bayview we knew that has roots about peopleism safe in they're afraid community and at this point we had a number of seniors and some them taking muni and doing the work or visiting they're afraid families that suddenly became victims of street violence self-interest the interviews and the aftermath and the interviews with our police department that were trying to prevent this from happening and with any community leaderships we felt in cooperation with the fact organizations lifework chinese affirmative action and self-help for the fact elderly a number of community-based organizations like the awe alive and free program we felt if we can have additional eyes and areas working with the fact seniors, working with people going to work particularly on muni stops we can have the fact kind of assistance that people needs and

the additional eyes and ears to prevent the fact violence if happening we had a number of community ambassadors that lived and worked and raised the bayview to come and work with us vufrl over a period of time they knew everyone on the street and say high to folks and they were coming to tourists and they couldn't get to a police or get just basic information how to assess 9-1-1 or p.i. and basic information and the best routes to get to home or work those ambassadors became very big connectors to ordinary people everyday to what was going on and basic information they've become invaluable to people that haven't been in community before and so valuable that the crime

rates around those areas became lower people that walked to work and saw the ambassadors saw them on the streets walking around became a lot more comfortable with they're afraid experience on the streets we rolled this out beginning in the bayview now successful we brought it to mission street and visitacion valley and ambassadors to the tenderloin and to the mission and every one of overseeing areas not only has the fact street crime been reduced by r by people that walk the fact streets remain that much more comfortable and secure and having a friendly face in the what i call the buzzing bee colors the fact yellow and black being bright and recognized we identify as ambassadors working

things with you're walking practicals and police officers but doing the fact extra services that go well beyond public safety just information sharing has been valuable to everyone who uses our streets so it's been so successful that literally every supervisor and every community has been asking for more of the ambassadors and wear glad to do them when we have a strong economy and have strong members of the community philosophically funding a number of the programs for a number of years so popular that today, we are happy to say we're launching this community ambassadors program with the support of your local supervisor the chinatown and that is a great (clapping.) - great addition they are bio cultural and bilingual be they're afraid incentive tied toe people that

use the streets, in fact, those ambassadors have been so good they recognize people going to work and coming from work by their first names and they're recognized by they're first names i wanted to say that is another example of the community engagement that the office of immigrant rights does that's why we place the fact ambassadors program under the tool because they're a lot of people that come to the city that simply don't know how to assess the services so from understanding the municipal id card and getting information whether the events are happening, have access about the ever changing route asia time that muni might have, to where are things happening and how can i get access to the fact senior

services and that wear using our community-based organizations from which to recruit residents of the neighborhood they serve i can't think of a better job to be in your neighborhood speaking languages that rehabilitate the fact culture of our district and doing to great service of not only safety but information and everyone feeling that once you have that yellow jacket all of a sudden the community is there and feel pretty special as an individual residential or visitor this is two can that combined engagement backed up with our law enforcement personnel is engaged and in fact, each of the ambassadors do glow several days training with the police department so they can help if anything maples they'll be there they'll be the fact first with

ans to assess the emergency calls saying i need respond on the street and if you don't speak english the ambassadors will be that bridge they're true ambassadors to for what that name means and they'll work to make sure that everyone feels safe so i want to say congratulations to the fifth year of the community ambassadors program thank you for expanding it to chinatown where a lot of tourists and local residents a lot of seniors and everyone else needs to have that assess and needs to have a quick response but hopefully nothing ever happens but people having fun and american people caliber allergic time in the streets 24 will improve every single corridor and alleyway for people to know how to assess the information and get the fact

information so congratulations adrian and congratulations to everyone that is associated with the fact community ambassadors program (clapping.) >> thank you, mr. mayor we want to take 80 a moment to thank so many people that made 24 possible from the fact early days dr. supervisor yee marshall and susan for ethics commission and eddy and sharon hewitt and most importantly someone that is our champion supported us if you wonder why the fact ambassadors are the bright iefrmz suggested it he's your hero police chief greg suhr (clapping.) so next up is somebody who is

we're pleased to welcome back to district 3 it is exciting a have aaron peskin for all the residents the district 3. >> supervisor peskin as you may know was reelected to the sgrvrz and his leadership definitely been a positive diversities in enfuss spirit and energy into our procedures thank you very much and please welcome supervisor aaron peskin (clapping). >> >> (speaking foreign language.) good morning and thank you adrian and mayor ed lee city administrator naomi kelly and chief suhr is a pleasure to

