victim would receive their direct order compensation. that is an important factor to lead to change of behavior. >> and it's important of what restitution that is calculated and not collecting, to have an idea of the size of the problem. and i would want to support a budgetary expenditure to do exactly that. >> thank you. the other aspect also of our population that needs to be addressed the offenders of this trauma that represent a rapid growing segment of addressing mental health and psychobehavior

that contributes. and this shows in childhood and offending behavior and childhood and adult trauma are high in incarcerated. and in addition, childhood trauma is linked to behaviors such as alcohol and drug abuse and behaviors in adulthood. childhood behaviors confront our society. a natural extension of adp is to try to interrupt the cycle of crime and invest in clients change in behavior, and thereby making our communities safer. and a restitution and offender

accountability program will be a big step intervention of violence and crime, and of crimes by perpetrators in these acts. >> thank you. and next presentation is belief from the sheriff's department, someone from the sheriff's department? great, thank you. >> hi, i am the supervisor of restoration of the sheriff's department. i am here to talk about our services and collaborations, for the past 12 or 13 years the sheriff's department has a victim restoration program. the first goal is to work with the survivors of the offenders

in our rccp program. since then the department has developed its own survivor restoration program. that we provide for offenders in the rccp program and also all the other programs in our jail. including roads to recovery and also our nova program. providing services to the survivors of the offenders in our community programs. we also have a survivor empowerment program. the goal of the department is to support survivors in their crisis, and to reach out to the community. we have a strong collaboration with the d.a.'s office and criminal justice agencies. and providing services for undocumented survivors. and then strong collaborations and support survivors on the next level of empowerment. it's a 12-week curriculum that we provide in the community,

reaching out to women who are no longer in crisis, but yet need long-term health. we found in the sheriff's department that a lot of times our sister agencies and partners, we get so caught up in dealing with the immediate crisis, we don't have the opportunity to continue the empowerment. the same types of services that we offer offenders in long-term behavioral changes, we provide that for our survivors. and another piece of the program is survivor impact. that we provide an opportunity for victims of violent crimes to share their stories with offenders. and for the offenders to understand accountability and the impact. and with that we have been in collaboration with several different agencies. and with the domestic violence consortium supports more opportunities for our survivors

to get the services and restitution. because we see this a lot. in my 12 years, that's one of the biggest challenges that we do see with our survivors not able to get restitution. they are exhausted in the process, even if they went through a court case by the end and to get restitution. to do follow up with that. we are some support of services and funding to move that forward. any questions? >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next call up from the san francisco district attorney office, kristena berry. >> good afternoon, chair breed and board. i am happy to come and happy to hear a hearing on victims. part of what you are hearing of

offenders in apb and the sheriff's custody suffering from trauma, because so little is done on the front end of victims of a crime. the conduct i have been exposed to in the d.a.'s office, called parallel justice. if i leave you with anything today to embrace with the community. in san francisco we try to be innovative and help for them to have a meaningful life. and the question is how do we do that with victims. and don't leave them at the courthouse door, but make sure they have everything they need to put their lives back together. what the chief of adp and d.a. office struggle to meet the daily needs that we have and the mandates that we have.

and very little opportunity to do the additional work that we think would do so much in are for victims and offenders. by state law the district attorney's office and mandated to provide victim services. and we do that and have to do that in continuing state cuts. in each of the consecutive years, the state has cut the funding for the victim advocates and that's the cost that the city is picking up. we are forced to pay as a county than the state that paid for it. last year we served almost 6,000 victims, that's 16% increase from the year before. those 6,000 victims are seen by 12 advocates in our office, you can imagine the case loads. and of those 6,000, 90% are victims of violent crimes. these are people that have had

the most unimaginable and horrific circumstances that cross their paths. we are the first point of contact of those victims. we see them in a day or two of the crime. they come to our door and work with an advocate and try to explain what happened. from the state compensation fund we collect documents that will be helpful to the adp and share them now and will continue to share them as they do the restitution of the orders, we do a patch system of filling out forms that the chief mentioned. because we are concerned about the inability to collect restitution. we would welcome adp to have restitution members to help them

collect. the ideas of trauma speak directly to two requests we made in this budget process for the d.a. office for our victim's services unit. i mentioned that 90% of our victims come to us as result of a violent crime. what we do in that process, is make referrals to other agencies that may offer them subsidized or deferred payment for mental health treatment or crisis counseling. most victims come to us in the worse moments of their lives. what we would like to have is a social worker in our victim services office, to offer to people 10 sessions. what we have learned that most don't take us on that. it becomes too difficult to meet an advocate and share your

