regular basis. we need more of them. the superintendent and i met with the chief of police in january to discuss this because we really want to build the capacity and strengthen the relationship between our officers and our school staff and our administrative staff, so when necessary this is a violation. it is against the law. it must be reported. we always have a staff member present. it's actually written into the mou that we ask the students for any of the sensitive cases. you have the right to have a parent obviously first and foremost but if it's a situation you would like a staff member from sfusd to be present who is the staff of your choosing. that person will be present in the room so you're not interrogated or interviewed by the police. often times in these cases what actually happens can go many different ways once you get into the details and yes how the police

are going to take that, what the next steps are could be very serious so we want a staff person there so we're also getting the information because this could be information that we need. when the student shares information and it happens to be about a another student in the school for instance and we need to know that so i think that process has been communicated fairly well to our counselors and to our sros. >> that's great and then i wanted to ask do we have a confidential hot line that students may call? >> we do. >> and how effective is that hot line? >> that would be the other kevin -- [inaudible] >> i'm sorry. the question? >> about the confidential hot line students may call and wondering how effective is that? >> i think the majority of the call thases we get are from

adults seeking response to a situation that occurred. it's fairly rare that the call is coming from students. >> so is there anyway to outreach to students so they're away they may also call this confidential hot line? >> i'm going to say two things. one i can't mention enough about the wellness staff and they're the confidential advisers at the school and they're exceptional and i am saying now's because i'm a principal and wouldn't say that years ago so i want to recognize that staff and are amazing and the trust they build with the students so there is the confidential person right there. i also want to mention peer resources and the restorative practice coaches and other staff and support staff and counselors in the schools so whoever the student has that strong relationship with the students we want to make sure that all of the students have healthy adult relationships that people they can confide in at school and when we survey the

students those numbers go up every year and do you have two adults that you trust and the school and care about you and those numbers continue to rise. >> so no doubt our wellness coordinators and staff are trusted among our youth but because this is a subject of sensitive and personal nature i can imagine there are students that would be more confidential hot line and be more comfortable with that and i am wande -- wondering if we could use this for students if they come into a situation they're uncomfortable with? >> yeah, one thing when working with common sense media and abuses in social media and promoted the safe school line and many students say they didn't know about the line. they didn't use the line so we

were further promoting it for instances of social media about cyberbullying so i think the point is well taken that we need to repromote, reboot that safe school line so to speak to let students know very specifically you can call about confidential issues. you can call about cyberbullying. i think we need to possibly reformat that. that would be a really good idea to make it more explicit what the number is for. >> thank you very much and then i have one more question which is are we giving up-to-date training to our teachers and also to school staff about being i mandated reporter and the proper procedure when a student comes to them and is reporting sexual assault? issues around privacy and those things so is there ongoing training or do we train

staff every year, every two or three years? >> so we are fortunate as you know to be one of the few school districts to have a social social worker to every school thanks to the childrens fund and our support from the city and also a very large number of nurses. i will say that the actual -- when students report this i think the first thing that teachers are going to do they go to the social worker. they have all been trained. you have a point of contact at that school with a specific training definitely at every school that if you as a teacher do not know specifically what you should do you will learn what to do for referrals et cetera but you definitely know the point of contact and if you're not comfortable and you're a mandated reporter so you will call but if you need support you know who it is at your school

and social worker or nurse that will take the ball for you and train you. >> thank you associate superintendent. >> thank you commissioner. we do have one more commissioner, hydra mendoza before we call up members of the public to speak on this item. >> thank you chair kim. so i just had two questions that actually piggyback on commissioner fewer's questions. ms. coats you can probably answer these, so considering the very public challenges at our colleges around sexual assault and the way these are being processed or not processed i am wondering what type of curriculum we have set up for any kind of prep for college and again in light of the way in which these things are handled so how do we ensure that our young people are prepared to go the proper route for not only

reporting but for protecting themselves should something like that happen? and then the second piece to that is just -- i just want a sense of our reporting process is. sounds like we highlighted the various places but should a assault occur and a young person goes to the wellness center for example and it gets reported what's the process after that in order to deal with supports for the perpetrator and the victim to ensure there's some healthy outcomes? >> i think of the two avenues essentially. one is in terms of the requirements of documenting and reporting to school administration and consultant with lead or assistant superintendents. we often get

