interim request a band add that as to the the bleeding but not a cure funding the disbursement of fund prudent person pursuant will allow us the continued operation of our shelters without running deficit without outing further shelter funding. >> as you consider funding this emergency request we ask i work with our organizations and the broader community to fund shelter for homeless families and individuals adequately and in the future i want to xrets may strong support for other areas a supplemental request on the coalition for homelessness and in particular to improve the services and shelters for families and the reservation for shelters for family there are

too many children i serve. >> (repeated.) >> the constitution of the united states. that are being pulled out of school to get in line at first friendship to get a bed we shouldn't have to take children out of the school and - sorry i'm very emotional i see many children everyday that are being taken out of the school in order to get a shelter bed we can work together to get it improved. >> i have all of this in writing to all of you. >> the clerk will take that a distribute that to the community members at this time i'm going to call

10 more people (calling names). >> hi good afternoon my name is paulette gomez i live at a woman place an 13th and mission this is the only 24/7 shelter very few residents every every get a good nights sleep and few are in good health additional few are happy campers i told people you have to understand the shelters is an oh in exchange for adults you have to you understand if you're one of the good guides or bad guides if you're good you stand

up for yours no matter who hazards you speak our mind somewhere someone will listen that one person may be able to change everything i thought it with about interesting to have a mandatory meeting they wanted to discuss workshops the yurpz were what do you want us to do should we do art or med i can't guess how much input go do you have into the budget and she going a little bit why. >> i think it is great about our mental health but what about our physical health i've been to the emergency room ones for fall out injury and a few mom it

would be nice to have heat but no one opened their mouth a shelter is not a place for people to go to vacation but the last resort we need that to be a first proprietor. >> thank you, ms. gomez thank you (clapping.) >> good afternoon supervisors we were going to do a quick presentation but for the sake of time i'm going to summarize that with my colleague chris in our packets that got handed out is 5 slides from a presentation on sort of justice i'm the human rights coordinator on the homelessness we have been working along with the shelters and shelter providers and itself city to speak about pro-active solutions that are real problems happening in the sheltered we understand the shelters are

dealing with difficult to address situations that happen everyday so we really want to introduce and propose the concept of restored practices in our shelters as an alternative to the current system we see as not effective to responding to the violence incident of wrongdoing so just to really quickly an overview of what the resorted practices come from restored justice an alternative to the criminal and legal system we have that instead of prioritizing punishment wheelbarrow a law is broken we looked at addressing not only the situation that happened to the person involved in the incident but the people that are impacted by it the community and bystander or people that are directly harm's harmed we move

toward accountability to allow people to remain in the community and when people are kicked out of the shelter sometimes, it can be a death out in the streets and in addition, by pushing hooting people out of the shelters without addressing the problems we're not healing the problems only sending them to another service provider this allows us to keep people not community and address the behaviors and patterns. >> we were expecting to have you present with the department heads and department rep colleagues is there my objection to her finishing. >> you want me to bring up - >> yeah. >> great so the baefksz of our practices will allow our shelter system to

move away and towards the transformation for all parts that are impacted so it moves us away from the one-size-fits-all and towards prophesies it go to the specific needs the incident and the people involved and all our shelters our diversity those are specific to the sperlt to decide as a provider what the cultural they want to create and then the last thing basic restore practices some of the experiences of all people involved not only the person that caused the harm by staff and the bystander and people that are dribble impacted and if it's a large incident we'll bring in the community we want to think about the shelter not only what the housing are by the

community temporary as they are but often it is important to remember homeless is an slt experience when we come to the shelters sometimes it is the first time for social interaction it is important for people to be xhekd connected so keeping people into the community while their healing is something we're invested in as the coalition of homelessness we looked at a number of models around the world and looking locally we have a practices of approaches that are happening we have a youth shelter and hospitality house which is another one of the adult shelters from the sofrd practices and circles we wanted to bring in international examples that were easy to think

about as a city the first is a homeless based homeless heart that was adapted it so the actual transition was a part of an overall transition i want to share that quote they provided directly a very power testament to what the practices has been for this organization they said we offered support and services to a high standard we are that not addressing the dynamics to a group of people that created the conflict we're engaged in a positive way we're punitive and included the individuals that used power as a way to manage individual that is something because of lack of resources and the country of homelessness and

