their own feelings and work with children with similar feelings. we can teach them all the math. we don't have clue one to teach them how to feel and express it appropriately. it's the same thing i start with in in-patient or out-patient. how do you feel and how do you express that. the sel is very important. social, emotional learning. one is illinois, they have laid out an entire track. the teachers have to be taught before they graduate and become certified. and texas just recently passed the law, every middle school and high school student has to

go 3 anger management and emotional training before they leave school. what makes more sense? how do live with yourself and others at the same time. >> thank you. i am going to ask officer parillo to talk. often people are intimidated by police presence. how have you been able to work collaboratively with parents to gain trust and how have you used community policing, that term can mean many things to see a police officer as an ally as an friend rather than

perhaps an authority figure who is simply going to be disciplinaryian? thank you. for me and my colleagues. it's about relationship building. most definitely. and the only way to do that is to be there. and to listen. if you're talking, you're not listening. those are all great trendy words to say. we are on board with that as well. that can't be done unless you already have as my colleague, doctor wenz is saying. part of the sro program, it

offers 6 officers skills clinic. we are doing that within 9 middle schools. it's grant funded specifically for that. and so far, the funding stream is there and the school district has been supportive of that as well. that add to the other programs. project impact and alert. all very important programs. the other piece that we're charged to do is help create a saver environment for the children in school. so we, as school resource officers, wear many hats. 1 day we are mediating or siting a child.

we offer classes. we have a wilderness component. we take them hiking. we do that with the school district, the boys club and the ymca. the connection is the important thing. without the connection and listening relationship, there is no trust. that's what we strive to build. >> thank you. did you want to add something, angela? >> yes, i did, i had a couple of action items. i think this is a good time to add. to officer parillo. there's a lot of great programs. i noticed these programs are

sporadic. there's a couple at this school and this school. maybe a year, 2 years. there's maybe one program. not that many programs that we invest in long term. i was looking at this the other day with the contents. if you look at the back. there's a charter of the usfd. violence prevention chart. the most important part for me is the school wide behavior program. what's been found to be the best way to prevent violence is have a school wide program. it has to be embedded in your

curriculum. the different ways you create different rules in class and how do deal with that. there's an entire school investment that has to be involved in this. there are tribes chants. is one method. but you notice. it's some schools. 3 or 4. maybe they had it for a year. it's not a consistent thing across the school district. it's frustrating. the elementary schools have some sort of program, which is an entire positive school climate that includes curriculum. what i would suggest or advocate for. for everyone invested in these

school programs to be adopted more widely. if we are concerned about preventing it. we need to change the way we teach class. it's not as simple as excelling the student, you pick up the phone, you call the police. that's another minority system out of the school system and into the juvenile system. >> before we move on -- thank you. the other part of what we need to talk about. what happens to a young person when they are arrested? before we move on. i wanted to ask doctor brodkin

if you can expand on that. >> i just love what you said. we have to take all these fragmented programs. there's a growing movement at the core of some of the ideas of education reform. a community school. every school has a full range the services. the district can't do it alone. school is center of community and really owned as a place by the community. i had i wonderful, i think we can do that. in great britain, they are going to have all community schools. it's what my colleague, jim dierck, is doing. we need to turn every school into a community school.

i had a fabulous opportunity to visit this school. it's for kids who have failed in every way. it's colead by the cb on. they do the counseling. vocational work. the district is the class teaching. they have somebody at their side all the time to help with the needs of the student and the principle and cbo get up and meet every morning. they were total partners in making this a community school. then i will be through. i had the opportunity to go to another school at 9 o'clock at night where i thought it was going to be closed. i walk into the school in upper manhattan and it is lit up like

a christmas tree. we have to light up every school. it changed the whole neighborhood. it was a beacon of wonderfulness. it was full of activity. of young people. parents. esl. everything. i got so excited about the potential could be. and it changed the neighborhood and young people. if you want to talk about safety. i think we can make a joint commitment to this philosophy and start making it happen in san francisco. >> i really, i completely agree with margaret. when you look at this list, the

reason some schools have this is because those schools go out and hustle funds. we are blessed because d.c. yf. we have the city that helps us. we have prop h. but the reality, the bottom route is our state doesn't fund anything. our problem, frustration as a school districts. they are not opposed to doing what texas has done. we would love to have social emotional communities. we don't even have the money to have a basic teacher in every

classroom. california is an out right disgrace. how can we be the eighth richest economy? we're the 8th richest economy and we rank 48th. we will be dead last. that means louisiana. mississippi. every one will fund education. better than the 8th richest. every one of our children deserve this. we aren't walking the talk. the reality is, we talk a good line. but we don't walk the talk. this public, all the citizens. not only in san francisco, but in california better start standing up for our kids.

we are not funding it. let's start getting behind and forcing the politicians to say, the most important thing is our children. >> all right. okay. so that is actually an excellent segway. we have approximately 7 minutes. so i am going to try to squeeze in 2 questions. i want to discuss what we're working with right now. we are working with and schools incorporating school based programs. they don't have the funding or resources. with that being said, what are some of the barriers of working

with the community based organizations to be able to work in an effective manner with the schools. i would like to refer to bianca. i know she worked with united players. to talk about a successful working with the program at a community based organization and other folks on speak to the barriers and strengths. >> i have been with up for a year and they provide amount. it's a violence prevention organization. they take you on field trips to fight for the power. the stop the violence. what i really liked about it. not only did it help you to

fight for power. but provided you with jobs. i know it helped a lot of kids and they come in and a lot of schools. they come in and we have meetings. we talk about many stuff. but i think, once a youth has an organization helping them out. when they are aware of all the stuff, it's really up to you. the youth is aware. the up awared me of a lot of stuff. it's up to me if i want to stop the violence. if your community, in your hood for your people. >> principle dierck. >> i would like to say, one of the barriers we need to work on is, we write a lot of grants at

my school. we have 26 partners. so that means most of the grants are 2 or 3 years and then they sense it. you get going on something really great and it goes away. we need to work on longevity. i would like to mention 2 programs that are great and one is the roots program. and those of you who don't know what that means. the program that was developed to help the sons and daughters of incarcerated parents. we started at my school and it's moveed to balboa. to help a lot of kids who are victims themselves of the system.

