you about priority no. 3 which talks about investigating the needs of and expanding support services for youth with incarcerated parents. throughout the duration of the 2013-2014 term, the youth commission has been working with the youth leadership program called project what. which is comprised of youth with incarcerated parents either formally incarcerate or currently incarcerated parents. on mar 2014, the board of supervisors held a hearing of incarcerated youth and the various departments that provides services for youth with incarcerated parents. the hearing will be held thursday june 19 th if you would like to attend. on behalf of the commission, i

would like to thank the police commission for passing dgo 7.04 which establishes protocols for making an arrest for youth and children. i would like to thank supervisors for their support involving the hearing. we hope you get involved furred. -- further. we also hope the board of supervisors take measures on the data distribution and life outcomes of youth with incarcerated parents as well as promoting family and unity and sustained relationships between youth and their incarcerated parents by encouraging enhanced

protocols for consideration of a family in sentencing positive, visiting policies in county jails and providing funding house ing and support services and visiting standards for incarcerated parents. feel free to ask questions during our presentation or you can save it until the end. i will now pass it on to commissioner for youth. >> hello board of supervisors. i'm with the health and wellness community on priority no. 4 the district disability awareness efforts. currently as of 2010 there are 6096 students with disabilities which is the total

population. the sf -- is making the learning environment as inclusive for all students. they have a resource page on their website, workshops and other programs geared towards direction of disabilities. the committee this year distributed an informal is survey to 85 students to gauge their knowledge on disability awareness. 46 percent of these students were interested to learn more about special education and only 17 percent considered themselves very familiar. the youth commission appreciates and commends support for all students who have different learning styles and different learning speeds in a range for mental and intellectual and developmental disabilities. we support the implementation and

proposals of programs that build understanding, acceptance and friendships between students with disabilities and students in general education. lastly we encourage the school district to expand and prioritize already existing programs and critique -- curriculum that engage youth and include students. thank you. next is priority no. 5. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is michelle lee and i'm with this years youth employment and immigration committee. our goals this year to increase employment opportunities for undocumented youth. they face employment, scholarships and loan and other state and federal services. as a result of federal requirements. the san francisco public sector has not hired undocumented youth

who would otherwise be eligible. the youth population has been identified as a need of the community, various forms or various sum it's. in response to this the 2013 summer jobs program, funding by dcyf and united way provided programs for undocumented youth through a series of stipends. while successful, it only employed 44 students which is only 4.8 percent of this population. with this we are asking the board to take action to allow undocumented youth to participate in sf summer jobs plus public youth programs by utilizing certain methods including but not limited to individual stipends, gift cards or educational scholarships. additionally we hope to see undocumented youth employed at a rate

consistent with the youth population. this is 350 job opportunities for undocument youth at the upcoming summer. undocumented youths should have ak access to employment opportunities. thank you very much for your time and we hope you take this into consideration as you continue your budget hearing process. >> thank you very much. nicholas for youth commission. i will be presenting on priority six and seven which are our muni related priorities at the commission. priority no. 6 as you are familiar with is the -- youth priority. it's something that we advocate for since 2009-2010. a multiyear effort and we've had a lot of commitment to this and it's been a tremendous struggle. the reason why we begin advocating for the youth

program was the extremely sharp jack s in price. mainly the pass to $20 in may of 2010. at the same time, sf usd was making severe cuts to yellow school bus services and had no options to get to school but to use muni. a program for low income and motion derate youth. there was a pilot program for 16 months which will go until this june. but luckily this year the mta in their operating budget including for the next 2 years. of 40,000 estimated eligible youth for the program, 31,000 or 71.2

percent have already signed up which is an extremely significant percentage which shows the need for youth in san francisco. our recommendation is that this board of supervisors along with the sf mta continue to partner with sf usd with regard to the program. lastly one of the reasons why this program has been so successful is that it's easy to sign up. there is actually a free muni lifeline program a few years ago which failed. because this program has been very easy to sign up for youth. all you have to do is fill out a single form. that's why it's great. it's less administrative on muni and great for vulnerable population in san francisco such as undocumented

community. more specifically, priority no. 7 is about the inclusion of 18-year-olds in sf municipal unicipal transportation agency, 75 percent or 3,000 will turn 18 in their senior year. the problem is that currently sf mta only occurs ages to be 5-17. on the students 18th birthday they are forced to pay $66 a month per pass or $2 which is expensive if you are a high school student. many agencies in the bay area of the east bay and golden gate transit of the north bay consider their youth to be 5-18-year-olds so that that gets almost all high school

students. our recommendation is to expand munis youth rate to include 18-year-olds and also another issue we've identified is transitional age youth. if there is a way to get discounts for this population for muni and also the small population of high school students that's over 18-year-olds, 19 to 20-year-olds to get reduced fares. for both of these two priorities, i would like to thank the municipal transportation agency for passing them and for making an adjustment to the budget to include the 18-year-olds. we would like to thank sf mta for that and we hope the board of supervisors would be supportive of that as these two priorities get pushed. >> supervisor mar in

