>supervisor avalos: that is for family? >> per family. supervisor avalos: our rental housing program has legislated -- >> up to five years, correct. looking at these existing programs, the bulk of the families to find permanent and subsidize hounding, that housing is between 18 and 21. that is sort of the average, the bulk, but their families, of course, that need more time. we have the flexibility, given your legislation, to give them more time. we envision, although we have not really thought about the past two years, but we would envision a similar design. so the families were targeting on the waiting list, families who have kids in san francisco schools who are on the waiting list, if they cannot find permanent housing after two years and they are complying with the program and what we expect of them to be in the program, then we will likely extend them, similar to what we do now. the third, staffing. the rental subsidies, and of course, whether their security deposits, first month rent, looking at if they need furniture, that sort of

for families who have now extended family here. they played a key role in bridging that gap and supporting families to be healthy and strong. the second point to mention in terms of what the support network is doing is our policy platform on promoting family economic success. all this can be found at our website at sfsfsn.org the policy platform focuses on this key area of promoting family economics assess. as we -- family economic success. there was a gap in ones focused on the economic success. that is where our network came up with this policy platform which looks that supporting families economically through unit family support, two generations strategy. we're talking about supporting the parents to obtain the education and skills they need for jobs that provide living wages to support themselves and their families as well as we're talking about supporting the children to be well prepared for future of learning and learning. that is what -- why our policy platform is very broad, including school readiness to supporting the impr

families are wrapping around those families brings up or to the host family into the family in crisis. foster parents feel unsafe awarded in terms of extra resources and wraparound care, the respite becomes a vertical piece and for a while we grow the opportunity and we have meaningful support there . >> your offering not only families take children temporarily but families take up respite expect absolutely . >> do you have enough families to do this? people do this for free ? >> yes copy volunteer to help which is another highlight because they can truly understand you're not getting paid to take care of my child. so, that becomes an opportunity for growth and expansion. people want to help and then when you provide the extra resource of support someone else is buying the type to bring your meal, you don't feel so weighted down of the experience of inviting another person into your home, there are some phenomenal families that truly just want to help given the opportunity, knowing that they are actually building a hedge of protection around family . >> how is it different from the fo

whether there is 10 families hosting children, but 45 families bringing support to the host family, bringing support to the family in crisis. one of the christ and minnesota has been that foster parents feel unsupported in terms of extra resources, extra wraparound care. the rest that become such a critical piece. why would grow that would intersect in meaningful ways in that way as well. >> so you are offering not only families to give respite to the families that have taken the children. >> absolutely. >> you have enough families coming forward to do this? they're doing it for free? >> yes, this is another highlight for parents because they can truly understand you're not getting paid to take care of my child. so that becomes an opportunity for growth and expansion. people want to help and when you provide the extra resources support, someone else is buying a diverse khmer bringing you a meal come you don't feel so weighted down of the experience of inviting another person into your home. there's some phenomenal families out there who truly want to help if given the opportunity knowing the

we have families exiting rented dwellings, staying with friends or families. so the issue around school age kids -- it's simply another way a family could demonstrate residency if they happen to have a school age child. my child attends this school, fine, you're done. this is not meant to preclude families with very young children from the system. that would be silly. >> i'm still trying to get clarification. their intent about this is to show residency or intent of residency 'cause i'm trying to figure out if we really need to go down a path of applying for cal works as a proof of residency. are these separate issues or related? >> there's an overlap there. one of the pieces of the changes to get on the list is to apply to cal works. we want families to apply to the public benefit program that will most support them and move them out of poverty. to have families not on cal works is doing a disservice to their children and themselves. they may not understand how to apply to it or a whole host of reasons they're not on there so we want to break down those barri

the family. joining us in our panel today are frances harding, director, center for substance abuse prevention, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, maryland. dr. nancy young, executive director, children and family futures, irvine, california. erica asselin, family support specialist and medication-assisted treatment advocate, fresh start, square one, holyoke, massachusetts. dr. kim sumner-mayer, senior advisor, phoenix house center on addiction and the family new york, new york. fran, what is the definition of family within our society currently? that's a very good question. family has changed, the definition. we used to think of family as two parents living in a house with two children and probably a pet or two. now, we have a wide variety of families. we have families that are one parent, single parent, being raised by friends, being raised by grandparents, relatives of all sorts. the good thing about that is it br