the increasing of aging instead of investing in human incidents we're managing people with power the whole hearts model had a framework of 3 components prevent work and community-based organizing and circle on a regular base but they were creating the sense of community and problem solving before the issues arose and an reactive component had incidents arise there are a team of people that includes everyone and the reintegration when someone is ready to face they're not kicked out with no hope of come back into the plan. the second case study the tor

report that caterers to the folks in the downtown area and this model was particularly interesting because they utilize the peer based on model 15 folks that are trained as the pier team to offer mediation in their drop in center and training on relevant topics the team is paid they receive stipends and receive 12 hours of training and staff person that was trained and assigned to work with them so even though this is a drop in centers the peer based model was interesting we have highly skilled trained people we feel those folks had been best their skills are best utilized in a

way that is than as opposed to that the staff will be able to pick up the work so i want to say was an idea of we have san francisco moving forward we would like to propose a pilot program in san francisco and so we're asking for $75,000 to be allocated to at least one shelter to be able to pilot this we would like to proposed it is a peer based model that religious has a staff person we think there is program development in training with all staff at the pilot shelter and be open to other shelters and number of ideas in terms of the important evaluation including an advisory group thank you for your time we're excited about the hearing and that has been given the opportunity and looking forward to working with

you all and realizing moving forward thank you. >> thank you. the coalition think homelessness who's been doing research around the restore practices just to highlight we've had a meeting with some of the shelter directors and front line staff therapy all excited and just the types to some of the proposals we've heard along with this supplemental so for the pilot program was the first reaction from the staff this sounds great about but we don't have the resources now i want to encourage this permit program can go forward we need the supplementals for the staff and the training down the line i want to stress the connection

between the health issues we're facing mental health issues or physical disabilities as doing outreach owe being around the centers with the coalition i've seen elderly people being kicked out and not able to get to a toilet in time to throw up i've seen people with mental health issues kicked out because they were confused with what bed they were assigned and understandably the staff doesn't have the time to look at the issues this pilot program allows us to have someone on the site so go through the restorative practice and handle the tough cases whether whether mental health or physical issues that are dealt with in better was this pilot

program ties into the issues we've heard today thank you. >> i'm kelly i'm a volunteer with the coalition on homeless they've covered quite a bit i was part of saw process and interning through beven at that time and two of the things that came out of the second saw process were about the nurses at the shelters which we were funded for and the restorative practices for the restorative practices i worked before they adapted it, it, it made it so much easier for staff it made my

job easier it created a culture there's a lot of respect and people kind of handled things you know on their own it was so from the staff prospective a lot easier and made it pollutant to go to work the other thing was with people being discharged out of shelters we the - we had an action a little while ago a sleeping ♪ powell there was a woman she's a senior and had her walk and telling me how she was kicked out of the shelter for nothing i was thinking about how i see as well that she is not only losing the sheltered but also she's on the street and there's a thing

like criminalization is impacting very vulnerable population and so i think this is our responsibility to step up and take responsibility >> hi ami i'm a volunteer on the coalition of homelessness i want to echo the importance of restorative practices for mocking making our shelters safe and equatable providers for everyone in particular people with sdrablts and transgender women we have not talked about enough today are two groups experiencing disproportionment violence in are shelter we see that staff don't support those

people to prevent violence but people of the vulnerable groups are being denied services at the disproportionately high rates so shelter we don't have training or expertise to make legal or medical decisions about accommodations for example, or about medical lee necessary terrain health care are instead kind of relying on those rules and kicking people out of the shelters so i'd like to really urge everyone to consider the niece of those groups and also to push for data on the race gender disability folks that are being denied services

thanks. >> hi, i'm nicholas a shelter client collaborate i'd like to provide a snapshot i support the supplemental one hundred percent important the difficulty single shelter i'm going to speak will the family she recall right now one hundred and 40 families waiting for 4 temporary shelter stay in january alone 84 new families joined the waiting list in this time it should be noted since 2014 there were one hundred and 79 a year ago a difference of thirty family we have 2 thousand family children they count not only the children under 5 and the father it's important to note this because in the family shelter system

about 70 spaces for long term rooms in the emergency shelter another space for like maybe i mean there's 2 hundred and 80 beds so theirs 2 hundred and 80 beds in the system what my point is the shelters are full and obviously a long list the emergency shelters first friendship an shelter that afternoons 12 families and hampton has their own emergency those are reversed by calling, however some families have to show up at 10:00 p.m. we're talking the health and hygiene it doesn't contain showers so the children have to come at 3 and in the

