and i would like to start off were stating in 2008, we -- as the department of children, youth and families, department of public health decided to merge our funding streams to better support some of the c.b.o.'s, the strategies to reduce violence. we merged dollars, children's fund, general fund and other dollars all together to support 60 different programs that address alternative education, case management, detention alternatives, detention bay services diversion and gender women's services. we are talking about 40 different organizations in san francisco that support young people through the ages of 13 through 25 so they have a wrap-aaround approach and don't fall through the cracks. within the disciplines, there are different meetings that occur at the community-base level and systems level. we work with j.p.d. and d.p.h. and meet as joint funders to talk about what are some of the trends going on, what are some of our funding decisions and how we are making sure that the money we are investing is providing the best service. so those are a couple of things at the systems' level that s

operational logistical partnerships between the school district, juvenile probation and children, youth and families to ensure we don't lose students between these systems and make sure we are managing and supporting them towards susan looking at the current partnership, are we in a state where it is more reactive and already looking at young people who have to get in trouble in the justice system or are there ways to be more proactive to ensure we are engaging those young people who are at risk. so with that, i think i will start and invite di and n and from d.c.y.f. to start us off here. >> thank you and good afternoon board of supervisors, members. i would like to start off with saying that we provide many different opportunities and partnerships to be able to address the needs of at-risk youth. this question, we thought it was so broad that we narrow it to a couple of examples that we support in coalition with a couple of city departments. and i would like to start off were stating in 2008, we -- as the department of children, youth and families, department of public health decided to merge our

the convener is based in every neighborhood and they will focused on youth and families. these 2 programs can help your organization alot in terms of relationship building and making connections. >> that alarm was our sound we have come to the end of our session. i just want to in a couple of closing remark stress that i think it's a belief of this whole neighborhood network all of us up here. i hope throughout the day it's driven home that it begins in the community. you can out reach to the organizations and city departments and get the support you need but it come back to the community. i really want you all to leave here today with the tools and strategies you need to go forth and do the right thing in your communities and build strength and power. it's up to all of us to continue to build community and organize. i thank you all for your participation. we will stay here for a bit to answer any other questions people have as they are leaving. thank you all very much. [applause]. i have a news letter and people have things to distribute. >> robert's rules in brief is rig

through the community -- i'm sorry -- department children youth and families of the city are paying the treasure island development housing initiative. it's being paid to do community convening. >> that's tidi and i understand tidi there is the residents out there. and tidi has their ideas there are market rate people that want to organize. >> this is a new funding that has come out where they will engage the whole community. follow up because they got money specifically to engage the entire community. >> i'd like to add that we up here we really want to help every single person every neighborhood organization in the room. what we need from you is to sign the clip board that's come around because even though you signed in when you registered for this workshop that's going to city government. they don't share their information with us. we have no way of contacting you once this workshop is over unless you sign in. i particularly as coalition for san francisco neighborhoods would like to have especially those who said they want to start new organizations or revitalize an organization to g

family oriented. and we saw a difference in the behavior of what was happening at the dance much the first dance was youthd and the second was definitely family. we had grandparents and great grandparents and infants much it was a great atmosphere.Ñtán÷on understanding community building and really involved the family and what you do plan something you need to think about who your population is and find a way to get everyone involved. >> thank you very much. mo magic is doing fantastic work. to learn more go to emour sf. org and click on the community building break out session today here at bill graham auditorium. be sure to visit the website. empower sf. org. >> hi. this is daniel homsey, today at the summit we will have a break out session on revitalizing your local park. i'm with the lower 27th neighborhood association. what is the role in the community? for 8 yearsjrf revitalize the neighborhood on quality of life issues. we came in to the park, trying tomic it a safer and cleaner space. >> this park, what was this park like 5 years ago. what was it's impact on the neighborhood? >> 5 years ago the pa

partners that have supported us are the district of attorney's office, department of children, youth and families and existing partner sfusd and the san francisco police department. what we have done is we work on a weekly basis meeting about what are some of the issues going on with this initiative, what is each department actually committing to in order to be able to reduce to of this that is going on with some of the young people inside sfusd. we have had joint meeting on a twice a month basis where we talk about the coordinated aspect of it. what we have done is -- all these departments have come to brainstorm how we can best serve through a family wraparound approach the families that come in. those are the new things going on with some of the initiative. and i wanted to mention it to you. this is a brand new effort to sharpen some of the services for those young that fall through the cracks or multi systems use. in general, i would like to say claudia is here and so is the chief so that they can also express a little bit about what other initiatives or efforts that we have. i would wrap thi

she has 25 years of experience in the area of children, youth and families, dr. garcia is a strong advocate for collaborative approaches to service provisions and has developed a mission center of excellence in the mission and the chicano latino family resource system. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor. before we conclude toc1 before we conclude tonight's official ceremony, i wanted to say thank you to the police chief gas con for being with us here tonight, our director of the san francisco arts commission as well. thank you for being with us here tonight. [applause] again, to supervisor david campos. [speaking spanish] our treasurer, jose cisneros, senator torrez. thank you for being with us here tonight. i love you, dad. [applause] i also want to thank assemblywoman, senator leno, congressional representative jackie spear and, of course, the office of the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, and thank you to all for being here tonight. all of them contributed and have certificates of honor which they'll find in their bags which were generously donated by the p

