We dont know how many Homeless Individuals actually participate in the program. Then in addition, you may have noticed on that chart, there are a number of departments, nine i believe, that showed no homeless participants whatsoever. A problem with some of the data is they dont provide any information on the residents of their parent pa their parent participants, so we dont know if there were homeless participants and they werent reported or if they didnt have any, anyway, but they dont fill in that data in their responses to the oewd annual inventory. As i mentioned, they dont have authority to compel the department to provide the data so it leaves a question and uncertainty about the actual level of participation of Homeless Individuals. Another factor, the last one here listed on this slide is that the homeless participants are counted in a different way than some of the other priority populations for Workforce Development services. Priority populations are identified in the five ye
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Statement. Rep. Garcia thank you very much, mr. Chairman and i also want to thank our witness. I know that this is a very difficult job and i wanted to start first by talking a little bit about the office and the role it plays and how important it is and also address some of the concerns that i think many folks of the country have. First, the office of Refugee Resettlement is have has absolutely a Critical Mission in this country. When i was mayor of long beach, orr actually opened an Emergency Shelter from july right around july 2021. We had about almost 1600 Migrant Children that orr reunited with family or sponsors. I met dozens and dozens of these children at the center. It was a heartbreaking experience, but also i saw firsthand the incredible work that the partners on the ground, the immigration defense attorneys, the social workers, the doctors were doing to assist all of these Young Children, many of who were were scared, what wanted to see family and many also who are very gra
Statement. Rep. Garcia thank you very much, mr. Chairman and i also want to thank our witness. I know that this is a very difficult job and i wanted to start first by talking a little bit about the office and the role it plays and how important it is and also address some of the concerns that i think many folks of the country have. First, the office of Refugee Resettlement is have has absolutely a Critical Mission in this country. When i was mayor of long beach, orr actually opened an Emergency Shelter from july right around july 2021. We had about almost 1600 Migrant Children that orr reunited with family or sponsors. I met dozens and dozens of these children at the center. It was a heartbreaking experience, but also i saw firsthand the incredible work that the partners on the ground, the immigration defense attorneys, the social workers, the doctors were doing to assist all of these Young Children, many of who were were scared, what wanted to see family and many also who are very gra