we have people providing services that are very important, but in terms of the coordination to bring highly integrated neighborhoods together, we do not have this happening. i think that should be equal or greater than just dealing with violence, the commercial corridors. that would be a response that would be adequate, or at least adequate to the needs that we have in our streets. families are losing loved ones and people are involved in violence because there are no other choices in their lives. i propose going that direction as a city as a solution moving forward. having the focal point around community development is going to make that difference and get at the root causes of violence that we are seeing in our neighborhoods. the housing authority is also a big part. we have to make sure the housing authority speaks today as well. i'm sorry.

i just wanted to blurt out that statement. >> that is fine. i actually 100% agree with you. any type of committee change has to come within the community. i am a resident of district 11. i have two young children and my children go to public school. i want my neighborhood and my community and the city to be a vibrant place and a safe place for everyone to live. i fully support your desire for us to have a real concerted neighborhood coordination conversation in response to violence, but that also may be a coordinated response to try to lift everyone out of wherever they are now. so that we as a city work together to do that really hard work. today, you heard a lot of our cbo's, and some of them maybe you haven't heard that are in the room. they are doing our heavy

lifting with us. our city works very hard to do financial support, but also policy support as well as other capacity building support so that we can ensure that they have all of the necessary resources to be able to move the entire neighborhood and community forward. the department worked collaborative with other city departments, particularly those that you heard today. but we also work very closely with the school district as well so that we can move forward through a number of different initiatives, namely our truancy reduction initiatives. as well as our street violence reduction initiative and our youth violence prevention initiative. all of these things require a court in an effort in order to move them forward. -- a coordinated effort in order to move them forward. the department of health and the juvenile department jointly fund

prevention programs are run a city that amount to almost $12 million. we are able to leverage state dollars as well as other local dollars to make sure that we have the depth and breadth of services that our entire city needs. our violence prevention funded programs are focused on six core areas. they are alternative education, secondary prevention, diversion, detention alternative, detention base, and after care and reentry. all of these areas are evidence based and have shown to have affected outcomes on reducing violence. as you know, we want more than just the 70 programs i mentioned. we have a whole cadre of programs that we find.

and -- that we fund. and together, we're able to address violence prevention and help all of our young people move toward the goals that the department has of succeeding in school and being ready to learn. today's conversation is really about violence prevention and intervention work. the team and staff who are here today leads the oversight of the services that i just mentioned. and are assured that all of our funds are targeted, particularly to the high risk and at risk and in risk used between the ages of 10-25 years old.

we strongly collaborate with our juvenile justice coordinating council, the reentry council, the family violence council to work on policies and plans that effectively implement violence prevention and intervention services within the city. i do want to also talk about -- i think it was mentioned earlier and supervisor avalos, you have questions around summer jobs. i agree that we need to do more. and we are doing a lot around summer employment, and hopefully, year-round complaintant -- year-round employment for young people. my staff has stepped up with the housing authority, the department of public health, a jet say, the department of public works -- hsa, and the department of public works have all come together because they have heard the cry to have more jobs available, particularly for

our disconnected young people. these departments increased their slots. and it is not just increasing the slots or availability of slots, or even funding, but having adult allies that are connected to these young people to really help them so that if they have a job placed through the parks and wrecked apartment -- rec and parks department, that is committed to really understand the ins and outs of that work. so that when they go through their academic career and decide they want to come back into that field, they have that experience they can' draw from. or they can decide that they want to go into another field. i want to talk about meeting the mayor's demand for increasing summer job opportunities.

we do have lots of work ahead of us in terms of ensuring that all of these young people who have received jobs during the summer will be able to continue these jobs during the school year, or year round. we have already started conversations about how to do this. we are having as conversations with the private sector. the companies that are in the city. we are asking them to step up. and a lot of them have. and we are really thankful that they have. but i know you had asked about summer jobs, supervisor. on another note, you mentioned the trauma recovery center. several years ago, this was a federally and state funded program. and over the years, everyone else has pretty much abandoned us. in san francisco, we have made the commitment not to abandon our residents. we will not abandon the people

who really need us. the department of public health has really completely stepped up over the years and we are now fully funded with city funds, something that i think our state and federal government should be supporting. >> they have been something of a lot of their responsibilities down to the local level. but i'm really glad that has been something the city has made a commitment to. i was very glad to hear that the child recovery center would be funded within its budget. >> i will hand out my part of the presentation over to deanna, who will then walk you through more specifically our key violence prevention strategies within the city that you have heard referenced by the police chief, the sheriff's office, and the other state departments. >supervisor avalos: that is great. as diana comes up, we also want

to make sure that we are talking about what increase response we are seeing lately within certain communities in san francisco. that will be important to talk about as well. >> we will hear from the responders themselves. >> good afternoon, supervisor olague and supervisor avalos. we have prepared a detailed presentation around the san francisco response that work, so you understand how one of our major programs that are funded through dcyf work collaborative

