the youth-friendly version is this. it says what it is and a bunch of other stuff on one page instead of all of that. so we just want to ask them what the application process will be. we want to be fair and kind of make sure that they know what they are trying to sign up for and have the proper information. >> another concern we had is the manner in which we prioritize which students receive the fast passes, and which schools? this year, there are only 12,000. there are over 30,000 low-income students that qualify for free or reduced lunches. >> another question, they used to be sold at the schools. could it not be replicated? >> when i attended the middle school in maybe 2004, i remembered that a secretary used to sell fast passes and i would go each month and pay $10 or whatever it was. it mysteriously stopped and i never knew why. it has been done before and we should do it again. we also want to see if there is a possibility of existing school sites and advisory councils, pierre resources. -- peer resources. we want

at risken talking about youth. me in theut studio again ae felicia gaston of the phoenix project of marin, and dan with m marin county housing authority. you started c to talk about the boys we saw in the story who are doing well.s we talked about chris. how about matthew? >> matthew has completed his program at the conservation corps. he completed hisio ged and high school diploma and now he'll bed seeking work in another area, hopefully doing the same type of work that he's learned great skills. >> that's fantastic. you also, i heard you have aou couple of kids who are going to have jobs. >> this is most exciting. since this segment aired before, we have two young men who have beenho placed in the local labor union, 291. they are receiving some apprenticeship training in san ha i don't know for three weeks and when they finish thish friday, they start work next week. >> that's exciting. dan, i'm thinking about all partners that you have in this. it's amazing. when you really have brought a communityhow hardun was

have the youth.he youth it is time for us to make a change. martin lectur luther king and mx did not fight for us to end up like this and end up locked up and most of our brothers away from their kids. they fought furs and i am. >> >> i am here to say to you today that these youth are the ones that will fight and they will also go further and higher, so that's a wonderful speech. >> let's give all of our youth a hand class. these are our future leaders and make this city what it's supposed to be and coming up and developing new leadership in san francisco and the western edition. thank you (applause). >> okay. we're going to keep it going. we have only a couple more performances. the video ccoalition and we have voalists coming up here today. where are they? i'm like -- i guess we're moving on. okay. so where is brown sugar? okay. well, i know prince hall is ready. is prince hall in the house? is prince hall in the house? where is she? what? oh -- wait sister davis. excuse me we have technical diffic

that's with working with youth and in media. the idea was born at a workshop we were doing with youth who expressed feelings of disempowerment. no one was listening to them. and although his heart is still in his music, roz understands the importance of listening to the voices of young people and of being a man tore and that's often the most difficult role anyone can undertake. i work in juvenile justice and roz and i often talk about how fearful adults are of young people and how wary how adults are interacting with youth who aren't their own. we know that working with youth is among the hardest and most rewarding things you can do. roz has traveled to europe and japan with his band and he has been sent all over, even to kenya to represent his community as an organizer and as an artist. he always come home to continue working with the youth on a weekly basis here in the bay area and on reservations. he just returned this week from working on the ute reservation in colorado with youth instructing them how to write lyrics and cre

here to talk about the youth violence. is barry krisberg. he's a distinguished fellow and lecturer and residence. thank you for beingsi here withs today. >> thank you for having me. >> how bigin is the problem of youth violence? we hear about it inar the news, but don't really have a handle on it. >> well, the bad news is that generally the united states has one of the highest rates of youth violence throughout the world. and california, among theca american states, has some of the highest rates of youth violence. the good news is that the trends have been downward for the last ten, 15 years. so we're seeing some mitigation of this problem. >> that's good news.s. but what are some of the problems that contribute to this? societal problem, the economy? there are a lot of factors. >> there certainly are a lot of fa i think that increasingly we'ree seeing that young people who get involved in violence have themselves been victims or witnesses ofti violence in their homes. to the extent we have serious

what other substances are youth taking today? while most youth who use, do use alcohol, marijuana runs a pretty close second with high use in marijuana. but probably the most rapidly growing segment of new use is in the prescription drug area with high increasing numbers of new users coming into the system who've used prescription drugs and normally getting it from a relative or from friends. and inhalants may be a problem as well? inhalants is a problem at younger ages more so than at the older ages. we see a higher use of inhalants with the 13- to 17-year-olds than with the 18- to 24-year-old. and the challenge with inhalants is that they're more readily available. they're in the homes, so. gateway-type drug to using other things, eventually. monique, what are some of the factors that really place a youth at risk? well i think factors that place the youth at risk for using substances include underlying mental health issues. i think that environmental factors play an important role if they're in a community that is highly suppor