story, and we'll send you out, here's a list of people that can help you. it feels abrupt and most people don't appreciate the brush-off in that process. what we seek to is just have one, we don't feel that it cover the entire case load but will improve the services the victims get. and the second request is a housing specialist. the other thing that we see is real challenges around housing for most victims. most victims are low income and struggle and they for exasperated after a victim of a crime. and we can provide temporary relocation. and we make referral in -- referrals in that process and

you can imagine that people that just had their entire family and life thrown into chaos as a result of a crime and additional burden to figure out housing. in what we know is an exceptionally challenging house other market. those are two our requests that dovetail in what adp is doing. we think it's challenging to take on this work and look forward to increased restitution to be collected on their behalf. >> do you have an estimate of how much restitution is not collected because of lack of resources? >> i think that the chief's numbers are accurate. on our part we provide that restitution be paid to the victim. what will make that more effective, is restitution of

$400 to replace the window, and etc., and we don't have that and as we pass from adp they don't have the time to put in a specific order for the court to review and make a specific order. and the numbers that you received i have no reason to believe they are less than accurate. >> thank you very much, from the final presentation from the department of women. >> good morning, committee chair, president chiu, and supervisor tang. i am the director of the department of status of women. i am here to express our services, we oversee the city's investment of $4 million of services of women survivors of

violence. and also part of the violence reform, we have focused on long-term solutions to evaluate violence against women. in strong partnership with city agencies and specifically jail probation departments and city providers. we have greatly improved the response to violence. and the proposal prohibesented probation is a further step to strengthen san francisco's response to violence against women. the program is provided to be comprehensive. and to broaden the path of healing to victims. and the proposed plan for probationers is to provide against recidivism. and of all the departments we have worked with on the justice

encouragement department, probation department is one of the leading to adjust challenges and better san francisco. >> thank you, i want to thank all various representatives from your departments, i know this is an ongoing part of the budget process, i for one want to work with you and move that forward and hope our colleagues as well. i want to go to public comment, first we have mrs. upton and cathy black. if other members that want to speak, step up. >> hi, i am cathy black, thank you for having this meeting today. i am the executive director from la casa villa, and i have been there for 17 years. and a panel member for the justice panel and i co-chair the audit information committee. which took the audit findings

and then developed system changes. and so i also want to recognize adult probation for coming up with an innovative solution. and say that it's probably no secret that i am very pro-offender accountability. and would really support building a stronger infrastructure that will ensure that victims and survivors are made whole to the extent possible. and i would say that if you were to survey, la casa serves 19,000 victims and survivors per year. from a hot line call to shelter. >> could you repeat that number again? >> 19,000. and i think if you were to

survey them, you would find that the number who maybe receiving any kind of -- any kind of restitution is probably next to none. pretty much none, but thank you very much, and i support this program. >> thank you, very much, one comment i want to make. i know that each departments in the community, we believe that there are thousands of victims that do not receive restitution and other support. and it would be go do try to estimate that as a ballpark to figure out budgetary decisions around that. that number is not unreasonable and pretty staggering. >> i just heard about this hearing, i wish i had known in advance. we could have taken a couple week sampling, which i am happy to do. i would like to provide more information if possible. i think that we could inform

much the decision by just showing that a lot of victims who are definitely involved in the criminal justice process. but are not getting that next step of assistance. thank you. >> next speaker, please. and i know ace washington has submitted a card as well. if you want to go after -- >> i am appearing here anonymously to answer possible questions and also my own statements may support retaliation. and i would like not to have that occur. i think you have heard a lot about people not getting the restitution and the fairness and

treatment and prevention. people that you know the amenities of. but who are the women and possibly men too who have been victims of the crime which are not reported. that the police have responded dismissively when there is an attempt to have police intervention and report. many of these people, they would like to state that there are routinely from four or five events that i am personally informed on. that the police have responded dismissively when there is an effort to report crimes of magnitude. one of them was the effort to report an attempted murder, hands on attempted murder in a shelter. the response of the police department when the person went

to the nearest police station to try to report it, was a stand up in the lobby of the police station by the policeman. and told and dismissively approaching the person once found they were a shelter reside resident. saying that an attempted murder was not a crime. and an effort at the police station to have another kind of report or something correction of that. led to a false report of the facts to lead to dismissal. now i can tell you about five other things but my time is up, if you want to hear more about this, maybe you would like to schedule (inaudible) to residents in shelters that is not processed (inaudible) by the

police department. >> thank you very much. mr. washington. final speaker then. >> thank you, supervisors, good afternoon, san francisco domestic violence consortium. i first want to say it's been an honor to work with adult probation, chief steele and their team. this is a huge opportunity for the city to take a huge step forward and fill a gap. i would like to tell a quick story, because i have one case that i think illustrates several opportunities for us to be way more accountable as a city and help victims and their families. so i received contact with a victim of domestic violence through a supervisor's office last summer. i sat through the trial with

this survivor, and she was quite assertive. she knew her lost wages and costs were. when we talk about housing, the screen door was torn off. and the windows broken. and she had to of course, as you imagine in this housing market, she had to repair her housing right away. that's all out of pocket. she was in some ways a model case to move forward towards restitution. i think everybody along the way did everything they could to help. her supervisor tried to help. the d.a. handled the case well, and restitution was set, which we have heard was not in a lot of cases. but the offenders assets were not investigate and put on a low payment plan.