lead through the san francisco police department, the desert attorney's office, and the juvenile and unified school district. to explain about what the network is, it is part of a larger initiative that san francisco has hosted for the last couple of years through dcyf. it is part of the street violence prevention initiative, which aims at a coordinated response in looking at the civic goals targeted at -- at specific goals targeted at reducing violence. we are one of many agencies that dcyf funds and it is physically tries to reach the most -- the victims of street violence as well as the perpetrators. what is street violence? for us, it is a country of

different issues that are impacted by st. association. we like to use that term because it embraces all the different dynamics that san francisco had in terms of st. issues that are going on. we tried to push that definition out forward so that is clear that we are not just dealing with gang violence. we are dealing with terse, st. associations, blocks, family issues, family rivalries. for us, it is important to emphasize that in order to understand the issue, we have to understand the definitions we are using the san francisco community response network is part of that larger initiative. the role of the crn is to target 13-25-year-old's. we have many prate -- prevention programs throughout the city, but those programs that support the crn's work also only target

13 to 25-year-old's. one reason is the mandate. two, we have narrowed down our strategy given the resources that we have in order to have more concrete outcomes through a more narrowed population. in the last reason, which is the most important, is that we have found through literature and through the statistics provided through the san francisco police department that 13 to 25-year- old's arte most impacted population by street violence. that is another reason why this specific initiative is tailored to that population. the goals of the crn fluctuate depending on the issues going on day today, but we stay close to the data that the san francisco police department

provides. for now, our goals are the five zones that they mentioned earlier. one of them being the tenderloin. the second one being western addition, following the mission, as well as british point and mission valley. if we see a spy, our goal is to respond in that area -- if we see a spike, our goal is to respond in that area. the program components of the san francisco city response network are three major components. one of them is reached out reached. that is the day the canvassing -- street outreach. that is the daily canvassing. the second is a crisis response. that is where we work closely with the department that spoke earlier. it is tailored to respond to homicides, shootings, stabbings, and physical altercation.

the individuals that are impacted by death or murder are high priority. and then shootings and stabbings. and just to clarify physical altercation, sometimes we have questions around that component. that refers to any fights, riots, a potential physical altercation between two different groups or st. associations. vcr and is to respond to those major crises. -- the crn is to respond to those major crises. we rely on other component members. and within the community, the component strives to create rallies or gatherings or even

public awareness campaigns to reduce street violence throughout san francisco. the operation for the crn, the street outreach hours is between 10:00 a.m. to midnight monday through friday. and we can schedule the hours flexibly depending on the crisis, however, there are crn staff that are working very closely with the dphcrs team that are 24 hours. >>supervisor avalos: you talk about the violence prevention efforts -- are there certain standards that you will apply in terms of gathering hours? how are you enjoying broad participation? how are organizations held accountable to that? >> is moving forward, as of july 1st, we have narrowed down that

expectation with both of the agency that oversees the crn. within 72 hours after an act of violence or a shooting, there would be a rally held with community agencies. oftentimes what happens is that a community agency wants to take the lead. and then the crn just couples some of their work and their staff to try to support who is doing out reached to those victims and perpetrators. we are trying to narrow it down to try to conduct a rally or an event within 72 hours. but again, it depends on who is taking the lead in terms of the community that. what the crn has done is they have established a relationship with each neighborhood to hold

coordination meetings. when a meeting is needed to create public awareness, they are the agency points of contact. supervisor avalos: and you would that be? >> icy and united players. the united players works more closely an ongoing, and icy works for case management supervisor avalos: this is a response that is going to be new, or one that we have had in the past? >> we have added in the past in terms of sponsoring community events. in the last six months there was a community event with the agency i mentioned and the boys and girls club. however, i have not happened within 72 hours. that is the big change, that we want to see a quicker response to stop the violence and we want to work with the supervisors of every district. supervisor avalos: god forbid there is a homicide and there is a response.

there is going to be a rally. what is the response that these committees are expected to take? how are you measuring that is being done and a fifth -- and is effective? there's no guarantee that a rally gets to the broader part of the neighborhood. what are you doing for that? >> for now, we have not looked closely at a specific standard on how the outcome of the rally will reduce community violence. we have looked at the response time to engage community members. it is something that we could look into a little bit deeper, especially in the next funding cycle. our expectation now is that if we are funding a community agency that is involved with street violence, we expect them to work cooperatively with the sfcrn.

