i'm denise coleman. i'm a member of the huckleberry youth program. i'm here to speak on the universal pro-- juvenile probation budget. the department of youth continues to shrink. we don't need to fill vacant current position nor do we need to add new positions. we need daily status report that speaks to who is in the hall, how long they've been in the hall and why they are there. thank you. >> good afternoon. thank you guys for allowing me to speak. you work with the homeless prenatal program. i'm asking for your support and helping fund the project for the homeless. one of the programs is our share program. our share program is need-based subsidy that is in the hespa ask. that program is one of the only programs that will help anybody that has a need in san francisco including

my name is denise coleman, and i serve on the board of life learning academy. i am also the director of youth justice for huckleberry community assessment and resource centre, better known as park. in my capacity as the director, we see about 250 kids a year. we are san francisco's diversion for respite kids. as we talk to our young people, at least 75% of our young people have issues or problems with their behavior, attendance, or grades in school. there is an even larger percentage of that 75% that feel of feel like they just don't fit in a traditional, standard, unified school, and when they give us that kind of information in the first place, then we turn to the life learning academy. i know that they specialize in young people that feel like they don't fit, and they engage them in a way that is warm, that is loving, that is teaching, that gives them an environment, and a space where they want to learn, they want to try new things, and on top of the academic and the social learning component that they have inside the school, they are now providing, or very