oh, no, erroneous. going everybody >> good evening. >> how is everybody doing. >> my name is a emily i'm side executive director san francisco on the statute of women and welcome to the launch of the 2013 domestic violence awareness month. i'm so pleased to be here joined by so many city leader. as you know october commemorates

the domestic violence. and mayor lee is going to talk about some effort to end domestic violence. i want to share with you why everyone has a purple glow stick. as you know purple is the color representing domestic violence awareness and soo soon, we'll be lighting up city hall in purple for the fritter ever. an idea brought to us by our policy director where is he? but why the color purple. coloring to a french color historian the citizens of ancient lebanon cloefrd a dloefrd a source called purple the sea snail which produced a

juice that had remarkable props it turned light and green then violet and then a red which turned darker and darker. the process had to be stopped at the exactly the right time to obtain the desired color so it was derived from electronics formative anchors. the beginning of a transformer active process that can lead to an escape. domestic violence last year in san francisco over 50 crisis calls picture day and 15 thousand per year. our direct services represented by the folks here.

they touched almost 20 thousand individuals and provided nearly 40 thousand hours of supportive services. and while the chief of police say to be congratulated the number of domestic violence cases reviewed by the police department remains on unanimous average of 4 thousand cases per year. any one of which can become a homicide that. while we're waiting for the mirror mayor, i want to introduce da gas begun >> thank you emily. thank you good evening, everyone. this is a very important moment to come together and sclbt r celebrate the deliberately achievement we'll collectively

endangerment in the area of preventing domestic violence. it's also important for us to continue to work together and recognize the problem is very much alive. domestic violence has no boundaries. it doesn't motivator about your economic challenges how will with or not educated you are or your ethnic background. the fact that it touches everyone. countless women in our society have lost their lives. i'm proud to be here but to hear 1340 sobering statistics women under the angel of 50 are likely to die as of domestic invention. 22 percent of women across the

nation report obeying being a victim of domestic violence. we can walk any town in this country today and one out of 3 homes will have some form of domestic violence. so while we have made tremendous progress in reducing domestic violence and certainly my office has worked with many of you i think it's important to also stop and recognize that our work is not done. i want to also make several announcements i think i'm pleased to say this year are the assistance of the commission on the states of women we are that able to get a grant to a build upon our work to continue to improve the quality of work especially with more victims people that don't speak

lecturing english and members of the lgbt community. i want to thank the mayor and the board of supervisors and i want to thank the deposition violence community to conspire that our office was staffed properly. today for the first time in history we have a stand alone unit that deals with domestic violence that is self-contained we have argue parallels and our versus and our lawyers all working together. navigate those men marshall kline is with us and he's incredibly committed to the day to say we no longer have domestic violence in our community. so - (clapping) so today let's celebrate all the wonderful work that's been done

by let's not forget there's a lot of work to be done. there's still too many women and young imperials who are afraid to come forward. as long as there's a victim out there we're surviving as a community >> (clapping) >> thank you very much district attorney. we're so fortunate to have our mayor, mayor lee who's commitment to ending domestic violence to stop. he holds his service to the history regards he has said 90 through those there's no room to domestic violence in san francisco. he's put his money where his

money is he was vested $3 million to services against deposition violation. $42 million in shelters and hotlines and social services for women of domestic violence. please join me many welcoming mayor ed lee (clapping) >> thank you emily for that introduction. good evening, everyone. welcome to the steps of city hall and thank you all of you for coming together to shine a light on domestic violence. of course, i want to thank our da wheeze who's here and the board of supervisors who are standing behind me. the advocates against domestic violence and all the different departments that are working together. i want you to see those signs bus they represent the things

that we are are doing in san francisco.

(clapping) to provide her with the official proclamation i give this to this lady thank you for your leadership (clapping) another round of applause for our mayor. thank you very much mr. mayor. next i want to bring up the commissioner on the status of women and other commissioners please come up to the podium. >> going san francisco team against domestic violence. yes, that's all of us as the mayor says it takes us all. i serve agency the chair of the justice oversight panel a subcommittee on the status of women. i'm joined by my fellow

commissioners on the status of women. president nancy this 40 months where we have no domestic homicides in san francisco. we put certainty policies in place. it doesn't happen by happenstance. certainty policies and systems

in place for domestic violence survivors. those 40 reforms as the mayor mentioned make sure that you hold those sizes up out towards our community so folks can see what we are up to make sure that those policies are enacted. many of those reforms come from the justice oversight panel that was created in 2002 human resources after the murder of joyce to improve san francisco's - we have antonio please give him an applause he's a valued partner. and bevly a giant champion in

this quest and debeyond robert of moorey elizabeth and a also one of our community leaders activists on the issue of domestic violence mr. mel perkins is she here today. and certainly another towering finger kathy black is the executive director one of our most cherished institutes fighting domestic violence and last but not least our friend and fellow advocate kim tyson from the bay legal aid even if ken is not here let's make sure

we give him the deserved applause. so oversight panel conducted a safety audit that showed any things among the reforms that's demonstrated here today are several efforts to close the gaps. for example, san francisco as trained police officers and probation officer officers and judges. for limited english speaking and immigrant survivors who are particularly victimized we have expanded those to immigrant community and two trained first responder in the vocabulary of domestic violence and 3 provide telephone interpretation and

smart phone with translation software to police officers. we'll hear a little bit about that from our famous chief. we recognize the domestic violence survivors need many different options and some don't feel comfortable users our judicious system so we have a need not of community agencies again who are slnt here we partner with in servicing survivors and their families and children. we're assuring accountability for visitor by striking e strictly auditing the program. finally, there's we'll have about that noisy be noisy with me now and