and this new program could look into hidden assets of offenders. not everyone has them but some do. and make the victims whole of those assets. you can imagine if you were granted say $2500 of restitution that you paid out of pocket and to receive 50 to $100 a month, and you can imagine how long that takes. i am out of time and thank you, we are supportive in the department. any questions? >> i want to thank you and your colleagues to work with the city departments. i think we have a lot of work to do to build a case for this, but thank you for your representation. >> thank you, i think it's meaningful. >> final speaker. >> hello, my name is larry, i am giving you a copy of an agenda.

it shows where (inaudible) acquitted and restraining order violation. i am the face of a victim, i am a black, gay man. and here tndc where i stay at. there is a lot of offenders coming out and speculators and adult probation, they let these people beat on us and not only me. but several people are going through abuse and move people out. and i have been there and we are victims. since obama has been president i have faced more racism and bulyism in san francisco than ever. i think it's time to bring the matthew shepard money to san francisco, we are not getting the justice that i believe that

while and yellow people are getting in this city. just to show you (inaudible) this is a letter that you get a copy. and the experience of working with you, and they confirm that you are not a tenant that causes a lot of problems. and that there is a history of people bullying you. and i appreciate your honest and integrity and the truth about this. i didn't want to tell you that i received another incident report of blocking the hallway. i am telling you that victims in the city for the housing market, it's related and criminals inside of the building. in 2010 i was never in jail until 2012 and i had a restraining order. and i went to a lady that killed herself on easter sunday

(inaudible) face of victim and it's time that this city (inaudible). >> thank you very much. >> (inaudible). >> thank you very much. >> (inaudible). >> did i give you that copy ma'am? we should get three minutes like everyone in the department. >> thank you. supervisor chiu. >> any other members of the public that wish to speak on this item? madam chair, public comment is closed. and i want to thank all the members of the public as well as our advocates and the city department heads, who are thinking but how san francisco can be smart on crime. it's been a number of years since i held a hearing on

victims of crime. we obviously have a long way to go to be compliant with state law. it's important to work with adp and the d.a. office and the sheriff's department to get us there. i hope in this budget process we can have a smart conversation around this and colleagues hopefully will have a conversation with the budget committee. what we need to do to make sure that hundreds of thousands of dollars that are due to the crime victims are going. and create a safety net around our victims, and around that if we keep this item. don't need keep at the call of the chair, just table at this point. >> thank you, president chiu,i want to thank you for your leadership on this issue. i find the comments invitef -- insightful on the information

and the district attorney's office working with families. we should make sure there is a comprehensive approach that the victims are not further victimized through the process. in many cases these are women with children, we need to bring the services to the location where they are needed the most. and that's something that we ought to be looking at as a city. i appreciate the feedback and understanding of what is happening and with this discussion moving forward. this item has been continued to the call of the chair -- tabled, okay. any objection to that? no objection, okay, thank you. thank you supervisor avalos for

joining us for the next item. >> hearings directed to the housing authority and mayor's office of housing in san francisco. >> president chiu has to leave. >> i want to make a quick comment that i have assigned supervisor avalos to this item, and this is an important topic around questions of how to take care of our residents. i want to thank supervisor avalos and others on this item, and look forward to reviewing the tape on this as it proceeds, thank you very much. >> okay, thank you, president chiu. i called for this hearing with the mayor's office of housing for the recent approval of the rad program, republican housing

sites in san francisco. i want to thank supervisor avalos for being here and co-sponsoring the hearing. mayor lee announced that the rad program with the san francisco housing authority will enter into a public/private partnership and leverage of $180 million for housing units. rehabilitation work will improve the housing urnits, and the rad program will provide in a land use structure. with the employment opportunities for public housing rez de rez -- residents.

i must say that the plan sounds positive as a supervisor this is important to me. and to be sure that this program delivers on the promise it puts out there. i want to thank mayor lee for working on the priority of housing in san francisco. last week we announced $5.4 million needed for elevate repairs in nine units. and i am working with the mayor's office to leverage $2.3 million on housing units and make that available for homeless families. i am excited with this rad program and that we understand what the program entails and the