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my family lives in an sro unit. [speaking foreign language] i am here to call for your help on the situation homeless families are facing. we now have over 2,000 students in public schools that are homeless kids. i have>> i have a son who is ind grade now. when he comes home, he has. it is even hard for him to move around in the room. >> [speaking foreign language. ] >> it is difficult to find opportunities, even for affordable housing. >> [speaking foreign language. ] >> i hope that the city will provide better housing for our children. >> [speaking foreign language] >> we are concerned about families on the street that are homeless. we ask for your help. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. >> [speaking foreign language] >> supervisors, i am one of the worker organizers for the foundation. i did collaborative. >> [speaking foreign language] >> i'd like to share with you what the families are telling me. because i do home visits all the time, they tell me that there are [unintelligible] on the rental subsidies.

at far southeast family strengthening collaborative, we're here as a family and we treat you as a family when you come in. if your heart is there, you're willing to help the families, i think we can make a great impact in the ward 8 community. erica, talk a little bit about what you do and how families can access your services. so what i do is i am a family support specialist and what my program does is we provide peer engagement workers. we're all in recovery ourselves and we go out to the family and we talk with the mother and we really-we get on her level and we assess her needs and what the family needs and what we can do to help them continue in their recovery and we really work on making sure that they have access to all of the resources in the community. and on top of that, we do our best to coordinate care with all their other services like you were talking about with collaborating. you know, i think it's really important for our families, most of them have involvement with the department of children and families, and you know, so we stay in close contact with the department, wit

a family story. a doctor connected a family to our warm line, our mentors connected them to other families. they entered -- they attended a conference, a peer group was on site childcare and they said, we were exposed to a wealth of knowledge and services, we knew we were not alone. and that is the goal to assist families to move from disappointment, confusion, isolation, trauma and/or fear and find their ground. build their inner resources. as a director of a nonprofit, i feel aligned with the families because that's how first 5 makes us feel. they help us build our family resource center and our resources -- [bell ringing] >> thank you very much. >> hi. i'm mary ann. the executive director and founder of family connections. we're 25 years old this year, which is pretty amazing to me. i managed, somehow i have a special talent, i lost my notes on the way in, so excuse my reading from the phone. the essence of family support is treating families with dignity and respect. we adopted family support at

family abolition. they were rebelling against both abuse of husbands and racist and anti-worker state forces. they were challenging the social role to. they were relegated as women. as wives as mothers. upending the norms of gender and sexuality. their collective rebellion in their collective labor. made rebellion. possible. rather than the atomized isolation of private households during rebellion. people lived collectively the barricades. what had been women's work in the home became daily practice of reproducing the insurrection through the barricades. the women. the hakka commune created a new collective life that overcame the divisions between public and private. they were fuzing the private as a link in the circuits of racial capitalism. for these women rejecting, men of the family was not a move towards isolation or a band of caretaking relationships. they brought their children with them to the barricades. they were not simply rejecting the maternal caretaking, but radically transforming it. the

>> breakfast. >> family. >> family. right. >> family is key to this sitcom.s something that we all can relate to. >> you're in these people's homes for years. you're a part of the family. >> one good thing about moving here is i have no friends and no distractions. that's why i got -- grandma, what does fonzi say? >> hey. >> it brings people together in an unexpected way. >> there are so many different dynamics at work in families. >> i want you here to give us a chance to get reacquainted. >> that implies with work. >> at one point. >> there is a lot of pain. there is a lot of laughter. you sort of recognize your dynamic in there and go, well, their family is just as crazy as mine. >> i don't care who kissed who and who has a pimple on their head and who is wearing an outrageously inappropriate dress. we're going to get-togethers as a family and act right for a second. >> it amazing to track the family history of the sitcom because you can see so much about culture throughout the years now looking back. >> and, you know, it was really "i love lucy" that kind

policy and family relations...ide for himself, who he is, a boy or a girl, but for us, of course, it’s just some kind of horror to hear all this, even to hear. why is it like this, what is happening there, it seems to me that we all live on the same planet, it seems like, well, everyone’s families and values ​​should be the same, it seems to me, traditional, the fact of the matter is that the concept of traditional values, it changes, depending on what message comes from above, and what foundations of the direction the states support through the implementation of certain policies, of course we are not cut off from the outside world. sincerely that they don’t understand why, because when you work, really study this topic, you understand that this is very important, that we already want to clearly differentiate legislatively, to put these boundaries, that these are a man and a woman, in this case, in my opinion look, very it is true that we are doing such active work in terms of not only support. real traditional val

