emerged to transport police, and criminal justice. it does not include the loss of lost taxes from people killed. does not include all of the other costs to businesses, to california citizens, and so forth. so i am convinced that safe storage laws reduced gun suicides, unintentional injuries, and gun crimes with stolen guns. i appreciate these findings. you do not want to get a phone call that says your son has been killed. he was not playing with a gun, he was visiting the home of someone else and he has been killed. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you for sharing that very powerful and tragic story. thank you for everything that you are doing to really help

stem the tide. thank you. next speaker please. >> good morning, supervisors of public safety. is there any member of the public that would like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >think it over, think it over because i want it safe in the city today and police take away all the hate. come on, public safety committee, come see about that supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? this is the time to time in. seeing none, public comment is closed. -- chine in.

colleagues, madam city attorney, if there is anything that you would like to add? >> nothing more from the other than, as a citizen of san francisco, appreciative that we are a leader on these policy issues. supervisor mirkarimi: despite the adversity nationally, locally from special interest groups. i think the fighting speak for themselves. i believe we can always add more to those, shared by the anecdotes in the stories and to committed here today, make it that much more powerful. i am proud to be convincing this so that it reinforces san francisco's commitment to what i believe are sensible gun measure safety laws to keep our citizenry, children protected.

i would very much like to see this advance. supervisor campos: motion to move for the recommendation. i would like to be added as a co-sponsor. i also want to thank the gentleman that spoke about his experience with the death of his son. i want to thank him and all the parents and family members who have taken such a tragedy and made something positive, in the sense that they are fighting to save lives. that is very courageous and we are truly indebted to you. supervisor mirkarimi: agree. as a father, it is almost unspeakable. thank you. may we take this without objection? excellent. thank you, city attorney's office, everybody you had a hand in crafting this. madam clerk. item 8.

>> item 8. hearing on the "youth violence prevention initiative: local action plan" report by the department of children, youth, and their families. supervisor mirkarimi: a very good. thank you for your patience. i think it has been a very good substantive opportunity to hear what the city is contending with on public safety from a range of points. today, we have ever -- presentation from the department of children, youth, and families on their recent youth violence report. the violence is becoming a significant problem in san francisco. we are track -- constantly trying to check in with. agencies to find solutions so that we can intervene and reduce as quickly as we possibly can. the following statistics make the need that much more clearer. homicide is the leading cause of death among youth in san

francisco between the ages of 15 and 24, nearly twice the state rate. into the 9, san francisco family and support services addressed over 1000 cases of child abuse and neglect. certainly, also not just from a public safety perspective, but from a budget committee perspective, we are beginning to see the cost and the man on city services translate into a very impact all way that also raises additional alarms for its collateral consequences of ongoing and unchecked violence. i would like to welcome the dcyf director maria sue. i understand there are other department have that will be speaking. family gerber, public health department. director, great to see you. >> thank you, karen mirkarimi,

members of the committee. before i begin my presentation, i want to say thank you so much for passing the ordinance for safe storage of firearms and also for addressing the issues of lethal ammunition. so proud to be a sanfrancisco residents. we are leaders in safety and prevention. thank you so much for your leadership. once again, good morning, i'm the director for the department of children, youth, and their families. i am here the joined with be colleagues from the provision apartment and dr. gerber from the department of public health. we are here to secure support of a joint report that we released through the juvenile justice coordinating council called the violence protection initiative local action plan. this local action plan report establishes the city's strategies and recommendations

for community violence prevention interventions services targeting at risk youth and young adults in our city. we are a state mandated body that is comprised of approximately 20 members, representing public safety entities including sfpd, the d.a.'s office, public defenders, sheriff, adult, and juvenile probation department, as well as social service agencies, including the human services agencies, the part of public health, sampras is a unified school districts, and of course, dcyf. we also included other entities such as the youth commissions and the board of supervisors. we want to make sure that this body that is going to direct the policy work for children within the city, has to be representative of the need and include all of our voices.

just a little background. in 2008, the three departments represented here made a strategic decision with the support of our major to align our funding and policies and program development. this partnership led to many best practices that i can list and go on and on, but i'm going to call on best practices already recognize statewide. first of note, in 2009, we created a joint rfp, which is a joint solicitation process in which we blended the different funding streams that fund the violence prevention services, both federal, state, and local funding streams. so that we can create an easily extensible and streamlined system, so that when we say every door is the right door for our young people, we truly mean it. you do not need to be in a de- compensated state to receive

our of violence prevention services. we want to read our young people from entering surgery. -- prevent our young people from entered surgery. we were also able to leverage their expertise and resources of public health, particularly, leveraging the state funding stream that pays for mental health services. this is considered a best practice because we were able to take very limited and precious and general fund and were able to grow it to the magnitude of almost 50%. we invested 50 cents for services. the state was able to pay for the other 50 cents of services. both of these are considered cutting edge, believe it or not, in the state, so much so, next monday, for several days, and the california cities gang