>> yes, these two policies are a good example of the youth commission and the starf and i like how you are part of a broader movement pretty much diverse from all the neighborhood and you help to bring the voice and power of young people to make a major policy change. i know supervisor campos and avalos had some involvement in that but it's important that you have effectiveness in these priorities. >> it's not just this commission, it's tons of community based organizations and the reason we are successful is that it's a really strong community effort of a lot of additional committees. with that, we'll move on to priority no. 8 which will be commissioner ed heart. >> hello supervisors. i'm care of the justice committee this year. i will be presenting

about priority no. 8 which is full implementation of the mou signed between sfusd and sf p.d.. it's been a priority for three 3 years now. this term we met with chief sur and community group members and we also presented at the board of education. this past january we got this mou passed. now that we have one we would like to move our focus from getting an mou to implementation of that mou. with that, our recommendations are to identify time lines to expedite full implementation of the school sites. continued collaboration relationships with sfusd and stakeholders to include process to implementation, to commence training and collaboration with sf you'd. if there were trainings for actual documents we would like to see inclusion of language from do 71. i would like to thank the chief

who is here today and everyone who worked with us on this priority and students who collaborated with us. we see this mou to improve community relationships within the city and establish relationships between the schools, departments and the community. i will be presenting no. 9. the police department has made huge strides in improving youth relations. they passed didgo 7.01 for interrogation. last year announced the police officers would be involved with the boys and girls club of america. that being said we recommend an implementation for training for all police officers for the stress on sarjs sergeants and patrol officers to do the following. focus on police and tactics,

and offer practical and communication skills for mental health, deescalation strategies, address issues of racial profiling and include youth in the training and apply scenarios. this has also been a priority for the past two 2 years and we really see this as another opportunity for sfran -- san francisco to

>> i will be presenting on no. 10. we are excited by the progress that has been made by the mayor's housing community towards reaching the goal of developing 400 affordable housing units for transitional age youth by 2014. this year on may 7th our committee organized a youth town hall where more than 14 youth advocates raised the affordability and housing issues that youth including transitional age youth are confronted with. we would like to acknowledge city staff from hsa and dcyf for yoing us at the town hall. our priority is to encourage to build on its progress towards meeting the

400 -unit goal by 2014. to strengthen and expand the social safety net for transitional age youth that are critical for them as they transition in dependent housing. we urge providers to implement and evaluation tool with input that measures the quality and effectiveness of transition age youth housing and supportive services and to analysis outcomes for all. last but not least we urge greater housing support for those who might not otherwise be eligible for age youth housing program. i will present on no. 11 for vital transitional age youth services. in our city, there are $11 for vital transitional age youth services. in our city, there are between

5,000-8,000 ages who will not make it in this population. leaves their set of policies for this spring of this year. transitional age youth discan -- disconnected age youth have more challenges and should have more opportunities and challenges in meeting their needs is that they are excluded from services that are funding by the children's fund. we met with the transitional age youth executive director network to discuss the city's current investment in transitional age youth and how we can look at the need for additional dedicated city funding for transitional age youth. the

network has had experience of provider and have taken into account many of the policy recommendations by the ksf and they came before our commission in may 5, 2014 and #145er with -- shared with us their funding proposal. our recommendation is to support their funding proposal and to approve funding for a two 2-year bridge for transitional services and these services should include additional centers for education and employment and case management and employment. up to 400 subsidized summer employment, expanding emergency housing fund and new transitional housing beds and 12 beds for residential and mental health

treatment for citywide case manager. the projected funded needs is $5 million in the first year and $6.8 million in the second year. now i'm going to pass the mic to the vice-chair who will present. >> supervisor breed? >>supervisor london breed: before you sit down. you say it was excluded from the children's fund. i'm not sure that is entirely accurate because the children's fund has provided financial support to community based organizations for transitional age youth i thigh for -- i think for the past couple of years. i want to get clarity because when i was former director of the non-profit we supported k-youth and case

management and supported services many i'm not certain that it's entirely accurate and where your information came from. i just wanted to get some clarity if you had it. >> yes, please. >> so when we consider transitional age youth 16-24 there are a number of transitional youth being served through funding. our children's fund do only allow us to serve people up to the age 18. we have additional funding through partnerships with the probation department and other non-children's funds that we use for our violence prevention funding so dcfs have funds for people underage. >> some of those monies are not necessarily violence

