into talking about the plans we have for the coming summer. we want to extend doorways year round so we found that doorways which i'll get to in a minute here was extremely successful part -- they provided access point for young people so they helped us identify the young people ready for help and helped us identify those not ready for help. we felt it's necessary to continue them all year. we're starting a college out of the guardian scholars and we finished up our program and we're about to make those announcements and we may expand the number of doorways as well. as glen mentioned earlier, we want to provide year round services which is going to provide closer work with the school district and i have a slide at the end. we're going to have upgrades to the online system and i have a

little pre-view for you in the next couple of slides on what the new online platform will look like. we added the tracking system and we want to add more things to that including an easier log in. the log in was difficult. a post partner and listing and job opportunities from other sources. another good -- really cool strategy we're working on is the california champions. a letter went out to the mayor's office that went out to the employers urging them to pledge jobs. we have the job challenge that's on the 21st. i have a slide on that. that's to prime this event and bring employers in that's going to post internship and we can get young people to apply for that. we want to focus on small business engagement and we're going to do some of that through our doorways

which i'll get to in a minute, working on the neighborhood associations and neighborhood businesses. and we want to provide services for undocumented youth this year. i have a special slide as we had a pilot last year with meta chalk and lyric which i'll get to in a minute and we're planning on doing a similar program this year for undocumented young people. the main functions of doorway are access points for summer jobs plus. they all use a common screening tool. so we work with the youth coalition to come up with a common screening tool. how do you know if a young person is ready for work. they provide support and referrals for those not ready. and they provide workshops for the not ready youth. if we're helping recruit for starbucks,

all of the young people have to complete the application at starbucks. a couple of new things we're going to do, we want to go out in the neighborhood and work with the mom and pops and all the neighborhoods to get some small business engagement and a lot of big companies but there's a lot of jobs in small business and there's a lot of opportunities there we want to end gage on. we're adding a youth outreach provider, so we put out a grant for an organization to make sure that disconnected youth throughout the summer know about the opportunities available, know about the doorways and they're able to access those. so last year, these are our six doorways. and again, served almost just under 500 young people with walk ins, screening and assessments and referrals for services and really i think

stellar park that we're looking to continue. we're looking to partner more closely with the school district. the school district has been a partner of summer plus, but during the school year we want to bring employers into the classrooms for guest presentations and bring young people foreshadows and mentor ship programs and something to ground their learning and i think that is important for youth that are off track are on disconnected. we've done a couple of events with the school district this year to try things out. we want to do more deeper work in the fall where we're going to plan during the summer for stuff we're excited about in the fall along with the grand tech program which you're going to hear about in a minute. and the website, so you'll learn as john bonjovi -- this is a mock of the new website. this is the top of it

and the take away here is having a hub for young people to go and know about all the different opportunities that are available, so at the top is what i'm calling our managed opportunities so when we got out and we go to starbucks, in the middle is where we can put -- in middle is jobs from other sources so we're going to intern match.com with other -- the building and scale is where community has said can you post our jobs. hopefully next year we can have city integration and this can be a one stop shop as we move through the year. finally, services for undocumented. for the money we raised, we gave

money to chalk and meta and lyric. they provided a program which is a project based program to 27 youths and gave the youth $1100 each and this was go to go more in depth. they were planning a summit around undocumented work force issues so they went through a job readiness program, but focused on the issues of undom -- undocumented youth and they did a meeting. meta actually did something different and had undocumented youth in their customer service training and for -- i believe it was five young people that were undocumented and there were in their customer service training and they helped them, i believe, two of them going to the process for the docket services and we have one person who went through the whole process of

getting their paperwork and becoming employed in the private sector. we've seen a young person getting their paperwork to work legally. we set aside money and we're working on some proposals from chalk and lyric as well as meta for this coming summer and we're looking forward to doing that again. we have the upcoming launch events that we have for summer jobs plus. on may 10th and i encourage you to be there is our youth resource fair. the purpose is to connect the young people to opportunities and have them sign up online. they'll be employers there. they'll get a mock interview and they'll be workshops and we connect young people who need help with cbo's on the spot. and on the 21st is the mayor's job challenge and we i viet employers to make their commitments at city hall funding and internships and jobs and those are the employers we work with in addition to other

