resource guide and translated materials provided to families by the san francisco immigration court. we translated a number of websites in the city to multiple languages including the aca website and victims portal and immigration and doca and we will provide updated information and translations on the unaccompanied children web page and we hope to work with the grant team to also have this translated, not -- we have it in spanish but we need it translated in my an languages as well and our community ambass doors do outreach and education about city programs and healthy sf, 311, the city id card so they will do that in language. also we're coordinating our efforts with the mayor's office, 311, city departments, our dream

sf, doca, grantees, pathways to grantees and the language access network so you know we have been -- we're in year two of our pathway to citizenship initiative which is to try to get as many of the estimated 100,000 legal permanent residents in san francisco on naturalized and thus far this collaboration of community based organizations has reached over 5,000 san franciscans who are eligible. they processed 15 new applications for citizenship and the doca grantees have reached almost all of the 5,000 estimated doca eligible youth and processed 600 applications and i have to commend the unified school district because without christina and the school district's partnership we wouldn't be able to get any of this done as well as lonnie. we

also have 14 doca -- dream sf doca fellows on board this year and for them funding it and they're doing outreach and education to their own constituency so we place them in the cbos to help with the outreach and of course we're around partnering with the immigrant partnering groups and on sanctuary city and immigrant rights. we were asked recently by one of the senate offices to provide information on immigrants and the refugee population in san francisco and i thought it was an odd question coming from them because i assume d they had all the information but they didn't, so you probably know most of the information. over 25% of the country immigrants live in california and over one out of every three san francisco residents is immigrant. there

are estimated 30,000 or more undowsmed immigrants in san francisco and while only one in 14 children in san francisco is an immigrant 54% have at least one immigrant parent and 34% are headed by an immigrant. since the refugee act of 1980 we have received hundreds of refugees by san francisco. 80% of the participants in the human agency cash assistance program, rca, are asylees and families are aided by calworks. and finally when it comes to where you have some gaps and disconnects. about 75% of all immigrants in san francisco have arrived since 1980 and the proportion of linguistic isolation in san

francisco immigrant headed households and no one over the age of 14 -- i apologize there is an error on the slide -- no one over the age of 14 speaks english very well is the highest in any region in california. we're at 35%. there is no other place that is higher than that and there are economic gaps for full time employment, income, high school graduation rates and that is growing more slowly in san francisco when you compare to the rest of the state and there are work force issues that need attention and english skills for children and esl education and then of course the high income inequality over all in san francisco and a shrinking middle income po and -- population and the high cost of living are driving low wage earners out of the city so

these factors along with the language barriers are limiting the upward path for immigrants. >> thank you. i just had one quick question and then we have a question from maria su. you mentioned community ambass doors out on the streets. >> yes. >> i am aware we have them in bay view and mid-market neighborhoods. are they in others as well or working in hose neighborhoods and if they see a young person or identify someone as unaccompanied undocumented youth do they reach out to them? how does that work? >> they're working in three areas of the city so district 6, along in the tenderloin, along mid-market corridor and up further and i guess upper market

and then in d10 along the valley and bay view and we have a pilot project in the mission and 16th and mission bart station so they are -- as they see the population they're providing information, not just on doca or citizenship but healthy sf, 311, how to access -- how to apply for city id card, so a number of programs and services. >> so they're all trained how to do this and do they actively search out young people or wait for the young people to approach them? how does that interaction take place? >> they provide information on all of the city programs and services -- >> i am aware. >> dream sf fellows doing the specific outreach to the target population -- >> [inaudible] >> because many of the dream sf fellows were unaccompanied minors themselves. >> that's amazing to hear. i didn't realize there was another

segment to the program. in d6 -- i wasn't aware about 16th and mission and great we're piloting a program there. how far into the tenderloin do they go into? >> everyday we're asked to go deeper and deeper and do decker part and the tip of the tenderloin where it meets market and i think we're sitting down with the captain turnish to talk about is there a defined route, where are the hot spots because we're spreading them thin now so we have to be strategic where we place them. >> my office would love to meet with you on that issue. >> we would love that. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. so i know that we have the head of our department of children youth and family services here today. thank you for sticking around. we just