the schools at health programs for consultation on that and in terms of the follow up and support piece as associate superintendent truit mentioned we want to make sure that both the student who may have been victimized as well as the student perhaps accused as a perpetrator that there's follow up of support for both of those. typically at the high school level through the wellness program and at our middle or elementary through the school social worker and nurse. >> i'm sorry. i didn't quite get the college prep piece of it, so is there -- again just because there's so much more that we know now has there been some added curriculum around preparation? >> i think the question -- my apologies for missing that -- points out a another area of

need as we develop the high school health ed program and although the program is strong typically it is implemented in ninth or tenth grade so we have a gap of time for the 11th and 12th graders and some of the out of the class events support that, the outside speakers and assemblies and health fairs but we talked about the idea of a second dose of health ed programming that could happen in 11th and 12th grade. that's not currently in place and it's something we would like to explore. >> thank you commissioner mendoza and i want to appreciate the school district for the presentation. it's just the first hearing. i think of many more and i know the health curriculum is a continuing conversation now at the school district as well. i first learned from commissioner haney and fewer some of the gaps we're

seeing in the curriculum and i know there is clear commitment from the leadership of teaching these issues m school and how important they are and i want to recognize there are so many challenges and priorrities at school and we want you to teach them to read and math and on top of that how to be healthy productive citizens so i know some of that can get lost and i was really surprised to see some of the data points and 22% of elementary school students getting the full health curriculum, no middle school students getting the curriculum. it's a challenge but not a blame situation. we know the schools are asked to do a lot with little resources and the teachers have a lot of respondos the plate. i think this is an opportunity to discuss and while we agree this important we know the outcomes are important and it's great to talk about sexual assault in adult society and college campuses but what are

we doing to not have that continue and continue the dialogue. i want to call up members of the public that work in this issue. [calling speaker names] >> hi everybody. good afternoon. and my name is sandra sandoval and the director of community initiate initiatives at san franciscans against rape. born and raised in san francisco and worked at various schools all over san francisco during violence prevention work for 20 years and i have been working here for four years. sf war has been around for 40 years and have a long history with the school district and formalize institutionalized in the district with our program and students and non violent

dating. early on we worked with men overcoming violence and recently and in the present with respect and respect that is here today and work collaboratively with other organizations as well with respect for respect. we get called specifically from teachers that know of the history of the work in the community and call us to specifically teach in their classrooms. it is important youths to learn about sexual assault and harassment and as early as possible and research shows working with youth early on changes the norms and attitudes towards violence against women and girls and we provide curriculum relevant to students of color, working class immigrant families and we're aware of the dynamics and we know there is political dinam i guess and -- dynamics and institutions in place that don't

have a follow up with reporting they continue the cycle of violence. with that said the san francisco unified school district needs presenters and curriculum that have an analysis on race, gender, class and immigration status and san francisco women against rape has historically had this analysis and in order to end sexual assault we have to end all forms of oppression, racism, classicism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, adultism and if you present this curriculum and survivor centered the san francisco unified school district can address so many other issues that are taking place around violence in the school presently. we facility curriculum around these topics everyday in san francisco and we have to focus not just equipping the youth to address the sexual assault. we believe in the five tier system and train the students, the teachers and the

administrators and the janitors and even the security teams all need to be trained with tools and skills to interrupt oppression in the classrooms and administrators need training and skills on developing policies and protocols to follow through. in preventing sexual assault we are missing valuable learning opportunities and not equipping teachers with the tools to address sexual assault before the situation escalate and the youth health rights that were mentioned we are one of the only ones in san francisco -- we are your rape crisis center of san francisco. we are certified under the state of california as rape crisis counselors. what does that mean? we are not mandated reporters. students can call our hot line. they can come and receive services and they will not be reported. >> thank you very much. so there is a two minute timeline

