staff report I certainly can um if
1:44:07 there's anything you want me to
1:44:08 highlight um I was just curious when you
1:44:11 say um I noticed you have the dates on
1:44:13 here for January in February yeah and
1:44:16 our human services staff so you'll be
1:44:18 doing a presentation at each one of
1:44:20 those meetings
1:44:22 so it well Monica will be yeah so Monica
1:44:24 will be
1:44:24 presenting um um in January just just an
1:44:28 update on uh the emergency housing
1:44:30 program and behavioral health program to
1:44:33 response um and then in February uh
1:44:36 we'll be doing kind of a human strategic
1:44:39 plan implementation update to our
1:44:41 Council which means we'll be coming to
1:44:44 our commission in January with that um
1:44:48 agenda item before we go to
1:44:51 okay then the other things in here looks
1:44:52 like they were just updates
1:44:55 regarding uh upcoming let's see
1:44:58 education event in
1:45:00 December and then just summaries of past
1:45:03 events right yep exactly exactly so if
1:45:06 you're interested in some of those
1:45:07 numbers uh emergency rental assistance
1:45:09 program some details on how that funding
1:45:12 went and then just a recap of dsos
1:45:15 SM boom boom boom boom boom y yep yep
1:45:21 okay well I
1:45:23 think I think we're pretty much almost
1:45:26 to the end
1:45:27 now um anything for the good of the
1:45:32 order goe
1:45:35 Manny I think's getting ready to say
1:45:38 something
1:45:40 no well it seems weird to to you know
1:45:43 see you next
1:45:45 year that does seem odd doesn't it such
1:45:49 a quick year
1:45:51 yeah just a reminder we will not be
1:45:52 meeting in December we'll have a recess
1:45:54 and so our next official meeting is
1:45:56 January 17th and you'll be just probably
1:45:59 hearing some emails for me but please
1:46:00 don't be shy to say hi or if you have
1:46:03 any questions
1:46:06 or okay those are really interesting
1:46:09 reports I love that um the um I