have one question commissioner mendoza. well, you know the question. >> so i was just curious how you're involved with this work, in particular with the funding that you do with our children and families? >> so thank you supervisors and commissioners. good evening. i am maria su, and the director for the department of children, youth and families and it's our pleasure to partner with these departments here. we don't do the district services ourselves, but we partner with them to fund all the really great work that they're doing in their respective offices and departments, so specifically for the school district we partially fund with private dollars that

new position, the unaccompanied program coordinator, so we're really happy we can do that to support the school district around coordination and outreach to the young people. with the office of civic immigration and affairs with the director we are supporting the doca work which is partnering with several nonprofit agency totion provide the legal services to ensure that young people and families that want to apply for status, for doca status they can. we also partially fund the dreamers program that director pond was referring to which is the first of its kind in supporting young people who are undocumented to have trainings and career awareness and opportunities to have a job and to learn skills. on top of that we partner with

-- we fund many nonprofit agencies that provide lingual services to the community and all of our programs are throughout the city ranging from child care, to after school programs to teen programs, family support programs and youth employment programs and in all of our programs we allow young people regardless of status to participate in the programs and services that we provide. i do know we're working with the mayor's office totally how much funding that is and how many young people we're reaching and so hopefully we will have that information for you soon. >> so i'm going to ask the question again about how we can share data. i know it's a really tough issue but i am wondering where we can house it under? can it be under dcyf?

heard everyone, all of the departments and i know everyone wants to do it but can we look to a department to make sure that coordination is happening and we're figuring out how to do that really difficult but really important work? >> thank you for the question. you know i do agree that coordination, making sure that the data that we're collecting reflect the type of services that we are implementing on the ground, and that we're using our different resources appropriately. i think director chu made a very correct and accurate statement, particularly for this population it's a little harder but it's not impossible. i think us coming together as a body of government providers and department heads and departments as well as nonprofit agencies just to think about how do we address the system and address this issue

might be the first start to this. i know that our nonprofit agencies have a direct link to the young people and their families and maybe that's where we start to make sure we're coordinating appropriately. i like the idea of connecting the bits and pieces of data we're getting from the feds to perhaps some of our other services that's through the want department of public health or through the human services agency so we can at least get an idea of the -- you know, the types of kids that we're serving so we can at least narrow it down what they need but right now we don't have a very good answer for that and we would love to to be a partner in that. we can convene meetings and folks to have this conversation but i have to say that ms. kent

has been a phenomenal convener of department heads and service providers, particularly around this issue. the mayor has shown great leadership. >> no, i appreciate that. we have someone that will coordinate all of the departments but i imagine that ultimately this data base has to be housed somewhere under a department. i can't imagine ms. kent will have that capacity but great if you do, but i imagine it would eventually have to be housed somewhere so that's where the question was directed. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> commissioner commissioner -- commissioner wynns do you have a question? >> i don't know if anyone can answer this. i am wondering about people getting lost somewhere. as you said the uniqueness that most of these

kids coming across the border are turning themselves into the border authorities, the federal authorities so theoretically they have their names and have them on some list and presumably since most or all of them are in the legal system they -- immigration should be tracking them. they ought to be able to tell us where they are and who is here and do we have a way to know about all these people? what i fear is -- i don't want to -- is that other people are afraid, family members, friends, whoever may themselves not be appropriately documented and i want to -- from our point of view we need to make sure that the kids are in school and they understand we have services for them, language services and we're not only dedicated to

serving them but having things available for them so is there some way? i mean that's the -- sort of supervisor kim's question. can we check and make sure everyone we should be serving contacted us or exist in the system somewhere? >> so first of all this is a good conversation. this needs to happen. this is part of what we sending up the chain just in terms talking to national leadership on this. the short answer is if -- i mean if we want to do that we do it on our own. sadly what i learned once the children are placed they get a court date and then the track ing stops, so there is this whole process from homeland security to hhs and drills down to the office of refugee

