because things are very heightened right now. and across the city is very volatile. we are worried about gun violence happening and school is about to resume and hopefully, there'll be some safety in that. i know i saw kyle peterson out in the hallway, but doing more with housing authority, to support the folks and the programs that are being funded through different places. they do not have the capacity to relieve did -- to really do the work they need to. sometimes it is hard to get the city to find those things, but the truth of the matter is, the population of the folks, they need more resources. they may not be ready for jobs, but they do need someone to work with them, give them something to do and keep them busy. that is what we need to be looking at doing to invest in supporting those people that

most likely will be stopped. give them something to do with their time so they're not in a place where somebody wants to stop them, but somebody is there to celebrate them. we need to look at how we can plan more and look at who is most likely to be involved in gun violence and look at ways to support them so we do not -- so they do not feel that is their only option. supervisor avalos: anyone else wish to speak from the public? come on up, you have an announcement of what you want to share. please, come up and you can have an addendum to your comments. >> tonight, the healing circle is meeting at paradise baptist church. we need every 2nd and 4th thursday from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and we will be meeting the majority of these issues -- meeting about the majority of the issues brought up today. we're at 2595 hanover avenue at

paradise baptist church. that is where everyone comes to the table to discuss this further. supervisor avalos: that is just south of geneva on the left side. >> wright, author of san jose, correct. -- off of san jose, correct. >> good morning, supervisors. i want to say i appreciate your comments about the holistic approach of dealing with violence in san francisco. however, we cannot let school districts off the hook. this has to start early because most of the young men that are here involved in gang violence, by the age of 13 aire complete the disenfranchised from the school system. we have to do something better early on with the school system. that is what i want to add to it. supervisor avalos: thank you. any other member of the public like to comment? seeing none, we will close

public comment. i want to thank the members of the public for your patience and injuring first from the department. i appreciate your comments as well. i totally agree that there is much more the city needs to do in providing greater investment and greater support for victims , and for big -- and for witnesses. greater support for young people and job creation efforts as well. i believe i need to be more on the ground in my own district in doing that work. originally, i had planned to have this hearing in the omi neighborhood and my office is considering having a continuation of this hearing in the neighborhood itself to get a better sense of people coming who do not have the time to come during the day, but have it more in the evening to get that input that we need to have. i appreciate the work that many of you are doing as residents in the neighborhoods and leaders

of community-based organizations. i think what needs to happen is those efforts need to be at ground level with the supervisors and with the city departments to look at what we can do at ground level. i look forward to moving forward with those relationship building efforts in the district. supervisor olague, you have comments he would like to make? >> -- supervisor olague: do you want to go to the other speakers now? supervisor avalos: i would, but if you have other comments you like to make supervisor olague: i can wait. supervisor avalos: before >supervisor avalos: ok, we are born to get restarted next up, we have a presentation from the

mayor's office of housing and community development. that would be item two. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for holding this hearing. i will try to keep my remarks brief, given the time. again, i am brian chiu, director of community development for the office of housing. our strength is in three different areas. one is our community development block granted -- block funded work by investing in both community facilities and services. we do that recapped -- capital grants, mostly in district 11 through the ymca, the lutheran church through the child care facilities, and on the services side supporting some organizations, such as the case management services for the

omi begin that you heard about today. is it enough? i would not say so. you already know that we lost about 20% of our development block grant funds. we wish we could do more, but we know we cannot support it anyway that we want to. -- in a way that we want to. we do not have a specific area for violence prevention. we have tried our best not to overlap with other departments. you ever heard about the great work that dph does. we do try to find areas that support the general infrastructure through community and neighborhood centers, domestic violence, homelessness, areas of financial education, those areas that were to ameliorate the root causes of violence. -- that work to ameliorate the root causes of violence. you know some of the work that