employers. we're doing outreach with the employers but these are the key employers that come to the events. and the champions letter, we're engaging some of them and they're making commitment well in advance to this event. i'd like to turn it over to mr. thomas mires from office economic and work force development who wants to you tell about the employer end of things. >> thank you. i want to note, we have rec and park presenting and we have to end the committee meeting by 5:00 so if we can e aware for the time so leave time for questions and discusses. mr. mires, we want to welcome you. >> thomas mires, did especially tea director of work force development. the only thing i wanted to add today is we've reached out to 500 employers this summer to have individuals,

youth individuals work in various occupations and for various employers this summer. the outreach started last week with the mayor's invitation letter and we're following up with employers this week all the way through the resource face on may 10th as well as the job challenge on may 21st. we'll continue to end gage with employers to catch youth that are going to be coming out of school later or haven't decided what they're going to do for the summer and that's pretty much all i wanted to add to that. if you have questions, i'll be around to answer those. >> thank you, mr. myers. any questions or discussion from board members? you know, i think from my perspective, what i'm curious about is the response that young people have had over the job program. i don't know if there's a collection of the evaluations and what works for students and

what didn't. >> so we've always surveyed young people, so first of all as far as response, there were, i believe a couple of thousand that signed up online. there's a little drop off for people who create a profile and the ones that make it to the next step and apply for something and so forth, but there's 800 young people that came to the youth resource fair. we did a survey for employers and non profit and youth and i don't know the exact number. there was 200 plus surveys from young people and some of the things we heard were, we need to find more opportunities for young people 16, 17, and that's an ongoing issue. a lot of employers are not eager to hire under 18 and that's something we work on with employers all the time. we heard that there was difficulties on the website with logging in, which is why we created a new way to log in that hopefully we'll take care of that issue. if general, i think young people are craving more opportunities and i think part of that solution is having all

of those opportunities that are available in one spot so young people know about them well in advance, rec and park does their application in january and we're doing summer jobs plus through and having that on one spot where they can go and know about the different opportunities when they're happening is things we've been working on. >> thank you. all right. seeing no further comment, we have bob palachio from rec and park department. >> good afternoon, supervisors and commission erz. bob palachio, superintendent for rec and park. i have a short presentation. i

promise to be brief. the areas that i will be covering are summer camps, summer recreation programs, our scholarship program, special events and special programs this summer. rpd's role in violence this year. how we outreach and market our programs and summer hires, job opportunities as well as a quick summary and answer any questions that you may have. summer camps, we have 78 different types of summer camps this summer held at 48 different places. we have 5,000 registrations out of an available 15,000 slots. some of our summer camps is early childhood camps and we have summer and arts camp.

some of that is discover camp and art camp. other camps are water front camp. some of those looks like junior and surf camp where kids go surfing and we have our quad i cans camp. camp neptune and training and our learn to swim camp which are important. we have our traditional sports camp which are baseball, basketball, and flag football and we're introducing lacrosse for kids this summer. we have alternative sports camp which are fog city camp and then our skate boarding camp which is popular. we have outdoor recreation camps. that is the most populated camps, you know that over pine lake and our indoor rock climbing camp. we have teen focus camp. those fill up and the ones

we're most proud of and they have a leader and training camp. and we have surviving the city on $5. it teaches kids how to actually have a day in the summer on five bucks and then also how to navigate the entire city. it's mainly -- that one is geared towards teaching kids how to get across a city on muni on mass transit and it's geared towards those leaving middle school and heading to high school and has to travel to different parts of the city. we have our neighborhood camps which we do throughout the city through many of our large rec centers and other properties. we've seen those camps and we do the streets of san francisco, when nature calls, and each one has a theme each week. in addition to those camps, we have adoptive camp.