the first five, the department of children youth and families, and they are all looking at this issue. >> since november 1st is when stage three recipients would lose that support is literally just several days away, could this be something that we would wait until potentially the next board meeting? or is this something we would actually try to move on in the next few days? i am just trying to understand the process. that's all. >> so you are asking what is the prods by which the decision gets made? about the city providing funning? >> i am asking for suggestions since the funding terminates on november 1st. >> can i jump in? let me just throw -- because the other side doesn't want to say this, so i will say it. the 6 c1 this. i will say it. the city and county of san francisco cannot continue to be the entity that bill sacramento out of its problems. we have tens of millions of dollars of course of the services that we cut, year after year, because sacramento cannot get their act together. $13 million, if the idea is to take $13 million out of the $30 million set aside for state res

and a lot of families in that area of not knowing how to access services. and one of the biggest supports that our organization does, connecticut turning to youth and families, we do peer-to-peer support, you know, and we do from a lived experience perspective. so my family can support another family on how we accessed the system and how we kind of talked to same of how to access state benefits and a young person in recovery knows how to fill out the form down at the social service office to get you on services to access, you know, a bed, you know, there's also that in between. a lot of those things take weeks sometimes. and, you know, what do you do in between? if there's a critical time and there's a lot community-based peer support out there, you know, mutual support groups or, you know, online stuff where people can connect with people and live recovery experience so that way they at least have some social support, you know, if they're in need of treatment. and then there's also a lot of young people who may not need, you know, residential treatment and they might be better suited to stay at home or to be in the community and just, you know, work on the

the first five, the department of children youth and families, and they are all looking at this issue since november 1st is when stage three recipients would lose that support is literally just several days away, could this be something that we would wait until potentially the next board meeting? or is this something we would actually try to move on in the next few days? i am just trying to understand the process. that's all. >> so you are asking what is the prods by which the decision gets made? about the city providing funning? >> i am asking for suggestions since the funding terminates on november 1st. >> can i jump in?

i'm sure my background and experience can inspire and encourage loss of newly emigrated youth and families. with the building of our own chinese ministry, our work can become more organized, the effectiveness of our missionarry would be maximized and the most importantly, all of our brothers and sisters in god will receive a stronger sense of belonging to our spiritual family. as the mentor and committee to our youth fellowship, i try to provide positive influences to teenagers and youth in my community, and i strive to use my stories, what i've gone through and what god has given me as a tool to bring god's work to whomever needs it. i strongly believe that our existence means to the community as much as we need our new church building, and i urge you to consider on approving our project. thank you. commissioner sugaya: thank you. >> i'm here to read his testimony. i came to san francisco in 2001 by myself from china. i had a liver transplant two years ago due to liver cancer. although i walk through the valley of death, god is there for me. in times when i was hospitalized , brothers and

community partners who are here, urban services, maria sue from the department of children, youth, and familiesment, who has been really instrumental in making sure that our truancy process goes well, and captain lazar is here from the police department. want to thank him for all of his efforts and supporting what we're doing. and i have from the school district superintendent garcia and our mayor, who have been partnering on so many different efforts. but today is about bringing our communities into the fold. when we see students out on the street, we're not going to walk by them any longer and just allow them to stay on the street and miss hours of school and miss opportunities, to be the kind of citizens that we want them to be. and so this is really about showing the support for our students and that our community is here to be with them. and i also wanted to acknowledge regina, who has been really instrumental in connecting us with our merchant associations, and then we also have erica, who is here, who is our representative of the merchant associations that we're going to be walking and m

francisco unified school district, a global exchange, and our city's department of children, youth, and families. the new leaders' initiative established the brower youth awards, which recognizes six people from 13 to 22 years old living in north america annually for their outstanding organizing advocacy and achievements in the field of environmental justice. in 2010, the awards are based -- actually every year -- on how their efforts benefit the environment but also raise of the community in terms of measurable results as well as movement building and raising awareness. awardees this year include folks from alaska, wisconsin, iowa, new york, and for the rico, but i'm very proud that deanthony is our san francisco honoree, only the second san franciscan in many years and one of the few californians that have won this award as well. he has been involved with the environmental service initiative since its inception two years ago, and the environmental service initiative is that collaboration between the school district and environmental justice ", and their efforts are to bring critical environmen

schools, fort washington, pennsylvania; greg williams, co-director, connecticut turning to youth and familiesdanbury, connecticut; dr. mark godley, director, research and development, chestnut health systems, bloomington, illinois. fran, what is the extent of the problem with youth in america? our most recent survey from samhsa is that around 10 million, a little over 10 million of our young people, are using alcohol and substances. that actually breaks down to 26 percent of them are drinking and another 17 percent of them are binge drinking, which is having more than five drinks in a row at one setting. so it's a concern of ours that our young people are really starting to accelerate drinking and drugging than they have in the past. and mark, it's really...as fran has mentioned, alcohol is really the main problem. what other substances are youth taking today? while most youth who use, do use alcohol, marijuana runs a pretty close second with high use in marijuana. but probably the most rapidly growing segment of new use is in the prescription drug area with high increasing numbers of new use

we need more youth and family services. need to look for further opportunities to get people out of cars. and we need to address this. we need people out of their cars. >> i agree with the throat examination of the transportation needs of the district. that would tell us whether or not taking out one of the freeways would be a viable plan. there needs to be a study that shows the particular matters coming from the freeway corridors that might be leading to an increase in asthma rates among our children. as well, with the development projects that are coming into district 10, development should have community hubs of shopping, cumin and health care services, so people do not have to travel across town to get services. that way we improve our environment. we do not have to depend on muni the same way. we need to take protective steps. >> ms. morris. >> unlike everyone up here, i am a social worker. i deal with this in poor communities. it is not only as much that is affecting areas in district 10. it is diabetes, hypertension