>> all right. good morning, everybody. welcome. i see we've got some niners fans in the house. i am michael lambert. i'm your city librarian -- oh, you can't hear me? how's that? i'm michael lambert. i'm your city librarian, and from the bottom of my heart, it just fills my heart with joy to see all of you beautiful people in this auditorium today. this is the first event we've had in the main library for 17

months, so yeah. thank you so much for being here. i want to thank president walton, president of the san francisco board of supervisors for honoring us with his presence today and for all his leadership and support this past year. we appreciate you, president walton. all right want to thank thank -- all right. want to thank director davis and her amazing leadership. director davis, thank you so much. we appreciate your partnership. again, it feels so good to use this space after 17 long months, and as your host, i do have a little bit of housekeeping for you. the public rest rooms are located just outside the back door. if you follow the curved wall to the right. we have faucet water just across from the latino room where you're going to do some workshops later, and we also

have two exit doors behind you that staff can lead you out to the street level. with that, please relax, make yourself comfortable and enjoy your morning. for all the folks tuning in from home, i'd like to invite you all to visit your neighborhood libraries again. as of this week, all of our san francisco public libraries are open for in-person services again. and now, it's my pleasure to welcome dr. sheryl davis up to the stage. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. i know it's monday, beginning of the week. i think we can do a little bit more, little more survivors energy. good morning, everyone. yes. thank you so much, everyone,

for being here. just really want to acknowledge mayor breed and president walton, thinking about how we come back together, how we center the advances of community and come back to work. reverend fong has been doing this for a long time, who graced us with his present, and building up his community work and taking us up to the next generation, also thinking about brother damian, and we want to thank you for beginning this conversation with us, and i want to thank commissioner clapton for her work at the human rights commission. [applause] >> thank you so much, dr. davis. we are here because we live in a nation that was founded on

violence, and one day, this day will not end this legacy. but every day that we work towards changing this legacy is a day closer to peace and justice. when the human rights commission recon conveniented -- reconvened for the first time on facebook live, we actually became more accessible to the public. one of the first acts was for me to move the resolution that antiblack racism is a public

health and human rights crisis here in san francisco. and what do we mean by antiblack racism? when we talk about that, many of us, because we have been miseducated, and we have colonized minds, think that we're talking only about black people or people from the african diaspora. we are talking about white supremacy and the whole made up construct of race, and antiblack racism is the reason we have antiasian hatred, antitrans hatred. it is the reason why we have

misogynistic discrimination of women and people of color. the reason i talk about this in the history of our nation, which is based on stolen land and the forced labor of african people is because we are often, as in every day, all day long, inundated with the opposite information. we think that we are exceptional if we excel. we think that we are stereotypes when we fail.

we think it's our own individual problem when we don't succeed. together in the knowledge that we can make a difference together, that is the way forward. the other way forward, as alice walker said, to acknowledge our ancestors means that we are aware that we did not make ourselves; that the line stretches all the way walk, perhaps to got or to gods. we remember them because it is an easy think to forget; that we are not the first to suffer,

rebel, fight, love, and die. the grace with which we approach life despite the pain, the fear, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before. we have young people speaking today and talking about their ideas to move forward. we have the elders speaking today to talk about what has gone before. we have to be together. we have to stand together. we have to invest together with each other.

the other initiative we finally took in 2020 was to reach a land acknowledgement for all of our meetings, and we hope for the board of supervisors and all city functions. to read the land acknowledgement that we were able to achieve under tribal leaders is [inaudible] and she is also on the american indian education parent advisory committee. we welcome our sister, mary

travis allen. [applause] >> good morning. so nice to see people instead of on zoom, where you have to mute and unmute. my name is mary travis allen. i was born and raised here in san francisco. lived in the tenderloin, fillmore, lakeview, mission district, so here's my roots. i'm honored to be here, to present this land acknowledgement on behalf of the original people, the ramaytush ohlone people. before this place was named san

francisco, it was called yelloto. most people speak of the original people of this land in the past tense as if we're no longer here. today, the remaining descendants of the ohlone people in addition to the other intertribal american indian people from many tribes continue to live in this city and the bay area.

in this city, we have established, with the help of the human rights commission and the board of supervisors, the american indian cultural district, which is one of two american indian cultural districts in the united states. [applause] >> thank you. we have received funding to help the housing, education, and medical needs of our community. we are now being recognized and uplifted and engaged in the decisions that affect our people. greg castro, who was the principal cultural consultant for the ramaytush ohlone worked with the human rights commission to develop the land acknowledgement statement. this is now read at the

beginning of the meetings of the human rights commission, board of supervisors, and has been presented to the san francisco unified school district commission meetings. this is the land acknowledgement. we, who are gathered here at this violence prevention summit, acknowledge that we are on unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the original stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor given up their responsibilities as the care takers of this place.

as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their tradition homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relative of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first people. to end violence, you must admit and acknowledge all oppressive action that have been imposed to cause people to feel desperate and homeless. elevate the people, hear their concerns, and help them to help valued and supported. thank you. [applause]

. >> president walton: good morning, everybody. happy monday, and happy first day of school. it is so great to see everyone here today in person. i know it's been a while, and this pandemic, particularly with the new delta variant, has done everything it can to keep us from being together again, but it is wonderful to see all of you. over these past 17 months, we've seen increases in violence and shootings, particularly compared to the last couple of years where violence had gone down, and we had seen decreases for a while, and we've lost too many people to violence, particularly gun violence. so before we begin today's session, i want to take a moment of silence for all people we've lost over the last couple of years to gun violence and murder. last week, we lost a

16-year-old, last week, -- last year, we lost a six-year-old, so let's take a moment to remember all of those we have lost to gun violence. thank you. i do also want to just take the time to say i know we are tired of marching in the street, tired of having summits, tired of having conversations about what we need to do to stop violence in our community, tired of talking to mothers who have lost young ones and grandparents and family members who have lost loved ones, or just talking to family members who are survivors. i know as we do everything it takes to decrease violence, we still have to do it. we still have to continue to come together, we still have to

come together to work on strategies to address the violence that is in our community, and so we we will continue to do so. in my district, we lost two people in the last two days to gun violence, and this has to stop, and the only way it will stop is if we come together and continue to do the work. [applause] >> president walton: and our office has continued to work to address violence through a comprehensive safety plan, which also includes convenings like this, a violence prevention coordinator, increased resources from the city to address violence, best practices convenings, coordination with the h.r.c. and other city departments, street violence intervention and prevention team, s.f. safe,

sfpd. of course, the mayor's office with job provision and all ideas community has presented, and of course, all of our community based organizations and leaders on the frontline. despite our dedication and commit, we have seen too many increases in violence, particularly the last couple of years. we are nowhere near where we were in the early 2000s, but all violence is too much, and we take this seriously. in the last 1.5 years, we have had more shootings and deaths to gun violence than we can remember. more violence against communities of color, and we are all working together to stop all violence.