but i can ask you to continue but it seems like you finished. >> my colleague will continue. >> thank you. my name is alyssa and the community educator with san francisco against rape. part of my role is to do presentations, support groups, peer education, assemblies and tablings for youth in our city including the school district. to me this topic is very important because it's estimated that one in three girls and one in six boys are raped before 18 so youth are dealing with these issues whether or not we're providing the tools for them to have those conversations to support their peers and it's our responsibility to provide the tools and respond to this as a community with the youth and prevent this and create a culture of connection without violence. why this is important i had the opportunity to talk

about this issue directly with middle school students and high school students and i had middle school stiewnltses since seventh grade in sex harassment and sexual assault presentations and where do you feel safe and they tell me they don't feel safe anywhere, not in home or schools and it's important to address this as early as possible so students are not internalizing they're not safe in the homes and school districts. it's our responsibility to make classrooms, to make our campuses a safe place for students to be. to be able to create a culture of safety we must start young and the groups that i run we do eight week support groups. we see an increase in safety and life skills sense of community among the groups that we run.

it is my experience that students don't just want tools to respond to sexual violence with the peers but want a hand in shaping the culture they live so i encourage that we are providing opportunities and tools to students to be educators and not just prevent rape and sexual assault and what precedes that and sexual harassment prevention and address the rape culture in which we live and i get the unique opportunity to address this at schools and community based organizations and a female student that i presented in her class as a ninth grader i got to see her at a community based organization and she told me three weeks ago without our presentation from sf war and outside organizations the school curriculum wouldn't be enough and she was able to see after

our presentations and discussions there was a positive change and attitude around sexual harassment and students taking initiative to take these issues up that they cared about and educate the peers about so we see successes in empower students with tools to address what is important to their community and with their needs are. >> thank you. >> what schools or how many schools or middle schools and high schools do you work in? >> as many that call us and have us. we go into bay view and hunters point and do support groups at mission. i was at both schools this week at marshal, at walenberg, at galileo and in every school including the continuation schools and some less middle

schools and -- >> do you get funding for the work? >> we get some funding and sandra can speak to the funding. >> there is so much that can be done. >> -- [inaudible] >> and i know the programs that -- >> i know you are. how are you currently funded for the outreach workers? >> state and federal funding. >> okay. >> and we could definitely -- to decrease that 44% we would love to sat wait the city with education and prevention and i don't know the stats for the schools and 80% do not report. there needs more report from the community city wide response around sexual assault. >> thank you so much and i appreciate you being here and thank you for your comments and feedback on how to strengthen the curriculum and programming in the schools. >> supervisor kim. >> i'm sorry. supervisor campos has a question.

>> [inaudible] thank you. hi. thank you so much for the inkrrvel incredible work that you do. how many schools have you presented to? >> i would say the high schools are where we concentrate our work and most of the high schools we have been in since i have been there except lowell high school and we focus our efforts because we're three folks and have a contracted person as well within the neighborhoods i mentioned and usually one or two middle schools per academic year. >> okay. great. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. i wanted to call up professor and others. >> i am with the lead educator

in the project survive program and proud to stand with the sisters against rape and we work with them and sf program and we started 20 years ago. we offer workshops through peer educators. over the 20 years we have served 80,000 students through 4,000 work shops. in addition to the standard workshop we offer bilingual workshops in english with spanish, cantonese and mandarin so i read the thousands of evaluations that we get from the workshops and in the early years what i read over and over and over again from our students at city college was go to the high schools. okay. it took some time. we went to the community based organizations which are the heart of this program and we said we need to work together. we need to serve all of the high schools. to answer the question respect respect is in all of the schools and the peer educators

and michelle will talk about that and go two days and one of these groups do a third follow up day. i want to spend -- i want to give the -- [inaudible] most of the time because what they do there is phenomenal. how can you help? make sure programs at city college aren't cut. that was a freudian slip wasn't it. keep city college up and accredited and here is michelle. >> okay. so basically educator of respect respect and [inaudible] of four years now and i want to bring the perspective of our students, their voices to this experience right now. basically our peer educators go into the classrooms ready to take a part misinformation our youth are exposed to prior to the presentations with the perspective of patience and