>> breakfast. >> family. >> family is key to the sit-com. it's something that we all can real to. >> you are in these people's homes for years. you are a part of the family. >> one good thing about moving here, is i have no plans and no distractions. that's why i got fam little. what does fonzi say? eh! >> the family sit-com brings people together in a different way. >> there are so many different things that work in people's families. >> that's a chance to get reacquainted. >> that applies to work at one point. >> there is pain, laughter, you recognize your dynamic and go, well, their family is as crazy or me. >> i don't care who has a pimle and a head and wearing an inappropriately outrageous dress. we will get together as a family, right now. >> it's amazing to track the history of the family sit-com, you can really see so much about culture throughout the years. now looking back. >> and you know, it was really "i love lucy" that kind of kicked it off. >> stop it, go back and sit down. >> it was the show about a diplomadipcy woman that wa

>> breakfast. >> family. >> family, right. >> family is key to the sitcom. >> mama sk. >> it's somethinge can all relate to. >> you are part of the family. >> one good thing about moving here, is i have no friends and no distractions. that's why i got all -- >> grandma, what does fonzie say? >> a's. >> there are so many different dynamics at work in families. >> i love you here. it will give us a chance to get r reacquainted. >> you realize your dynamic in there, and you think, well, their family is just as crazy as mine. >> i don't care who is wearing an outrageously inappropriate dress, we are going to get together and act like a normal family for one-tenth of a freaking sepbgd. let's go. >> you can see so much about culture throughout the years now looking back. >> you know, it was really "i love lucy" that kicked it all off. >> first off this evening -- >> it was a show about a woman that wanted to be in showbiz. >> you have ever considered acting? >> has she ever considered acting? >> she has a husband that was latin. >> i don't want my wife in showbiz? >> why not. >> she was trying

grandmother's family, the ang family, my my mother's family, her father's family, the wang family and what was so interesting about working on this project was that because i am fifth generation chinese-american, there were four, and my family goes back to the mid-19th century. any any major of things that impact did chinese americans from the mid-19th to today i was able to write about these historic and historic sociopolitical events that impacted the community through the lens of various family members just because we've been here for so long so i felt like i was really fortunate. now the downside, of course, is that i had a ton a cast of characters to deal with. right. and so many people i found completely fascinating. so is the railroad worker, the grandson of the railroad worker on the wong side, i've got my my angst side. right. and duk foon right. who was the first person who came over for? my grandmother's side of the family enters country just two or three years after the chinese exclusion act is in full effect. he flees the west coast during a period of very intense heighte

the families. >> if we explore reception center welcome center i think we have to agree what that looks like and the services we want to provide on site means and once we do that it is identifying whether we want to have an existing center to play the role or identify a new ones and that would require everything from case managers to shelter to a space that accommodates families to access to additional resources that we may not be able to have resources for now like legal services and so forth. >> okay, thank you. next we have- >> supervisor- >> sorry, didn't see you. >> thank you supervisor safai and chair ronan. i just want to piggy back and make a statement about supervisor ronan's statement around we are only catching this from school district data or self-identified data, and at the end of the day, it just makes no sense we are not proactively identifying and connecting families that need service jz housing because they if they are not showing up in the schools and not part of the system and n

god give you the strength of afford, look after the family, ittect the family, because is in the familyay. you all, and please pray for me. [applause] papa!a >> your holiness, for everyone here this evening and for everyone watching or listening to this festival from a distance , tonight has been a special moment in time. we will never forget it. we will never duplicate it, because each of us on this parkway is unique and unrepeatable, every one of the persons here among us is a miracle of god's love made through the glory of heaven, so each of us is wonderful as are our families. we have a final present before you leave us this evening. philadelphia is a city of murals , and we couldn't imagine a better way to commemorate your visit than with a mural. we have been working on it all summer. allt days have taken place across the region, children's hospitals, high schools, and nursing homes. the mural, and titled the sacred now, faith and family in the 21st century, was created by a and the city of philadelphia's mural arts program. this fall it will be mounted on the side of a very speci