our summit today will attempt to bring us all together in the name of ending all violence. together with the mayor's office, the human rights commission, and i want to thank director davis and her entire team for putting this together, of course, the office dream team and all the work that they do, and the people on the

frontline -- c.y.c., it's good to see you all here. i know we have some members of united playas here, but i want everyone to know we appreciate your commitment and your dedication to stopping violence because that work that we do together is vitally important, even in the midst of continued violence. we see you, and we will make sure that we continue to support you. with that said, i do have the privilege of introducing our keynote for this morning's session. mr. david mohamed is not only the director of the institute for criminal justice reform, but he's an expert in working on practices that decrease violence and alternatives for

incarceration. we're lucky to have some mohamed in the bay area as we get to reach out to him for his expertise and input in this work that is important and necessary. i want to personally say welcome to mr. mohamed, let you know we appreciate your work. everyone this morning, mr. david mohamed. [applause] >> good morning. director davis, president walton, thank you all. i want to thank president walton for the introduction, but more importantly, for the extraordinary work that he and

his team do every day to make san francisco a better place, to make the bay area a safer place. i am honored to be before you for an opportunity that is going to be less a keynote address than preventing information. for me, it is awesome because this is where i've began my career in criminal justice.

i'm a little old, so 1997, i began going into y.g.c., juvenile hall. it was this specifically, teaching workshops, and continue to teach them in san francisco for years, and different than expanded in the bay area and throughout the state and indeed throughout the country. i want to say, i want to thank the commissioner for reminding us and reminding me -- i used to emphasize this point -- sometimes, i get so far in the weeds that you forget that this nation was built and founded on

violence. and we can blame ourselves and our own community, and while we've got work to do, we need to remember how we got here, and this is a nation developed and created on the notion of violence. it is not surprising given our founding, given the images that we have this country in our neighborhoods. so i want to thank the extraordinary leadership of president walton, of director davis, of mayor breed. san francisco is fortunate to have these extraordinary leaders in our midst, so thank you, thank you, thank you. [applause] >> and in addition, as president walton said here, the community leaders who do the

work, day in and day out, night in and night out, who was helping out with the work. the city and county of san francisco applied for a grant called calvip, the california violence intervention program. the state awarded that to san francisco. $1.5 million, $500,000 a year for three years. when a government receives that state grant, according to state

regulations, you must give half of it to a local nonprofit organization. the city selected svip to receive half of that award. also in that application were two technical assistance providers, the california partnership for safe abilities and the institution for justice reform. the part of the work which was even beyond the calvip grant was to evaluate gun violence in the city and county of san francisco. now many of us feel like they know of what our opinion of gun violence is, and we may be

right, but we don't have an entire picture of gun violence is in the city and county of san francisco. i'm going to go through this in a lot less time than i thought i had. they showed me a card, and i'll have to go a lot quicker. every individual homicide was investigated between january 2019 and june 2020, to try to get a sense of was something

different going on during covid? the 162 homicides involve 329 unique individuals as victims or suspects, and the 82 shootings involved 86 individuals, so again, a detailed analysis of shootings and homicides. this just gives you, i think, as president walton said, we are concerned, certainly, about the level of increase in violence. we are nowhere near what it was in the early 2000s, and something happened with this huge drop that occurred in san francisco, which everybody in this room should be proud of, and a part of this initiative that i'm mentioning is an evaluation to try to determine, can we look back and see, how did we go from 98 to 45 homicides in one year -- i think it's 2008, 2007, and how

can we replicate some of that great work, even though we maintained that in san francisco, and we're seeing a spike now, which is clearly related to the covid pandemic. the full presentation is about 100 slides, and you're going to get about five of them. so a few headlines, surprising, i think, the average age of victims of homicide in san francisco are 37. some people, they are not surprised, but if you ask the average citizen of san francisco about homicides, they're teenagers, and it's related to drug.

now we have some problem teenagers, and we've got some with drug problems, but that's not the answer. now the average age of arrest for victim and suspect is 15, so very well known to the criminal justice system. one, this tells us that we can do better when folks come into the system in rerouting them and supporting them and not just filing them into the criminal justice system. and people involved have some very specific risk factors. i think what some folks in the city think is that everybody in the bayview is violent.

they are a very small group with very specific risk factors. we know them, we can identify the violence, and therefore we can prevent the violence. this is an overgeneralization, but when you take out the stabbings and beatings of the tenderloin, you get a slightly more focused picture of gun violence. there, the average age is 28. 67% of homicide victims and suspects and 85% of shooting suspects and victims are latino and black men while they kpriez less than 10% of the city's population. some slides to talk about the age range in who was involved

in gun violence now. there was a slight increase during covid, but the increase in serious crime of juveniles and covid is mostly robberies, not shooting. so just understand, when we're talking about gun violence, we're talking about adults primarily. we have the individual incidents of teenagers, and we understand, and they get more news coverage, and they stick in our head more, so we tend to think it is younger, but when we step back, it is young adults, people in their 20s primarily. people in this cluster of, really, 18 to 35, that is involved in gun violence again. again, it's male, black, and

latino. a little older, 18 to 35. serious criminal justice involvement, that is the population that is involved in gun violence now. known to the criminal justice system, and we have supervision, prior parole. 67% had prior incarceration. 62% were prior convicted of a felony, so a population we know, that we can put our hands on, that there should be a level of support. one of the things that san francisco has going on is a good amount of resources dedicated to people involved. but we have a problem all across the country of resource and need.

the city of san francisco is well connected to resources, but we have to do better to connect resources to the needs, and until we do a better job of saying even forces that need the resources the most and ensuring the connection with that, we're going to continue to struggle. all right. so there's some work on prior probation, prior supervision, active probation, prior probation, looking at the vast majority of people who were involved in gun violence are now or were previously under some form of corrective supervision. so we have some dynamics. so somewhere between 53% and 70% of shootings involve groups, right? some people might call it gangs.

we don't call it gangs for two reasons. one, it has a legal definition that we want to be leery of, but when we think of gangs, we think hierarchal groups. that doesn't mean it's gang against gang war. sometimes it is, but sometimes, we're fighting over a young lady, right? and i'm in a gang, rico's in a gang, we're going out with the same girl, and we're fighting over that girl, right? and now, our crews are involved, and exacerbates the beat, right? it turns out a lot of shootings are over there, but it involves crews. it's identifying people that

are highest at risk so we can have quality intervention with these folks. and then, there's a large amount of violence that's -- a lot of it is not shootings, the stabbings and beatings in the tenderloin, which, what i'm going to talk about for the rest is not that, but there is an issue to address there. so 18 to 35 black and latino males who have significant criminal justice involvement who are in crews or groups of gangs, many of them have previous gun violence or victimization or they've been or knows someone who has been shot recently, often in the last 12 months. me and my boy are in part of harbor road. i'm 27 with seven previous arrests, and now, i'm on social

media vowing revenge for his shooting. we joke with some of these young people, you snitching. you the biggest snitch on yourself on social media. so you can address social media and get a sense -- and let me just go with that same example of the here is i'm on social media, saying, they got my boy, i'm gonna get y'all, i am clearly the focus of intervention, to focus intervention on, to dispatch people who have experiences who can build a relationship, trusting relationship, and help them make better decisions.

i'll end the assessment and move into the strategy and close. these are just letters. we -- when we finish this assessment, we met with a group, many of them with svip. this is -- there's actual real group names behind this, mapping the alliances and conflicts that generate a lot of the gun violence, and some of it is individual conflicts that are exacerbated by group dynamics. and so -- then, there's several groups -- these again, we just changed the name because we don't want folks to be competing up there. but these are real groups, and you see there are some that are involved in a lot of shootings both as victims and suspects.