prevention monies that we've used in the past. you are saying they come from various sources and one of those sources is currently not the children's fund? >> right. we can only seven -- serve up to 18 with the children's fund. others could be funded through others. >> technically bylaw you cannot use the funds for the youth. >> yes. >> i didn't want to expose myself. i just wanted to be clear. thank you. >> supervisor mar? >> i want to compliment you on the housing. this is a great policy recommendation and want to thank you for bringing up transitional age earlier and the expansion of the children's fund that will be on the ballot to increase

would allow us to meet the largely unmet needs for that population of young people that are disconnected and even connected transitional age youth and the task force and the recommendations of the youth commission are great ones. i'm really appreciative that you hone down to really good detail for giving us good policy recommendations as well. i'm realizing you probably graduating today. i know there is a lot of high school graduation s going on. congratulations. [ applause ] >> thank you. supervisors. i would like to present our next priority no. 12. cultural competency and training and youth services. it's been 15 years since it was created.

in the sf administrative code chapter which includes very critical criteria for all city employees to come into contact with youth and city contractors which receive 50,000 or more in city administrative funds. this has gone unfunded for 15 years and this has not been carried out. in 2012 the youth commission partner with dch which the currently being piloted at the site. through the lack of resources we have been unable to support department and developing staff praying and to make appropriate referrals and to identify administrative barriers to keep this population of youth from

accessing their services. also most cities and contractors do not collect information regarding sexual orientation or gender identity of the youth they can you remember serve which leads to a loss of determination and how if lgbt youth are accessing the current service that the city is providing. we are very thankful to supervisor avalos campos and wiener for supporting this. the committee to hear about the city department efforts to implementing 12n. and we are very happy that since january 20, 2014, the youth commission has been able to partner with several other organizations and departments and working group meetings and how to

best carry out and we would really like to thank jpd, sfpl, sha, for coming together and really speaking about the different needs of youth that they see through different services they provide. our recommendation is that we would really like to ask the board of supervisors in upcoming fiscal year to identify and dedicate funding sources and implement this training to different departments and support the planning and coordination of this training and to call on city departments to begin to collect information on sexual information on gender identity on this intake form when providing services to these youth. hello again. i will be

presenting on priority no. 13. following up and urging against officers and the recommended community session. in january 2013, chief williams presented a plan to arm officers in the program. in response in february the youth commission passed the resolution against the arming of jpd officers. i would like to thank the board of supervisors for holding a hearing on the issue in may of last year and for dropping the plans for armed procedures this year. however this commission would still recommend following up on not arming officers and arming as any part of revised safety protocol and if any measures are made that will include stakeholders such as youth, juvenile service providers and parents and members affected by the justice system. we

feel this is only way for standing the juvenile probation department in the state. now i would like to invite my colleague eric wu to present no. 14. >> hello, again. i will be presenting on priority no. 14 supporting democratic and accessible city college in san francisco. we made city college in san francisco as part of our budget policy priority this year again. this year youth commissioners have attended a division by superior court judge by granting an injunction to revoke the college accreditation. youth also spoke at public forums and rallies and workshops and cohost a workshop where the chinese aggressive

appropriation and conducted outreach for youth is survey for increasing transparency and participation of youth concerns in the educational master planning process. the youth commission also supported resolution by supervisor campos calling for a rein statement of the community colleges and restoring the democratic government of college to ensure the continuance of open action mission in colleges for both non-credit programs. we recommend that city elected leaders should take all possible measures to restore democratic governance throughout san francisco and to ensure continuation of the college open access mission and nop credit programs and employ the politically and financial institution for

advanced rolement. on the next priority i will be sharing as well. priority no. 15, ensure a respect for civil rights residents. in the past 4 years san francisco has enacted ordinance of sleeping on public parks and vehicles and has enacted such laws that public nuisance exist. we believe that homeless people deserve for their civil and human rights to be respected and don't believe should be criminalized in public. we work with the coalition on homelessness to pass the

resolution and some of the resolution does is we urge to support the homeless bill of rights and stop enforcing the -- and support the rights of homeless individuals to move freely rest and sleep and be protected in public spaces without discrimination. rights to occupy a legally parked vehicle, right to share food and eat in public, right to legal council if being prosecuted and the rights to 24 -hour access to hygiene facilities. now i'm going to pass it to vice-chair kong. >> that concludes our presentation. thank you for your time. [ applause ]