care about the kids in san francisco i've drafted the children's fund part of the children family initiative by sitting bull i'll do that again we've put our minds together and see what life we can do this from the mayor ed lee and the board of supervisors and the foundation community and the lgbt community we've done that. and i want to say thank you it's been great to be part of the process and move to the ballot and win thanks >> (clapping) >> so i realize i'm stand on the stage with 6 other school board president's we've all served on the leadership the board of education it's amazing to have i'm sorry and angela i

count her it's amazing to see such strong political leadership for our public schools the public education fund i've been involved with since i cross paths with tom in march of 2004 with a strong community of youth and education leaders i want to say right now california it the 9th largest economy we've educated over 78 children out of 9 we believe this should be the best place but california ranks last in larcenies to student ratio and ranges last in guidance kournld and in 2008, california was ranked the 8 in

pre k schools and 2012 california wagner was ranked 47. in san francisco we've seen the impact of those state and federal policies things the implementation of our new graduations we've seen $77 million in cuts from the state and nearly half of our sf sophomores were not on track to graduate it's why the public enrichment fund in san francisco is important we is if the state and federal government will not take care of our our children city and county of san francisco well, this is what we've done 84 professional art teachers that work in our k through 1259

librarians. 2 hundred and thirty athletic coaches and 44 support professionals and peer resources in our high school and constitute nutrition and wellness centers and transmission services for our parents so first, i want to thank the voters of san francisco for voting for this in 2004 (clapping) we have showed in the past 10 years that sf knows how to make the right investment for the outcomes we've seen the outcomes and now in the reauthorization i'm proud to say we're reforming things we've recovered the 25 percent trigger we're going not taking money away from our kids we've extended the sunset from 10 to 25 years he know this is something that voters about continue to support and

feinstein we'll changed the rainy day fund from tom support 70 decided which when they need the fund without sending pink slips to our teachers (clapping) so this work couldn't have happened you without united states community folks that have advocated for the funding i want to recognize them and the young leaders i want to in particular thank supervisor yee and supervisor avalos and the reauthorization that's a roller-coaster ride but worth the effort. thank you (clapping) and it is my player to bring up the next speaker who will represent the board of education emily (clapping.)

all right. where are our public school supports i want to ask several the commissioners to come up i'm here to talk about the importance of the public education enrichment fund for over 5 years we've been strufrg in the face of 25 percent of budget kits they december matted cuts in music and student health centers anything outside the core subject but in san francisco we proximately caused protected those programs as a result of the peek vachlts there's librarians in every school and book circulation has topped one million books a year and every student has access to

physical activities and robust activities. and just a few example of the peace impact rashawn jones is an outreach worker at the wellness center that has helped dozens of peers with issues let's hear it for ray. esmeralda a graduate of burdening ton high school is heading to san francisco state university this fall as a result u insulted u result of the peace program and calling la mission high school graduate was recruited for the sand volleyball team earned scholarships she's excelled in

sports. those are just (clapping) those are just a few of the students tacked by the student enrichment fund this fund has touches hundreds and thousands of our cities children fostering learning and proposing them to criteria success on behalf of the colleagues my sincere thanks to mayor ed lee and supervisor yee and supervisor kim and supervisor avalos for authorizing this measure for the legislation to the service provider that coming out came out to advocate and the voters of san francisco for investing in our public schools. thank you (clapping.) so i know we're running a little bit long let me bring up our next speaker who was made a

contribution for the legislation supervisor eric mar >> thank you. i have the honor of proceedings the leader from kohlman advocates but in my short time i'll say when the kohlman advocates others 20 years ago brought this to the board of supervisors this was zero support at the board of supervisors and 10 years ago with tom and a number of us crafted the prop h for our children and schools there was very the also support i think the reason we have a strong children's fund and a peace that supports art and music is by and large because even if grassroots coalition and coalition building from the kohlman advocates and a diverse coalition of community. (clapping.) as we build on this momentum i

want to say a as a parental are parents i'll be proud to stand side by side with the folks but accountability advocates especially the combroots coalition if all over our neighborhoods partiality and youth in the leading lead i'm proud in november while make sure that everybody knows that san francisco is a city for children and families thank you for helping to build this coalition (clapping). >> next, i want to bring up a few more speakers they're playing an important part to lead us up to victory so you're next speaker will be walker the executive director for the kohlman advocates. >> thank you, supervisor and good afternoon this is an incredible day for the children

youth and families here in 0 san francisco. once again san francisco is poised to lead by example by putting the children and our families first. especially with bach it up with the necessary resources. the children and families first initiative will come before voters this november. while it is the reauthorization you heard earlier of the two fund for children and youth it's the strongest possible measure the initiative will provide stable funding for early based education through the education enrichment fund a significant increase in the children and youth fund. i'm excited to say we're providing now necessary funds for disconnected transitional youth this will sure that both funds will be placed for the

next 25 years (clapping) so our young people low lead the effort in 25 years to reauthorize it i'm proud to say that kohlman has lead the coalition for the los last two years with many folks here today thank you for your service. in addition would like to an opportunity especially supervisor yee, supervisor avalos and supervisor kim and also supervisor mar and along with the 11 supervisors to make sure many this will be passed unanimously. as well as the mayor and the board of education that sometimes gets forgotten we thank you for your leadership. we're proud of the work we've done making a strong statement about a long term commitment.