and what we saw in the analysis is there's little to no difference between victim and suspects. again, we remember the incident that involves somebody that's not involved in these dynamics because they get a lot of attention when a child is killed, a small child, or somebody -- i hate the term innocent victim, but that's used, and the -- that gets a lot of attention. that is not usually the case around shootings, right? victim and suspect look very similar, and what we know is, sometimes, you're a victim one day and suspect the next. all right. the map -- this was presented to the police commission, so it's a public document. we can make it available to folks. okay. that was the problem, and now, we want to talk about the solution quickly. now as we do that, before we do

that, i want to say this. i think this is one of the most important pieces of the presentation, and we need to understand what actions or programs or services achieve what outcomes, right? there's a few obvious examples. gun buy backs have no effect on gun violence. now, i'm not telling you not to have a gun buy back. it's great to have those, but it's mostly old folks getting rid of those old ones, and that's fine. there's certain things that achieve certain outcomes. you don't have to call a gun buy back violence reduction. call it getting guns out of the streets or out of homes. that's a great goal, and you should do it, but understand

what activity achieves such result. generally, we're talking about intervention and transformation -- community transformation. there are neighborhoods in san francisco that don't need a gun violence reduction strategy. there are other neighborhoods that do. i want our neighborhoods to not need a gun violence reyuck reyuck -- reduction strategy andee the -- and keep the people there, right? prevention is awesome, but we need to understand prevention and intervention are different and have different timetables.

it can't be either-or. it has to be both. if you are effective about saving those babies in the river, somebody else in the strategy, in the coordination, has to stop the man from putting babies in the river. there has to be both ends, but you see, those are two different activities. those are two different activities. in the long run, they achieve the same goal. one is out in the river, getting babies out immediately. the other, i'm stopping people from putting babies into the river, and one does not achieve the other, right? and so one is not better than

the other. they're just different, and we have to do both and. so with that -- oh, here we go. we often have this mixed up. i call this my rocket science because it's so simple, that desired outcomes should be aligned with our actions and programs. i was in another city, working on gun violence reduction in another city, and they said, we're going to start a mentoring program for students. while a mentoring program is wonderful, it will never achieve gun violence reduction because that's not focusing on the people who are the problem.

but it won't achieve gun violence reduction if it's perfect in the next 12 months, right? so the strategy, and i know i'm over time or getting close to time. four primary pillars. one, data driven identification of people who are at highest risk. so i talked about the analysis that we did. another part of that is a weekly review of shootings, to say which of these shootings have a likelihood for retaliation. if it's a one-off family issue that is a crazy issue that does not have likely retaliation, you move on. if it's a crew versus crew and it's likely to cause some retaliation, you say okay, who is retaliating, who is likely to be retaliated against, and

who is going to be retaliated, and then, you inform them of their risks, similar to covid. people over 65 or people with underlying health conditions, we need to let them know, if you contract the virus, your likelihood of contracting the virus is exponentially more than someone else. same thing here. they need to be informed your likelihood of being shot is higher than other people. you need to be informed, but you also need to know. and then, focus enforcement. you need to reduce the

footprint of law enforcement and focus on serious crime and violence. reduce gun violence and also reform policing, which means stop low level enforcement of drugs and containers. if you stop doing low level enforcement and focus on serious crime and violence, you can effect public safety, so we talked about the risk factors of the people at highest risk. we talked about this already, and this is an example of how we implemented this in oakland, just as an example.

used to be a reentry case manager, but a reentry case manager's job is different than a life coach whose goal is to reduce gun violence. i want to emphasize this as much as possible in terms of goals and how your activities are connected to your clear goals. case manager, reentry, the goal is to not recidivate. that has some overlap but not the same as my pure goal is to get this person to not shoot each other and not get shot. clients are eligible for financial incentives.

we have improved coordination and employment, there's mental health services. there is quite a community of services. now, this exists in san francisco, and we want to focus the coordination. in oakland, we have 35 people to focus on this population, and it's been effective.

the live coaching is around relationship first. this is what is different between service brokering case management. it's about relationship first, and what this means is i'm going to spend time with you, i'm going to get to know you, i'm going to share myself with you, and when you build that relationship, and it allows you to get a mentality shift and then asking for services. you've got to know you are

building a relationship with them. so this is kind of how it works. i'll say this for, like, one minute. relationship, i can't emphasize enough. when you have a [inaudible] but he is my friend, and so i watched it. when you gain a relationship with someone, then you're able to influence them. it's having a relationship and guiding them to make better decisions, and better decisions produce better outcomes. so in oakland, we had six consecutive years of decline,

2020, at the end of march, we had a 38% year-to-date reduction in homicides. it would have been the lowest homicide rate in the city's history, and then covid hit. so i want to close just by saying so where we are is svip are hiring these training coaches. we have hired two of them so far. so it's not enough, and we want to increase this level of work. we need every agency working

together to solve this problem and to reduce this issue of gun violence that we have. it's going to take all of us working together. we want to support the organizations doing incredible work right now to help them, a, get information to focus on the right people. or we need some support on these are the do's and don'ts in this population.

we need to expand it, right, and we need to coordination it together, and we will achieve extraordinary reductions in gun violence. thank you very much. [applause] . >> well, let's give it up again for david mohamed. [applause] >> this work is extremely important, and we want to really center everything when it comes to violence prevention on everything that happens throughout the day. we want to give it up for all of you for being here, but more importantly, we want to get the conversation started. so our first panel today is centering around this idea of cross cultural community connections, and we have a set

of power house speakers for today's panel. so with that, i'll go ahead and get started. we'll get started with joe jackson morgan, who is the executive director of third street youth clinic. we've got jose yanez [inaudible] de la raza. please welcome cynthia choi, codirector of chinese for affirmative action. an attorney by trade is also the secret of the affirmative action center for northern california. please welcome hillary nakano. [applause] >> please help me welcome patsy

tito, executive director of samoan community center, and please help me welcome nakira jackson, executive director [inaudible]. [applause] >> all right. first of all, how are you doing, and thank you for being here, and let's give them a round of applause. before we hop into it, just a few ground rules, and just expectations throughout the day as we do know some of this could be triggering, especially when we're talking about violence. so for those of you at home, and those of you in space, if that does become something that you're triggered by, we invite you to take space and get in a space where we can process that.

we want to make sure this discussion is a healthy one for all of you watching at home, as well. with that, we will go into this idea of cross cultural efforts. what do you see as similarities and differences in violence prevention and safety and approaches in your community? now before we start, we're running tighter than a holiday budget on time, so if you all just think about one song, think about the time it takes, too, because we're giving you two minutes. we know you get passionate, but we don't want a hard-and-fast time. what do you see as similarities and differences between violence prevention and safe issues/approaches in your communities? we'll start off with hillary. >> good morning.

my name is hillary nakano. cochair of a group called japantown for justice. we are based out of san francisco japantown but were built out of this idea that the japantown community needs to be better supportive of our neighbors in the fillmore and the western addition and needs to build that relationship where we had preworld war ii where our communities were living side by side, and we had black people that took up the japanese american property when they were incarcerated during world war ii, so we're trying to built those relationships between the communities again. i would say in our response to violence, in the japantown community, they are -- or i say we are trying to advocate for more police involvement, and

that's not necessarily something that the fillmore or the western addition community is advocating. i wouldn't call it a tension, but it's a difference in response. and in the japantown community, there's this idea of we should have more security cameras, we should have more foot patrol officers and just make sure that there is a greater response in action, and in the fillmore, the western addition, we're not talking about having a greater police involvement, we're talking about what are the relationships that we can build so that we can make sure that we're addressing mental health issues or black on black violence.