prevention network will host their conference here in the city so they can highlight this type of partnership, so we can take this partnership and talk about this type of work to other cities throughout the state. finally, i want to acknowledge and recognize my staff and the violence prevention team for spending to help us hours, meeting with community members, members of your staff, key stakeholders throughout the city, and truly listening to them and their needs, and taking up all of that, along with the data from sfpd, and creating a report that is truly representative of the needs of the city. now i'm going to hand the podium to allison mickey from the juvenile probation department. i will be here for any other questions for the committee. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you for all the great work by dcyf

staff and all the partners then we will hear from, both in the initial presentation and in public comment. break the appreciate it. -- greatly appreciate it. >> good morning, supervisors. allison mcgee. i wanted to expand on a couple of maria's comments. we are in the third year of our partnership owhich was meant to minimize budget cuts would for coming down for our community partners. that partnership has grown into a true collaborative. by allowing jpd to shift its focus from -- to my term contracts, we are better able to focus on supporting our staff in terms of their developing their partnerships and relationships with their community partners, and with you themselves. we have been able to dedicate a

police officer to serve as a liaison between our police officers to insure fewer gaps in services and better service across the board. this partnership has also expanded out words in terms of our other internal stakeholders. for referred to the juvenile justice court council. this body is mandated by the state to allow the county to receive certain funds, but it had really devolved into a rubber-stamp process were every year it wasn't approving the same plan, and through the partners, we have expanded the role that jjc takes in over seeing, coordinating fought the french and citywide. in doing so, we have insured better consistency or continuity in the programs and policies and the members themselves. the police department, adult probation, we all agree on the city's strategy. they can then incorporate that

strategy in their own policies. we are proud of the work we have done. we are eager to continue. i will not introduce dr. emily gerber who will speak on behalf of dcyf. -- dph. >> i am the manager of the intensive supervision and clinical services program, which has benefited from the local action plan partnership. it is a great example of what our cross agency partnerships look like on the ground. in 2010-2011, intense community- based services were provided by five agencies and a program psychiatrist, funded by a blend of violence prevention initiative dollars and state metical dollars. services were provided city

wide to over 250 juvenile justice involved youth with serious behavioral problems and high risk. as you know, nationwide, over 70% of youth involved in the juvenile justice system have mental health needs. another of 25% have serious mental health needs. iscs is designed to serve those youth. the majority of the youth in our program have been exposed to repeated community buviolence. at least have have symptoms of ptsd, which can contribute to the kinds of behaviors that get them into trouble and involved in the system. ifcs is more effective than just

supervision alone. combines monitoring of the structure of intensive supervision with an array of clinical services, including evidence-based practices like cognitive therapy and seeking safety. some of that information i believe has been provided to you. our overall goal is to address the critical needs of youth, reduced recidivism, and increase their well-being and functioning. key to the success of this program is the close probation and a rural health collaboration that takes place on the ground to implement an individualized plan for youth based on standardized assessment of their needs and strengths. and having this assessment and a plan based on what is actually going on with youth allows probation and behavioral health

to work together with progress benchmarks that youth and family can see and everyone else involved can see. we have done some preliminary evaluations of the program and the evaluation has shown an increase in the appropriateness of the services that youth are being provided. has shown increased behavioral health and behavioral collaboration. youth are actually engaging in these services. a fuller about tuition is currently being conducted of our first two years a program outcomes. we hope to follow up with you on those outcomes charlie -- shortly. thank you. i will not pass the podium on to deanna who will tell you more

about the program. >> good morning, public safety supervisors. it is a pleasure to speak today about the work and what we are looking forward to with this new local action plan. i have a couple of slides that i would like to show you. i am not sure if it will appear. i did bring hard copies. but that i will stari will starg you know the local action plan is part of an effort that we were assigned at dcyf to conduct a while back pay and we had envisioned planning for couple of years to produce this document. we did in the past was look at all different plans that our department was assigned and create an umbrella document and revision to the bond prevention

plan. if you look at the second slide in your packet, what you see is a diagram that speaks to the revision process. the local action plan specifically is the second phase of our over all by and prevention plan revision. supervisor mirkarimi: did you want to use the overhead? >> great. as you can see, we are on the second phase. the first phase was the straight violence reduction initiative. currently, it is in its implementation process. we are working closely with the agencies that work with us on the street level to reduce violence, not only would gang- related violence, under current terms, issues that exist on the street level. we drafted a plan that was a requirement from some of our national and state partners, and now we are and point of making it happen, working closely with

those agencies to make sure we were could easily not only at the city level, but also at the community level to reduce street violence in general and to keep our homicides reduced over all. the second phase of the violence prevention program is the local action plan. today, i am presenting to you around this product of what it looks like, in terms of what our joint partners envisioned when preventing violence. some of the major issues that we see to date that really should influence the way we dictate our funding, that we actually produced in general. the third phase is still in progress. that is the city-wide ballot project -- prevention program. we are waiting for the transition of the new mayor to come on board to then further define how we want to move forward with the bond prevention plan. the existing plan expires in 2013, so we hope to use this upcoming year to finalize the updated version and and move on to our next five years strategic

