well. our summer unemployment rate is even higher in the bracket you referenced. we offer a subscription for any veteran. we are really proud of that. we also allow our platform for veteran-friendly jobs. i would encourage that. i do not know if the interns in this room have linkedin profiles. i would strongly encourage you to develop one. some students do not come from families where parents have gone to college. they tend to be in different networks. if you ask people who are not in the military, if they know

anybody in the military, the answer is they do not. it is a huge problem that those sectors are so separate. one of the great things about linkedin is that you will be connected to an extraordinary network. i want to comment on the idea of a skills gap. this is a huge problem. i know you are facing this. there are 3.7 million jobs available in the u.s. right now. whenever we can do to support the efforts -- the idea of investing more into jobs training, or supporting these jobs training programs, we want to be part of that. we have a unique position. we are spending more time looking at that mismatch of

skills. what did that skills gap look like? how big is the gap? is it just the six week course? or is the gap larger the amount? we are having geographic and job function information. >> the other piece of that equation that we are thinking a lot about in san francisco -- once you have assessed a skills gap, you begin to work with the training components enabling those, whether they are higher ad or the non-profit sector. there are jobs that are current or coming. we are trying to build the continuing, so the gaps are assessed correctly, the training components are appropriate and adequate, and there are opportunities waiting. we have about nine minutes. here is what i am going to try to do. i am going to go to susan, and then to chris. i want to go down to glenn.

we are going to finish with a young person. so andrew, get ready. >> the social media point -- i think particularly, we need to focus on the underserved communities. if you think about it, social media levels the playing field. everybody has an equal voice. but a lot of our communities are not using the social web for a purpose, such as looking for a job. 93% of recruiters, after the recruiting, are using social networking, whether it is linkedin, facebook, or twitter. we do need to educate the community that that is what they need to be more active on, is social networking. i am told that kids from east palo alto, working at facebook -- they say, "you are the first

professional i have ever met." we take that for granted. but i want to note that collectively, we can make a difference. at the same time, we are addressing the digital divide it by encouraging these communities to be more comfortable in leveraging social media. >> what is exciting about what is happening in san francisco -- we have big companies and small companies who have said, "i am in. there are a number of them. >> in the beginning, we had about 50 employees, and now we are up to 64. we hired three interns. we wanted to hire more. some of them turned us down. we are looking to continue to hire a lot more. someone who started their career in politics understands the importance of internships, and

the value of the soft skills. there is really, going back to what makes said, a gap between the soft skills and the hard skills. at a startup, we are trying to hire people here in san francisco, and we keep increasing our employee referral bonus to bring in more people. we just cannot find the people. we are looking for what every company is looking for. it is interesting. i live by dolores park. mission high school is right there. on one side, the google bus drops off. on the other side, facebook. we're trying to take advantage of the opportunity of the technology companies here in san francisco, and integrate them with the school system. you can see that throughout san francisco. we have zynga and twitter. with soft skills, it is

important in any internship. but america is falling behind on the hard skills, the technology gap. i will give you an example. i have an mba and a j.d.. we had a guy who graduated from college a year ago. he was not even that good a developer. he had four months of work experience. the minimum amount he would accept was 60,000. the jobs are out there. >> a minute on roberto, a minute on glenn, a minute on monica, and two minutes on angela. >> talking about the technology gap, we are encouraging coating. we invite any student with a student i.d. to come up. we will teach them everything they need to know. they just need to be able to

type on a computer. we will teach them programming. it is a two week program. it is not as fantastic as an internship, but at least it gives them a chance to work with other students in teams and showcase their talents, and it is worth their time. i encourage other companies to train as much as possible. >> thank you very much for inviting us, and for all the attention. the non-profit sector has a really important role in this effort. goodwill industries, which ran the program, has targeted disconnected youth coming from some of the neighborhoods that have the highest rate of violence in the city. we are very proud of that. we are very proud of the three interns' we have here.

we talked about the seven weeks of boot camp. there are also 18 to 26 months after word of intensive support and training, including training on facebook and a host of other things. it is about hard skills. it is about soft skills. it is about staying with the person overtime. the non-profit sector is also about job creation as well. in the last seven years, good will has grown from 315 jobs to over 900 jobs in the bay area. our warehouse facility, which teaches supply chain logistics, is now qualified to get community college credits. we just invested $250,000 to upgrade our where horse -- warehouse to have the technology necessary. let us create a partnership to drive the training on the business side, the community side, and the education side.