it's just how are we going to address this on going issue? >> and patsy, onto you. >> i think -- and i've been going into the samoan community. i think the difference is they continue with the stereotype of who we are, you know? they always look at us as these big, bad people. they look at us as we don't speak, we don't like to get into trouble, but when they just look at us, they just kind of stereotype us as that community that will try to invade their space. i wish they would just look at us as people and not our color,

but i think that's where the difference is in the samoan community is they continue to stereotype us as what they say. >> okay. >> hi. can they raise this a little bit because i'm kind of tall? thank you. i'm the c.e.o. founder of the transgender association for gender equality. we've got people from everywhere, people who aren't even naturalized here, and i

really feel like a lot of the times with violence, it's more systemic, and it's displacement and limiting based on color and being a black person from detroit, michigan, the outlook for my life and survival, i wasn't supposed to make it to 35 years old, so just bringing it to that space, i'm going to pass it to cynthia, yeah. >> well, hi, everybody. thank you so much for giving us the opportunity. i am the coexecutive director for chinese for affirmative action, but i am here representing a coalition, which includes the ccdc, c.y.c., and c.p.a., and just to tell a little story about our coalition, we have been working together in crisis when there

were incidents of violence and crime. we work with city agencies, regardless of your immigration status, your age, or what neighborhood you live in, that you get the services you need. one of the things we said to get us out of this, to address systemic racism, was to do this within our community to address this, and to do it across communities. we are not going to get to issues around equity if we

continue to see each other as the problem, as the threat. and so i'm excited to be on this panel. it's wonderful that this is kicking off the discussion of the fact that to make san francisco the place that we are loved, it's going to take time, it's going to take investments, and it's going to take leadership. this is why i'm so proud to be a part of the coalition and really applaud our city in those investments. there is no panacea, and we're also fighting misinformation and disposition at levels that we had not experienced before. so this racial reckoning is about all of us, and again, those investments are going to be critical over the next three to five to ten years, but this can happen in our lifetime with

leadership. thank you. >> thank you for the question, for the space. really graceful and blessed to be here. on above of the mission peace collaborative, we have a large investment or a large concentration of nonprofit organizations that have been working on violence prevention for decades, rights? and if anything, the mission has then created interventions that have been, you know, shared with the rest of the community, adopted by the city, and then, expanded. so i would think the biggest tension for us currently has a lot to do with the -- as has been mentioned has a lot to do with the energy and the displacement, the new physical

entities in the mission which don't necessarily align with the value of the community needs and the direction we would like to take when it comes to taking care of our children, right? dealing with our community, and the biggest tension i think -- >> closer? >> i believe the bigger tension does then become how do we work with the institutions and systems that are supposed to protect our children, supposed to protect our communities, and hold them accountable, and make sure that they respect the process that our community has created because the -- you know, the -- dr. mohamed mentioned that relationship being so important. you know, i remember starting the work in 97 also, and there's this thing called relationship capital, i would say. and when you're able to invest in providers that have

long-standing relationships that can carry that relationship during that middle support group through that first contact with police and really being able to hold them and their family through that experience so that they don't recidivate, so i would think that would become one of our biggest challenges. how do we deal with that new messaging that is impacting our community. and because of our documentation challenges in some cases, you know, that pressure then forces people to hide, and that only complicates the problem, right? because then, that interpersonal violence take place, and then, we obviously have people whose mental health is impacted and have the reactions that we have to have when economic distress impacts us. >> so thank you for this opportunity. i feel blessed to be up here

for everyone, and i'm speaking from the bayview-hunters point perspective. i think the technology that we're not addressing is our neighborhood has the lowest median income in san francisco, and as opportunities prevent themselves, we are dealing with the fact that poverty and idleness is playing out in our streets, right? and so i'm glad that he spoke to the displacement. we're also getting newcomers into our community and dealing with the fact that folks that have been here historically have not been addressed, as well. we're trying to compile resources for our newcomers,

for problems that are existing, and that tension is playing out. this is also a result of poverty, right? we saw this -- of course we saw this. folks started to see a crunch in resources. it started to become you're on your own. what we did see is we wanted to make sure that our community had what they needed, right? so this task force came about. folks were really trying to deal with that.

>> and this idea that there's different perspectives to be shared even within what we wanted to discuss. how do we build solidarity across demographics and tear down cultural barriers? >> well, at third street [inaudible] clinic, we've really been looking at this as as the community changed, how do we get services that will be timeless? we can't do everything, so of course we rely on all of our community organizations that will be coming in.

giving them that space to work it out amongst each other, hopefully will help us create this sort of tolerance and acceptance that we want to see in these communities. so i think it's important, being a daughter of san francisco, we grew up in this melting pot of -- of appreciating each other. and again, we celebrated each other, and i think we need to get back to that and stop sort of, you know, breaking apart, and also being aware that certain communities are hurting in a different way, and looking at that and also bringing in people to help solve these issues together. so i think cynthia was alluding to that earlier, that it's going to take all of us to come

together and bring back the san francisco of this melting pot and appreciating culture. we don't have that culture anymore. >> it sounds like what you're saying is celebrate, not tolerate. >> i completely agree. we need to celebrate our diversity, we need to share, we need to be proactive to celebrate spaces to exchange, to break bread, to drum together. when i first came out here, we had thousands of young people organizing, and we had peace marches. we need to be proactive about countering the message that our children are listening to and seeing 24 hours a day, unfortunately, that says that consumption and consuming these, you know, products, are going to get them to a better place or a happy place. we need to remind them that our culture, our resilience, the fact that we've been through what we've been through -- the

invocation this year is 500 years since cortez started that invasion, and we need to recognize the pain that people -- the historical trauma that we continue to experience, and that is manifested in our institutions sometimes. so when we share together, when we break bread, we heal together, and we also are changing healing practices. one of my mentors once said, it takes many medicines -- therapy's not going to work for everybody. psychology is not going to work for everybody. but as long as we're modelling that healthy behavior, it will intervention in that concept moving forward.

>> i love how we're all building on each other's comments. if we don't have people's basic needs being met, we really can't address the tensions, the racial tensions in our city. if we are not building the saved -- safer needs, we need to build that into the system. i do want to lift up the work that ccdc is doing in the public housing units that they

manage because they're doing outreach and i want to make sure that everyone knows what resources and information are available to them. there's a great piece in the l.a. times about the difference between alliship and solidarity. allyship meaning statements of being one and being united, solidarity being a whole different definition, where we feel our destinies, our fate, are inexplicably tied we need

to stop these incidents from occurring in the first place. >> thank you, cynthia. for me, i just want to speak about me. i have to constantly remind myself that this work isn't easy. this isn't easy work, and i have to be willing to constantly modify the strategy because it's always changing, and being willing to continue collaborating. it's, like, so much strength in the world and sometimes you're strongest allies and the people that makes the most change

aren't really the people that we pretty much envision, so just being up on it. >> well, you know, i love to work with people. my folks, my culture, my heritage, we're all about family, and if anyone ever asked me, whether it be my sisters from potrero hill, or my brother down the street, drew, or joy or dr. drew from bayview, we just show up and make sure we're present in that moment in order for us to stand in solidarity. i think one of the things that feel like, you know, our community has to see all of us together as leaders, and when