plan. moving into the violence prevention plan in general, lap, we created an extensive community input process that included community meetings, focus groups, interviews, and we also had a series of key stakeholder meetings that a lot of you where a part of. a lot of your aides for dissipated and gave us extensive feedback. from that you see a total of about 400 estimated data points that we collected. from this point, we also looked at the literature that told the story of what needed to be prioritized in terms of violence prevention in the city. the combination of community input and literature review shaped the way that we finalized our local action plan. so what is the local action plan? the local action plan purpose

was established by the jjc partners. it is to establish the funding strategies and recommendation for community violence prevention and intervention efforts targeting young adults between the ages of 10 and 25. all this funding is supposed to steer towards that direction. we want to make sure that it is clear, that it is dictated in a concise way so that it is clear what the funding is for. then we can better shape some of the outcomes we would like to see. the framework we used for our local action plan this time around, because we do produce had a local action plan every year. this reiteration of it, we used a theory of change for our bond prevention and intervention efforts. we are working with the mission analytics group, an independent evaluation firm, to create an overall framework that connects all of our violence prevention

and intervention in a portfolio. we are also looking at including an hour from mark a circle of care model which have traditionally put been part of the local action plan. that looks at providing service to youth and prevent them from three incarcerating, refunding, and moving them into a more productive framework. finally, something that is fairly new in this year's framework of the lap is a restorative justice principle. we want to follow the principles of restorative justice. it was also a recommendation that was strongly recommended by not only the jjcc, but by our community partners. most of the principles follow the rules of the san and cisco unified school district. we tried to align ourselves with the vision of san francisco of restorative justice. in this sense, restorative justice is at the forefront of the remark. following that is community input and the evidence of best

practices that dictate the way that our lap is shaped. our target population is 10 to 25 years of age. we are predominately focusing on three major target populations. one being at risk, two being highly at risk, and 3 being in risk. the definitions which are more details are in the action plan. we are more than happy to go through any other question that he might have about the target population. supervisor cohen: i wanted to go back over the definition. at risk, in risk, and highly at risk? you said it is in the packet, but in terms of those who are listening and watching, for those who do not have the information in front of them, could you go over the distinction of each definition? >> absolutely. at risk are you involved in some sort of violence but are not necessarily involved with the

system necessarily. that is kind of the broad definition that you can think about. highly at risk refers to more youth that are exhibiting more delinquent behavior that have had some sort of contact with the police or law enforcement entities but have not been incarcerated. in risk means you are in custody, actually inside an adult or juvenile prison setting, on probation, parole. that is the difference between the three categories. and again, more extensive detail is included in the plan. in layman's terms, that is the general definition. some of the major findings that we had, what we did an extensive literature review and we found some really concerning challenges that relate to the juvenile and adult population. one of the thing that i want to highlight was coming in 2010, we

found most of the referrals -- juvenile referrals were between the ages of 15 and 18 years of age. most of the individuals referred to us are disproportionately represented. 40% are african-american, 17% are latino males. and when we also found, and our findings, most of the bookings, most of the offenders, yes, there is an increase in the amount of bookings, but there is an increase -- decrease in the amount of bookings, but there is a incn increase in the seriousness. also wanted to highlight the criminal justice challenges that we found. when we spoke to our colleagues in adult probation, we found for this population, there was an 80% percentage of and need to address education. 75% were dealing with issues of

unemployment. 20% dealing with issues of mental health inez's. 80% dealing with substance abuse issues. 70% with criminal associations. these major findings are alongside many other findings to we have included in the plan. it wanted to highlight the major findings because it was really important for us to look at what are some of the current trends of the population we are speaking to. following that, on the flip side, we also wanted to present the major achievements at our portfolio has funded in the past. that is also included in the lap, like what has happened with the local action plan, and the funding, a question that most supervisors and individuals in the community have. some of the achievements are highlighted here. in 2009 through 2010, we found around 511 youth were diverted from detention and enrolled in

the community as a set -- assessment and referral center, a major initiative funded to work out of huckleberry programs, working in collaboration with juvenile department. in terms of specific programs, we wanted to highlight a around 374 women received a gender- specific services. out of the 395 youth served in total, 374 were part of jpd's database. that meant that this amount of women were given a comprehensive program and were also enrolled in jpd's database. these agencies work closely with the youth at the juvenile level. following that, our case

management strategy, we wanted to highlight the jjccp funding of this goes tomb a lot of amazing programs. eight served 823 youth, 85% of which demonstrated a positive outcome. that could of been the obtaining an education, completing school, going to some type of girl that is necessary, whether it is employment, life skills. these are some of the major outcome that we wanted to highlight in terms of the funding and what has been produced. following that, to the side, you see the strategies and services we funded over all in fy10-fy11. these are the strategies that we produced out of our lap, and from that, 5044 youth in total served by this portfolio.

this year, when we wanted to do, after all the input, we realize it was important for us to define similar but refine and define strategies. we have similar strategies, but they're only six this upcoming round. the strategies are presented on top. they are secondary prevention, diversion, detention alternatives, the tension-based services, after care reentry, and after care services. the difference between the color coding is the agreement focuses on mostly at risk and fiat -- highly at risk youths. the red focuses on in risk, custody young adults. what you see on the far right is all the activities that we fund. once again, what we did was collect all the information from the community, look at the need,