associate meaningful with the mayor with the first decade i'm delighted it the community ambassador program is coming to chinatown to augment our already rich our integrate web of neighborhood services provided through incredible nonprofits like self-help for the fact elderly thank you, andy chang autopsy and thank you for the fact work you do the fact fact all my colleagues want community ambassador programs speaks to the success of mayor ed lee and adrian program ether the last half decade chinatown needs those resources this is the densest community in an dense city and, yes we have elevated crime and, yes we have unfortunately terrible pedestrian safety within death in and around this community a community ambassador program will help with all of those

things in conjunction with our san francisco police department and in conjunction with our rich web of neighborhood certifies providers i'm delighted thank you, mr. mayor and administrator kelly for bringing this to chinatown. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping.) thank you supervisor is good so have you back when we start the fact community ambassadors we had a small team ambassadors out in the the fact bayview and now 5 years later a team as the mayor said all over the city one of the reasons we grow the program is a steady support and leadership of our city administrator naomi kelly she's broken new ground a great role model we're fortunate to have her please help me welcome naomi

kelly (clapping.) and. >> thank you adrian. >> what a beautiful day to have this to celebrate the fact 50 anniversary i want to personally take the men and women in the yellow jackets they've done a wonderful job and deserve a round of applause i know many of i've visited with you and done great work the tightened and the bayview and the valley they're from our community they're afraid residents and what everyone said earlier they know everyone by tare first name and vice versa he love the fact jacket they're afraid bright and yellow and they have the city feel on the jackets notice that you know they're the ones working for how and the community and the fact community ambassador program has so many

contacts with the community about 33 thousand more or three hundred thousand contact over the life of the program - three hundred and thirty thousand over the life of the communicated sgraug with the fact community and what's nice they know all the city agencies and working closely is 311 and the department of public works and the clerk will take the roll with the county clerk's office many services within the city government i want to thank commissioner president suzy loftus, andy chang and commissioner marshall for the great work in training our community ambassadors so they know how to deescalate situation they run into and know what great services are thank you to everyone

(clapping.) >> thank you, kelly now a nationally renowned invention preservation expert we wouldn't exist watt united states boys and girls club headed by dr. joseph marshall that serves on the police commission he's also an awful radio host a lot of fun so dr. marshall has been key in teaching our ambassadors and community for non-violation is the fact way dr. marshall

(clapping.) >> check. >> okay. my radio voice is back so - >> this is great 5 years 5 years you know i don't want to underscore the seriousness of which the ambassador program was created you know you heard the mayor talk about it was serious at that time, there was i remember particular asian elderly that was i think attacked and other woman was thrown off the fact train it was tough it was really tough that he i remember the fact rallies at city hall we were concerned and we knew we had to do something that was

creative and hoped we'll do small business week that worked sometimes you get a lot of people together maybe you can't come up with something but with a few of us in my offers and the bayview i was concerned the fact police commissioner and we met in my office i remember about you know several meetings and one dwayne jones and vincent's should be here affirmative action this guy was in the city administrator we sat down and what can we do what can we do we went through a few things the light popped on maybe we can create an urban peace corp urban peace corp for the

fact community ambassadors and really the ambassadors go out interest and everyone everything from wal-mart walking people out of the houses from the fact train and question didn't know if it would work but it did it worked very, very well san francisco has a lot of programs and not a lot of them are love but this is this one universally loved program the city everyone loves the fact ambassadors (clapping.) i am proud that is one of the things i'm proud of i go around the fact country and talk about the fact ambassadors i'm surprised is the cities don't want to grab adrian and the mayor how could be in our city that's why the fact folks the jackets i'm close to them supporting them on the streets they have to go through me

they're great i want to make sure they're prepared to deal with the challenges they face and passed the fact test very, very well, so 5 years later chinatown who knows pretty soon maybe oakland will time community ambassadors so great adrian and mr. mayor and supervisors and everyone that is part of this thank you and the reason we want to commend say you're part of this let's celebrate and celebrate celebrate 5 years of community ambassadors keep is going (clapping.) i'll introduce this guy chief suhr she's great this helps him in his job let me i turn this over to the chief. >> thanks deputy chief joe i want to tell you i was probably other than the fact bayview community the fact biggest