our community doesn't see us together or we're bickering or we're fighting over some stuff, whatever it may be, then they look at it as if they don't get along, why should we? we need to leave the ego at the door. it will always be about our community, our kids, and not our titles because what we going to do with it? [applause] >> so i just feel like if we -- us samoans, we love to break bread, right? so any time you come visit -- we're up on sunnydale. any time you come visit, we doing barbecue or we doing something, but nonetheless, the substance of it all is making

sure that we, you and i feel like we're sisters, we're brothers, that we can do this together, and no matter what color skin, whether we're brown, black, blue, asian, whatever, that our community sees us, that we can hold hands together and not hold hands and i'm going to punch you in the face after -- i'm kidding, but we're brothers and sisters that god has placed us in that space at the moment. just like how we're sitting up here in solidarity, holding each other up, and you guys sitting there, holding us up 'cause we all need that,

especially that's where i see it as far as culture. i love sharing my samoan culture through music, dance, and language. in everything, there is a proverb we always use at scdc. [speaking native language] >> the path to leadership is to serve, and that's what we're here to do, is to serve our community as one. >> hillary, take us home. >> i love to piggyback off of this idea, this idea that we need to be there every step of the way. it's not about a one-time

b.l.m. rally that we throw, and hey look at us rally. it's not a one-time juneteenth celebration in the community. it's about the support, knowing that someone can call you up, saying hey, we need help. what can you do for us and how can you help us get there? for us, specifically, it's about japantown and the mission, saying how can we get back to where we used to be? in the marketplace, we're doing things such as black-owned businesses who don't have brick and mortars, we're closing streets once a month, and we're having vendors come out so that these small business owners are not so hard impacted by covid

and they can continue their businesses. we're putting district candidate forums. when district 5 district last november, and we're talking about issues that will affect both the japantown community and the western addition community. what are the policies that we want to push for and advocate for that will help our communities together, so it's about this idea that we need to be there every step of the way. it's not about showing up once a month, going to a panel. it's not about talk the talk, it's walk the walk. it's not about us asking folks to come out to the cherry blossom festival in japantown. it's showing up week after

week, using our resources to help everyone else, and when we're able to collectively do that, all our communities benefit together, and it makes the city a better place all-around. >> wow. let's give our panel a round of applause. [applause] >> first of all, let's give it up for them. wow. they just said some major fire. i mean, i lost five pounds up here, it's so hot. but we'd like to thank them all again, and remember as you think of questions throughout the day. with that said, we're going to shift to our next panel. let's give our panelists

another round of applause. [applause] >> before we go on, i'd like to invite a very special guest with us today to share a few words. last week was a tremendously rough and challenging week, but want to invite up jason young, sr., the father of jace young, jr., who lost his life last year on the fourth of july. i'd like to invite him up, and let's just give him a warm, warm welcome. [applause]

>> good morning. i'm going to try not to be too long winded, but i have a few things that's on my mind and my heart that i feel like is very important to the reason why a lot of us are here today. being a parent, a victim in san francisco, it has, in my opinion, started to become normal. we have normalized stuff happening to our loved ones, not standing up, speaking up, addressing the issues because the dynamics are so

intertwined. prime example, my son's case, my son's situation, it's -- a lot of people know or think that they know the story or know some of the story or have heard this tidbit and read that tidbit. but everybody connected, like i said, especially because a lot of the trauma and stuff that hit these neighborhoods and san francisco, everybody be connected tied in, some shape or form or fashion, whether it be from the children all the way up to the adults. and in my opinion, we as san franciscans, people that grew up in the city, love the city, we have to do more to standup for our people, our loved ones,

our communities. these other kids that's within these communities that don't have the proper nourishment. prime example. my son was murdered on the fourth of july, watching fireworks. people were told to go to a rival neighborhood and go shoot. they went halfway to a rival neighborhood and decided to shoot from across the street, and two people got shot. my son was one of them, and there was another individual. he got shot in the foot. in my opinion, the problem is there's not enough

accountability at home. in probation in san francisco, juvenile, adult, i'm somebody -- you know, i grew up in the system. me and damian posey, we was in group homes together, juvenile hall, everywhere; and in my opinion, these kids, they don't really see the big picture. there's a lot of big guys around incarcerated or don't care, but it's why us, we need to wrap our arms around these kids or families in any shape or form or fashion that we can to help them. whether it be making sure they

get a ride to nate, to go play rebels. you know what i'm saying? when i was growing up, we used to go someplace every week. great america, santa cruz. i'm not saying that that is the difference that's going to stap a lot of kids doing things that they're doing as well as these adults that prey on these kids. like i said, back to my son's case, these kids were sent. these are all juveniles with the exception of one. they were pressured by older people in their community to go somewhere and do a shooting and catch a body per se. i'm from west point. approximately seven years ago, my daughter right here

graduated from junior high school. one of her classmates that graduated with her from junior high school was the main suspect in the shooting of jaquan rice. he lost his life in the shooting of west point. est -- he was 13 years old when he lost his life. for my son's shooters, they were 16, 17, and 18 in his case. like i said, i'm all for accountability. when we have a kid, a niece, a god son, a kid that we just know, and we all they ain't on the right path, we have to do whatever it is necessary to get that message across. you know, when i grew up, if i did something wrong, miss susie might have been on the bus, and she grabbed me by my ear or whatever she had to do, take me

to my grandfather's house, and i got chastised for that. again, i think, for me, like i said, it's all about accountability. we have to standup and be accountable in all facets. again, like my thing, like, the district attorney's office. at some point, there's just some things that you can't do. killing kids, mothers, sisters, nobody is on the table. let me just say that, to make that clear, but there was just some unwritten rules on the street where it wasn't a go.

kids, elderly, women, off the table, you know what i'm saying? i hit here today, a year later, still advocating for my son to get the justice that i properly deserve, you know? trying to pick up the pieces for my family and get our new normal because when i say new normal, when it happened, it was right around the time with george floyd, back lives matter, there was a lot going on in the city, a lot going on all over united states. but for me, it's not just about my son. it was live other kids who lost they life on the fourth of july to gun violence all under the age of 15 years old. the youngest, i believe, was four. i never would have thought in a million years that i would be up here, talking about my son

and trying to advocate for my son, so like i said, in san francisco, we have to do better to speak up and standup to whatever that may be. whether or not they are, again, a friend, a relative, a whoever, because it's all intertwined. for me, like, hunters point, it's fucked up. excuse my language, but it's fucked up. i grew up in the city. i can go all over the city. i can still go all over the city. a lot of these kids can't. they scared, they afraid. they don't even want to go to school, and if they do go to school, a lot of them run around with firearms and a whole bunch of other stuff, so,

you know, i'm adamant in saying we have to do whatever we can to wrap our hands around the community, the people that are helping the community. like, everybody can't give many and time, but it's a lot of things that we can do to help and try to nourish our people in our communities in a better life than what we are. [applause] >> accountability. you driving down the street, you see something that don't look right? hold them accountable. that could be your niece, that could be your son, that could

be your brother, that could be your daughter. like i said, as san franciscans, we have to be more involved in that because we have situations like that. jaquan rice, his son was 13. he's now 20. his shooter is the person that these kids in these neighborhoods now listen to that's they big homie, you know? when someone like a dame or a raim, you know, little bruh, oh, you can't call me little bruh. i ain't your big bruh.

