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classroom in technical assistance are those teachers who have been in the classroom. they are now rerfp'ing that total chunk. technical assistance is now directly linked. supervisor avalos: thank you. inclusive practices in an inclusion? for how long? >> you design allocations, with a little bit from a gsa, i do not care about the inclusion of our early childhood practices, but what we want is strong professional development encroaching components that will go into the classroom and children were -- will do
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corporate things. be will also take two community days -- community-based programs so that we are paralleling the work of the school district hopefully in the next year or two, we have the ability to work with special needs. supervisor avalos: they will be where? >> we have not picked them out yet. we're going to fund of the center for inflationary practices, then we are going to figure out, actually, it is going to be an application process. our criteria will be centered on the eastern southeast section.
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actually, they will really want to participate, because it is going to be pretty heavy. supervisor avalos: thank you. overall, broadly, how much does this body of work that you have presented here impact family day care providers? >> because we were joined with human service agencies as well, as a system, i do not know what to prevent -- percentage is that goes toward family child care, but those providers are the late part of the conversation in funding resources. we actually have a new strategy to support family childhood providers -- child care providers. supervisor avalos: this one year is thedcys part.
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ok. ok, there has been a discussion about consolidation in one that we wanted to -- leave -- explore. today they will probably call another hearing. rate concerns, wanting to move forward, you are welcome as well. supervisor chu: thank you. >> what i forgot to mention is that our partners in early education, as well as the school district, san francisco state, the keypad advisory council, along with the department of health. moving on to our next service area, out of school times, work
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for children ages 5 to 13, it reflects a commitment to the vision that every san francisco child will reach high school ready to succeed. although many children on track to succeeding in their transition to high school, there are some variables. we wanted to make sure that we have programs and funding available to ensure that we mitigate those disparities. i am really proud and will call it out. you will see that our current budget for a 11-12 is at $8.6 million. the proposal is for the next three-year funding cycle. the minimum amount for this service area comprehensive
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before school -- supervisor avalos: are we saying that there is a need to increase funding their base the more we are not getting at the state level? we are ramping of all together? >> it is our desire to ramp up to make sure that all san francisco children will have access to an after-school slot, if they choose to have one. supervisor chu: we have heard this a lot, how difficult it is to make sure that kids before school or after school board taken care of. >> another area that we will prioritize is to make sure that we have adequate funding for summer services as well. it is also something that we hear over and over again in the
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community. as a parent of a working mom, my needs services for my children as well. the other benefits of all of this -- supervisor avalos: sorry, how does that the program that out? how does that get dispersed? into what types of programs? >> it will all go through the rflp process. recreation, sports, arts, culturally enriching things that we believe all children need in order to have a holistic play around morning. supervisor avalos: don't we have a big event of this saturday as well? >> sorry? supervisor avalos: this summer's programming? >> yes, the summer resorts fair. last saturday. supervisor avalos: last saturday?
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oh, man. >> that will take -- send you a list. [laughter] supervisor kim: supervisor avalos: supervisor avalos: -- i am going to take it -- supervisor avalos: i am going to take a bed of that. let our team strategy, this is the one that addresses 13 to 25 years old, who are going to that final stage of development in transitioning into adulthood. building on the foundation of success developing during early childhood and elementary and middle school, our investment in teens and older young people are meant to advance the notion that all san francisco young people will be able to transition into adulthood successfully. of course, the cornerstone of this transition is for them to have the education attainment that they needed. skill development, as well as well mess and wellness services.
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based on the last two years of funding in this particular service area, we feel strongly that we need to work closely with the school district and city college to make sure that we provide a comprehensive background service for these young people. it is very hard for them to participate in our structured academic settings without additional support. we also believe strongly that our young people need support during summertime, particularly the young people who are not meeting all of their credit requirements. so, we're working closely with the school district to make sure that we have academic recovery programs for these young people, so that they can catch up with their peers. supervisor kim: i have a follow- up question to that. as the school district has announced this new -- launch
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this new initiative, i believe it is our ninth and 10th graders under this requirement, what are the plans for summer school programs to help kids catch up to make sure they are on track? >> so, last year we put together a plan between -- last year the mayor heard the plea of the parents. particularly the parents of ninth graders, who are now mandated under the new ordinance that the school district's past, that all students will graduate with atg class requirements. a lot of the parents heard from the mayor that their ninth grade student was getting either a d or f in require glasses, and that they needed additional support. last year be put together a program to support these young people with the school district.
