all this the the children's fund provides. we will have supervisor mar talked about from 3 to 5 year funding cycles h that enables the nonprofits to get the funding and membership support. there's been a lot of talk about the sporting nonprofits it's not just that it's about supporting many people in the room that give their hearts to young people every day of their lives. san francisco is a better practices for it and they've achieved miracles in their lives. we owe it to future generations of san francisco to make sure we authorize the children's fund and the spirit of many people who talk about not only looking at the next quarterly report but actually 7 generations ahead that's the work we have today and we'll make sure the children's fund passes. there's been a lot of discussion about this not being a collaborative progress my staff has been working tirelessly to make sure we have the interest groups at the table we have a stake from the foundation community and the mayor's office and community groups people who receive s

of those of the company children.prior to right seeing this book i was privileged to have made a documentary film a rare case where the film preceded the book. perhaps you have had a chance to see the film. to the and my wife says she does not necessarily view her grandparents as saints. that if they went to nazi, germany once they got there they stayed in luxury hotels , eight in the finest restaurants. after all that is the life that both of them were accustomed to living and is simply would not have occurred to them to travel any other way. but what they did to save the lives of 50 children was absolutely selfless. i don't think for a moment from my research that either gil or eleanor kraus set out to be heroes. instead i think of them as relatively ordinary people who did something truly extraordinary and the deed came very close to being lost forever. that stack of pages now more fragile to the touch still rests inside that cardboard binder. 75 years later almost to the day by the way, i am quite proud to bring t

i am taking care of three of my children. i am living in hampton family center where in two months my stay will be over. i am requesting housing for families because we are losing our children. due to these situations. and to increase... and i am always pray to god. or you guys to open up your heart and provide us with housing opportunities. thank you god bless you. >> thank you very much. >> i will call a few more speaker calls. colins, larva, maggie, sanchez, and elizabeth, and marisa bell tran and lidia flores. >> please come up. >> thanks. >> good morning, board of supervisors. my name is angelina chan sanchez, and i am the specialist at a non-profit organization that offers training, to homeless, previously homeless, and people that are on cal works and whatnot. and i have experienced domestic violence, and i have been on cal works, and i have suffered depression myself. from struggling. and i went to... and i went into the certificated nurse's assistance program which i graduated from and was hired by a case manager and

. >> when it comes to children, it is a big deal. young children that we heard about, collecting blueberries, 3 and 5 years old, 7 years old, and the rationale was, because their hands are so tender and small, that they would not crush the blueberries. >> what they're doing is noble, and helping the family, but they need to break the cycle. >> if the public were more aware, i think they'd be outraged. >> this week on fault lines investigates children at work in agriculture, america's hidden harvest. it's saturday morning at mariana higareda's house. she's taking her daughter and granddaughter out to the fields to pick onions. since it's a weekend, it will be a full day of harvesting. >> mariana and her children follow the harvest across texas, into new mexico and colorado. they live in their home in laredo, texas, for only part of the year. onions have to be harvested by hand. workers clip off the roots and green tops, and collect them into burlap bags to cure in the field. >> the workers earn between 80 cents to $1.75 per bag of oni

i am the mother of four children. mine is a 12-year-old that requires some privacy because the lits sisters are like looking into his things. >> the girls are curious, and i think that you understand. i have been living in the streets and living in shelters i have received some help from a subsidy but it is running out in two weeks and in a couple of weeks i am going to be homeless again i am asking you a favor, please think of the children that are the ones that are suffering. we are asking you please, to think about us all of the time while your present and requesting your help opening those waiting lists. i am thank you you for your help. so here we are requesting for more support here for the public housing. please open the waiting list and don't wait for the next hurricane in san francisco. that is all that i am asking you for, thank you very much for your help. and to explain the situation that a lot of us are going through. >> thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is per es an

page which reads to all children on this children's day. i hope you are healthy grow up brilliantly and on this date the last. though the post didn't mention this hellhole ferry disaster. she did reportedly canceled all of her previously scheduled children's day activities to focus on the rescue operation an investigation. and speaking of which today marks the twentieth day of search operations for the sunken syllable fairy fourteen bodies had been recovered so far this monday which brings the confirmed death toll to two hundred sixty two off forty remained unaccounted for. divers have completed an initial search of sixty one nett sixty four the basses compartments for most of the missing passengers were expected to be found officials say after completing this initial phase divers will search common areas next including lobbies and shops before further expanding operations to the cargo compartments as well as the first and second floors of the shed. meanwhile as the official mourning period continues over three hundred sixty thousand people