they're -- if you're already not holding them accountable at home, and you're not holding them accountable when you go to court, and saying, you know what? your honor, they need help. i need help. my son ain't going to school, they ain't doing this, that's part of what we need to do. we have made too many loopholes and leniency for things. so like i said, just please, man, if you know somebody, see somebody, hold them accountable and make them stand on they

actions and they behaviors. thank you. [applause] . >> hi, everyone. hello. i'm trying to feel everyone in here. i know this lighting is tricky for attention span, so i'm go >> no, it's okay. i know it's monday. i know it's monday at noon. i know stomachs are growling and e-mails are coming in, but

director davis and mayor breed have asked that we all prioritize healing in this conversation before we break, and so if folks can power through, i'm going to actually ask if folks can put their phones down. i promise you won't miss anything in the next 15, 20 minutes. we have some guests who have been waiting on the line who are here to chat, so everybody repeat after me. let's do a little calling-in response. everybody say healing. a little louder, healing. we're going to talk about healing justice, healing centered practices. a dear friend of mine always tells me that trauma that is not transformed then becomes transferred. all right? have we heard that before? trauma that is not transformed becomes transferred, so i'm

going to ask the panelists in a moment to pivot and really direct the conversations to those of us that are in this space. i know we're going to talk about macrolevel healing, but i know a lot of us experience vicarious trauma if not trauma ourselves. i know this is a violence prevention summit, but many of us have also been on the receiving end or have witnessed violence in our own minds as well as our community. so i'm hoping as when our expert panelists chat with us about healing that we actually take some and save some for ourselves, if that makes sense, so we can then give to our people and our community and our constituents. so i am aria said, and i am the president and cofounder of the

transgender district, all the way from the tenderloin, just around the corner. i'm so proud to represent both the transgender district and the tenderloin in this conversation, and we have some incredible experts that i will just name for now. we have lynn westry. we have reverend norman fong, former executive director of chinatown community organization, [inaudible], and then, we have two lovely guests who are going to start speaking on the zoom in just a second. and so we have dr. joyce, who's the cofounder and director of ucsf healthy environments and

response to trauma in schools, and dr. michelle, associate provesor, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the ucsf [inaudible] for behavioral sciences. so i'm going to start off with the guiding question, and thank you, sarah and dr. harrison for sending them to me. okay. so what does healing mean to you, and where do you see a need for healing in, let's say for ourselves? and dr. joyce and dr. michelle, take it away on the zoom. >> hi, everybody. can you hear me? okay. just wondering if i should --

all right. great. i'm not sure if you can see me, but i am joyce durado. i am a clinical professor at ucsf department of clinical psychiatry and behavioral sciences. thank you for the opportunity to speak with you all. i know that everybody in this room is all about healing justice, and as our moderator has said, the fact is that, you know, most, if not all of us are going to experience trauma at some point in our lives, and with the pandemic, that just adds to that and experiencing the trauma-inducing nature of things like structural racism and xenophobia is so impactful to all of us, so, so important

to pay attention to healing, both the healing of ourselves as well as the other. fundamentally, healing involves helping people feel safe, heard, cared for, respected, and valued. and of course, therapists can provide this type of healing, but also can friends, loved ones, teachers, clergy, and other caring others. and our keynote speaker emphasized how central relationships are. also, a include in healing from trauma is, at the heart, preventing violence.

it's that looming and all too often immediate threat that one person's safety or life is not as important as another person's, due to the lottery of our skin, our birth, and research tells us this kind of what we call socio cultural trauma has the same impact on our brain and on our bodies as other kinds of trauma. so just as another sort of framing thing that i think about healing, the rising youth center, they say that trauma is historical, generational,

political, interpersonal, and embodied, so then must be our healing. so we here have the honor to see healing in communities and in schools, and in our young people who are standing up to injustice. i think i'm going to say a little bit here. we were asked, since we're on the zoom, to say most of what we want to say, and then turn it over to our esteemed panelists. i can talk a little bit more about our program. we aim to promote healing in school and resilient success by collaborating with school systems to create more trauma informed safe, supportive, and equitable environments that create safe, supportive spaces for students and staff alike.

we've been doing it since 2008 here in the bay area and across the country to help educators understand how trauma can affect any of us as human beings, and that anybody, regardless of their role, whether they're a teacher or lunch lady or community partner can implement. we promote healing and resilience not only for the young people but for the adults who serve and care for them, and this is a really important point because caring for our staff in our systems is crucial to this because overworked and over stressed individuals can

actually become trauma reactive organizations that cause harm, right? and that's because despite our best efforts, hurt people hurt people. so we're looking to promote this in our workforce, as well, and that being said, in the work we do with schools and other systems, we encourage our schools to deeply listen to the communities we serve and engage their active participation and partnership so that we can really better understand what they're up against, what's working for them in terms overcoming adversity. just a quick word with our corvetting -- about our core vetting principles. we have these six principles that are grounded in core healing and resilience.

our first is understanding trauma and stress. it's really -- it's helpful to understand how trauma and chronic stress can affect us, and when we understand a little bit about what's happening for folks when they get triggered into sort of a fear and survival response, a fight, flight, or freeze, this helps us understand that behavior better, and when we understand that behavior and where it's coming from, it then helps us to have a response that instead of being punitive and harmful, it's helpful and healing. so really using our principles in this sort of lens to understand is what i'm doing or about to implement a practice or a policy trauma inducing or trauma reducing. i know i'm running out of time here, but i want to mention our second principle, and just as everyone has been saying all

morning, we believe that attending to racial justice and equity has to be central to any sort of trauma informed or healing center approach. what we're trying to do, we really want to make sure that we understand that, for example, things like structural racism is not something that we're post. it's not a posttraumatic stress disorder, it's something that people are up against right here and right now, and the stuff that people are so striving to over come the adversities that have been thrown against them, we need to amplify this and tap into. i think i'll end with that.

i think the last thing i want to say that relationships, that those sort of compassionate interdependable relationships, being able to facilitate their empowerment and their voice is all really key factors to really trying to provide healing in our communities and ourselves, so thanks so much for the opportunity. i'll stay in and stand by. [applause] >> hello. i'm michelle porsche, and i'm the director of psychology and behavioral sciences at ucsf. and again, i'll go through the same questions and try and add a little bit to what dr. dorado has presented. when i think about healing from a psychological perspective, you know, i think about not

that the hurt and loss and trauma are not forgotten or gone away, but we're better able to live our lives and find meaning in our experiences. we really need to think about systems when we're thinking about healing. healing requires that our schools, our health centers, our government institutions are caring for individuals who have been hurt and require healing. my particular research has been

focused on aces, adverse childhood experiences that include community violence, community violence abuse, separation, and loss, so when i see a need for healing in the community and myself, i think about how those experiences impact mental health and how they impact educational outcomes for our children. in my arch, i found people with these high levels of adverse childhood experiences are at higher risk for behavioral problems. they act out in anger or they use substances for numbing, and those things are more likely to have educational consequences. children having to repeat a grade or -- or dropping out of school, so i see a real need for education, how trauma and

violence affect children, helping educators and help children, especially as this pandemic rages on. a few months ago, an estimation was 40% of children will have lost a caregiver to covid. i'm sure that's greater now. [please stand by]

. . . . to the self and others and a them versus us mentality to focus on justice and to break the cycle of violence. thank you, i'll stop there. >> thank you, dr. joy. thank you, dr. shall.