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i actually just saw the data from school district officials yesterday, up 92% of the students that went through the summer program actually received credit and pass their particular class. phenomenal, particularly if you look at the programs previous year rate of 70% to 80%. the key was that we were able to bring in the enrichment components and support components of the academic summer school peace. supervisor chu: can you elaborate on what in richmond means? >> they are not going to school during the year, what would they go during the summer? we wanted to bring in intensive programs, like work force or team leadership programs,
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sotheby's and say look -- if you go to these few hours of school and engaged in intensive tutoring, you can participate in these other programs. believe it or not, that worked for a number of reasons. one, you have an adult person working with that person to go to school. then you also have that incentive for them to enjoy the end of this summer, to be able to do something that is fun. we are doing that again this year. we have started planning. we are not only planning for ninth graders, who are in the situation of d's and f's, we are also planning for the 10th grade students and rising ninth graders, which is going to be very beneficial, because now the school district has access to a database that the stanford
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university garden center created called the early warning indicator database that is able to identify young people who are not tracking in a correct trajectory to succeed and graduate on time. so, we can identify these eighth graders and help them in getting them kind of a summer boot camp, to get them ready for i'd grade. so, we will highlight that this year and we will see what happens. i am very excited, i think that would make a huge impact. supervisor kim: that is very good news. i am curious what percentage of students with credits failed out of their required courses and participated last summer? >> i would not have that information. supervisor kim: do we have the target this year in terms of numbers of eighth, ninth, and 10th graders to be hoped to enroll?
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of and we are leveraging stick funds as well? >> another break point. we are leveraging not only city dollars, -- another great point. we are leveraging not only city dollars, as well as state dollars, as well as summer after school dollars. for san francisco because of them xl and summer xl dollars. we are going to knit together a comprehensive summer program that will be able to provide for a firm majority of the children, if they needed. -- need it. supervisor kim: it would be great to get the numbers from last year, if we have funding capacity, and targets for this year, just to get a sense of the outcomes. i am glad to see that we are using all of this data, dated to identify eighth grade students.
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this is really, really good news. i believe that supervisor campos has called for a hearing of the joint school district select committee to hear about the progress of summer school planning. >> this is just one comment on the school district, but whenever -- supervisor kim: this is just one comment on the school district, but whenever we can do to help close the gap with teachers, if there was a way to identify the principals and teachers that have had the greatest outcome in that area and we would be able to recruit them for the summer programs -- it is right that in richmond helps to keep kids in school, but whenever you can do to make sure you have the best teaching and learning happening in the summer as well has already started. the sooner that we notify these
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teachers that we want them, they will hopefully then say no to the other opportunities that have this summer. >> thank you. i will move into the next set of slides. i'm going to hand the next part of the presentation of to our deputy director. by thank you. supporting investments, we are looking at necessary services to address people's readiness to achieve in schools. in here, you would see the categories of service areas. excuse me, one of them is family support services, followed by health the summer of programming. investment priorities, it is really about pondering with our city department human services agency, to ensure that our
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investment goes steady in the family resource center. we also want to make sure that there is a hub, a school base for young people to go into after school as well. every year, we send money to the department of public health to make sure that there is official funding for healthy kids, to cover the health insurance needs along with summer food programs. every year, we run the program is making sure that kids have access to food in chinese neighborhoods. supervisor chu: for the healthy kids program, -- supervisor kim: for the healthy kids program, how does that intersect with our healthy cf francisco program? >> about $3 million something is sent over to administer the plan. supervisor kim: i guess i am trying to understand, aside from
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the monetary component, is healthy kids completely separate from healthy san francisco? >> i believe that it is a part of it. supervisor kim: so, if you have a family that is part of how the san francisco, and they have a kid, do they have to pay? >> four young kids who are under-insured or don't have insurance. supervisor kim: in terms of the individuals who are not enrolled, but want their kids to have coverage, would they go through healthy kids? and the department of public health would be the experts? >> correct. >> ok.
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in a blend of general funds. -- funds, in here is a alternative education service with secondary prevention engaging in risky activities all the way to use in hh-risk activities. those are the diversion services out to carry reentry. funding becomes available for an 8% increase where we have to invest more money into the work force, supporting the office of professional service providers. we asked about four rate we were addressing professional service needs. part of that is addressing the cbo as well, where they learn about the latest interventions. i wanted to see if there were any questions in that service area, too.
