expectation with both of the agency that ovsees 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 those events take place. we have worked closely with victor jones and my staff put on the candlelight vigils that happened after the homicides and

we fully staffed those as well. some people don't realize that it's asked and i think -- i hear that -- a perfect example is we're being criticized and when they realize to we were, they realize that we did do everything. we take that hit lots of times in multiple neighborhoods. i think an important piece is trying to educate the community and empower them to lead their own efforts and figure out ways to support that. in the mission district about three years ago, there was a rash of homicides that took place there and we were successful putting on about three peace rallies. it -- we put out a call to say we want to help you champion

your efforts and how can we support these efforts. it was a mix -- this is not going to happen in our community, not in daylight, how can we get our verses -- how can we get our voices heard? we put out a thousand pledges and the mission where people would pledge to take peaceful action in their community. how did those are the things we could help support but it's up to the community to be outraged and say this type of violence is not going to happen. i remember being involved in a meeting when there were some homicides going on and i was trying to push that issue and the residents felt a peace march was not going to do anything. for us, it was trying to educate them and say it is powerful to tell the community we are watching and we do care and we don't want our streets and young children terrorized by

the violence taking place. although we love them and we're going to care for them, we are going to send a message of accountability that it's not ok to have those messages in the community. for us, what is important is the following a homicide or any type of critical shooting in the city, we focus on as being the glue and coordinating those different services and who is going to work from the older folks impacted too many use that might be impacted and you heard from our community partners today that we have a very intentional effort to make sure people are not falling through the cracks. we address the trauma by the escalating situations. there are people very connected to the community -- de- escalating situations.

as it pertains to the housing development, we need to figure out how to interconnect those services are lot better. after pulling together a bunch of service providers, it was determined that these folks could not travel anywhere to access services. we happen working hard with the partnership of west side to put together a five day a week calendar on site. that group that meets on a monthly basis -- we staffed that as well. that's very important in terms of leveraging services and figuring out realistic after care plans. as it pertains to the omi, we are stretched thin with violence

happening across the city. both regional components have been kicking around trying to figure out how do we put our resources together to support an organization like this on a regular basis. we have been involved in the past the building so they could hire street outreach workers. we had one of our 12 passengers leveraged full-time out in lake view. working with quinn and of those folks has really been a way we can figure out we're not out there all the time but how can we leverage resources and support your efforts? i know there was a meeting that community has brought together and put together the use empowerment brands and we want

to figure out ways to better communicate with that group. there are few things we have responded to. the six homicides reference the six incidents, so the folks that were found by city college that were dead at that a horrible incident is actually one of those six instances -- ended up being 12 homicides. the six homicides refers to the six incidents we responded to. supervisor avalos: there are people who are residents who may be killed in parts of san francisco -- that does happen at times as well on that that impact to the neighborhood. it isn't always measured because people associate the location of

the homicide with the impact of the neighborhood but it could be very different from what that reality is. >> there is a longstanding belief that the lake view neighborhood have had with the bay view area and there -- we have partnered our services with the lake view services and you heard today like midnight basketball -- it's not in the omi, but we try to get them to go play in the western addition and our summer field trips and the planning we do -- we work closely to coordinate our service to make sure we have five slots for leaky because we know what their mission and other components, and use in those neighborhoods can go off with youth from lake view. we try to make them available --

supervisor avalos: i know it's not part of your services, but there was a discussion about boxing that came up in the public comment. i know that we funded in the past the straight forward club in that tenderloin and we have the ring of fire that was funded. the excelsior is no longer there and we had someone vying to get an olympic spot in boxing. a woman in bayview and it seems like there was a program that could be something -- maybe that midnight basketball program is not the best fit but another program. >> boxing would be a huge resource. there have been other -- the straight forward club, we have a tight relationship that i've been working with them for over 10 years. we have been trying to get kids to get internships and we need things like that across the things like that across the city