we do true compass point, to the california community loan fund, after our staff, three bta capacity building that we can offer to different organizations. mostly for district 11, the third prong that we offer is community building and can be been efforts, some most recently over the past three years or so with the support of your office, supervisor avalos. we have been utilizing general fund dollars that we have been able to -- that you have been able to secure for our office to initiate a planning process, creating a cohort of community groups that now include up to 32 groups, subha rhys providers, neighborhood organizations -- service providers, neighborhood organizations, which has become an ongoing community collaboration that no longer depends on city staff to keep it going because it has seen its own value and has continued to

meet since we helped to get off. -- to kick it off. it looks at community infrastructure and community building. our ongoing role now that the collaborative is up and going is to utilize some additional general fund dollars for a community action grant for a program that provides an opportunity for some of these smaller community groups to have up to $5,000 to do smaller projects. there are ways in which people can get to know their neighbors, as was mentioned here, get to work with each other. supervisor avalos: i'm going to stop with -- stopping for a second because my office has been a big part of the community work and the organization and leadership coming together. the action grant programs come out of that. i think it's a really good model. the mayor's office of community development has been an integral part of that, as has san francisco state university, the

community involvement center with san francisco state university. it seems like we could have a focus with that group and it could be about a community planning process that is specific upon not general like we have done in the past. -- that is specific, not general like we have done in the past. but that is specific around violence prevention. with folks coming out from all different departments and community-based organizations and the police department or other departments having a focus around violence prevention. i want to propose that we get really on the ground worked, you know, working with community residents to put some real ideas on the ground. some good ideas came out today. how we actually get to that level of implementation, a lot of the organizations that we have funded over the years have done a lot of great work.

but it will also involve entrenched, on the ground work that they do not have the time to do the planning and new ideas. that is where the mayor's office of community development can play a large role in working with our office as well to make sure we get to that next level. i would like to propose that as one of the ideas that we can move forward with from this hearing. >> i think that is a good idea in working with your office as well as the community collaborative. it does bring in the one person on the ground that does it all by him or herself and the larger neighborhood of groups. i'm happy to follow up with your office and the other departments here today to make sure we can make a connection and form an appropriate discussion. >supervisor avalos: it seems like we would need other resources within community development that is actually building your capacity to do the work in the neighborhoods.

>> we will always welcome that discussion right now prepared our community efforts are divided across the will city. if we did something that is much more intensive, we would have the best resources appropriate for the bass partnership. supervisor avalos: was there more to your presentation? i did cut you off in the middle. >> no. we have done a somewhat similar process in the western addition. i think we are finalizing a report with compass point. we have always been looking with your department to see what is possible. we do not want to use a cookie cutter approach. supervisor avalos: we would love to work with you on that. just a follow-up question for mr. henderson.

this is something that has been broad opt about using our existing -- brought up about using arkin -- our existing community development that we have. we would like to see a greater effort, not that you are not making an effort now, but a greater effort within the mayor's office to do the community building efforts that are going on in the omi. i think specifically looking with staff at the mayor's office of trinity development to focus on violence prevention and neighborhood integration -- specifically looking at violence prevention and neighborhood integration. >> i'm happy to look at that and make whatever recommendations that come out of those conversations. i'm assuming you're talking about the housing. supervisor avalos: the mayor's

office of community development? i'm talking about that and probably making some greater did -- greater investment in to that to create a response that needs to be made in response to violence in particular neighborhoods within the city. next up, department of children, youth, and families. blacks -- >> good afternoon. i'm the director of the department for children, youth, and their families. supervisor avalos: before you start -- i'm sorry to cut you off. i'm just picking about the last presentation. i do not feel like we got beat -- the focus that we needed to get on the neighborhoods. we just put millions of dollars into neighborhood commercial corridors. we're doing all of this effort to support small businesses in san francisco. that is a really good thing.

we have specific people doing case management work. we have small businesses. but we do not have people doing specific work, case management with neighborhoods about how we can help prevent violence in the neighborhoods. 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