NEW YORK, NEW YORK (August 11, 2022) — Today, the New York City Council passed a bill that will require DOHMH establish a pilot program in New York City, that will start in October 2022 and continue through June 30, 2024, to train doulas and provide no-cost professional doula services to New Yorkers across the five boroughs.
Those served by the pilot program will be based on TRIE (Taskforce on Racial Inclusion &
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NEW YORK (August 11, 2022) – Council Member and Chair of the Committee on Technology Jennifer Gutiérrez held an Emergency Oversight Hearing today on the Failures of NYC’s Technological Response Under Critical Demand.
Council Member Gutiérrez called for an emergency hearing on July 17, in response to the highly publicized failures of the rollout of New York City’s monkeypox vaccine portal.
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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK (August 8, 2022) – For decades, the area near Cooper Park and Cooper Park Houses has experienced violence, unhoused individuals, and substance abuse on its streets. In the past several years, these issues have become more acute citywide from the stresses of the pandemic, with a commensurate rise in the Cooper Park area.
This is unacceptable.
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NEW YORK (July 14, 2022) – City Council Member and Chair of the Technology Committee Jennifer Gutiérrez and Health Chair Lynn Schulman are calling for an emergency Oversight Hearing to address the failure of the recent monkeypox vaccine rollout, raising concerns about Mayor Adams’ administration’s emergency preparedness, and the capability of New York City’s technology infrastructure to address another pandemic and any other immediate issues of public health.
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WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — Two Queens schools, one Brooklyn school, Maria Hernandez Park Dog Run and North Brooklyn to receive a combined almost $1 million from Council Member Jennifer Gutierrez’s office to fund projects this year.
The vote was the 7th time that the Participatory Budget (PBNYC) program has been used in District 34, which includes parts of Bushwick and Williamsburg in Brooklyn, and Ridgewood in Queens.
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