resettlement and once that placement happens they're done. the only way to be comprehensive is when the children come and don't have a placement and 80% are coming with a family name. the 10-15% that aren't there is a rfp out. a couple of the community based organizations went after the funding to house these kids so for that population we will have data because they be connected to services and the state -- or the federal government's going to want to monitor the outcome, but locally i think mr. chu referenced this and maybe through legal services as children show up to court we can capture the names there. as our community based organizations go after funding that we make available we can build into the

contract reporting requirements that have the follow up so we can -- there are some things we can do but -- >> but 85 to 90% of the children who are get through the beginning of the federal system and then are assigned to hopefully the family member with whose name they came across the border that's it. we don't have anyway of knowing who they are. nobody is telling the city and county of san francisco this many children have been placed with relatives who have identified -- with an address in san francisco. >> they will give us a number but won't give the names or addresses, so it's hard. i have been barking up that tree and what they -- i mean the reason is which sort of makes sense is not all local jurisdictions are as welcoming as we are, and have the intentions that we do in terms of doing the right thing.

>> does the number match the number that we -- >> so the numbers they're providing -- so -- gosh to date -- no, through the end of august we received about 208 kids formally placed here and the number from the school district is i think 240 -- was it? 200. okay. so using the school district as a gauge i think it's pretty close. to help myself sleep better at night because i have that same question i take some comfort in the fact that this surge -- what is unique about it the children are turning themselves over compared to historically they don't so i feel like in a sense we have less to worry about because of that small piece, which is not a

good situation, but we do have that? >> thank you. i am a little worried about the people they're coming to. we've set up here, and by the way i don't know if anybody wanted it but my staff provided me copies with the resolution that the board of education passed, but so because this is a crisis clearly as demonstrated here today we set up a public and publicly funded community based infrastructure for the kids that we know have been coming across the border, but what we don't know is what kind of service or relationship anybody has with the family members they're going, so that's the little vacuum there that could cause people to fall through the cracks if we don't know who they are and whom they're going we can't follow up to make sure they're served. >> so my question on that one is what is their evaluation

requirements when looking at these sponsor families so the children coming across the border they're put in temporary shelter for 30 days and during that time they're looking for the family sponsors and doing some sort of evaluation and i think when i get that information i can forward that to you. >> and then presumably eventually, but what i have been reading on the papers and hearing on radio it could take months and years to all of the cases to be adjudicated in court. that's when we would find out. if it's eight kids, four kids and as it goes up in the next couple of years it turns out to be 30, 40, 50 kids and we find out in two years when the cases come before court some of the kids are not in school for that amount of time. that would be bad. i understand

it's nobody's intention but i see the potential there. that's the big crack that people could fall through. >> so the one way that we're trying to address that through the services that we colleagues talked about today so the agency human services agency they respond to -- i mean you can call them and they can come out and do an evaluation if you suspect there is something fishy going on, and then the department of public health when we met with legal service providers they said a lot of the children have been through trauma and might not be in the best situation, and so just having those folks in the room we were able to make that connection so the legal service providers know they can go to hsa if they're suspicious and dph can work with them and work with the children that went

through these traumatic situations so even though we don't have the names and addresses to make us feel better we have using the resources to catch the kids in the way we're not able to get in front of the issue. >> i appreciate that. thank you very much. >> thank you. so if there are no other questions or comments from commissioners we will further open up for public comment so i have one card. i have louis avalos and if another member of the public would like to speak please do come up. >> okay. >> thank you so much for being here. >> thank you supervisor kim so good afternoon. i am the district 5 youth commissioner. i come today to show my support and gratitude for this hearing. i would like to thank the departments and agencies that came out today that shared this information that personally hits me close to home. i am myself undocumented and hearing this hearing i know it might be

