black who is the executive director of her group and jamal perkins who is just a terrific advocate at large on the issues of domestic violence and i believe that marylee is here and a former member of our panel as well as folks such as fionama and former commissioner dora king who was my predecessors of the oversight panel so thank you for being here this evening. >> if i may executive director of the department of status of women emily marassa and chairs the panel. it has been 10 years since the start of the panel. it started because of the record of homicides in san francisco.

it was running about 10 domestic violence homicides a year and including in the year 2000 the domestic violence violence of claire joyce tampango by her ex-boyfriend in front of her two children and in the subsequent investigation our commission made happen it was clear that she had taken out police reports, got emergency protective orders, did everything she was supposed to do, but it the failure of city averages to respond appropriately so the members. oversight panel for the last 10 years really taken to task the coordination and the policy reforms that departments committed to, and i am very pleased to report that with the help of many, many people in this room to date we have gone from 10 domestic homicides to

this year so far 0,0 domestic homicides in san francisco this calendar year so i know commissioners have received a package of chocolates. in it it is an eraser and together we are erasing domestic violence homicides. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> commissioner chan. >> slash loftus. >> okay. >> entertainable for these purposes. i just wanted to say to jim perkins and beverly and kathy i feel i will be doing this a lot tonight but as someone that worked in the system as a domestic violence prosecutor and i am sure president mazzucco feels the same way i lived the changes that you all made happen. you

improved our system. you created 400 recommendations that kept women and families safe in this city, and as a participant in the system i saw the changes from the dedicated courtroom to the dedicated trained judges to the trainings at the police academy to the training for the prosecutors. none of that happens by accident. it happens by method logically and makings system change is not easy and 10 years later and i can remember -- gene rolins is here is talking about the audit. this has been lived and breathed and participated in by this city and by the city family, and without leadership and accountability -- you know, commissioner shorter we wouldn't have the gains that we had so i can't under score my gratitude for you and your leadership and sticking with it

and it's hopeful to me when we want to make change we can't d it right away but 10 years down the road it looks different. >> dr. marshall. >> if i may through the chair before we begin to call line item number three. i know we understand the importance of the work here, but certainly the recent incident in can -- kansas city is glaring, the foot ball player is a tragedy. i talked on the radio about it and talked about it at the club with the young men and women. that is certainly on my mind and not that we need more focus but certainly that's why we're here. >> thank you. i just want to

reiterate the women that came forward there has been substantial changes in the way domestic violence cases are prosecuted and vghtded. you will hear more about that but when i started out there was domestic violence department and it was in the general works department and now there are victim advocates. we have come a long way and one of the things the article says you need to bring families together for financial reasons and other reasons and those are the reasons that hold people in battered relationships and when the police come the first time it's not the first time it happened and people need to be educated about that and the women were behind that when i was in the office. next item. >> next item is san francisco response to domestic violence violence and comprehensive report on domestic violence and we have the chairs

here and i want to say how impressive this whole organization is because we have very much a coordinated response to domestic violence and law enforcement, the social workers, caseworkers, -- >> president soo if i might you need to take a vote on the consent calendar. >> i'm sorry. can we have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> i apologize. thank you. so with the family violence council in the last year we've seen a child abuse intervention and prevention program and we were mandated and not every county has it and beverly pointed that out and alisa worked for the last six months and a year in the making

to have a phone app in response to elder abuse and you push a button and brings up the resources and with they will turn it over to the ladies. >> [inaudible] for both of these commissions -- thank you, coming together this evening to share the work that we have been doing together for quite some time, and the progress that san francisco has made over the last 12 years for sure, and certainly even before that, so we're honored to be here. i am beverly upton and proud to be the executive director of the consortium and made up of 17

service providers based in san francisco and my job is to amplify those voices and those who they serve at tables like this at city hall and the state capitol and it's an honor and i am proud to be here. >> good evening i am kathy baxter and work for the child a abuse council and housed over on wallace street. i start the 36 years ago. i like to tell people i started as a toddler but not many people believe that. we started to raise awareness around child abuse and a grant from dr. moases and chief of pediatrics and the rosen during foundation and at that time in 1976 no one talked about it. we didn't have a system. we tried to get our

public agencies together to work together so over these last 36 years we really created an amazing system but what i learned about five years ago we had a whole another network and we didn't talk to each other. we had domestic violence and elder abuse and child abuse and we knew each other but we weren't sharing information as much. we weren't talk about family violence so i am thrilled to be here tonight to be part of this family violence council that looks at these three issues and we begin to talk about family violence in san francisco and i am pleased to able to talk about the report. >> my name is theresa gwen and work at the institute of aging and this program has been around since 1981. we started the first multi-disciplinary team in the country on the issue of elder abuse and we have

continued this legacy by having one of the first elder abuse centers in the country so we're one of four. one is being started in new york and one is being started in hawaii modeled on our center as well. i am pleased to be here today. thank you for the opportunity to speak to you all of you and i am privileged to be on the council as well and remind people elders are part of families too. i think elder abuse gets lost in the conversation and that's the voice i am trying to hold here today. >> and one of the -- i think many opportunities that the family violence council offers the city, both city government and providers and want public is to be a place where all of the data can be gather the and shared at once and it's fairly unprecedented just like you said commissioner about being a historic meeting this evening.

