need it are not going to them. maybe we need to bring it to the people. so the people i deal with in public housing. i hope we can continue this coalition, not just when we hear that somebody has been killed, that it is ongoing. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. next speaker please. supervisor olague: [reading names] >> i am chief executive officer at west side community services. i think that i and we have to le fatalities we have each week in the city, the disproportionate number of african americans that are killed in the us fatalities -- and does fatalities and the

delivery system. we are children impacted by violence at the structural intersection marginalizes property. they have told of the community with the outcome will prevent youths from becoming involved, basically preventing them from becoming criminals. we look at what rate looks like. i don't think we can be served now in a way that meets our needs.

people that are working with social workers, those are considered to be threats to the community. the people need to be educated at around when these organizations offer, and it took me a long time to understand the social workers cover a range of different types of people. for me growing up, social workers came to my house. i wonder how much help they are getting in the system the luck of the community and look at flaws and characters of the family they serve rather than the reality of the experience. when you combine this with low

expectations, lets just give the community something rather than how we restore and double the community that has been beaten down. >> i am a legislative aide for supervisor olague. i wanted to read a public statement that we got from the youth commissioner for district 5. i will read what he submitted to us. i am a youth commissioner from district 5 and a member of the commission was a youth justice committee. i would like to ask for yourself ending in the senseless violence impacting the community.

we had another -- there are afraid because of the constant threat of violence. some recommendations are increasing support for youth employment, making sure that it is a safe place for people to travel. and having more creative activities. he said to please call him because he hopes to be of service in any way. >> i work with west side community services and i am a program coordinator for the community case management program. we offer case management and free mental health services.

i wanted to suggest or see how we could form some kind of relationship with the city department and the community organizations. if they are getting a call for a homicide, how can it come down to us to modify its -- and motivate and work with that family. what kind of services do you need? i would like to see if there is a way we can formulate some kind of plan so that when these things happen, the agencies in the community are aware and are able to work with them. supervisor olague: [reading names]

>> i also work for westside community services, and i am going to let you guys know what it is that we do. they offer free mental-health services to a predominantly african american families and individuals in the western addition. holly offer is to the kids at the age of three, and we offer therapy and the class. we have a psychiatrist on site where we have case management and if you need help with homes, truancy, that is what we do.

>> in good afternoon, supervisors. one of the points is that there is a lot of agencies, and we don't know about them. the sentences go resident, right now working with agencies, we feel the need to step up and do everything because there is not a lot going on. for the first time we applied for funding, we did not have any lesbian, gay, or bisexuals on the board of directors. we've been around for 12 years and we didn't want city funding,

but we are developing a community care programmer we can bring the services together. about why the community agencies to case management. we can take the lead on a long case management, they do the short term, and the faith agency has to step up. and we can take care of it long term. we are working on this model, i will be happy to share it. we sat down with different services, to make this model an actual model.

it is now the department of public health. the dph trained us on how to approach, sides. we just need to come together because weather is bayview, hunters point, if the violence is in the western addition, with everybody being angry, i don't know we have a real problem. let's take the lead on the violence, thank you.

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>> lisa for the committee violence. the health program, the full scope metical program. we quickly realized that a lot

of community folks don't reach out. all of us can experience, you don't know what it happens -- these are most in need of these services, so i decided to provide most of these services and the school system.

the diagnostic criteria to meet is a huge hot topic in the mental-health community right now. they are exposed to violence or experiencing symptoms of,. -- of trauma. if kids are moustaches diagnosed or overlooked, we were put on unheard -- on a meds trial. they are experiencing hyper- vigilant states of being exposed to trauma. and goodness for the community.

i>> i spoke on numerous occasions. there are 35 friends, family members, community members in the 31 years. a majority is from 1998 until now.

if we can reach out to a lot of these organizations that have spoke today, it is their job at their duty to reach out to the committee, we can make efforts in figuring this out. there are a lot of people that work in the community every single day that is doing the footwork.

