next up, department of children, youth, and families. blacks -- >> good afternoon. i'm the director of the department for children, youth, and their families. supervisor avalos: before you start -- i'm sorry to cut you off. i'm just picking about the last presentation. i do not feel like we got beat -- the focus that we needed to get on the neighborhoods. we just put millions of dollars into neighborhood commercial corridors. we're doing all of this effort to support small businesses in san francisco. that is a really good thing. we have specific people doing case management work. we have small businesses. but we do not have people doing specific work, case management with neighborhoods about how we can help prevent violence in the neighborhoods. we have people providing services that are very important, but in terms of the coordination to bring highly integrated neighborhoods together, we do not have this happening. i think that should be equal or greater than just dealing with violence, the commercial corridors. that would be a response that would be adequate, or a

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, with their worker and with their therapist and with their treatment providers and we make sure that everybody stays on the same page. and in doing that, our families have been very successful. we have 91 percent of our families stay in our program and stay engaged and they have done a wonderful job. and on top of that, we provide parenting classes and which is the biggest piece because being a mother in recovery myself, it's so hard to balance your recovery and staying sober and then you want to be the best parent you can possibly be because you're trying to make up for lost time and all of these other things. so to-the fact that our program offers parenting classes, i think it amazing and it really teaches the person in recovery how to parent their child and when to ask for help and what to do with your children while you're in recovery. and kim, talking about when to ask for help, a lot of families do not ask f

i was just talking with the director of the department of children, youth, and families, talking about doing outreach to businesses to see how we can encourage some incentives to hire young people. that is a big issue. a lot of people are coming from families where they have one or two parents who could be unemployed. often, kids need to bring in money to the family. that is some pressure. a small minority of kids get involved in thing that may bring in money that are not good for our community. not very healthy. maybe dealing drugs. it is not a big issue in my district, but it is there. there are enough opportunities for young people to engage in sports, recreation, and jobs, other activities. i am excited about the ocean view neighborhood. we have a new wreck center. the city foundation is looking at putting in some artificial turf there. i consider that a great opportunity where you can build sports programs, softball, baseball, soccer, football, getting people involved in productive things that are good for them. help them feel that they had good skills to contribute. from that sen

if you would like to help the san francisco department of aging and jewish family and children's service agency are handling donations, for more information, go to our website at abc7news.com and click on "see it on tv". >> facebook employees and early investors can sell their shares this thursday. that is the first 1.6 billion shares to come on the market in several waves. three months after the initial public offering, facebook stock is down more than 40%. very disappointing for investors closing at 21.60. they announced a new live event option that let's expected parents share their news. you can let people know about the baby's gender and due date. also be able to see when your friends are expecting a baby from your celebrations section on the home page. >> carolyn: let's turn our attention to the forecast. >> dan: sandhya patel is here. >> hey, it was steamy day inland. 103 degrees in livermore. 60 degrees in half moon bay. 40-degree difference between inland and coast. 89 in sanity rose. 74 degrees in oakland. san jose was 85 degrees. clearlake in the triple-digits. these temperatu

if you would like to help the san francisco department of aging and jewish family and children's service agency are handling donations, for more information, go to our website at abc7news.com and click on "see it on tv". >> facebook employees and early investors can sell their shares this thursday. that is the first 1.6 billion shares to come on the market in several waves. three months after the initial public offering, facebook stock is down more than 40%. very disappointing for investors closing at 21.60. they announced a new live event option that let's expected parents share their news. you can let people know about the baby's gender and due date. also be able to see when your friends are expecting a baby from your celebrations section on the home page. >> carolyn: let's turn our attention to the forecast. >> dan: sandhya patel is here. >> hey, it was steamy day inland. 103 degrees in livermore. 60 degrees in half moon bay. 40-degree difference between inland and coast. 89 in sanity rose. 74 degrees in oakland. san jose was 85 degrees. clearlake in the triple-digits. these temperatu

