lgbtq youth, and lgbtq of color, sexually abused lgbtq youth, run away and homeless lgbtq youth and lgbtq for non-accepting households although this was enacted 14 years ago unfortunately a significant amount of time has passed without action on this item until late 2010, and when the critical issues effecting the lgbtq youth community begin to have a greater prominence on a national stage as we saw an increase on the incidents of the lgbtq suicide and bullying. as part of an hrc advocacy for the communities and other marginalized communities, they began to sphere head the revitalization to this issue to foster enforcement by working in conjunction with the youth commission to identify efficient ways to provide the impact and departments with the resources needed for greater enforcement of 12 n, and the culture sensitive to the cultural come penalty training. >> as one can imagine, funding was at issue and it was to you know, for the strategy development of the training. we were able to identify the department of public health had already in place a similar training protocol upon wh

psycho social risk factors and issues impacting lgbtq youth of color. we know the importance and the significance of pronouns. and a revelation that came to me in my personal out reach to jodi swarts when we needed some technical assistance and a matter involving a youth on one of our units and we are forever grateful for that consult and looking forward to more consults with miss swarts. >> specific issues impacting the youth in this training, are reviewed and including recent research on the youth. and factors impacting their detention, their experiences in detention, and emerging policies juvenile justice system policies related to those youth. >> residential care and counseling guidelines for working with these youth are presented with our officers being able to actually practice their newly learned skills with lgbtq youth. finally, the course curriculum includes a section that identifies existing community support services in san francisco, for our officers to use when developing appropriate release and supervision plans. >> and a licensed clinical

youth and what their ongoing efforts have been to serve the lgbtq youth. so, we see this as a great first step in conversation with the departments and we want to hear the challenges that the departments have faced in implementing 12 n. and with that, we would like to continue assessing what kind of training and leadership will support implementation of best practices for serving lgbtq youth. so, we would like to continue this conversation with the city departments on how to best implement 12 n to its full extent. >> we would like to thank all of the members of the committee and all of the city staffers and departments who are here today for this important issue thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. colleagues any questions of youth commissioner? >> okay. let's go into the next presenter.. >> david moray. good morning, i'm david with the sum man rights commission where i am an analyst and also in communications. i would like to first extend my sincerist appreciation to you supervisor avalos and this committee for leading this call for action on

we also act as consultants to the departments who want to roll out some type of lgbtq training for the employees or supervisors and i recently conducted with the police department who is rolling out some training lgbtq training for all of their 150 plus command staff. so, in order to secure the harassment prevention training they put out an rfp and i know that it is mentioned that is the suggestion that there be one put out to get proposals of what types of training vendor haves out there and that could assist in putting together a list of training options for departments to secure those trainings and we at dhr since we have already done an rfp regarding harassment prevention training we would be happy to share the list of vendors because that will help in starting that contact with those vendors and communicate with them regarding training products. >> i think that that sounds like a good stab and i also heard from mr. baxter that a lot of the work in producing the video that we have was done with a lot of work locally with young people and this is an rfp process we want to look at ho

taking up the trainings on sexual harassment and it might make sense that we need to have a training on lgbtq youth and how to best serve the community. >> absolutely. >> so just to give you a sense of some of the feedback that we got in these initial showings, people felt this video was powerful and p personalized the issues and it was the young people talking to them and i think that they like that had and it was professionally done and found the discussion to be rich and official and it is better than one on one training. i think that what this may do is think a little bit and so some of the comments were, humble and flexible and you are in a learning mode that is key. and also, number of people who really said if you are going to do this, have you to have a professional, or a good discussion guide we would performed a trained facilitator. so far to date, we have not made huge progress, i have to say in reaching 8,000 people but we have done 7 trainings, in what under 200 people and have five trainings already schedule in july. and as i mentioned earlier it is available now on-line, it is

the youth community in improving their quality of life but also the quality of life for the whole lgbtq community in san francisco. with that i certainly welcome to answer whatever questions you may have of me at this time. >> thank you, for your presentation and thank you for your work and for how we can actually have models to implement from and here in san francisco. and it is great to know that we have something at least going on with the public health department and i think that it will be a little bit, and we will be able to replicate and use elsewhere. and but i appreciate your work on this. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. next up is michael baxter from the department of public health. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here, i am putting up a powerpoint and i can't speak these days without one. i want to thank you for the invitation to speak today and talk about the process that we have gone through in the department of public hel and this it has been a process to take us two years to get here today and i want to acknowledge the youth commission and i would like just to

we have already been doing these trainings and offering provider trainings for lgbtq competency for 20 years we are a dcyf contracted agency and i just wanted to say that i think that there is a lot of room for collaboration and basically they said that actually there is already funding in every agency's budget for ongoing training and professional development and if we can prioritize making this something that is a priority and saying that every agency needs to say this is required and let's do it and i mean that every staff has to go through certain training. and so i do love the fact that there is a video and i do agree that there does need to be the human one on one component and we do the training, and it is always the discussion, we do the popular education-based training so they are not boring and they are absolutely interactive and they really put the training recipient at the center of the conversation so that they can then use their own experience to learn about that the other people's experience and i find that to be really effective. and so i would say, you know, recommenda

francisco, i do a lot of the classes and trainings with hifi and do a lot of volunteer work at the lgbtq center. i have actually seen you there. >> i used to be in foster care, and it was really hard as a transyouth and to identify as a pgp, >> and they were put. >> i was put into... >> an all girls group home and i was in a room with a fellow roommate who was actually transgender phobic and i had to deal with it to advocate to be put in my own room or someone i would be comfortable. it took three months to get my own room and put up with this girl for a long time. >> and afterwards they put me in a foster home where the family told me that i couldn't stay there and i had to be a female if i was living with them >> it was very hard. but, you had to get through it. i don't think that any youth should have to deal with that. >> thank you. >> thank you for sharing that. >> next speaker please? >> hi, my name is lorenzo harris and i am also a youth here in san francisco and i actually just arrived here four weeks ago away from washington state because things were not going well there. and i