if they have a fun and successful summer with their piers, we do that at silver tree and discover camp and we'll be looking at additional spot to grow that camp. in addition to our regular camps, we have our recreation programs. some of those programs are city wide senior programs that happen at various locations across the city. we have junior giants baseball to partner with the community fund. we have our dance classes, zumba and digital arts and there's hundreds of programs. the registration is may 17th for those programs. that's when registration opens up. we also have special events and special programs that happen. they'll be happening this summer helping people helping parks where we do walking programs. we do

free zumba and yoga classes at 13 different locations in the city and those are free of charge. and we're doing play day. we've chosen a palega and we thought that was the most appropriate place to serve the bay view and vegetation valley. we have our asl emergent camp where people are learn american sign lang. we're doing that at mission play ground and it's interesting to me. we have our mobile rec where we by rock climbs and bmx and skate boarding throughout the neighborhoods in the city where we don't require kids to come to us. we go to them. we have our green ageers program which

is 9th and 10th graders and they learn gardening. that has been a successful program over the last two years. we also are doing food and nutrition programs. future chefs where kids will learn to cook and buy healthy foods and we're going to do our next addition of the rec idol where kids over the city try to go for that title. our scholarship program. one of the programs that we're proud of at rec and park, we've already awarded $6,000 this summer. we're up to $1 million this year. we have scholarships in the 75 percent, and 100 percent range. depending on which one you qualify for. most people qualify for 100 percent. one of our

guiding principals is no one will be excluded from participation based on ability or inability to play. >> a question question here. i'm curious in terms of scholarships. it's assuming, then my assumption is rec and park charges for their activities. >> for many of the activities, we charge and many we don't. it defends on what commission or what board approved. >> when you say scholarship, basically it's still city funding. >> correct. what we do is look for people to donate to our scholarship fund. we do different events like we had

the extravaganza where they take a camp with our department. our violence prevention and strategies role this summer, once again we're doing late night basketball which we call peace hoops. we do that at hamilton recreation center and we partner with the san francisco police department and the mayor's office as well as supervisor cohen to put on a program that runs, i believe, it's about 8 weeks in the summer. it targets the transitional age youth population, specifically in those folks that would need a little bit of extra help. it's not just a basketball program. it's a social services program. we try to help them get back their licenses and help them deal with their child support.

we also have the camp teen outdoor experience which is a program where we take 50 youth that are either on probation or currently incarcerated and we partner with juvenile probation to take those up to camp mather. last year we had to move that program to a different property so we're excited to be back at mather this year. we have our leaders and training program. we do that throughout city. we have a good one where kids learn the skills they'll need to become life guards. we also try to activate our parks as much as possible throughout the summer. we know the more activated the park is with healthy activities, the better that park will be for the summer. we also work closely with sfpd in constant communications with them as well as park patrol and our cbo

partners to find new ways of not only patrolling and policing our facilities, but again activating them in a healthy way. recreation, jumping to employment. our summer jobs for youth and adults, we have over 500 summer hires this year. recreation is the city's oldest standing youth program. we're hiring 235 youth this summer and we've also ramp up an additional 132 leaders which are the folks who lead our courses and programs to help with the camps. we hired 103268 coordinators which help lead those camps and we have an additional 100 life guards, and cooks et cetera that we employ for the summer. we also have the 20 kids that

participate in the green agers program. it's pretty extensive. how do we outreach and market all the things we do. we do collateral material, the fliers and post cards and we try to get those up in our facilities including our pools and rec centers and any of the businesses or our cbo partners that we can. we have banners that we use. we send out an e news to 50 to 60,000 folks and we have our rec and park website where we're posting the new things we're doing on. we use social media such as twitter and facebook. partner website and newsletters and city agency and the supervisors are good about getting that out. direct outreach to the