>> we come into a family. we need a family. love them or hate them.d because of that ushered in a lot of other great story telling. when "the cosby show" went off the air, we did have other black family sitcoms to fill that void. one of them was the fresh prince which was another version of aspirational black family wealth. >> so many of us living in this neighborhood. we doing all right, huh? >> fox networks were the first that took risks with minorities. >> i think it's vital that people of color write their own stories because that's where the authenticity comes from. >> we tired. >> should be. kept us up all night. we should be the ones crying. >> we saw black family sitcoms like martin, like the bernie mack show. those sitcoms showed parenting to be difficult. >> uncle bernie, he's too old to play with that. can we play something else? >> which was not something you saw on a show like "the cosby show". >> get in the bathroom and wash the pee off the toilet seat! disgusting! >> fox network had come on and did really well with blacks, so then the w

>> breakfast. >> family. >> family. right. yeah. >> family is key to the sitcom mama. baby boy. >> it's something that we all can relate to. >> shake shake shake, shake up the are these people's homes. for years. you're a part of the family. >> one good thing about moving here is i have no friends and no distractions. >> that's why i got all grandma. what fonzie say? >> hey, the family sitcom brings people together in a really unexpected way. >> there are so many different dynamics at work in families. >> i want you here. it'll give us a chance to get reacquainted. that implies we were acquainted at one point. >> there's a lot of pain. there's a lot of laughter. >> you sort of recognize your dynamic in there and you go, well, their family's just as crazy as mine. >> i don't care who kissed who and who's got a pimple on her head and who is wearing an outrageously inappropriate dress. we are going to get together and act like a normal family for one tenth of a freaking second, and we're gonna do it right now. >> come on, let's go. >> it's amazing to sort of track the his

an attack on poor families, undocumented families and all low income families that have to go in and out of shelters to survive on the streets of san francisco. when i was out organizing on this issue, as soon as i approaching folks that is living in shelters and are homeless. as soon as i uttered the word shelter and that i had say i don't wanna hear this. i wanted them to come speak out about the proposed laws that are soon to come. they're like, no, we're already going through enough. folks are turned away. folks don't wanna be in the situation they're in so i guess the key is address. we came to /aeu address you guys by my ironny of address is mail in a box, a mailing address, to get cal works you need an address. to get shelter they want an address or a homeless letter. so get your kid through school you need an address. so what we're proposing is you guys do not stand with this, stand against it. you know, if they want to have more ideas in terms of limited resource they should increase it and put families to work and build more shelters. thank you. >> thank you. couple more ca

i think a lot of families would prefer a single-family detached home. if you were able to in sent some of these larger spaces, would that help or not? -- president chiu: >> the tiny blue that you can barely see are the single-family detached homes as a percentage. we looked closely at -- there was a 2006 working group on housing. these were the six items adopted back then. create a definition of family friendly housing. crit housing for vulnerable families. make sure there is a 20% minimum of family-friendly housing. and create a permanent dedicated mobile source of funding for housing for families with children. chairperson farrell: family- friendly housing is probably subject to a lot of subjectivity. how you phrase it? >> in terms of what came out of this policy council, when we were creating family units, is the design family-friendly of the overall building? for example, picking one at random, in a multi-unit residents, do you make the hallways to go from unit to unit wide enough so that kids with tricycles could go down the hallway? is the kitchen

stories of these families that sort of emphasize the nation again as a family. we can come together based on our shared paths, our shared whiteness, and you know, when you envision the nation as a family, you're emphasizing what you share. you are down playing what divides you. >> thank you. i really enjoyed your talk and the topic here. however, i was mostly very much intrigued by your first line by the book that drawn your initial interest. i have not seen anything like that. can you just -- when was this published and how big was it and what was in it? >> okay, so 1887. and it is part of an interesting -- i noticed genera of anecdote book. i know dr. robertson knows more about this type of publication. sometimes they pulled from newspapers from the civil war years. i don't know where they get some of these stories. but they are very short. less than a page, half page or less. again, exactly what it says. anecdotes and incidents of the rebellion. so, yeah. sometime in the ladder part of 19th century, people want humor and fun about this war, too. it was still