we think having all of the data together on these three groups to really paint a picture for san francisco and its leadership about how important and how pervasive family violence is in san francisco and also how much progress we made, so we just finished our 2011 comprehensive report so we would like to share some of that with you this evening. >> i think i'm going first on child abuse. you're going to see some statistics in front of you that really tell you the story. over 6,000 reports come into the abuse hot line, every 18,000 calls into the talk line and living with kids, 411 kids and line that runs 24/7 and in operation for the last 36 years. for any parent or caregiver in distress if they're isolated can reach out for help. excuse me

for my voice and i am sick and i get it when i walk into the building. thank you so much. i'm going to talk briefly about three of the recommendations that we made two years ago in the report and we made the recommendations around child abuse and we learned a lot about domestic violence and we wanted child abuse to have the same and when we asked for data the first year of the report everything that came to us was labeled "domestic violence" which was helpful but it didn't tell us what are the child abuse calls coming in because we train the 911 operators every year so we thought how many of the calls are child abuse request, the same thing with elder abuse and one of the things we're proud

of is the police department and with the department of emergency management when they saw that recommendation they said "we can do that" and i think within two months they did it, so we're thrilled and in february of 2011 -- there are three child abuse codes that went into play and we had 23 that we have documented as child abuse request. that is small but we're just starting. the majority of calls come into the hot line but we want to track the 911 calls when they're for a child abuse case and that is one of the initiatives that we want to rely to you tonight and we are proud of the work done and especially the police department that stepped up and took the load in this. the next one is in the adult probation department the domestic violence unit has been able to track for people prosecuted for domestic violence but the child abuse cases went to the general

population of probation. there was no unit to track those convicted of child abuse, so we made a recommendation that the adult probation department create a unit and a supervisor who would look at the people who have been charged with child abuse, felony child abuse and monitor those probationers so we're pleased to tell you this year we have a unit in place. we have ramona massy in the department who is over that department and wendy still from the adult probation department has been a strong advocate of these programs so we are thrilled to have that in place, and one of the things i honestly i would never see and be able to tell you in the penal code there is a section for the batter's intervention program and people charged with domestic violence. the same almost penal code called for child abuse 52 week

program and never existed and only one county in california doing it and that was san diego. we came before the public safety committee with the board of supervisors and said we want a 52 week child abuse intervention proom and the board of supervisors said "could we get in trouble for not having this?" . it's in the penal code. we believe we should have it and they said we should also and they asked the mayor's department work with us and i saw paul henderson come in and a shout on the to him and we're going to meet at 5:00 o'clock every friday in his office until we get this program going, so the department of public health and the probation department and the mayor department has made this happened and we have the

first person hired and the first group of people screened to go through the program and i am thrilled to tell you san francisco is one of two counties in the state doing this program. we are gathering data from the beginning and we will have good information to share with you what is going on, so these are three major things that happened in the last year that i am most proud of the work that family violence council has done and all of the community agencies have come together. thank you very much. >> so i will touch on some of the trends and recommendations that we're seeing from the domestic violence perspective. domestic violence has been worked on much longer in san francisco at a policy level and you will see that reflected in the numbers, but again when you combine elder abuse and child abuse and domestic violence

it's san francisco's most reported crime, family violence. so you will see that still the majority of the calls that are coming in -- thank you -- come in to the community. as many of you know, and as the president of the police commission said it's rarely the first time by the time the police are called or there is a criminal justice response and not everyone wants a criminal justice response so we are proud to be part of a community that speaks over 60 languages; that operates crisis l shelters and legal services for over 30 years and we are very proud of that. we are very proud of the probably 20 years, but certainly the last 10, of really working closely with the criminal justice system as well, so when you look at the number of calls -- i don't think

this is on my slide, but i will tell you the number of calls that come in on the crisis line 24/7 approaches 25,000 a year, so those are people looking for counseling, shelters, services, information for their children and referrals to our other partner agencies so we're very excited about that. you can see it here, 21,000. you will also see on this slide that it says cps but actually what it means is the child -- oh karen i can just picture her, child support services so we want to thank karen. i don't know if she is here but i want to give you a shout out because you see the increase there and don't believe that domestic violence has increased that much in san francisco, but what has happened they are being so careful about working with single parents

that are trying to receive support for their children but need to remain safe as well, so they're screening -- they have a special case load where domestic violence is involved. they have a special case worker who is a gentleman who i will tell you is not afraid to call a parent and not supporting their child to tell them just what the law is and what is expected of them, so we are seeing huge leadership from this agency and this is where you're seeing the 202 percent increase, but if you look you will see that the crisis lines, shelter services, general statistics, and cases received are still climbing in san francisco. we do not believe that is because there is more domestic violence. we believe it is because the community is starting to be aware and trust all of our systems, everybody in this