if you would like to help the san francisco department of aging and jewish family and children's serviceo our website at abc7news.com and click on "see it on tv". >> facebook employees and early investors can sell their shares this thursday. that is the first 1.6 billion shares to come on the market in several waves. three months after the initial public offering, facebook stock is down more than 40%. very disappointing for investors closing at 21.60. they announced a new live event option that let's expected parents share their news. you can let people know about the baby's gender and due date. also be able to see when your friends are expecting a baby from your celebrations section on the home page. >> carolyn: let's turn our attention to the forecast. >> dan: sandhya patel is here. >> hey, it was steamy day inland. 103 degrees in livermore. 60 degrees in half moon bay. 40-degree difference between inland and coast. 89 in sanity rose. 74 degrees in oakland. san jose was 85 degrees. clearlake in the triple-digits. these temperatures are coming down at some time but not drastically. you

department in the city. it was announced to rec and park, to human services, to family, youth, and children, to work force development. all of, the city departments can lead the way. in fact, we wanted to lead the way. there was such enthusiasm. we had been through, maybe, some department successes. i worked with youth back as the head of dpw. come on, kid. do you want to know how to pick up trash? what is that about. but as they did that activity, they knew we were just using that. it was not about trash. it was about learning the operations of the department, learning which supervisors to go to, getting into the workforce, where people depend upon you. that is the other thing. some of these are growing up isolated. we felt that with the individual successes we have in the city, whether it was doing these jobs at rec and park, beautifying the parks, working with the superintendents to create gardens, to our youth programs and the nonprofit areas -- they have been struggling. but the also thrived. we said we could form the difference. eric and i went about with hydra and others to focus on that commitment. at the beginning o

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 brings the ability of a lot of diversity, a lot of ethnic cultures are different, and i think that across america we have a lot better chance to have families describe themselves in the way that is most comfortable for them. and, nancy, it goes even beyond that. it goes into same sex

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joining us with more is sanchez, she is the director of office for children and families in the health and human services departmentthanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> look before you lock sounds simple enough. not everyone is doing this. explain who the campaign is targeting and how it's going to work. >> well, as you said, we know approximately 33 children a year die from being left in vehicles and so today, the department of health and human services join the department of transportation in order to amplify the message and to remind the network of child care and head start providers and parents to check and double check cars, vans, and buses so that no child is left behind. >> when you say the network of childcare providers, daycares, that sort of thing? nannies, is that what you're talking about? explain that further. >> we're talking about family childcare providers. we're talking about center based care. we're talking about the head start providers across this country. but i also want to add to that, that we are also just talking about individuals. so if you're at the mall, out and about, and y

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of the earth. and so reunification efforts to often cease for these families. in some instances child welfare departments really refused to even consider reunifying these children with their parents in other countries. and so these families are at a significant risk of being separated for extended amount of time, sometimes permanently separated, sometimes the children are adopted and you never see the valleys again. >> to me it strikes me. [inaudible] why he think there is that? >> well, i think that in many ways neither system is functioning with the necessary degree of accountability to the needs of these families. parents are detained and lose access to their children. sometimes they're able to get on the telephone to be present at hearings, but they are being separated from their children. very difficult to be involved with the case plan. so when a kid is in the child welfare system the child welfare department assigns apparent to a ticket back, parenting glasses or drug and alcohol issues, a drug and alcohol treatment, things like that. none of that exists for people in detention. people in the race to detention centers have no access to those kinds of ser

of the earth. and so reunification efforts to often cease for these families. in some instances child welfare departments really refused to even consider reunifying these childrenwith their parents in other countries. and so these families are at a significant risk of being separated for extended amount of time, sometimes permanently separated, sometimes the children are adopted and you never see the valleys again. >> to me it strikes me. [inaudible] why he think there is that? >> well, i think that in many ways neither system is functioning with the necessary degree of accountability to the needs of these families. parents are detained and lose access to their children. sometimes they're able to get on the telephone to be present at hearings, but they are being separated from their children. very difficult to be involved with the case plan. so when a kid is in the child welfare system the child welfare department assigns apparent to a ticket back, parenting glasses or drug and alcohol issues, a drug and alcohol treatment, things like that. none of that exists for people in detention. people in the race to detention centers have no access to those kinds of serv