morning it could, at five or six clock they have to go downtown to selma to get a shower for the children so this is why i support of the supplemental there's a lot of families utilizing the shelter and there needs a way for the kids to say clean without families running arena from place to place thank you. >> hi good afternoon jennifer director on the coalition of homelessness i want to thank you for having the hearing and the time i want to appointee time of homelessness poor people are housed and homeless there's no anything's else like the health problems or other things as people are homeless their mental health derates and they develop

disorders 2/3rd's of the population identified as disabled this shot up at every counted people can have their liquify expectancy cut by 20 years it's atsz an independent health factor from hiv and tb a portion for beds they rely on settlers to survive the framework of our homeless policy in san francisco to focus on housing and not shelter we agree with one hundred percent but to insure our shelters are a launching pad out of homeless we have the shelters and decrease in the level of health and our emergency service is not set up

we've made the gains through homeless people we have not there yet we need to fight formal the solutions we've compiled a number of recommendations both short-term and long-term around the supplemental that needs to happy immediately including shoring up the first friendship shelter to make sure our children have a safe plays to sleep that has a shower and number of other items before you thank you. >> so colleagues i'll say also my hope was those would be bregsz the department heads and we give the lady another minute to continue the presentation we'll take that without objection. thank you. >> so one of the issues around

first friendship that was laid out families are trying to get there at 3 o'clock to get a bed the other night we were there and the staff were very upset and the family was upset his son manual wanted to speak but they had to leave to pick up their son he wet his bed and had no change of clothes in place to shower and his father forced him to go to school with soiled clothing there was no change of clothes and there was no shower and this is what we're doing to our families we have a situation their traveling really long distances electro try to get access to a shower those are mats on a floor so parents want to try to keep their kids clean

they make a choosing choice of getting to school or showering at the end children are not able to go to parks we've had teams talk about h how they had to quit their volley ball teams the whole family has to be under at check in time there are several stages to get emergency sheltered we have a simple change we want to have a number of families that can call at a certain time and reserve a bed put them out at the floor first friendship puts mats on the floor. >> supervisor kim. >> actually, i forgot to ask you this meeting the supplemental request i didn't see anything in the esquire

request that included first support for first friendship where you talked about the solution to the showers. >> we estimated that had been $040,000 to have a call in line probably less than that but almost $40,000 and the shower 2 hundred and 40 thourz thousands there's additional needs at first friendship to look at next year's budget but those are the emergency needs like the first stage to get it supplemented in the supplemental. >> number 4. >> uh-huh in the narrative. >> no, no in the other packet the narrative. >> so two supplemental requests. >> one supplemental where request with 4 items the additional items for first friendship with showers and call

in line and the second the shoring up the shelters at the communities at hampton and st. vincent and pilot project for restorative practices in our shelter and the fourth is subsidies question quickly move people into housing out of homelessness with nonprofit housing units they volunteered to turnover to the homeless. >> i only have this one. >> okay. >> i might have misplaced it. >> we'll get you another one so there's a packet that has the slide shows that lisa maria showed and other than the packet is a simple narrative those are the short term solutions and long-term some of the stuff we need to expand our respite

medical respite in our shelters and, secondly supervisor kim thank you for working so hard on the issue and done stairwell work the idea around the affordable health care act as leverage to get private hospitals to fund our inside shelters which i think is a really amazing idea that the department of public housing brought forward and the ongoing low was this and low funding that needs to be addressed and the last two items we need to, of course boost up our investment in housing i want to briefing say 40 percent of our housing if you combine development and the mayor's office of housing has begun towards homeless people and the pipeline for the next 5 years only 20 percent towards homeless people we need to put subsidies

and the housing has paid for it and homeless households will be able to move in and invest in prevention to prevent 0 people from being homeless thank you. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you thank you just a quick question for you going back to the issue of the kids missing school so how - if you're requesting a space your family everyone has to be present. >> yeah. so the process for the families is that 11:00 a.m. they call into hampton emergency center and they have a small number of beds that fill quickly for larger families it's enforceable to get in you know it's a small 21 beds at least so those are unusual full so at 3 o'clock first friendship opens up in the western edition and

first friendship fills up to a handful of families are turned away from shelters that opens up at 3 first come, first serve once they fill up at first friendship later on in the evening that families wait and get transportations to the prominent shelter that has women and other families get to stay. >> if. >> a family shows up like my kids at school that won't be sufficient. >> not whole family needs to be present in order to check in and yeah. >> okay. thank you. >> i have to say i'm permitted with that situation donate not you know a component of our grant system they could change that rule today there's nothing