who better to give you access to the community than the community members? you have to reach out to the community in order to get these kinds of goals accomplished. in my community, for me, for example, i pushed people at large from our community away. i don't know you. the kind of helped take down those barriers, that is how we can better serve these issues. until then, this posttraumatic stress syndrome is going to continue. the kids that don't feel numb to violence or death, they are more suspect because the crime or be a murderer worthy data. we have to take a look good is

because the young guy was murdered in the western addition a couple weeks ago, the last friday, we had another homicide that really affect the western addition. this kid lives in the western addition and murdered in hunters point. on saturday, we are having a block party for him and raising money for his family because of the mom cannot bury her son. >> i am the site coordinator for the middle school component. we don't have the mental health component, obviously you know that. and we are not case managers. but we have got to find a way to track our children. the last few weeks ago, there is

nothing we can do. we are losing the trust of these children i had to walk this child to the car, and we have to find a better system. we work very close with west side, but the kids feeling very safe in our center, west side helps us out, but they don't deserve all of them. we need to find some kind of system where we will be allowed, and something like this happens, we can go out and reach

our kids. luckily, this child came back. this is a cause that we have to deal with. >> thank you for having this hearing, and thanks to all the service providers and members of the community, the city and school district staff that provided the presentations. i think that this hearing, from my perspective, was really helpful. i look forward to continuing this. it is not a sexy conversation out of a coordinate democratically a productive way. i wanted to share a couple recommendations that came out of the youth commission justice committee that don't feel tangential. the youth commission has presented to the police

commission or three recommendations for the coat -- for the police department. he would implement all three of these. police officers and young people have, there is currently not training. a key says he is down to do that. training in 90 days, and implementation within six months. wilson talked about coordination with the school district. the other thing is the recommendation about juvenile hall. where the big recreation area that is not used. it was part of the $47.4 million

renovation project that kids were locked up their. i am really glad that this committee and the president have introduced a hearing where we are really hopeful that city partners and all of these conditions that spoke your were thinking it was going to be may 17. there are a lot of people that have been there the last four years or five years that want to talk about why they weren't able to go outside and when the city will be able to provide the funding for that to happen. i hope those were helpful. thanks. >> i wasn't going to speak today because everybody spoke with authority of information, and the wanted to thank the supervisors for putting this hearing together, which was necessary.

i admired when they have the joint commission, the police commission and the youth commission dealing with issues that address the youth. the administration was entitled -- those processes were coming together, there were branches all over the city. somehow, politics got involved and we got to the point where we were getting ready to sign an agreement, talks broke down.

at the time, the police, i don't know what he is doing out, but i was happy to see him here at the joint commission because the was the lead officer in the situation and it seems that all of a sudden, negotiations broke down, they disappeared somewhere in the police department. i am encouraging the supervisors to look into the possibilities with all of these different entities coming together under an umbrella, because that is the title for it. all of these different variations of policing within the community and communicating with victims' and that kind of community policing, because without a doubt, there needs to be a communications not only with the use or ethnic groups,

but because of the situation. i am not saying all policemen are trigger happy, but how the community -- supervisor olague: 01 to thank the park station.

i know that one of the issues that has been coming up a lot, there are certain people that won't cross a certain turf, and how some people won't cross fillmore to cross, you know, to youth services that are being offered on certain parts of the street. some people won't leave their housing sites to utilize services off-site. i know that some have been very responsive delivering services on site, it is still something the questions very prominent in my mind. also, i guess i have a quick question of a mess lieberman.

you mentioned that of violence is a mental health what tobacco is, i am sure i am -- and to physical health. the you have a couple of recommendations or steps that you might suggest to us as supervisors, from a legislative perspective? and if you could come up to the microphone, that would be great. your information was very enlightening. >> it overlaps between poverty and violence. if something is being

identified as higher levels of stress. it is an impact and the decline of violence, because a lot of violence in this activity and circumstances will not overcome.

for example, children expelled from child care were expelled from school because of misbehavior should not be happening. there should really be a circle that is formed around that child to look at the origins of the behavior, and to create a continuum of services about that behavior. so that the child feels included rather than excluded. i think that exclusion is one of the origins of violence.

under that rage is a feeling of not belonging. i hope that it gives some answer to your question. >> it helps, and i think that the conversation that we started here needs to go deeper. having this is just sort of an overview of a lot of the issues. >> is in the details of how we do is that the solutions will come. supervisor olague: my next question is for the unified school district and i will have one more question for the child crisis services. i guess my question is that when a child is not performing well,