however, like i mentioned before, i'd would be great to hear any other recommendations in terms of standards. we have not seen standards in other research based models. but again, we are open to them. supervisor avalos: i think we want to make sure that we are working -- that organizations are not working in a silo. that other organizations share their concerns around violence and have the research to respond. there needs to be a network that is set up where people are communicating with one another about what they are seeing on the ground and how people can protect themselves. that would be icy or working with the rec and park department. or the icy working with the family resource center. we need to see this response to we know people are getting on the same page about what is

happening and what they can do as organizations within the neighborhoods. >> right, and i would like to highlight that we do have neighborhood coordination meetings where that dialogue exists. it is not immediate. we rely on the directors of every program to communicate when every, died -- a homicide does exist. but we're definitely looking to create tighter network. that is what it sounds like you're suggesting. supervisor avalos: i think that we have so many services that are sharing similar goals and rolls in the neighborhoods. it does not even have to be a homicide, but it is something that affects the neighborhood, it is best if you're talking together about what they're doing about it and how they can share in their response. otherwise, i believe there are a lot of things happening, other

groups believe someone is doing things they are not doing. there needs to be a coordinated response in making sure we bring the community together. >> absolutely. supervisor olague: along those lines, it would be good to have some kind of consistent response to these things. i think part of the challenge is that people are working collaborative lee, but there are still times people are working in silos. you have the educational system on the one hand. you have dph. you have the police department somewhere else. you have this cbo's and then somewhere else, the crn's. in my very short time of being supervisor i have observed that the burden sadly rests on the shoulders of the people affected. i can give a quick example.

i know there was one time -- you know, you have women who are resident managers at housing authorities where the victim lived where the perpetrator lived. they're racing around making sure everything is ok. you bring in the healing circle to maybe do something and then you bring in the cren and then you find out that they do not have the ability to pay for the funeral and there is grieving and they're traumatized and all of this stuff. i found that sometimes -- what we have found is because there are so many turf and neighbor of lines -- neighborhood lines, a lot of people will not lead to access the services they need. we have instances where people are living in the housing

authority sites that are impacted. to the extent that we can coordinated -- and we have in the past with the ymca and other organizations -- bring the services on site and make sure they are available for some time to work with the folks affected. the lack of some of the services at the housing authority site has been a real challenge for people because they do not necessarily access them elsewhere. sometimes with the youth, when the summer jobs were being provided, there was an assumption that they should go and look at some computer somewhere. not all young people have access to computers. there had to be all of this coordination around making sure that the huge -- the youth were qualified. i mean, just really basic things like having the application available to them so they could

apply. then we coordinated some services there when we had the people from the ymca coming, you know, culturally competent people, people who looked like they lived there, who had support circles where people were talking about what they felt prevented them from succeeding in school or the various barriers that the youth had. it took a couple of weeks to even expressed -- to feel comfortable expressing what those concerns were. it has to be more -- centralized is not the word, but they're almost should be a department for preventing violence among the youth. for some standard response -- i know there is a standard response, but i do not know. i know there is coordination with certain cbo's, but it does

not feel like it happens all the time. and not enough people themselves become very active in making sure these things occur. how do we make sure it is an actual partnership with the residents and those affected so that not all the burden is constantly being placed on people who are -- i hate to use the word victimized, but i cannot think of another one. by these crimes, you know. i find that a lot of these huge -- youth, not a lot, and i do not want to stereotype or whatever, but sometimes the issue is around literacy. counseling and even tutoring -- because tutoring is expensive. i do not know what kind of tutoring is being provided for these young people, but it seems to me, there is a lot more.

the conversation needs to be happening more. i do not know how that happens. >> let me go through my side so i can explain to the rest of the components of the sfcrn and then maybe you can see how we have tried to look at the major program directives and how they actually assume that role. and the agency has stepped up to try to support these program directors in their positions in the northeast sector or the southeast sector. these are the areas that we need to look at when it comes to our general portfolio. it will definitely take that into consideration moving forward. to explain once again, the sfcrn work, the administration oversight of the actual initiative is conducted by the

foundation for community improvement. there are 36 outreach workers and community responders for the entire city. again, they fluctuate on schedules. they have a regular schedule, but depending on the crisis, different shifts are connected. and there are at least two staff on an ongoing basis that are on a 24-hour response. for the referral directive -- this is the other layer that i mentioned earlier today are around the crn. the crn does not function alone. it relies on other agencies to do its work. the sfcrn understand they cannot do it all in terms of violence prevention.

it is understood that it really targets street violence and it relies on other agencies that have case management experience and professionals on board that have that therapeutic profession to provide the case management and the referrals that the young people need. they also work closely with city partners listed above. and they work on trying to target those individuals that are either assigned under gane units, that are actually victims of street violence, or they simply try to work with different city partners that might provide a service that is really needed. charlie went through this park -- this powerpoint in terms of response. i will highlight it once again. just to say that in terms of our relationship and our

coordination, we are very much coordinated with the san francisco police department and the crisis response services. they actually activates the crn when it is related and the target age group is identified. for program measures, the current unit evaluation that we hope to move forward with the sfcrn is around the different components. we're looking at trying to evaluate our on board fairly soon to effectively measure the intervention services with the priority groups already identified. we want to be able to test to see what type of effectiveness the crn has on the street level. and we would like to publish those results. and there's a crisis response peace that