we have kids now who used to hate to come to school and now they are there everyday. they are getting what they need done and moving on. that's a good program. and secondly, the beacon program which, we have 8? >> yes >> we have 8 beacons around the city. they are really wonderful and lead the way to helping us with all of our kids. and i commend the mayor and margaret for help us out with those. >> mr. garcia? >> also, i need to add the wellness centers. >> around thing we need to build on is restored advocacy.

we are pilots jane kimberly. she educated me. and then we are starting to get the principles together. people are starting to buy into it. it's a learning process. it's not just, punishing kids more. they are used to be punished. my momma hits harder than that. we need to have systems in place that view it a little differently. from the victim's point of view. and deal with it on an emotional level. people can relate to that. i think our biggest problem is the district doesn't have the capacity to address when all these groups come out it. it's not that we don't want to deal with it. we don't have a grant writer.

we don't have the interfaces. tony smith. we have been working with creating those types of things. the city have been wonderful to build our capacity. if you are a principle, what do you do in a hundred different agencies come at you? you barely have the time at school. we need to create user-friendly. i think we're going to get there with our new strategic plan. how did your organization, what you do fit into the plan? it's got to be there to support what we're all about. improving student achievement. that's what we're about. i am proud to say, we've had lots of meetings, we are getting there. i am exciting working with

margaret. our bureaucracy wasn't created to work with these. if you want the convenience business, stay the heck out of this business. we have to learn how to play if the sand box and model what we want our city to be. >> all right. we'll save one, yes, >> actually, i want to piggyback. this is a commercial and also an action item. i think we need to truly fund peer court youth court. they have stopped their services a few weeks ago because they don't have the money to start up again next year. for those of you who do not know issue it's a peer driven,

adult mentored place where children can come. be tried by their peers. they listen to these kids. they lead out more meaningful consequences than i can give them or the school can give them. they deserve their support. >> i have no more money. >> well, you know, i can make the pitch and i know that it was an agenda item. it's a resource for educators. many of you don't know that i, as an officer have more discretion than the people in the school district has. take that in. there are certain so called

columbine, i ask admonish. do you understand what you did is wrong. i can divert to peer court. sometimes the district is compelled to spend and refer for expulsion. >> i do want to say. this is a bad budget year. i have been told all the things to cut. i am committed. i want to cry. all the things we fund are held up as models and i am committed to the next year's children's club. it has to be our coming together. it's a 2-way street.

it's the school district embracing the community. it's really going to take resources and i think the superintendent is correct, resources. we could do better. we could be better partners to end on a mundane note. one of the core successes of a community school is a single point of entry. someone's job is the resource coordinator. that's one of the first things that i am considering funding. having a point that really welcomes the community. >> thank you and so due to

time, i would like to take one more remark from doctor wenz. >> in regards to the funding for social emotional learning. when you look at kids who are expelled or expended from schools. they lose money. that's money that can be kept in the school if there is in fact an anger management course available for that student. it shows that with sel, not only do grades go up, in the schools entirely, but there's an increase in class harmly and self esteem and the entire

community benefits. and that's from 288 thousand students looked at of that particular program. i mean, let's face it, at the direction we're going now, socially in this country, we don't have any choice but to initiate sel in our schools >> thank you. doctor wenz, can you state clearly what sel is for everybody >> it's social emotional learning. learning about one's self and how to recognize and work with other people's feelings too >> can we give all the panelists a round of applause. we will move to questions. we have iona with the mic.

>> we got a question right here. . >> hi my name is joanne, i visited atlanta for social reform >> where are you? >> i am here. i visited atlanta for a whole week. the community bus is the best thing we can have if we can put it together. it's nothing like bringing the community together. you have to start at home. if you want to put something together, you have to go to the communities. have the youth say it. i see a lot of youth parents taking them to school because they are afraid they won't see

their child again. it starts in the community. this meeting is really great. you are preaching to the choir. we need to speak to the youth. i have seen violence on the bus of a kid showing off a weapon in the bay view. people don't want to change and they don't want to be labeled. we are not protected. you have to be careful on what you see. you can't say what you see at all times. if you live in the community and you see something. you have to understand people are not telling things because they are not protected of the we have to understand, what we can do about it is put police officers on the buses from the high crime areas going to the schools so they can be on the

bus that's what they need. we need to put them on the buses so they feel comfortable going to school. >> that's right. i want to introduce tracy brown in the audience >> stand up >> the dc y. and it's going to be tracy's job to think about and plan for the bus program. tracy, d.c. yf.org. >> when we say questions, we mean questions not comments >> hi. my name is susan stone.

i am on victim mediation. it's alive and well. my question is i want to acknowledge your commitment and passion. is there a place in the schools in this community where we can stop the cycle of shame and blame. both on the offenders because these crimes are among the youth under 18. we would love to see that program happen. there are 22 people and we would love to see it in san francisco. >> we have already started that program.