room, so lisa at 911, and all of the police department and everybody who's working on this we are gaining the trust of the survivors of their communities. in a post 9/11 world we saw a real drop and chilling effect in victims being willing to come forward. it was another big act of courage as many of you know just naming domestic violence or perhaps making a change in how you're violence is living is a huge courageous move, but to call when at that point they were afraid it was another huge courageous move so i feel both the state and our diverse and wonderful city has had a real challenge and i think we're finally getting back up to where we need to be. we need folks to know they can trust everyone in the room, every system that will come through for them, and i think this is reflected in our

report. >> thank you. >> all right. i am really hoping that all the wonderful things that are being said about domestic violence will be said about elder abuse in the next few years. as a field elder abuse prevention lags behind domestic violence by 20 years and that's a shame because elders are the fastest growing segment of the population and a thousand people turning 65 everyday in the country and san francisco likes to be first in everything and aging is no different. we have the unique population and the highest percentage of senior citizens in an urban area in california and we know many will develop some form of dementia so we have a very vulnerable population, so i want to touch on the numbers in the slide and we see in 2011

we had 6,000 reports and we have 512 and these cases are 100 i don't want to spend too much time delving into the numbers because they're there to look at with better explanation around them, but i want to highlight a few things that are important to our city. working in the elder abuse center we see -- i really want to take the opportunity to thank inspector and the captain for their amazing work and say we need more bodies to help them. there's my little plug, but it's really true. it's a urgent situation and many elders pass away before they see justices. they're complicated cases and require a high level of expertise to see what

happened, to build a case and presented to the da so they can win and they're complicated cases and we bump up against many obstacles as we seek justice and we are a partner for better results for the citizens here in san francisco. i want to take a brief moment and mention the law enforcement elder abuse act if you don't mind. this act was developed for all of california law enforcement and it is a step up from the pocket cards that we usually hand out at training and penal code 368. it has a lot of information about resources in california. it's at the fingertips of any officer that would like to download it. it's free and we have postcards how to access it as well. i am happy to take any questions or anything. we can move on to the recommendations from the family violence council. >> we're just going to say for the next year the family

violence council asked all of the public agencies to give us recommendations that they want to hold their own department accountable to and we came up with our own. the recommendations are up there and listed them genericically but for me the exciting thing in the last reports when we did the report the first year and emily knows started calling around asking for data there were many, many calls back because we're not used to gathering data like this. i can say -- i think for my co-chairs this third year it was a lot smoother process, and we are able to get data much more quickly and very real data, and so we hope to continue in the next year and we're going to add the sheriff's department in this to gather more data from the sheriff's department and also from the san francisco unified public schools because we have so many programs in the

schools working on family violence issues and we have one section in the report so the wellness centers and we're going to get data for and at the department of public health are looking at gathering data from the public health system so we are hopeful in next year's report we have information from all of the community clinics and san francisco general hospital when people come in and talk about domestic violence and child abuse and elder abuse we are able to capture that data so that is one of the major things we're looking for in the next report. >> the next recommendation is increasing in joint trainings and we're going to add the sheriff's department in

this to gather more data from the sheriff's department and also from the san francisco unified public schools because we have so many programs in the schools working on family violence issues and we have one section in the report so the wellness centers and we're going to get data for and at the department of public health are looking at gathering data from the public health system so we are hopeful in next year's report we have information from all of the community clinics and san francisco general hospital when people come in and talk about domestic violence and child abuse and elder abuse we are able to capture that data so that is one of the major things we're looking for in the next report. >> the next recommendation is increasing in joint trainings one of the recommendations is for 911 dispatchers. they have new codes now and we want to make sure they know how to

code, and the new codes around child and elder abuse in particular. >> i can see we're going to be moving around a lot. a fact sheet that talks about all family violence together in san francisco, so we can paint the picture in a moment's notice so people don't have to big through a full report as interesting as it is. we would like to have a fact sheet done this year that would really paint the picture how serious family violence is and how much progress we have made in san francisco. >> let next recommendation to is have a joint outreach campaign. we had success in our individual fields for these groups and this year we would like to collaborate and have a family violence approach here in the city. >> and we also want to keep supporting -- we believe that the best work that is done is when it's done in the

multi-disciplinary capacity. all of us working together. not one particular agency or group can do it alone so to continue the support what i think the three agencies have really valued to support the work of the domestic violence consortium and the agencies that are membered, to support the work of the elder abuse forensic center and unique and with financial and policy support towards it and i am here actually to thank everyone for the support of the new childrens' advocacy center that we will be opening next year in the bay view with that program and we are thrilled about this come to you next year and what we can do by bringing together the three entities and one of the recommendations is to keep these agencies going.

>> san francisco has success through the community and the sheriff's department and having services available to the victims and survivors of the perpetrators they're working with and the transition of sunni and happy to bring this to you so the victims can receive services in all three of our disciplines and restorative justice through the probation department and we are excited about that and we know we have the talent and leadership for that. >> the last one is from the victim's advocate department and they're very much strong supporters in all the work that we do and there was a press conference in the bay view and talking about