invisible children. nursing homes may not be the kind of place where you would expect to find kids but in the state of florida over the years thousands of medically fragile and complex children have been sent to live in skilled nursing facilities. the kind of place you'd see senior citizens. and like senior citizens the children often stay for years. we went inside and found children being warehoused. this is hidden camera video from inside a florida nursing home. children in wheelchairs parked in a hallway that place called kid's corner near fort lauderdale. >> it's mosh more lik more likef storages, of storing the kids. >> marcel lowe's son andrew has lived there for over a year. andrew martinez was an outgoing high school senior. his goal was to become a firefighter when a freak accident changed his life. >> we are on our way to visit andrew martinez. ten days after his 18th birthday he had cardiac arrest and oxygen deprived to his brain. >> would you like to have cared for him at home? >> that's what

so it is i look forward to making sure the children's fund is renewed. didn't put my name on the supervisor avalos proposal but want to convey my thoughts around the children's fund. i believe that we should be providing funding for the children's be fund to transition age youth i've been a strong supporter to make sure we're funding the housing and others needs. it's a critical part of our social he safety net in san francisco to make sure that children who are on their way to becoming adults have what they need to succeed particularly those who are coming out of foster care. the question is really what the size of the fund should be. i know that there is a propriety to increase it from $0.03 to $0.05 it's an open article for discussion. we have a lot of demands on our general fund we have to make sure we're addressing all the needs. there is a debate how much we're spending out of our city funds on the transitional children. i look forward to those statistics it shouldn't be debatable we should figure out where to go. so i look forward to the conversat

>> we have children and many children who have never heard this before, no one ever stopped to talk to them about the safety rules about private body parts and that is key to prevention is talking to the kids before someone violates them. >> you have one little kid recently? >> just recently i was talking to a group of 7-year-olds. i was explaining the safety rule with private body parts, he looked at me and said, i didn't know that. i didn't know they supposed so someone had broken the safety rule. it was the first time she heard that safety rule. >> and that ratchets things up, you are trained and they did reporting and teachers in the classroom and that stuff. that is the key but not only are they training the kids and teaching the kids we train. >> teachers and everybody. >> so as a result of that, you i know the center offers these training forces other people in the community, as well? >> yes. we're also embarking on new public awareness campaign from enough abuse campaign from massachusetts. >> cheryl: we've got a website but we wanted to shoe people. is it much different than w

and when your children are taking a bath please think of the children living in the shelters and living in the streets. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> good afternoon, my name is margereta and this is not the first time that i am here to request your help opening the waiting list or the public housing units. i am also to support to request your support to get mour funding for those who live in the streets that do not have housing. i am the mother of four children. mine is a 12-year-old that requires some privacy because the lits sisters are like looking into his things. >> the girls are curious, and i think that you understand. i have been living in the streets and living in shelters i have received some help from a subsidy but it is running out in two weeks and in a couple of weeks i am going to be homeless again i am asking you a favor, please think of the children that are the ones that are suffering. we are asking you please, to think about us all of the time while your present and requesting your help opening those waiting lists. i am th

young children in general more than older children and adults. and the reason for that is that younger children and fetuses are developing much more rapidly. their organ systems are much more sensitive. >> what science is starting to show now is that early exposures to toxic chemicals at critical points when a child's in the womb has effects later in life. >> endocrine disruptors are chemicals of growing concern. fetuses and children exposed to even minute amounts may develop a wide range of health conditions, from diminished intelligence to cancers later in life. our endocrine glands produce hormones that regulate the basic processes of our body, like metabolism, growth, reproduction, and development. endocrine disruptors disturb how these processes work. >> endocrine disrupting chemicals interfere with hormone signaling. proper hormone signaling is very important for fetal development and for childhood development, as well as sexual maturation. therefore, compounds that interfere with these processes could have very profound effects. >> many of