>> we are one of the largest networks for student graduates. we were a technology program for summer jobs at the national level. we had committed to helping employers tired 25,000 summer -- we got a 30,000 summer jobs and internships as of yesterday. something is working. at the city level, we basically can't act to 2200 students with summer jobs and internships. my point that i want adam, i agree with robin and social media. it is important to point out that if it wasn't for their efforts to enact and encourage students to use this technology, we would not have had 2200 kids looking at the jobs. allocating the money, we will take it, but make sure that the

community based organizations and the staff are there to do this. >> the department of families, work force development. >> a real motivator to become a partner was that we focused cradle to primary, and we realized it was scary because there was no place for students to go. they were the motivated in terms of doing well. there wasn't a lot of motivation, the city was losing real talent. people were going to college and not coming back. our motivator was to extend from courier to next career. i applaud the department of labor for working together on that because i think k-12 and

post secondary with each program, you're missing a huge opportunity. it is a first, i think. the other thing i would like to applaud you for is the focus of home administration on making sure that it was the strategy using the program that was wielding the outcomes that we want. i applaud that and i hope that all of us will join forces to collect the evidence to be able to focus the dollars where they can do the most good. >> to that point, andrew and then the second. >> stand up. >> i am a student and an intern, and i want to say that having a job is such a good -- in my junior year of high school, i

was hired by a nonprofit organization. we had really good experiences. in a few weeks, i am going to major in political science have five years from now, i want to see more of it. >> i would tell you that every one of you has really contributed so much by way of conversation today and also by example. i hope we can incentivize other cities, locales, and other elected officials because we are all in this together. as a result of the, everyone adopting the vision that we can get it done has proven itself true.

we still have an opportunity to boost the number for it. i am going to keep pushing the mayor and i will keep pushing all of our social network partners as well as the non- profits and the other people that are not here at the table that need to hear about the good things that are working. it is a whole new day. it is competitive out there, but when this administration came to office, the ratio was about 7 to 1. how it is about halfway there. we tightened up, and there is a mismatch, but there is the fact that we have people around the country that are highly trained and are not mobile because of economics. we have jobs cropping up in different industries. not everybody wants to go in north dakota. but do they fit the bill that

you talked about? had the right skills that? that is what we have to be concerned about, that everyone has a level playing field and we give everyone the right access to those schools that they need. our hope is that we can start to see those things happen in use the things that do work, hopefully this is just an issue that will be sufficient to have a model program that we can replicate around the country. we are not waiting for congress to act, this is an executive decision that we made to change the direction of how we are moving the work force investment programs overall because we have young people, people in the middle of the road in their careers that have been working on one job but for the next 20 years that may have less than an eighth grade education. we have big challenges and people that are very highly skilled and we want to keep them. so we wanted to a bunch of other

things to make sure we incentivize that and make sure we can make investments in the usa. myopias that the product that you will sell and make them produce are going to have that seal of approval and we can sell it anywhere. that is fine, but let's make it here and make sure that we give credit to those people that are the innovators, the movers, the shakers. it is all about us at the table and it has been a very delightful morning for me. i hope to have many more like this and so we can reference looking at all the good things that are happening. if it can happen here, it can happen in other parts of the country that have those dynamics going on and have them focus on what really works in looking at it a little differently, treaty of bed so that you can have a greater impact because we have limited dollars.