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if none, wrapping up, systems development. the four main categories in our systems development include our annual -- actual funds to be sent over to the school district for those services. we are creating a service there called public in engagement. strengthening our bedside to make sure that san francisco families can access services that be fun through the cbo's. we also intend to make the bedside different languages and more user-friendly. that is currently only available in english, we have to make it multilingual -- we hope to make it multilingual. drawing on the needs for data, we would invest more in these efforts to restore it to a better level so that we can
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better assess and understand the investment. we have other support investments, like supporting the field for investment health and shelter services for traditional age youth. that concludes our budget. supervisor chu: in terms of process, maybe you can answer, this - 8% and positive 8%, does this go through a community vetting process? the allocation went through the same? >> we started in november. november 2011. we have had monthly meetings at our citizens advisory council. going into details in each one of these areas.
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, the council approved this version here, of which is why we are willing to start talking with it the city commission we have to go back to the board in april to get approval. it includes the restoration's from the board, right? >> yes, that is the current budget for those services. supervisor chu: now, there was a reduction in a - 8% scenario. why have we specialized out school time programming 14th? can you explain that -- for teenagers? can you explain that? what was your point in okaying this?
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>> i can start, in the area where they need the most support be skilled development along with programming is taken down. as even see there is improvement on so, instead of saying specialized, it is shifting gears towards more skills involving rear development. >> yes. supervisor chu: with regard to discussions about state impact and subsidies for child care in
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the world of health care, where do you see -- how what would this budget in these medications respond to those sort of things. given our pot of money and what we provide, these are the priorities that we set forward. let's say that the state wants to reallocate, but with the process be? how do you adjust to different times in reality is that we see? >> if the state actually says that they are cutting out subsidies for child care, and there is no way that they could be able to cover the cost for that. so, part of the development of this allocation plan, we did the range in a-and + 8 range. -- minus and plus 8 range.
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the easy answer is that hopefully we will be able to adjust our budgets accordingly to our available revenues. if, for example, in child care there were drastic cuts, there are strong commitments from the three funding human service agencies for san francisco to come together again in reevaluate our funding strategy. this document is a guiding document that will guide the budget allocation. this should not live as if it were set in stone. of we do acknowledge that there are things that happen. no one projected or realize that the dot com, you know, that the economy was slowing to collapse a couple of years ago. that was a learning lesson for
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all of us to be as flexible as possible -- flexible as possible. we have had many conversations about what we would do if the state was born to continue to cut child care services. you will hear from the director in a minute about some of the pre-emptive things that she is going to do to make sure that our children will continue to have child care programs and services in the city. the other area -- the other things that our department -- most of these services are not connected or rely on state funds. we're very fortunate that a lot of these are coming directly to us from the general fund or the children's fund. the only service areas and that we leverage in use state dollars in our our balance prevention service areas. at this moment in time, we do not see any indication from the
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state that they will produce them to us. supervisor chu: i am glad that you had the two scenarios on your budget. i guess i am not as concerned about what happens if you have revenue fluctuations within your budget, because it sounds like you folks have thought about it within the range. there is a question of changing dynamics outside of our own budget at the state or other things that might cause us to reevaluate what we fund, of what is the mechanism to do that? certainly, because we are not paying for those subsidies at the moment, it does not mean that we do not prioritize or stacked against what we currently fund. i wonder if there is a mechanism or flexibility to reallocate what we see, based on the changing dynamics of the state or federal level.
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short of saying that you have my commitment to come together in reevaluate this, you have that commitment from us. ok, i guess we will move on to the next part of the presentation? >> thank you so much. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is laura. in the executive director. i am actually not going to present our strategic plan to you, although we do have anyone that was approved in february. it is a three year strategic plan, from 2012 through 2016. this is the requirement of the state of california. after that strategic plan, it informed our allocation plan,
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which you will hear today. we have a strategic advisory committee that went through the proper channels. we also have the index of needs developed a dcys to determine allocations based on needs of the children. so -- [unintelligible] can you see the first slide? this is just, this is our budget. we have two major funding sources said the side. we have approximately $15 million from prop h. we see a little increase happening next year. we do not know what the
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allocation will be 413-14. this year, -- for 13-14. some of that i will discuss later, but this is because we will enroll more children and we have to set aside in case there are state cuts. we have $3.7 million special prop funds. that was one-you're only. we also used for sustainability finance so we can find at a higher level. -- funds so we could fund at a higher level. we will use our sustainability funds for both of those years to bring it up to