sorry, so the primary bulletin that exists has helped the police officers and children and parents alike and i really appreciate this commission, as well as the police department for having something like that and i think that is kind of revolutionary. but, i think that making this a dgo, is an institutionalizing this is really a way to make it serious and help even more people in years to come and so i would again like to reiterate that this is a huge step in the right direction and an opportunity for the police officers to be the positive impact on the youth that we want them to be and so thank you for your time. >> thank you for your work on the commission. >> commissioner turman? >> i have a question for captain, or maybe miss marion. could you elaborate on the training video and what its intent is? >> any time that we have a new develop general order, we have training in that video, and miss marion who is the expert is actually on the panel for it will be able to explain a little bit more and any general order that gets readopted, there is roll call training for all officers so that

food to the wife of his other brother, who had three children. liu says his brother later died of his injuries. residents here denounce the system as cruel and unfair. >> "for those who don't have much money, it is hard for them to have a second or third child, for the fine will make them return to poverty. for the rich there is no restriction on the number of the children they can have: the birth of four or even five children is also permitted. ...what they do is not to control the number of population but to squeeze money from people into their own pockets." back in guangdong, zhou toasts his brother's birthday with friends. but thoughts of what has happened to his missing daughter continue to haunt him. zhou says he will keep looking for her, even if that trail leads him to find her happily adopted by another family, in another country. >> "i would be overjoyed if i could see her. but i would let her to decide whether to stay there or not, because, after all, she has a complete adoptive family there. as her father, i will be much satisfied ver

, give more nurturinto their children, and to not be neglecting of the children. because that iwhy they are in this program they are neglectful in different ways. children o are neglected often show impaired cognitive development, aggressive behavior, and extreme difficulty relating to others. they're isolated. they d't have a chan be able to socializ they don't have the motivation to learn, to want be with others. they don't tst in those whore supposed to re for them, and th disust then goeto others, where ey're not able to build relationships. vanessa is deaf in one ear. put it on. t dian didn't know . i used to just sa melf, 'm tired of it. i'm tired of it." and now that she's grown up a lite bit and now that i understd she has a hearing problem, um, i...i don't get angry, you ow, at her. rather--right now i'd rather untand hore. many avance parents were themselves emotionally deived as children. such adults ofte find it impossible to give emotional sustenance to their children. th damaging cycl is preci what avance is designed toto correct a cyth can hm childr

these are our own children. we can do so much better, and our national law enforcement officials are fighting this terrible scourge, there are many organizations like men against trafficking in duluth, minnesota, in my own congressional district who are out there providing safe harbor services for girls and boys that are rescued from this terrible scourge. but this legislation represents the fact the congress recognizes that we can be of insistence in fighting this terrible scourge, and we do so with this act. again, which i am a proud co-sponsor, but i'm so proud what judge poe and carolyn maloney have done on this. what the bill does is says these children are the victims, they are not the criminals as they have so often been treated in our society. they are the victims of child abuse. they're the victims of rape and violence and unmentionable crimes and terrible, terrible things, and they're entitled to the protection, the medical services, the counseling, all that we can provide. mr. chairman, may i ask for

there are children involved.ple used to love each other, they are having problems, you don't go into a place where you hurl the worst accusations to the other side and they hurl back. that's a crazy way to resolve a family issue. john: are you saying if the couple doesn't want to hurl the accusations, the lawyers encourage it? >> the adversarial system encourages it. if one side hurls the accusation and you don't hurl back, you could lose. in scandinavia they don't go to court to get divorced or settle custody matters. >> court has to adjudicate what's fair and true? >> no truth in getting a divorce. it's all about going your separate ways and doing what's best for the children. you don't need to have an adversarial fight to take care of the children. in scandinavia they don't have that fight. and get along better after it because of it. john: what do they do in sweden, norway, denmark? >> divide the marital assets. >> by themselves. >> use accountant or mediator or some jointly respected person but don't go cour

it is very difficult to be with our children now in the streets because cps could remove the children from our custody and we don't want to lose them. and waiting list for the shelter are very long. i am here to talk on behalf of all of the homeless families to request affordable housing. to open more housing. and that are affordable for the incomes. this time listen to us. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> >> i am cathy, and i work for community services and i am standing in for scott who is our director of housing services. and we currently provide supportive housing to over 1,000 formally homeless men and women and children at 9 housing sites. and we maintain a 97 percent housing retention rate. while most of our housing work is with the single adults, we operate bacus where we provide housing for 47 formally homeless families and we will join with mersy housing in provide support services to an additional 50 currently homeless families 1184th street apartments since july and we would like to point out that ecs is an active participant in the proposal this year and we fully sup