so we have about six minutes left. and we're going to -- you know what? there have been amazing speeches and moments that have happened in five or 10 minutes. so anyway, i do have a guiding question for those of us in this space right here. a quick show of hands, how many people feel like they are stressed on the daily? just raise your hand. okay. and how many people feel like they're anxious today? i see a lot of people picked back up those phones. i'm going to try to be as entertaining as i can because director davis gave me strict orders that y'all get a nugget, a message of healing for yourselves before you go over to the asian art museum. is that where it is? okay. and so i have a guiding question for us. thank you, all, so much. so how do we as advocates develop a healing practice of

our own? and i'll give some context. i have been working in this work for over 15 years. i started as a teenager and i hear the words healing justice and restorative justice and trauma informed care. and i have no idea what those mean today. i just nod my head because in movement spaces we always do mmm, mmm-hmm, and we pretend like we know what's being said but we really don't know o kay? so how do we develop a healing practice of our own? let's focus on the front line as folks on the front line navigating violence prevention in our own community? reverend? >> a first, i want to say in all fairness to the two panelists that were on the video because i was on that email.

so they were given five to serve minutes and that is full. so that is the lens so that for all of us to hold systems accountable because i don't have a long time. this is to hold systems accountable in the communities and continue to do on a daily basis to hold the department heads that are making rules and decisions that are in their offices that touch us on the ground.

and with the community awareness which is a nonprofit that my husband started this and the other person faded into the background, but my husband donald greene has been in the trenches doing this work day in and day out. and when you give funding and take it away without warning, that is systems causing harm to our community. we are that or the ground are given bits and crumbs to do this work. and funding organizations and yet we continue to do this work on an everyday basis because we care. i live in petreo hill and i always acknowledged that i live in public house. why do you say that?

i am not ashamed to live in public housing. you can come from no matter where you come fru, but it is what you do with your life. and we as adults have to show and continue showing your young people that there is another outlet. and there used to be rules to the game. there were street rules an as a lot of us have been saying and somebody didn't teach the young people the street rules. the street rules went out the door because you weren't supposed to do things with imwith, children, seniors and disabled. those were rules. you walked up to the person you shot them, and i am not advocating for this, but there were rules to the game, and the rules have been lost. and our young people feel there is no ending and no light at the

end of the tunnel for them. i ran for supervisor district 10. i didn't run to win. i ran to show your young people no matter where you come from and no matter what you have -- i'm an ex-dope and have been in recovery. ex--prostitute. used to live on the streets and everything else. you have to give your past and tell the young people and show people the future. healing to me? hold systems accountable and it's us grown ass adults that forget what we were doing that age. we just didn't get caught or we had somebody to lift back and miss hattie would say, girl, i'm telling your mamma. so i can go on and on. and it's just that we have to back the ones that are doing the jobs. director davis and my hats off

to you. all the other black women and men and samoan brothers and sisters, asian brothers and sister, pacific islander, all the people of color in the trenches, we have to start recognizing and you really have to start giving money to the ones that are doing the work and quit playing. >> reverend, healing -- okay. god sees and god knows all things. reverend, how do we as advocates develop a healing practice of our own? >> i'm going to start off needing understanding. when i got beat up as a kid, i didn't understand it.

i think it impacted my life and i got into violence. i started my own gang just to fight back. in the 50s and 60s, china town and the ieal yans of north beach did not get along. and a lot of people don't know the history and we were short and fought that law. growing up with racism as a normal thing, the d.a.c.s tied me to a fence as a little kid, one of the cutest kids of china town, but bags of water balloons they threw at me. it really hurt me and taught me to fight back. we don't want to fight back like we did back then, but it worked.

and we are not supposed to promote violence and i am a minister not making up for my past, but their are some creatives. chinatown was traumatized back then we were nobodies. and i got to go to the work for the community center and we took over public housing in chinatown and we are the beloved community as best we can. reverend jesse jackson -- i got to go quick. he helped us when there was ain't anti-asian hate in the 80s. but he just came in june and i love vincent chen. talk about solidarity. we did a vincent chen and george floyd unity event for the city. it pent a lot to chinatown and feeling like nobody loves again and why pick on the seniors? we need the moments of

solidarity. we need to build housing and this country is getting rid of public housing. and we have to protect it because it's affordable. and the thing that i'm going to end with because time is tight, when i got beat up and knifed a little and i don't know what to do. i didn't tell my friend until recently. it's been in the closet. i was too ashamed back then to tell people i got beat up. my mom -- i love my mom. my mom tried to calm me down because i said i wanted to kill and i was so angry. she said, do you know our landlord was italian and he only charge us 90 bucks rent for, you know, for a long time for years. and then after that a few years later, we got evicted. a chinese dude bought the building. and life was about

contradictions but also, no, no, this is really important. life is about balance and like we need to spend money in building those relationships. we will have a noodle fest next year so that chinese and italians can fight it out through food. okay. we used to get money and i am just sharing ideas. we used to get money from -- i won't name the foundation, but they funded us to have community kitchens. so i could bring different racial groups together in our housing to have to share a story. and time is up. i know. and you get the idea. there is creativity and turn your pain like your grandma. got beaten to death. and she is going to rename that park after her grandma. i support that. so we got to get creative out there. i'll shut up. time is tight. i know. >> lynn, i will have to make it

up to you. i am so sorry. we are at time. you all have 15 minutes to go to the next building. >> wait, wait, no, we don't. we should have at least two minutes for lynn to speak. lynn says she can make in it one minute. she a female. go ahead. >> go for it. >> sorry, i am getting competing signals from the back and up here. sorry, lynn. >> okay. healing, what healing looks like for me. is transparency. to be honest, to be real, to be wholistic. and until we can start being transparent, until we can start speaking in honesty, until we start really addressing the real issue of violence, we're going to keep repeating the same cycle. and none of us is healing, but i'll tell you today i must heal. i must be healed in order to survive. in order to continue to do the

work that i do. as a mother that child was killed at 18, i have to be able to heal. i have to be able to love. i have to be able to continue. but i must say i'm sick of and i'm tired of and i know quite often i probably sometimes seem like the mad, angry black woman, but on many occasion let me tell you i am. because i understand what it feels like not to have that healing. not to have that space to really heal. not to have that transparency. so again, until we can speak in honesty and speak our truth, we're going to continue to have these type of summits. [applause] >> thank you.

>> thank you, miss lynn. if everyone can give a round of applause for all of you are panelists. thank you, all, so much, for taking the time out today. you could have been anywhere, but you're here planting seeds of thought for everyone in the room. just really grateful. thank you, dr. michelle, and dr. joy, reverend fong, and miss lynn. thank you all so much. so i am sending everyone to the library to -- >> a first off, give it up. do you want to give a tip before we leave for healing? do you have a healing tip? >> okay. pay off your credit card bill. it promotes healing. it is more than bubble baths and

pasta. healing is actually deep, critical work that we have to prioritize. okay, bye. >> give it up for the panel. thank you, all, so much. shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because

there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired.

there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's very important that you do so.

>> we worked very hard with the san francisco venue coalition, the independent venue alliance to advocate for venues. put this issue on the radar of the supervisors and obviously mayor breed. the entertainment commission and the office of small business and we went to meetings and showed up and did public comment and it was a concerted effort between 50 venues in the city and they are kind of traditional like live performance venues and we all made a concerted effort to get out there and sound the alarm and to her credit, maybe breed really stepped up, worked with matt haney, who is a supervisor haney was a huge champion for us and they got this done and they got $3 million into the sf venue recovery fund.