san francisco school district schools, so we use a few times a year, we do the mailers that go home on tuesday's or wednesdays to the students across the city. we do direct outreach to recreation centers and our facilities so we have our people walking outdoor to door making sure that the community is aware of what's going on. we have online calendars for special events. we promote on media. i don't know if you've seen our sftf bus ad that's encouraging those to sign up and we also use newspaper ads. just to sum advise what our goal is, obviously is to provide quality programs, have safe and clean open spaces this summer for kids and families to participate in. and then we rely on our customer and community feedback so we

can improve the following year but as we go along, we can make improvements through the summer. we look to have productive partnerships. we're partnering with lots of folks and we continue to increase that number, and as a result our quality of what we're able to offer our department has gone up. if you have questions, i'll be willing to answer those. >> mr. palachios, thank you for your presentation and very thorough and gives me a lot of thought about my kid's summer action. when is the time, has it passed for signing up for summer programs and camps. >> summer camps, you can sign up now and on may 17th, the summer programs will actually be open, so we do two different registration. the summer camp registration is so big and there's so many thousands of people that jump online at the same time, we do it at a separate time. we started that. there's lots of room in many of the camps and the summer camps begin may

17th. >> great. i've been signing up and it's really hard to actually -- a lot of people sign up at the same time and i've missed a lot of programs. i'm impressed by the programs you offer for all those of all ages. march 17th -- >> may 17th. >> i miss speak all the time. summer programs sign ups. >> don't get discouraged, the first 30 minutes are rough. the server has the capacity to have so many people on at a time. if you stay on the first 30 minutes, you'll be fine. >> thank you. >> okay. >> commissioner mendoza.

>> thank you. so this is -- not the same, but similar with regards to camp mether this year and whether or not it's going to be open from the difference from after the the tragic room fire, can you tell us a brief update on that. >> camp mether will be open to its full capacity. we're going to have 11 weeks of family camp. the devastation will be seen by everyone who gets up. once you get to the camp, you're not going to see it. we've been fortunate that we've had a number of commissioners as well as the pc be supportive of rec and park in getting the things that we need to get done at camp mether to have a full family camp this year. we hope to add new amenities and create a little bit more better

experience at camp mether which we're going to do and we're working on it now. we're happy to have mether up and running again. and people will see once they're in the middle of the camp, you don't notice the damage that the room fire created but you'll see it on the way up. the entire forest is closed around us, which will be a challenge, so we have messaging to do with the folks that will be attending camp, but all the amenities that are in camp, the lake, the pools and the horseback riding is a good. we're happen -- we're happy to have those kids especially those who are returned kids. >> it was incredible how close the fire came to camp mether. i toured a month and a half ago, and it was 50 feet from the calf --

cafeteria. off the softball field in our tree area, you can see the trees behind just ungulfed in flames. >> people, i really don't think understand how close we were to losing the camp. it was feet as you you said. it was not something that you were just hearing or thinking about in the distance. people were fighting it from the edge of the camp so we're very, very fortunate that the structures are still there and most of the infrastructure that helps the camp throughout the summer is still in tact. we've got some work to do. we have a large group of people going up. >> the other camps didn't make it. >> camp tujunga and they had tough times and berkeley cam p did not

make it. they were engulfed by the fire. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> do we have other presentationsal -- presentations as well. who is next up? >> hello, i'm sharon zimmer and i'm from the college and career readiness at the san francisco school district and i'm a supervisor there. i'm really happy to introduce carlene cardenez who is our coordinator and a huge help to do the improvements for our summer internship program. getting started, i'm going to quickly -- the cte program are school year programs, two year programs. we have 24 cte academies at sfufd representing

12 industry sectors. those are two year programs that align to california state standards around cte industry sectors. and they're taught by cte credential teachers within that industry sector. we have work base learning throughout the year and this is -- this was referred to earlier as match bridge and dcyf helping us out with that. those are guest speakers, field trips, job shadows. but we're talking specifically about summer, so let me get onto summer. we are using the term a little bit more around a productive summer -- productive summer and with that said, we are looking to -- we have 75 paid internships this year. we are going to be expanding, so last year we had 86 paid internships that came