the family and there's a lot of debate about who counts as family. a for sure we including grandparents. >> you think we should be tying those benefits to the child, so long as they have a legitimate caregiver? >> obsolete. same thing with the eitc with the child tax credit -- absolutely. >> many of these people i will in their retirement years and have fixed incomes and yet have all of the incredible burdens of trying to not only raise the child but then after that also help them through the education. >> yes. >> ms. rowe-finkbeiner, i wanted to ask you about, if you could expand some on unhappy family impacts the presence of fathers and other caregivers in the life of a child, and what impacts then come from that? >> access to pay them in medically is a win-win for families, business and our economy. it's one of the true policies that just makes you want to clap and give it a standing ovation because we see that when families have access to paid family leave, that actually if that statement paid family leave as well, then we see those wage gaps bet

it includes families were living with family and friends throughout the bay area, family staying in one of our current overnight shelters, families who, within a few months, will be reaching the time limit in our full-service shelter system. families living in residential hotels in the city and around the bay area. and families staying in cars and on the streets but there are currently 79 families in the city's full service system, and that is a long-term shelter where people have a room. there's food and service there. not the overnight shelter. in addition, there are 253 families on the waiting list waiting for shelter, an all-time high in san francisco. in 16 years, whenever see numbers that high. when we look to the national data with respect to homeless families, there is a few things we know. we know that they do not have higher levels of mental illness, substance abuse, or engagement what the child protective system when compared to other poor families. they simply have a housing problem. in its san francisco, the problem is related to a dearth of affordable housing, often couple

of the 25,000 families on the wait list and public housing, given on average we house 400- 500 families per year, that typically will be longer than a 10-year wait. on the voucher side, that is more than 100% utilized. it is a budget-operative program. basically 10 million per month. once we provide subsidies but add up to 10,000 per month, we typically close the section 8 list. we are at capacity. however, we are hearing from the public that there is a need in certain elements of family population, and our intent is to open the wait list so we can service or assist those families. >> how do you have the discretion to do that? >> we will need to open the list for all families, because it will create a housing element. the issue will be what are the preferences that we accord to provide? those families with preferences go above those that do not have preferences. the other thing is the notion of how many vacant units we have. that is incorrect. we have approximately 223 vacant units. 100 of which we are processing for families. there are approximately 115-123 baking units -- vacant units

we have allocated to how's house 2 more families. >> those families are housed elsewhere. >> yes. the last numbers were 70 to percent. >> and that's recorded from the - >> it really is a new it calls for a new strategy around the support programs give us an example the way that the cal works works if families move to another county other than

family, it is about all of our families. and our families, when they are strong, will build stronger communities and those communities will make a better world. our commitment to children and families feels more urgent than ever before. so let's make it a priority, let's face the bad with insight interagency and courage and -- insight and courage and let's celebrate the good every day in every way possible. being here with you today is a true honor and a gift and i hope it has created a little space for us to think about all the world as it relates to our center of gravity and how important these families will be as we march forward over this next time. grateful for the opportunity and will be happy to take your questions. [applause] dan: today we are enjoying a firday forum in the middle of november, national adoption month with april dinwoodie. i thought i mispronounced it. chief executive of the donaldson adoption institute. we are about to begin our traditional q&a and we welcome questions from everyone and those of you

we can only take new familis when other families exit. and so that is concerning, because what i have seen in the past month is that as hamilton and other organizations are running of our the slots, the waiting list is going back up again. it dropped to a low of 122, the lowest it had been since 2008 and now the waiting list is back up to 134 and i think it will keep creeping up unless we find ways to invest in these programs. the good news is that we know it works. we have proven it a couple of times. if you look at the graph in 2010 we had an infusion of federal dollars for about a year or so and the waiting list went down briefly, but when the money goes away, the waiting list goes back up again. supervisor kim's office and the mayor's office and the human services agency have been working closely with providers on this and just all praises to everybody. there was significant money from the state from a program that joyce will talk about shortly. i feel if we can just continue to add more resources we should be able to address this pro

