CM Won Secures $5 Million to Create First Language Access Co-Op in the Country  

December 21, 2022 

Queens, NY –  On Wednesday, December 21, Council Member Won and community advocates celebrated the passage of a legislative package to greatly expand language access for immigrant New Yorkers. Intro 136 and Intro 700, two bills spearheaded by Council Member Julie Won, will address the translation, interpretation, and overall language access needs of our immigrant neighbors and small business owners.

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December 22, 2022 

Queens, NY –  On Thursday, December 22nd, Council Member Won, NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, and allies from African Communities Together, Asian American Federation, New York Immigration Coalition, MASA, and Make the Road New York responded to the tragic suicide of John, a recent migrant to our city, in a city shelter. The Council Member, her colleagues, and the community offered condolences to his family and called out the negligence of Department of Homeless Services (DHS) and the shelter provider Samaritan Daytop Village for a lack of care, access to wraparound services like mental health resources, cultural competency, language translations in Spanish, and access to enough fresh food that has proven fatal too many times over the past few years. 

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WALKTHROUGH FOLLOWS CM WON’S VISIT TO DEP COMMAND CENTER

December 20, 2022

Queens, NY –  On Friday, December 16,  Council Member Julie Won invited Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala and his team to discuss long term flooding resiliency strategies and to visit multiple flood zones in Woodside and Sunnyside.

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