we felt our cac do represent a diversity of children we're representing our children no offense to you commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell by i kind of interpreted your question i think the same way others do i think the needs we're here representing as best we can kroouft as best we can and rachel mentioned you guys can invite someone to be part of our cac we'll hopefully add to our diversity it's not for a lack ever not trying those who want to step forward and support our children with dpabldz should be recognized >> thank you for answering my question i thoroughly appreciate that. >> commissioner norton. >> i want to relate a question when i was sitting in the audience i think it may explain where i'm coming from and a resubstantial resentment we had slated members in 1y507 and we were all sitting out there to be appoint we are that in the agenda and told by the president of the board said they wouldn't appoint us because we weren't exemplifies unify we spent a lot of time we were told we couldn't be postponed because of our color bus that is what this board some people on this board di

though i have 3 african-american children. >> so in this already talks about the children i'm talking about the parents. >> can we get back with you on the data and check on that. >> if you're collecting the information we ask the parents to tlilts the ethnicity of their children. >> so we can check on that and get back to you. >> i know of one african-american parent that's present tonight that's our newly effected chair which is kilogramly we have families about have multi racial combinations and represents lati latino. >> hi i'm dementia bra i'm a native american and have two children that autism. >> i am not trying to be offering ivy think that our african-american students and latino i'm trying to balance the concerns and needs of the multi ethnicity and i appreciate the chair is african-american i appreciate you have children that are african-american i'm trying to get a sense of the african-american members the 17 members what that looks like. >> commissioner norton. >> i want to remind the board we have been in the rules committee we've been talking about getting the board in

mothers, anguished as grandmothers, and lovers of children, that this is what the children, the girls in nigeria are going through. our first demand is to use all resources to bring the terrorist thugs to justice. tweeted ae obama has picture showing the first lady holding a sign that says bring back our girls. russian president vladimir putin has called on separatists to delay a referendum on breaking off from ukraine. areas in eastern ukraine occupied by pro-russian forces are set to vote this sunday on whether to seek autonomy amidst continued violence over the past week, putin called on the separatists to postpone the vote. we call on the representatives of south eastern ukraine, the supporters of the federalization of the country, to postpone the referendum planned for may 11 of this year. meanwhile, a necessary condition for the start of this dialogue is the unconditional stopping of any violence. both the use of military force is absolutely unacceptable in the usern world, as is of armed illegal units, extremist units and forces. has orderedaid he russian forces to pull back fr

>> [children]: yes! once the computers were there, school attendance went way up. >> this year, for example, 50% more children showed up for first grade. >> in cambodia? >> yeah, because the kids who were in first grade last year told the other kids, "you know, school is pretty cool." >> negroponte wanted this for all children everywhere. but he realized conventional computers were too expensive, and so his dream was born. and this is it: a low-budget computer for children... >> [speaking portuguese ] >> children like these second-graders in a poor school in sao paulo, brazil. each child has been given his or her own machine as part of a test for the brazilian government to see if they should buy them for all their schoolchildren. this must be pretty exciting for you, to see these children. >> it's very exciting. it's very gratifying. it's been two years in the making. >> the children seem to especially like the built-in camera that takes stills and video. she's taking a picture of us taking a picture of

sit next to white children.he truth is that resources follow race. we want to make sure that all students have equal access to public resources. the best way to do that is to make sure that all of our students are being educated and participating together, so that we can be sure they're giving the same resources and the same quality education that every american child should be entitled to. do you want to ask her a are on thehe lines screen. send us an e-mail or a on twitter. james from twitter says this. guest: i think james makes an excellent point. the reality is that one of the most important aspects of the brown decision is that the supreme court articulates the in our education society. first, the supreme court says that it is the most critical function of state government to provide education. the supreme court also says that education is the foundation of good citizenship. that is what the unanimous supreme court said in brown versus board of education. the unanimous supreme court said it is difficult to