we can only take new familis when other families exit. and so that is concerning, because what i have seen in the past month is that as hamilton and other organizations are running of our the slots, the waiting list is going back up again. it dropped to a low of 122, the lowest it had been since 2008 and now the waiting list is back up to 134 and i think it will keep creeping up unless we find ways to invest in these programs. the good news is that we know it works. we have proven it a couple of times. if you look at the graph in 2010 we had an infusion of federal dollars for about a year or so and the waiting list went down briefly, but when the money goes away, the waiting list goes back up again. supervisor kim's office and the mayor's office and the human services agency have been working closely with providers on this and just all praises to everybody. there was significant money from the state from a program that joyce will talk about shortly. i feel if we can just continue to add more resources we should be able to address this pro

some families are families who finds other options and some are very venerable families. a variety of different things can happen to them including losing custody, hospitalization, et cetera >> any questions. supervisor kim. >> one question i had asked prior was you had done a survey of all the families [inaudible] . >> we did the survey last week that surveyed the families that were on the waiting list at that point. we were able to get a hold of 152 families and 92 percent said they were currently residing in san francisco. >> what about the remaining ten percent? >> well, there's 60 percent of that remaining 10 percent said they had resided in san francisco within the last three years. another 14 per september said it was three or more years ago and then three or four families said they'd never resided in san francisco. >> with those four families, did you feel like maybe they were abusing the system, had no intent at living here, were on here because they thought san francisco's a great place to be because you have so many benefits? what was your sense of these remain

and i work with latino families spanish-speaking families and i have been doing this for the past 7 years and since i moved to san francisco. i want to just echo what oscar said and also what kim said previously, regarding how it starts at home. and the familis that come in they are constantly coming in and there has not, and it is just been getting progressively worse. they either doubled up, tripled up, or they are displaced and they have to leave the city. south of market, the action now currently serves over 200 families and even with the application process of trying to get them into the affordable housing, that process is also very difficult because it is also in the language. and so, it is i think, it is important that we are having this, and in this conversation continues. and we continue in that, and because we are all part of this, and affordable housing needs to be for the families and our working families, so, thank you. >> >> good evening, everybody, my name is ramond and i am the lead organizer of the community action network and currently i have been working with 25 to 30 y

families need family resource centers to learn how to parent and build their skills. research shows that families who thrive are core communities who thrive. you have lucked out. you have 26 amazing family resource centers who can help you create a thriving community. there's just a little challenge. san francisco is costing more and more while at the same time an organization like support for families is literally serving thousands of families every year, hundreds more than last year, and hundreds more than the year before. we need realistic financial support to keep moving forward. help us help you, support your amazing f.r.c.s. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am here on behalf of the family resource initiative. my name is isaiah palmera, and a parent of three children. my baby is a cancer survivor. chemo has caused a lot of intellectual delay and disabilities. family resource has helped me navigate resources, education and just my own advocacy for my own children. they have amazing staff who are also parents with children who have special needs. it is

of the ball family? was it tough, like, tracing them? >> oh, sure, yeah. very tough. i will -- there were perhaps dozens of african-american families with whom our white families shared blood because of forced sex on the plantations. now, we all hoe that this -- all know that this for white folks is, is a difficult subject, and is there's a lot of denial or unwillingness to sort of look it in the face. but when i started to work on this book, i began to meet african-american family after african-american family who had oral tradition that said, you know, my great, great grandfather was matthew ball, and he came from this particular plantation. i wanted to -- and yet, for reasons that you described, there are few paper trails that you can follow the that lead to, you know, the coupling of a white enslaver and an enslaved woman. .. i knew that i wanted to write about some of the families that had this experience, this oral traditions of their collaboration, participation and yet i knew that i could only wr

strong families build strong communities. take carl's family. carl is a 20-year-old filipino-american community organizers born and raised in north las vegas. carl's whole family is committed to community service. carl's brother volunteers at an organization that serves the homeless while attending high school. carl's mother teaches special education in north las vegas to low income children. carl's dad is a mechanic and a military veteran having served this country in multiple branches of the armed services. none of them would be here if not for our family based legal immigration system. you know, mr. president, some of my republican colleagues claim to be champions of strong nuclear families and family values, yet, here we are today considering a measure that would tear apart families like carl's, that would leave parents without children, sisters without brothers, and husbands without wives, why? because the party of family values think that's acceptable. the problem is that the party of donald trump is not the party of family values. donald