center where we will be able to do the forensic interviews, law enforcement investigation, child protective services investigation, victim advocacy, and case management, and enhance mental health component for the children we see. we have partnered with another group called the center for youth wellness. it is pediatric care and mental health services for the children. we hope in the next week or two to secure relocation and to move into the new location in october of 2012. we ask your support for the concept. we will be back before you. there are many issues that will have to come before the board. we are excited about this one- stop shopping center that can be for all of our children who are victims of abuse and trauma. these are three of the main recommendations. i thank you very much for your support. we have had wonderful support from the board of supervisors and the mayor's office. supervisor mirkarimi: i have a question. i absolutely do support the idea of a one-stop shop. it will help synthesize services. the services will be well- affirmed and accredited. absolutely. it is a step in the rig

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so getting the family involved, getting the child protective services, getting our community involved to really try to address some of the greater issues that may be going on and not just putting the patient right back out on the street, but you need resources and an organized community and support system. you may be able to identify it, but if you can't send the patient anywhere to get that help, your identification becomes a stopping point. so we really want to encourage the acquisition of more resources. similarly, with our sbirt program we have a great apra-system but because of our inability... what is an apra-system? apra is our intake center that helps to send patients who need to go into a recovery program; whatever the recovery program may be, it helps to identify beds that are open in the city. what we would like to do is to really be able to have that interposition point, somewhere where you can take the person in so they don't have to go back out on the street before they can get into the intake system. very good. our concerns are that we may be losing people. they may hav

. >> thompson: after ernie lopez was arrested, child protective services asked psychologist edwin bashamevaluate whether he posed a threat to his own children. basham has done over 4,000 of these evaluations. if you had been called on ernie's behalf, what would you have said? >> i would have said that there wasn't a basis to suggest that he would be someone likely to have harmed a child, and it would be extremely out of character to imagine that he did that. and that would be... that's the results of the psychological exam. >> the defense does not present any opposing medical testimony, nor do they cross-examine the experts in any meaningful way. >> thompson: what did that do to his chances for being acquitted? >> i think they decreased his chances of being acquitted to zero. >> thompson: heather kirkwood is a pro bono attorney who is trying to overturn the lopezz+;Ñ conviction. >> there's no evidence that she was sexually assaulted at all. there is evidence that she was ill and was essentially crashing in the days before her death. >> thompson: kirkwood uncoveredÑ a stack of hospital re

child protective services are often called in situations like this before the murder occurs.cutor said in opening statements, you know, this is about casey anthony wanting to live the good life. well, i haven't seen evidence of that motive yet. perhaps we'll hear about it in the prosecution rebuttal case, but if we don't hear about it tomorrow, i don't think we've heard it yet. >> so we haven't specifically heard a motive. we're about to hear from the defense potentially thursday if, you know, our timing and guessing is correct, the jury could get the case in about two weeks. what's your prediction? we talked about this before. casey anthony, she has to testify, doesn't she? >> she has to testify, and i've said it over and over again. i've said it since opening statements. jose baez i thought did a wonderful job in opening statements. but the theory relies on someone getting on the witness stand saying caylee anthony wasn't murdered. she died by dying in the family pool. the only person who can get on the witness stand and tell that story is casey ant in i. i think we're goin

compare child abuse and elder abuse, taking domestic violence off the table for a moment, 14% of san francisco is comprised of children. 14% is comprised of people over the age of 65. cal protective services receivers -- adult protective services received 5758 cases. basically, pretty cool. the child abuse police unit has 10 officers. there is no elder abuse police unit. there are elder abuse specialists assigned to domestic violence units and to the financial crimes unit, and it is about 2.5 fte's. there are over 500 child protective workers in san francisco. 45 adult protective -- protective workers in san francisco. total budget for the city, for services to seniors, $137,000. not including aps. and let me be the first to say -- kathy and everyone else knows this. the moment you said that money should be transferred from child to adult, i would chain myself to something in here. i do not want you to take away any dollars. supervisor mirkarimi: i do not think you have to worry about that. >> ok. supervisor mirkarimi: your goal is to increase the budget on behalf of elders. we will keep the children costs and increase the elder's. >> it becomes an equity issue, so i thought it was repres

that support services in the south of market area that provide affordable child care and services to help stabilize these families. protect the filipino world war ii veterans and many of their surviving spouses. cuts to the services will impact them because of their age, language, diminishing health, and ability to access stable facilities, including health care. please prepare the legal services for immigrants. please consider s immigrants for " -- before preparing your budget. thank you. [applause] >> you are right. thank you. now, we are going to hear from revenue with gordon. hey, gordon. >> thank you. i'm here tonight with a coalition of community and labor organizations working together to promote worker rights and social justice locally and nationally. i was asked to make some brief remarks about the revenue side of the picture and tax policy, so my first point is that we cannot solve the budget crisis through cuts alone, and i think this is a pretty obvious statement to everybody here tonight. this forum tonight is really important to allow the community and people that are directly affected by these terrible budg

libraries throughout the cit there won't be any layoffs in child protective workers but there may be other layoffs in some of our social service agencies in the city as well. all tolled about a thousand to 1500,000offs in the city. they will be scaled back a little bit and people will feel the impact, it jus won't be as devastating as if we had to lay those teachers off. >> charlie: you get along well with the mayor. >> yes. >> charlie: how do you categorize the relationship and yes itroductive. >> i would characterize it as productive. >> charlie: right. >> because it should be. it's productive because that's what the city needs. you know, people ask me sometimes how come you work so well with the mayor. i made a decision six years ago when i got elected speaker that the mayor and i would work well together and be productive and effective. >> charlie: in other words, do you agree on most things? >> we agree on some things. we disagree on others and we always disagree agreeably. we try to agree and if we can't we ag sent it. >> charlie: how do you describe him. >> he's a good mayor. >> charlie: because. >> he's straightforward