we have to be fiscally accountable. we don't have an environment conducive to putting money out there for everything that people want. we have to be very judicial about it, but also keeping in mind that we have vulnerable communities out there, and that is what this is about. i am excited about what you all are doing and i want to say a big thank you. i know the president is very excited about the work happening out here. he knows and understands that we have a lot more to do, but we can't do it alone. we're counting on you to help us. the key for having me, superintendent. spread the word. the social media, whatever it takes. congratulations to the students that are here. you are our shining light. our hope that we will have great

things to look forward to in this country because of you. we are here to help you in any way we can. when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you? if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the

family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the

health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over the next 9 months. group prenatal care is designed to give women the opportunity to bond during their pregnancy with other women that have similar due dates. our doctors here are family doctors. they are able to help these women deliver their babies at the hospital, at general hospital. we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers

to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are

serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we

treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol or their hepatitis b. we actually provide group medical visits and group education classes and meeting people who have similar chronic illnesses as you do really helps you understand that you are not alone in dealing with this. and it validates the experiences that you have and so you learn from each other. >> i think it's very important to try to be in tune with the needs of the community and a lot of our patients have -- a lot of our patients are actually immigrants who have a lot of competing priorities, family issues, child care issues, maybe not being able to find work or finding work and

not being insured and health care sometimes isn't the top priority for them. we need to understand that so that we can help them take care of themselves physically and emotionally to deal with all these other things. they also have to be working through with people living longer and living with more chronic conditions i think we're going to see more patients coming through. >> starting next year, every day 10,000 people will hit the age of 60 until 2020. . >> the needs of the patients that we see at kerr senior center often have to do with the consequences of long standing substance abuse and mental illness, linked to their chronic diseases. heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, stroke, those kinds of chronic illnesses. when you get them in your 30's

and 40's and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic

outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effecti >> you probably think you know all about the exploratorium. but have you ever been after dark? did you know there was a monthly party called after dark?

science mixes with culture and adults mix with other adults. no kids allowed. every week there is a different theme. to tell us about the themes is melissa alexander. tell us about some of the previous themes we have had. >> we have had sex ploration, sugar, red, blue. many things. >> what is the theme tonight? >> rock, paper, scissors. we are having a tournament tonight, but we have also used as a jumping off point to explore lots of different ideas. you can find out about rock, paper, scissors as a game as a reproductive strategy. you can interact with a piece of art created by lucky dragon. you can get your hair cut from a

cool place called the public barber's salon. they use scissors only. you can find out about local geology, too. >> that sounds like fun. let's check it out. >> this is the most common rock on the surface of the earth. interesting thing is, most of this rock is covered over by the ocean. >> error congested a cool presentation on plate tectonics. tell us about what we just saw. >> we wrapped up a section of a lesson on a plate tectonics, here at the exploratory and -- exploritorium. >> are you excited to see people here having fun and learning about science? >> the people that come here are some selected to begin with,

they actually enjoy science. i teach teachers to have fun with their kids. the general public is a great audience, too. they're interested in science. >> we have a blast every time. they have different names. >> they have a bar and a cafe. everything i need. we are excited for the speaker. >> it is nice to be in the exploratorium when there are not a lot of kids around. >> before tonight, i never knew there were major league rules to rock, paper, scissors. i am getting ready to enter into a competition. sarah's here to give me some tips. what do i need to do to win it? >> this is a game of chance, to a degree. one of the best ways to bring it home is a degree of intimidation, maybe some eye contact, maybe some muscle. it is a no contact sport.

sheer i contact is a good way to maybe intimidate to see if you can set them off, see if they throw something they did not mean to. >> i am going to see what happens. >> i got kicked out in the first round. [applause] >> given up for sunni. the rock, paper, scissors champion. >> what are you going to do now? >> i have been having so much fun. i got my tattoo. before we go, i want to thank melissa alexander for having us here tonight. how did you know san francisco needed a night like tonight? >> thank you for coming. everybody loves the exploratorium. we are reluctant to push the kids out of the way in the day, so i k