so support services for lgbtq youth provides [inaudible] we provide professional develop. we have liaisons in all our mids and high schools. we bring in theater paren presentationings. at the bottom there is our website link, which also has the policies and procedures as well as curriculum that our educators and some of our students can access if they want. it's the first program of its kind and the only one that's integrated throughout the whole district. >> 1.3 of our middle school students identify as transgender and 1.6 of our high school students identify as transgender. >> we wanted to put a little bit of context into our general populations and you can see here that about 1600 identify as lgbq, with the large else number in our middle school students falling under the q. in our high school it's about 1800 who identify as lgbq. there's a slight drop in the percentage here to 11 because the q shrinks for high school. >> why is the t not there? >> this is just on sexual or yen /taegs. orientation. >> so now we'll get into some of the specific data. our first slide show

trainings and to prioritize them because they are important and also to recognize the fact that the lgbtq sensitivity trainings don't insure attitudes and behaviors and to access the best practice to make sure that the youth are actually receiving the quality care and one of the ways to do that is by tracking them. how do we know that they are not slipping through the tracks if they are not tracking who they are. and obviously the different people have come up with different concerns for that and i am not a legal genius and i just want to urge that is important. because, youth access and services is already a challenge, and it is already a struggle that the youth go through, so to receive for the youth to actually feel safe receiving the services that we provide as a city and we need to have these best practices created thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, for summarizing at the end and any other member of the public that would like to comment, come forward and seeing none we will close the public comment. >> and commissioner campos. >> thank you. >> i don't know if you want t

we've seen the trends of transgender women [inaudible] broader lgbtq community. i'm excited we get to talk about this issue and i hope this results support from not just in funding, but for the broader issue that transgender women are living with be [inaudible] which results in unstable housing and results in conditions that [inaudible] isolation and fear. and so family rejection -- all these things create a culture where it's not safe to be transgender. we've been trying to provide more holistic support so we can mitigate some of the psychological and mental impacts that the violence has. thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon supervisors. i stand here not representing the organization that i advocate for, but a concerned community member. i will continue [inaudible] she was mission police department has been working on transgender community on [inaudible]. next month is our tenth year. there's gonna be a whole lot of transgender out in the community that's gonna be out to celebrate. the hotels know crimes that were committed in the h

road with some of these other departments and of course, dcyf who has then a lot of work with the lgbtq community especially youth, and you know, just to recognition that more needs to be done. and i think that the main thing and i would leave it to supervisor avalos and i want to thank you, supervisor for identifying this issue. i do think that we need to come up with a way of overseeing compliance. the 12 n ordinance does not really provide for that. to include, the body or the hrc or i don't know who, that actually provides a report so that is actually someone that is compiling all of the information because i think that like even though, it is amazing that the departments that came and they are probably the departments out there that need to be looked at but i think that this is one of those things where i think that all of us as adults in the city government have to take responsibility for the fact that we have not done anything that we need to do. and the amazing things going on in these departments and i look forward for your leadership and thank you for your comments. >> i am ac

and right now in america latinos and african americans, lgbtq and msm are the largest growing sector of hiv/aids. please keep that in mind and i respectfully and humbly ask you not to cut the funds available because if you do before 2013 is out, aguiles will shut its doors. thank you. >>> good evening, everyone, [speaker not understood], i'm the executive director for [speaker not understood]. we have been involved in hiv prevention and health services for some 20 years now and i want to speak a little bit about the hiv continuum of care, how critical it is for the latino community. i first of all want to ask the board that all these cuts be restored, that we not have any dph cuts. i know there's a challenge. i sit on -- have sat in the mayor's cdo task force and i was very happy and relieved that a large portion of restoration occurred. i think this is the opportunity to make that a complete picture. dph budget is important to all communities. you heard today from the clients who are in, you know, in settings where they need care 24 hours. you've heard from clients who are in other

people, especially around in schools and-and communities for kids that are being bullied and-and the lgbtq communities and-and all these areas that we've kind of left alone for a while. we're all working together, and that's the key-that prevention, treatment, and recovery services with the national and local organizations coming together will march, so to speak, to be able to send the same message. it's all about messaging, and it's all about supporting each other. arthur? well, what i would say is that i think government plays a large role in supporting these organizations, and it's really critical. so pat mentioned that in philadelphia we had 18,000 people at our recovery walk last-this past fall. that is significant. the first recovery walk in philadelphia, which is done by an organization called pro-act, a-a community of recovery, had maybe 150 people. but because of our partnership with them, bringing our providers to the table, and the emphasis that we've had in philadelphia on the fact that recovery is possible, we-we in our department do a variety of things from- during recovery m

exodus international that has the basic same underlying messages which is that to be gay to have an lgbtq relationship is sinful. >> reporter: it comes at a time when major polls show a changing attitude towards gay relationships and support for same-sex marriage. gay organizations say this is an historic time. >> the republican party and in religious institutions, you know, really stepping forward to say, you know we have come to an understanding that, you know, this is a moment when we understand that equality is absolutely essential. >> reporter: exodus says it plans to shut down its operations by the end of summer. >> linda, there are other ministries that push this so- called pray away the gay therapy. are they going to follow suit here do you think? >> reporter: well, already a lot of them have split with the exodus church. in terms of it disagreeing with chambers' decision, i tried to get ahold of four ministries that are aligned with exodus. here in the bay area. none of them returned my calls. >> linda yee in san francisco, thank you. >>> george, any response to what bart is alle

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