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 is taking command -- taking into consideration in terms of linkages. we have the expectation that the street outreach groups and first responders work with thethat's n terms of the measures we will be evaluating fairly soon. finally, the measures that really to community mobilization, our expectation is that there are workshops that get conducted by the staff and promotion activities and there's the piece about the neighborhood

specific coordination meetings that are instrumental in terms of responding to that community. i will pass over what the san francisco crn does in district 11. >> good afternoon. thank you for holding this very important hearing. she touched on some of the core components of the street out reached and i want to give you an opportunity to ask questions about those components. you touched on this in the community mobilization expectations and some of the other work with coordinating stuff as it presents a crisis response. i want to give a snapshot of

what we have been doing over the next year and how we're going to shift some efforts with the spike in violence and some of the things that have been going on there. our street outreach and intervention component is the preventative end of the work we do. it is the interventions that we do that prevents further violence in this city. have neighborhood hot spots that we can this on a regular basis, specifically to district 11. we look at lake view -- that's a neighborhood that we have been taking this in for quite some time, how do we piece together resources when things spike and islands? how do we support their efforts as it pertains to street

outreach? also as it pertains to public education and community mobilization? our main partners, we've been doing a lot of capacity building to figure out how do we leverage funds whether it program activities or outings. at times they have had unfortunate incidents of homicide that has taken place on their front step, we work to coordinate and in mobilizing the neighborhood, we supported with candlelight vigils and supported the family is impacted by that as well. i know there was a question around the mobilization standards for that and i think what's important to understand is with our team of guys that

coverage one half of the city, it's a difficult task to mobilize a community and change the norms that have been happening in their own community. we have been successful in certain neighborhoods and not so successful in others. it's a tremendous task we take on in terms of putting out positive messaging, having communication to folks who are perpetrators of violence and let them know it's not ok to happen in the community. one of the most recent incidents we had was a young man was shot in the face right in the middle of the day in front of all kinds of people. that kind of stuff is not ok. supervisor olague: albion is with you -- i have not seen any of this -- i see it come from the community and you guys providing support but i have not seen the school and family

workshops for the neighborhood meetings initiated by the crn. they're usually initiated by the community. maybe down the line we can look at additional funding so you can be in -- right now you are in a response mode but i'm wondering if there is a prevention element involved? i have seen the healing circle, out and i've seen the churches and the village project and people initiating some of these meetings and workshops and what not. do you see your role ipad deep? is it something you can use more funding for? >> often what happens is that we

end up working behind the scenes. a lot of times people may not know exactly what we're doing around a certain event. i know you have alluded to some of the property managers that ticket on when a couple of young men were killed. i was in that public meeting where they stated adamantly that they stated they don't do -- >> -- supervisor olague: i'm not responding to their comments. responding to what i'm observing. >> the crn was the primarily -- when it are being charged to much, we got a 10% discount at the funeral home and we are able to hook them up with a

discounted rate. i personally took a family to pick out a suit for a young man that he was buried in. we actually tried to reach out and connect -- supervisor olague: i don't doubt your work but my question is in reference to public education and community mobilization. but -- i know you guys do a lot of work and it could work -- >> so how it goes in events -- our outreach guys are specific in doing outreach interventions. our jobs are not community organizers to get people outraged about the violence taking place in their community. we would like to support that and hear what is going on and figure out ways to put resources to helping