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

>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

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

to take them from the family putting them in the care whether parents or extended family? and then together for good? how long do these families need to have that high level of concentrated care? >> i would say in our experience you can more economically serve when you prevent them from entering in the first place so where those taxpayer dollars are providing support. if we can intervene before a child is removed from the home working with the whole family anywhere between three or six months intensive work in that family's home can lead to a more stable situation once the child is removed typically the placements cost more on a daily basis than if you are working with that family and often they are caught up in the system for a year and then to return them to the biological family which is the goal for most children to eventually return to their family now it gives them more time than if you just provided services on the front and. so to her point if we could get better as a country to identify those that are imminent risk coming into care and intervene before care then w

families -- and that families can move to. as we attract families that say this is a great place with resources and support services and a great quality of life i would like my children to have. john avalos asked about assets. president chiu referred to millions of dollars spent. when we think about the resources, through programs -- 3 programs come to mind. preschool for all, a kindergarten to college, and the museum pass program. the family support network for -- worked for several years to create a family museum pass modeled after boston's program that is available to any family at the library where they can check it out and take their family to different museums during the week. all these three programs are in need-blind and accessible by all families. able to be accessed by all families. how many cities have programs like that? the fact we have these kinds of resources is amazing. the fact that we have 61 different departments and organizations focused on supporting children and families, there is a lot going on here. in

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.

families experiencing homelessness are as a whole, similar to other low income family and face a range of obstacles, they face things. in san francisco, it is most frequently cited cause of homelessness, followed by job loss, my colleagues at hsa and the department of public health will describe our service model in more detail but i would like to share the highlights to the services offered to the families. coordinated entry, and wait list, and compass connecting points and transitional housing families who can qualify, can also access assistance from housing counselors, rental subsidies and benefits access assistance and a separate shelter and housing system for domestic violence and the department on the status of women and often time our regular system enter faces with these systems when the stays have ended and they are having difficulty accessing housing, priority for the pregnant women and the families of newborns and the department of public health is funding five rooms at the london hotel and three rooms at star community and services include visiting nurse, and wrap around pu

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

of 150 families. the numbers that kevin truit showed that the numbers at the end of the school year last year have actually gone down. we are being successful folks and this just isn't about the school district. this is about the whole city coming together to work on this program. we are making progress. however we seen surges in funding before where the numbers dipped down and went back up again. what is important right now we invest in the things that work and rapid re-housing and eviction prevention strategies and permanent housing and access to affordable housing and if we do these things i think by christmas the waiting list will be below 100 and if we follow the road map that others are presenting on we can effectively end family homelessness and we have a great emergency system in the city but it's overwhelmed and people are waiting too much for services and as mentioned the longer children have to wait the greater impact on the brain development. we need to get families housed within 90 days o

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

in terms of white families live, -- why families leave, the issue of family flight has been going on since the 1960's. families told us through city surveys, especially the ones conducted every two years. there are three main issues. the cost of living, the cost of housing, and the perceived quality of the public schools. those are the three top schools repeatedly mentioned by families. supervisor farrell: do you have those surveys done after -- year after year? >> we have so many that have been conducted recently -- frequently. you have heard organizations that have conducted data. we do not lack for services -- for sources or information. the issue of why so many families exit at age 5, at age five is when people are entering that schools or -- and they do not get their choices or they are uncomfortable and they leave. also housing. when your child is 5 years old, you need another bedroom by now. maybe you started to have another child at this point. your family is growing. that is where the housing becomes a squeeze which is why families leave around age five. those are the main r

with other families, to build community as well as it reflected in the -- the family that my family is the same just like ours. thank you so much. >> good morning. i'm mother of two and a half-year-old and 8-month-old and me and my husband is a new immigrant. and we come here from a low-income family. we cannot afford childcare baby sitting, so like a lot of parents in our program, we are a group of parents that have very similar backgrounds. so we appreciate the first 5 provide us the family supporting program and service to let us know, learn new skill and knowledge to how to take care of the kids for the nutrition class, safety class and the parenting class so we can know how to take care of them. and also how to take care of ourselves, too. like imagine taking care of two babies and working full-time, me and my husband.

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

families. we fight to afford the benefits and programs that strength and military families and make sure that they understand what these programs are by offering them different communications efforts. host: we're talking about how families are affected during times of deployment rid i want to talk about your time as a military mom. talk about your family situation. how are you as a family prepared for deployment? guest: my husband served in the military and was never deployed, but it is very different when your children are deployed. by daughter, an army nurse, was deployed in 2003 and again i think in 2005. the last few years all run together. it was very different because i was a peripheral member of the support group, not right there at the installation, but trying to tie into what supports there were. it certainly has evolved in the past 11 years of war because people to stay more connected with the internet, with the online resources that were not necessarily a there at the beginning of th

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

we have families exiting 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

so, um, our family or definition of family has really expanded. and traditionally, we thought of even the wife, the husband, the children, and now it really it goes, it's more complex than that for the immediate family of, of the military service member. correct? oh, definitely, because we have partners: those that are together, um, no, not necessary in marriage but are living together. and 'course, now, with the passage of don't ask and don't tell, we have that particular partner going on as well. and so, they are also embraced as far as being part of the, uh, the family as well. and even the veterans administration, i think, is looking very carefully at their definition of family even now, and trying to determine what is the best way to capture those individuals who are, are in a person's life who have an emotional attachment and who are so important for their support. and, i think, the unique circumstances of the past decade at war, in terms of the nature of the conflicts, has also sort of, really pushed that, that issue to the forefront with r

>> breakfast. >> family. >> family is key to the sitcom. it is something we all can relate to. >> you are in these people's homes for the years, you are part of the family. >> i have no friends and no distractions. >> the family sitcom brings people together in a unexpected way. >> there are so many different dynamics at work. >> i want you here, it is a chance to get reacquainted. >> there is a lot of pain and laughter, you recognize your dynamic and you go their family is just as crazy. >> i do not care who kissed who, we will get together and act a normal family for one 10th of a second and we will do it now. >> it is amazing to track the history of the family sitcom, you can see so much about the culture throughout the years looking back. >> you know, it was i love lucy back kicked it all off. >> top that. go back and sit down. >> it was a show about a ditzy woman that wanted to be in show business. >> have you ever considered acting? >> and her husband was latin and a musician. >> i do not want my wife in show business. >> lucille ball

family. we believe access to family leave produces preventable death of new moms and babies, helps with family bonding, increases employee morale and increases productivity. they have taken important steps to help our local businesses on the paid family leave programs. as part of the tax cuts and drawbacks, republicans create the first ever national tax unpaid family medical leave. we know every family is different. millions of families welcome a child each year there are other families who do the important work of taking care of an aging relative. under republican leadership last congress we passed the family caregivers act, new law that directs apart from health and human services to create a national strategy for their support for family caregivers to keep their loved ones at home rather than a nursing home. we passed the laws of the va should act our heroes who served our country's to be taken care of by the families within the va system. republicans are proud to champion these vital init

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