troublesome to figure out the execution tactics and procedures to implement all of the support services but with that being said i know it's not impossible. i myself regardless of being undocumented have received a lot of support services from the city and county. i received consultation and guidance from lawyers thanks to the services. i have vision issues and i received aid from the low vision and blind groups and from healthy kids san francisco and i would like these resources to be given to these undocumented children just as they were given to me. san francisco is known for innovation and addressing the needs of these population and this is a great example what it can do for all of the unaccompanied minors facing hard

ship and let's support these children and what it truly means to be a sanctuary city. thank you. >> thank you commissioner. any other members of the public that would like to speak? seeing none public comment is now closed. commissioner mendoza. >> so thank you. i just want to thank everyone that presented today and i have to say having been part of the conversations early on it was really great to see the collective, both wisdom and desire to help bring in the young people that are coming to san francisco and finding ways to really support them being part of our community, and it all happened really quickly in terms of our ask to the feds and what we can do to ensure we're

protecting and understanding everything that's happening to our unaccompanied minors and i just really want to appreciate all the efforts put into that because i have seen you guys come together time and time again under the leadership of lonnie kent from the mayor's office who has kind of got thrown into this in a way that she didn't expect it to kind of come through, and to gain the momentum it has and to see all of you come together the way you have has been really tremendous. and i think from the school district side just knowing that we're going to be receiving potentially 200-400 students all at once or in dribbles or how it was we were going to be accepting the students there was a part of me who was a little bit nervous but a part of me that was proud because we do

serve so many undocumented students already and we don't categorize them and are you or are you not and you come into the system and served like anyone else so as a district we were prepared to help the new students that came in and i am comfortable with the services set up because there are unique challenges that our unaccompanied youth will be experiencing and i have to say as a parent of two kids there is no way i will ever understand how our young people make it from one place to the next, and in knowing there is going to be a tremendous amount of emotion and trauma that they will be experiencing and we as a city have come together to ensure

they can be as stable as possible is just really heart warming so on behalf of the school board i want to thank you for the great work and again just highlights who we are as a city, and the work that we can do together, and i am really looking forward to ensuring that the young people that come through san francisco and stay in san francisco are well supported so again thank you for your tremendous work. >> i also upon to thank all of the departments that are here today. we will continue this item but we want to ask everyone to come back in october and i will make sure that our office reaches out to all of the departments with the continuance -- well, i can't continue the hearing, but being heard again in october. i appreciate the work. it's so clear that every department is incredibly passionate about making sure we're making a difference for

this group of young people that are here and growing here in san francisco. i really, really am going to push on the data sharing issue. i know we're still working it out on even the juvenile justice dph level but i think we need a solution on it soon because i think we all know it's very hard to succeed in the city under the circumstances that the young people are coming and of course there will be young people -- like our commissioner that will succeed but there are so many it's going to be so challenging for them to come up under all the obstacles and challenges they're facing and having a cohort of adults caring for them able to communicate with one another i think is important and really highlighted for me a couple of weeks ago when we learn d that one of the former youth interns passed away and someone we thought was doing well, successful, went to college but

still so heavily burdened by the challenges of being low income, the family being homeless and transitioning through a lot of housing and even though he was in so many programs i wish i could have communicated with some of the adults he worked with so we had a broader picture of the struggles he was going through and obviously in retrospect i wish we could have supported him better if we had the full knowledge of what we was going through so i push on us to do that because the youth are here now. they're getting older and we have to make it. i think it's urgent to do that and finally i know not everyone will be back with select committee but a request to the clerk to send the presentations to the clerk's office so they can have the presentations up on cue and i want to thank you for being here and i am glad to have the

commissioner here and it would be great to have the young people who are undocumented and gone through the system and advise us on what has been successful and not successful in working through multiple systems so i am glad the commissioner was here today and i hope you give input in the larger coordination process so thank you and seeing no further comments we cannot take a motion on this item yet, and so i believe mr. clerk if there are no other announcements the meeting is adjourned. >> that's correct madam chair. just to make sure no action is taken and this item will automatically appear on the next agenda. >> thank you mr. clerk. so meeting is adjourned. thank you everyone. [gavel]