>> we have represented about 40 independent venues in san francisco. basically, all the venues closed on march 13th, 2020. we were the first to close and we will be the last to reopen and we've had all the of the overhead costs are rent, mortgage, payroll, utilities and insurance with zero revenue. so many of these venues have been burning $1,000 a day just to stay closed. >> we have a huge music history here in san francisco and the part of our cultural fab lick but it's also an economic driver. we produce $7 billion annual' here in san francisco and it's

formidable. >> we've been very fortunate here. we've had the department of emergency management and ems division and using part of our building since last april and aside from being proud to i can't tell you how important to have some cost recovery coming in and income to keep the doors open. >> typically we'll have, three to 400 people working behind the teens to support the show and that is everything from the teamsters and security staff and usualers, ticket takers, the folks that do our medical and the bar tenders and the people in the kitchen preparing food for backstage and concession and the people that sell key shirts and it's a pretty staggering

amount of people that are out of work as a result of this one verne you going tarkanian. it doesn't work to open at reduced capacity. when we get past june 15th, out of the into the blue print for our economy we can open it it 100% and look at the festival in full capacity in october and we're just so grateful for the leadership of the mavor and dr. coal fax to make us the safest ♪ america and this is been hard for everybody in san francisco and the world but our leadership has kept us safe and i trust them that they will let us know when it's safe to do that. >> a lot of people know about

america is military stuff, bullying stuff, corporate stuff. when people like me and my friends go to these foreign country and play music, we're giving them an american cultural experience. it's important. the same way they can bring that here. it sounds comfy buyia, you know, we're a punk band and we're nasty and we were never much for peace and love and everything but that's the fertilizer that grows the big stuff that some day goes to bill graham's place and takes everybody's money but you have to start with us and so my hope is that allel groups and people make music and get together because without out, hanging together we'll hang separately, you know. >> other venues like this, all over the place, not just in the san francisco bay area need to exist in order for communities to thrive and i'm not just talking about the arts communities, even if you are

here to see a chuckle bucket comedy show and you are still experiencing humanity and in specific ways being able to gather with people and experience something together. and especially coming out of the pandemic, the loss of that in-person human connection recovering that in good ways is going to be vital for our entire society. >> it's a family club. most our staff has been working with us for 10 years so we feel like a family. >> what people think of when they think of bottom of the hill and i get a lot of this is first of all, the first place i met my husband or where we had our first date and i love that and we love doing weddings and i expect there to be a wedding

season post 2021 of all the make up we haddings and i hope that many people do that because we have had so many rock ep role weddings. >> i told my girlfriend, make sure you stand at the front of the stage and i can give you a kiss at midnight. at this got down on one knee at the stroke of midnight. it wasn't a public thing, i got down on one knee and said will you marry me and is he she had are you [beep] kidding me and i said no, i'm dead serious and she said yes. we were any time homicideel of the show. we just paused for new year's eve and that was where i proposed to my wife. this is more than just a professional relationship it's more than just a relationship from a love of arts, it's where my family started.

we'll always have a special place in my heart. >> venues, you know, represent so much. they are cultural beckons of a city. neighbors can learn and celebrate and mourn and dance together. venues and arts and culture are characterized as second responders to crisis and they provide a mental health outlet and a community center for people to come together at and it's the shared history of our city and these spaces is where we all come together and can celebrate. >> art often music opens up people to understanding the fellow man and i mean, taz always necessary and if anything, it's going to be even more necessary as we come out of this to reach out and connect with people. >> we can sustain with food, water and shelter is accurate

and does anybody have a good time over the last year? no. >> san francisco is a great down. i've been here many years and i love it here and it's a beautiful, beautiful, place to be music and art is key to that. drama, acting, movies, everything, everything that makes life worth living and that's what we've got to mow proteasome no san francisco and that's what is important now. [♪♪♪] you're watching san francisco rising with chris manors. today's special guest is

dr. steven zutnick. >> hello. the show is focused on restarting, rebuilding, and reimagining our city. the director of the therapy center of san francisco and he's a professor in counseling psychology at usf. he's here today to talk to us about resocializing, and returning to the office. welcome to the show. >>. >> thanks, chris. good to be back. >> as we re-open, people are having different reactions. some are embracing the recent shifts while others are having a hard time readjusting. >> yes. i think it's an excellent question. my basic bias on this i think to give you a general overview is we ought to be following cdc suggestions and requirements, what they say, because that's

where a lot of the things come. should i wear a mask. should i not wear a mask. my answer is, yes, absolutely. i think we should wear a mask. i think we should social distance. it not only makes an impact on covid, it makes an impact on other diseases as well. as you and i were chatting, the deaths from flu usually average 30,000 a year. we've had 2,500 deaths from the flu so far this year, but at the very least, you need to be vaccinated. >> going back to the office is also an issue. there are some people are thrilled returning to work, others are nervous about it and there's a group of people who've been working onsite all along. let's start with those who are worried about returning to the office. what can be done to relieve

their concerns? >> i think identifying a cohort of colleagues, fellow workers who you can just talk to and share experiences with. you know, when you look at the advantages of groups, the major one is when we sit and talk to other people, we suddenly discover, oh, this isn't just me, i'm not some strange guy here. so everybody else i'm talking to is worried about the same thing. i think that will raise awareness among people. to say, oh, i don't know, what are we going to do? do we have fresh air in here? can we open some windows? does the boss care if i wear a mask? >> how about those who've been going to work all along. possibly the most traumatized. how would you talk to them about managing the possible stress and resentment they may have been feeling. >> the most at-risk population

is the essential worker who because they are also one of the lowest paid populations, have taken the biggest hits and the most risks. they're still at high risk. so they're dealing with a lot. they're dealing with depression, anxiety, insomnia quite a bit. and you've got a lot of ptsd by the way one last point on the health care workers. that's the tip of the iceberg. these are also the people who often have the least access to therapy. so we've got all these people out of there who've been in the trenches the entire time, never had a break, suffering a lot of trauma, and there are no services available for them. >> lastly, let's talk about management. with varying attitudes towards the lifting of restrictions, there may be some struggles in the work place.

how would you advise management to ease the transition? >> management can encourage vaccination or require it. they can keep masks, physical distance, hand washing, all of these things. and hopefully management will be responsive. i think, you know, given the title that the series, this is all new. we're all just moving in to a whole new phase. we haven't begun to see the research that's going to come out of what we've just been through. we've been through a terrible pandemic. there's been a huge toll and i don't think we've seen the tip of the iceberg on the impact. >> do you have any final thoughts to share? >> yeah. i think this pandemic has highlighted a lot of things. for me, certainly, is mental health professional and a behavioral scientist. it's clear to me, we need to

educate people about science. this is not unknowable to people. the basic of science is constant questioning. when you ask a question in research, you get one answer and about five new questions. things evolve continuously. so, yeah, when the cdc first came out a year and a half ago, they said, no, we don't need masks and then they said oh, we do and then everybody went crazy. oh, look how bad the sciencetists are. that's exactly what science does. we thought we didn't need it. then we discovered it was air born. i think we're seeing we have huge holes in the health care system and conversely, i think we're finding with the vaccination, what it means for everyone to have access to health care without worrying about how am i going to pay for it. so i think this is really

forcing us to look at everything. it's been a very difficult time. it's going to continue to be a difficult time for people, but i think that's also getting us to look at some really critical issues in health care. >> well, thank you so much for coming on the show dr. zlotnick. well, thanks again. we'll be back with another episode of san francisco rising shortly. for sfgov tv i'm chris manors. thanks for watching.