department of labor tried to change the law and further restrict and even prohibit some children from working in agriculture. >> what they were proposing was a little too strong, a little too restrictive. >> pete and his family have owned and run a farm in gill row for generations. they opposed the new rules. >> i think that the current regulations as they are, i think are good and they are sound and i think it's okay for kids that young to be working. >> 12? >> yeah. yeah. >> now, how many hours they work? >> full time. >> so full time meaning 40, 50, 60. >> six days a week, sometimes seven. >> i mean, that's more than full time if they are going a seven-day week. >> after or other critics lodged complaints, they withdrew the proposal in april. the rules would have hurt family farms. but even iola admits some fellow growers look the other way and employ kids 12 years of age or younger. >> i know it happens and that's unfortunate. >> the u.s. labor law has a big gaping hole when it comes to agriculture. >> working for human rights watch, she advocates ending child labor. >> that allows children to work in dangerous conditions even though they couldn't do that same work in an office or in a burger king. >> sh

of the earth. and so reunification efforts too often cease for these families, and, um, in some instances child welfare departments really refuse to even consider reunifying these children with, um, with their parents in other countries. and so these families are, you know, at significant risk of being separated for extended periods of time, sometimes permanently separated. sometimes these children are adopted and never see their families again. >> wow. i mean, that -- to me, that strikes me as a real disconnect between the two systems. so why do you think there is that kind of a disconnect? >> well, i think that, um, in many ways neither system is functioning with the necessary degree of accountability to the needs of these families. um, participants are detain -- parents are detained and lose access to their children. sometimes they're able to get on the telephone to be present at hearings, but they're being, um, separated from their kids which makes it very difficult to be involved with the case plan task. when a kid's in the child welfare zillion, the child welfare system assigns a task like participating class or drug and alcohol treatment, things like that. none o

facebook in aol and the ryan family foundation and the department of education and j&j in the crater of the bullying movie focusing on parents to realize that this issue impacts all childrenlying.gov and what i've tried to do is focus. by talking to the parents, talking to the children. i spoke to dozens of parents but i spoke to a 15-year-old girl whose younger sister is around nine years old and she has a lot of special disabilities, and she of course gets bullied. this older sister is trying hard to pave the way for her little sister to stop being victimized. one of the things that she had done with her and her friends had 15 and had been doing this for a couple of years as they got together to do this smile and hug program. and when they see a kid that is by themselves a little rural maybe, they focus on the girl. the little girl is being shunned and being alone. they make sure that nobody feels alone and when they walk down the hall they see somebody that is sad and they give them a big smile and a hug. they are doing in their own way what we are trying to get people to do, to acknowledge and to see it, to bring some warmth and light to it. i was just so touched by t

of families and children who now don't live in poverty. >> even if that's not really true? >> well, i think it is true. i think the guidelines that came out from the departmentid we want to make it easier to solicit waivers. but even former president bill clinton who orchestrated this welfare to work program back when he was president said it's just simply not true. this ad is not true. >> with all due respect, president clinton vetoed the welfare reform bill twice before he signed it. and i was glad that he signed it. that was a good thing for him to compromise and go forward. it's been a huge success. i think it was a hard-fought battle. i was there when it happened. i thought it was an excellent program to go forward and to lessen that now is wrong. we have food stamps. we're taking care of people who are out of jobs with unemployment compensation. but the welfare program is something that is meant to bring people forward in society and give them a chance to take job training and work and raise their kids seeing them with a discipline to go to work. it's worked. softening that is wrong. that's what the obama administration did with this health and human s