respect. for example, a personal classroom i have been in i had a youth ask me in class "when is the right time to have sex in a relationship?" my response is of course when both people are actually ready but their response to that is "well, i heard from a celebrity in their book if you don't have sex after three date there is is something wrong with you" and after conversation i was able to convince that student they know themselves best and not someone in hollywood so these are things that our peer educators have to combat basically with love and patience. the last thing i want to end with is more of their yois voices. the direct effect how the two day presentation affects them immediately because we do evaluations right after so some of the quotes are "it was informal and provided a

comfortable environment to express our feelings. i like the energy and focus of peer educators. they were respectful. it was very educatorral. i thought i was part of the lesson. i learned i was in an abusive relationship and i didn't take it seriously because i didn't know what it started and now i do. i feel validated that my rape wasn't my fault. if you continue to present to other people like what you did for our class i think further relationships would be better with that knowledge. [inaudible] the instructors were -- >> thank you. >> even though we were wrong sometimes we didn't feel embarrassed. i like they were clear and i actually learned something. i like sharing about these things. we usually don't talk about it and finally thank you for coming to our class. i am glad people like you are making a difference in our community." thank you. >> thank you. thank you for

speaking and to professor simon as well. i impressed when i came to city college a few weeks ago. i will call up the next speakers. [calling speaker names] >> hello. my name is christian and let me start off by thanking for letting me speak today. i am the co-founder of [inaudible] a rape organization and to athletes that rape is not tolerated in our communities. i started this program a few years ago when i was 16 and in high school and at the time many cases for schools were on the media and athletes assaulted young women and broadcasted over the media. we don't feel that

the repercussions meet the trauma on the victims and we applied for a grant from the board to fund our program and what we did with the program we went into our community, the student athletes and we lawrned our program and curriculum to teach the students we cannot allow this to happen in our community or any community we're apart of it and we went about this from several different angles and with the students we devised a curriculum explaining rape culture and the classifications of rape and what can we do to prevent it from happening to our loved ones and what is classified as rape and what most people don't understand what is classified by rape by definition and don't understand the concept of consent so we went over that so every student we connected understood what is going on in the relationships and what it took to build a healthy relationships in their life.

next off we went about our annual consent is key day at the high school. we needed to get the approval of the principal and other staff at the high school. once we got the approval we took the news back to the team and the student academic team and we had the student athletes create posters in all different languages so that any student that walked into the halls understood that rape would not be tolerated in our campus so no one is left unattended to all of the athletes had a chance to participate in the rape awareness day. we spread the message and handed out fliers with contacts to sf war, hol line for rape victims and any other resources that the victims may need and finally to reach the students outside of the

burton high school after every football game the players sat down in the middle of the field to hear the mission statements and hand out brasments like this here and have the logo and the name on them so they are reminded what cause they're standing with and anyone that saw the brace -- >> >> bracelets would know what they're standing for and everyone is touched indirectly by what we stand for. >> thank you so much. [applause] >> i just want to appreciate that the commission recommended that you present today to our office and i really, really appreciate the initiative that young people are taking in the schools as well. i want to offer an opportunity to your fellow colleagues to introduce themselves and maybe say something as well. >> i am tony granberry and a

junior and with this program i help with christian and others here. this program is a great program because me as a athlete coming into the program i didn't know about it and for him to give me the information about it and why this topic is so serious in the nation and join the cause is great and i feel like for us to get it in the school system and for the kids at our schools to get involved is great and carry the message on throughout life and the people that come before them. >> hello. thank you. my name is fauma and i these two sum everything up. i am the prevention service coordinator at the high school for the ymca and my main message to the boys specifically athletes and male privilege and understanding your responsibility in this society

to protect women and we have stanford cases and penn state cases and stiewbenville cases and all going against the women and it's of like we put the boys out but we have to train them and we need a better name for the male athletes. we need to do something as males rather than throwing it on the women and thank you guys and jane kim and commissioner fewer and if you need anything let us know. >> thank you for your work and we look forward to working with you and supporting you. [applause] >> [calling speaker names] >> i am shanea brown and the public associate for the