. >> a few more speaker cards, torrey, and tony, redoc, and sumor, and ryan, minvar. >> and hi. i have been working with at the cross roads and for the homeless youth in san francisco and i am here to talk about the need to focus more attention on black street youth and in a city that is 6 percent black and 39 percent of homeless adults are black and this pairs repeating in a city that is 6 percent black and 39 percent of homeless adults are black. >> not only is the third the most logical but it is what we are seeing at the cross roads and 58 percent of our clients are black and this number has risen dramatically over the past decade. and as the black population in san francisco declined, the black youth have fewer options in the community to turn to when the immediate home is not working. and they are turning to the streets and their needs are not being met by the social service system and they do not fit the typical profile of what the homeless youth look like. and the only people targeting them are law enforcement and they rarely identify as being homeless youth and so they