beneficiary of the 3456r9d i love them i see them i can't help but hug them those jackets are getting more yellow i have to calling your attention to barbara she runs the fact bayview opera houses remembers how difficult 4 years ago, it was not going well when the fact ambassadors were born and coming in we talked about with them it got better overnight a completely different place the way that people get along and mergers the communities and doing no so moved small part to the ambassadors it made since the mayor traubd i talked about growing the program yes, yes, yes now coming to chinatown that is awful and the fact job they're talking about is that that you see them thank them

they're really to put themselves in situations they make a safely and i have to tell you 5 years ago there were sort of restored a sense of calm immediately and that's the way it is god bless you please be savvy hope it continues to grow (clapping.) >> thank you, dr. marshall and joe affordable housing and chief suhr sorry. >> (laughter) i'm the queen bee so the fact next speaker is such a special leader and an inspiration to all of us trooerd the fact epitome of compassion and self-less and caring it was her vision to

bring this to chinatown they working hard with the fact council to make sure that happened please help me welcome any dear friend and known as the mother teresa is a annie chang ceo of the self-help for the fact elderly (clapping.) >> thank you adrian and good morning, mayor supervisor peskin and naomi and chief suhr, dr. marshall and richard and my friend sarah on behalf of the apa council i council that sarah and i represent we went to the mayor two years ago and said mayor, we know you run a very, very successful community ambassador program but i think that is time; right? to bring it to chinatown because the fact problems we were seeing so i said to report back to you

during the fact lounge of the ambassador program sarah and i walked the fact chinatown all over and later when i go to the house to see the fact reception we asked supervisor peskin to help us and the captain lazarus for this district because of the heels right outside of shop house smoking and gambling we couldn't run the fact programs inside i don't know with the fact china team does now now they were able to convince people to move ant farther so our students inside and the fact elderly will not bracket the fact smoke we want to commend thank mayor ed lee and the chinatown team to do their utmost best he loved you (clapping.) and as you walk around my staff will, having a self-help die

they'll stop by the one time community center to make sure the fact building is safe and go up to the houselights clubhouse ape walk to the alleys i drive around schpt they'll be helping seniors crossing the fact centerpieces an stockton street and represent the fact best of the city hall and so mayor ed lee thank you for bringing this program to us and congratulations ambassadors 5 years (clapping.) and adrian and richard thank you. this program >> thank you, ann i didn't and members of the apa and want to recognize a few people from the fact community that helped to have the program in mission and the bayview and silicon valley that's it barbara from the fact bayview american people are house and laura from the fact

mission center and marie from visitacion valley thank you so much. (clapping.) >> so the community ambassadors are out there the most vibrant and dangerous areas he helping residents and workings sea visitor and community groups and merchant they report crimes and inform of the people of the serves and volunteer the community and live in the community and they care about people they serve the city they live and work for so it is my pleasure to introduce the fact ambassadors team the fact team is led we want to commend redistribution two individuals that exceptional individuals that helped me building the houses of engagement to what is today wouldn't have been possible i need they're afraid help please give me it up for deputy direction richard (clapping.)

and your cap immigrant rights commissioner (clapping.) and now to introduce the san francisco community ambassadors the ambassadors are led by 4 team leaders raise your hand t. >> who is a little bit hard to spot in public junior (clapping.) eddy (clapping.) miss cha have on (clapping.) and alton (clapping.) speaking on behalf of all the fact ambassadors this morning is our chinatown team led mr. alton moore (clapping

(clapping.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (laughter) all right. good morning. i'm alton a chinatown i member born and raised in general and went to woodland been born and raised in san francisco you get an understanding of diverse community and he at this time that was all everywhere in america until i joined. >> the united states navy so it is an honor to have been born and raised in san francisco having served my country on national level it is beautiful to be able to serve the fact community i live in which is now chinatown i want to thank mayor ed lee, supervisor peskin, sxhaush and definitely the mothers teresa of chinatown annie the fact ceo and self-help

for the fact elder thank you on behalf of all the ambassadors you made it only to us to serve our community and make a desists not only this community i want to thank you on behalf of all the fact ambassadors to give us the opportunity to change lives and thank you tore listening now >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer them afterwards thank you (clapping.) >> thank you so much everyone so this ends our anniversary event and press conference blood cell foul the ambassadors to the clubhouse. >> thank you, everyone and thank you, mayor ed

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