lower income children are more likely to have carries experienced than higher income children. again, about two time more likely. this last data i'm going to show you shows the variation in carries experienced across the school. so, each orange bar represents the proportion of kindergarteners that has experienced -- have had carries in that school. so, all the way on the left you have a school where 11% of kindergarteners that had carries experienced and all the way to the right you have a school where 90% of the kindergarteners have experienced carries. in this school district there are 22 schools where over half of the kindergarteners have had carries. in these schools where over half of the kindergarteners have had carries, we see that over half of the fifth graders are overweight. the bars on the bottom are indicating which schools have a very high prevalence of overweight. >> so, this, this picto graph doesn't define where the schools are? >> no. we have that information, but i didn't, yeah. >> we can only take so much bad news. >> i also wanted to remember to say that the

i'm happy to see to the briefcase that they're having the children's bill of rights. it embodies and achieves is goals of joyful learning that a student turning over a log an a a wet afternoon and discovering a bug for the first time or watching their seeds grow are power joyful learning. the san francisco outdoor births is about making nature available for all students to provide a low cost experience for people like camping or riding a bike or going to the beach for that the first time. there's an abundance it demonstrates this such critical thinking and reduce stress and improve the body and nicer people. in addition to the logos on our draft poster we have thrilled to join our san francisco public school community. thank you for your time (clapping) >> my comments from the board members. yes commissioner norton >> i want to thank charlotte and her colleague it was backed up by the rec and park there's beautiful posters they're down loadable and you can print them out. is there a place you can download them >> we actually have the usf logo we've be printing thousan

the children of arrested parents, and we request that this commission adopt this order. and some background, into this, and in 2006, where the juvenile division, worked with the child protective services, office of citizen's complaints and san francisco children of incarcerated parents partnership, project what? and community stake holders to develop the policy intended to protect the children and in cases where they were present, with the parent that was arrested. without a policy for the officers to follow, the focus was only on the arrested party. and did not make the safety and well-being of the child a priority. and some of those instances the children were left at school or waiting for someone to pick them up or with a neighborhood or in the cases left alone with a responsible party en route, with the community partners we wanted to insure that the members had the specific protocols to follow and to assist the children in the well-being and the safety, at that time, the department issued a department bulletin, entitled children of arrested parents, and outlining th

and when your children are taking a bath please think of the children living in the shelters and living in the streets. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> good afternoon, my name is margereta and this is not the first time that i am

i have been in the housing for five years because i don't have children that have been born here. cannot afford a house and we are renting a apartment that we cannot afford to rent and my husband does not make enough money to pay the rent. we have to double up in order to pay the rent and have food for them. often times we have to look for assistance for the clothing and food and we are here to request your help so that i can afford a home. i will be grateful if you tie up for us in order for us to obtain the housing and for us and our children. i have a 14-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old boy and we are looking to apply for housing. >> and if you help us, our children will be... the way that you are. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, supervisors, devra eddelman with the homeless providers association and i apologize for extending this long hearing by a couple more minutes. but just felt the need to come up after hearing about all of the stories and the situations, that so many families are facing today in san francisco. to remind

we removed the children with tuberculosis from our isolation tent, and put our children with cholera in this tent. then we built a chlorine bath all around. we burned all their clothes-- anything that potentially could have cholera, we burned it. we built a special latrine for their waste. and we tried to isolate them as much as possible while, at the same time, providing very intensive care for their dehydration, which is the critical problem in cholera. it's a disease that comes on within a few days of incubation, and may only last a few days. but within those three days, you can lose half your weight in diarrhea, and critically need support. iv fluids, oral rehydration fluids-- all of that plus the antibiotics that the cholera would be sensitive to. before the cholera outbreak, only a small percentage of the children with severe malnutrition died. once the cholera hit, that figure rose. it's very difficult to fight cholera. and these children would have as many as 50 episodes of diarrhea in a 12 hour period. losing so much water, it's ve hard to keep up. often times i would go to

women with school-age children now work at a much higher rate than decades ago.hrow in a higher child poverty rate and making policy around lunch gets complicated. what's the best school meal? a cheap one? a new atrocious one? one a school kid will actually eat? all of that and who gets to say what should be in a school meal is not the responsibility of nutritionists or educators because it involves money, the argument centers around politicians and a woman who is influential, well known and hasn't been elected anything. michelle obama. >> as the end of the school year approaches for kids across the country, members of the house of representative representative's appropriations committee met to discuss student meals. in the center, schools are required to provide healthy meals. but in the house, there is still debate. should schools have the right to choose the food they serve? >> what we should be doing is encouraging best practices across this country and helping our school system, and those struggling to hold them together to measure up to the new transition c