to our next generation of san francisco to make sure that all i say all i say all of our children and youth have an opportunity to call this city home. and lastly remember your child see is not just that woman's child the little boy who's commissioner sako placing in the middle school basketball court is just his father's son each one of the children here 90 in san francisco blonds to each one of us and we have a responsibility to make sure they have success so i look forward to seeing you this november (clapping.) thank you >> next person by the way, for some of you reporters can i get

there's youth that want to be interviewed for the impact can you raise our hands. and, of course, everything else. our next are person i'd like to introduce is monica walters the executive director our charter amendment is for who it serves from zero to 24 today, we have monica wooults u walters there that will talk about the earlier education funding (clapping) and good afternoon, everyone as a representative the caregiver advisory committee and on behalf of the children's services the largest head start provider in san francisco and om behalf of you'll those dedicated hard working childhood educators and

many are out in the audience here today. (clapping.) i would like to offer the sincere thanks to our mayor and supervisors who are serving children in an outstanding effort to bring this racket legislation thanks to supervisor avalos and supervisor kim and supervisor yee for helping to brings to the today of the celebration we're truly making history. we're choosing to you provide greater insurance from for our residents to have access to our safe nourish care to help the parent to work and pursue criteria goals those are our kids that will be the conceding kids from the san francisco

school district but the opportunity for services like this they won't be successful in our school system without this important investment in our education the infants is not prepared and their parents are not supported area our community survived but we know those funds are dedicated to the folks are going to make a huge difference we're including 3 years old in our preschool those o are the huge investments and more and more children receiving the quality they need to be successful as learners and lifelong learners we're support their parents to pursue their dreams today, we're asking yourselves the questions how are the young children doing today, we, is they're doing well.

thank you (clapping) >> thank you monica oh, thank you supervisor campos for joining us i want to acknowledge a few people maria executive director for d.c. w f the department of youth and families and laura the executive director of first 5, (clapping) barbara carlson the executive director of office of early care and education and christopher the unified school district. and laura the chief of staff so next up is a youth commissioner eric wu (clapping.) thank you on the on behalf of the san francisco youth

commission let me express my deepest gratitude the hard work for the mayor's office and the members of the board of supervisors and even though leader in our community has dedicated for the family and children's first initiative today, we garter to refor them our values and commitments to make sure that future the generations will succeed for decades to come. you, you know, from for the past few years the young people have been advocates for the fund in count also meeting and round table meetings young people were there it wouldn't have been possible without the principle that positions make it's for us. (clapping.) this initiative is the best the

very best investment the city has made for our daughters and sons and our great, great grandkids not only does it stretch the safety net for social services by bs also i made a speech for this but it builds obtain our committed to provide the early commitment for every child so they're not behind in the first day of school to provide arts and music for every student so they get a well-rounded education to provide social services and programs for all the youth across our community so today, if euyou feel the same compassion you need to stand up

in november and support our children's and family first initiative. so thank you >> good job eric next up last speaker i'd like to introduce the youth outreach worker from washington high school he has a lot of passion here we go (clapping.) hi. i'm ray shawn jones. i go to george washington high school and an outreach worker. basically as a outreach worker i'll offer information and often teach classes about certain i'm i talking into the mike. certain like teen health issues and wellness and i believe that wellness is like a really good

program wellness center i'll really glad it's all around and funded people wouldn't feel like a safe place so it's helpful. wellness plans event and helps out oath kids across the school like district there's one in every school i believe and helps a lot of teachers in some ways. i'm appreciative for it and really glad it exists i'm proud to be a part of it so thank you (clapping) thank you >> i want to acknowledge candice she's the president of the sea pack advisors and

planning council. i want to thank you all for being here it takes us all to get it to the successful level and reporters if you want to speak to some of the youth they have a lot to say and in november we're going to announce a great victory so thank you a great victory so thank you very much a great victory so thank you very much aah! i'm a lion! yes, you are. come here. let's see how this looks. hey, how's my little horse? she's a lion.

yes, she is. grrr! ha ha! announcer: you don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent. when you adopt a child from foster care, just being there makes all the difference. when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you? if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many

of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for

their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over the next 9 months. group prenatal care is designed to give women the opportunity to bond during their pregnancy with other women that have similar due dates. our doctors here are family doctors. they are able to help these women deliver their babies at the hospital, at general hospital. we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more

income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids

they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol or their hepatitis b. we actually provide group

medical visits and group education classes and meeting people who have similar chronic illnesses as you do really helps you understand that you are not alone in dealing with this. and it validates the experiences that you have and so you learn from each other. >> i think it's very important to try to be in tune with the needs of the community and a lot of our patients have -- a lot of our patients are actually immigrants who have a lot of competing priorities, family issues, child care issues, maybe not being able to find work or finding work and not being insured and health care sometimes isn't the top priority for them. we need to understand that so that we can help them take care of themselves physically and emotionally to deal with all these other things. they also have to be working through with people living longer and living with more

chronic conditions i think we're going to see more patients coming through. >> starting next year, every day 10,000 people will hit the age of 60 until 2020. . >> the needs of the patients that we see at kerr senior center often have to do with the consequences of long standing substance abuse and mental illness, linked to their chronic diseases. heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, stroke, those kinds of chronic illnesses. when you get them in your 30's and 40's and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to

increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effective my very big

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