and for youth versus adults, that would be a better route for parents to be cognizant of if their child has a problem, mark? oh, i think so. there's a few other things that are really critical components of adolescent treatment as well. let me just say quickly family involvement is absolutely critical, not just counseling while they're in treatment, but coaching parents how to deal with the ups and downs of post-treatment recovery. well thank you, thank you. greg, let's go to you. i try to get-to get placed in a treatment program and i cannot. my parents can't find anything. is there anything that parents and families can do? yeah. i mean, it's a challenging time for a lot of families. the system that we've set up, you know, publicly and privately, is not the easiest thing to access, you know, behavioral health services. and, you know, there are a lot of stipulations and qualifications that young people need to meet in order to be accepted into a treatment program and have the resources to fund the treatment program. so we do find a lot of young people in that area and a lot of families

they have a youth program and she was honored there.lso she will be with us for a couple of segments here on "comunidad del valle." david, we're back at it again. this is another event where as i mentioned we highlight those who don't want to be highlighted but they deserve to be highlighted. >> absolutely. and this year is actually a real special event. it's our 25th anniversary and we're back honoring those unsung heros and those well deserving people from the community who put in a lot of effort and energy to building their community while having their own accomplishment along the way. >> you're one of those who has worked in this community for such a long time. you don't get the accumulates that you deserve. you don't do it to get the accolades. why do you do this and why is it so important to you? >> my main reason is to give back to the community. we've been blessed as a family. by giving back we touch the lives of many young people and unsung heros like you're talking about and letting folks know there are wonderful people that d

in serving the youth we have to work with their families and how the youth during and after school hours affect the community and how we can work together to make things better for the youths and the neighborhood. >> welcome. i'm mark christianson vice president of the mersed extension triangle neighborhood. 280 to the east and south along with bright street e. we are fairly new organization. we were founded in 2000. so, we have been an association for 7 years. my background is i'm a third generation of san francisco. a teacher in the school district and cofound of met ma. we publish a news letter 4 times a year and have meetings 4 times a year. we decide today's best not to meet too often if we meet too often we will water down our base. by meeting quarterly we get 35 and 75 beam to attend a neighborhood meeting. we represent 500 to 600 homes in our area. i have news letters later on, copies of news letters if you are interested to take with you and we will talk more about that later. >> good morning i'm judy best of my recollectionwits. bs fn issa a 35 year organization has 45 organiza

they have done a terrific job of serving the youth and the community. it is supported by the community center, our neighborhood services manager, and many members of the community. president buell: maybe we will find out now if anybody disagrees with you. >> is there any public comment on this item? public comment is closed. president buell: i think at reach worked on that one. >> the chief operating officer is here if you have questions. president buell: i think in the interest of expediting matters, i will ask for a vote. president buell: i was going -- commissioner bonilla: i was going to make the motion. >> for god's sake, somebody make the motion. president buell: all opposed? hearing none, unanimous. >> item number 12. >> are we using the power point? i am also not going to go into too much detail about why we are choosing to permit food carts. you have heard that from the. i am delighted to tell you about the san francisco car project, a rotating market operating in the park. what is exciting is that it will enable the committee to assist mobile

i know we have done great work with the community youth center and many community-based organizationsthomas has participated in at least two service projects per week since 2007. carly estop more pursuing a degree in marketing, he has also been active in the community from a very young age and has volunteered for callous area nonprofit organizations. graphic and by design has always been his passion. he has always volunteered he's design skills for countless organizations, which include building web sites for the chinatown neighborhood center, north beach neighborhood associations, american or in performing arts, and the asian american pageant. he was also a project coordinator ad a community youth center where he spearheaded community clubhouses after school programs. i even visited a program that he created, and he has taught asian youth graphics and web design, so we are honored to announce his leadership in the community. >> i would like the coordinator this year to join us. [applause] >> congratulations to thomas. do you want to say a few words? >> thank you for this amazing awar

i am the director of children, youth, and their families. we're going through some really tough economic situations. however, we're still prioritizing the children, youth, and families that live in the great city of san francisco. one thing the mayor was very concerned about was the lack of summer school. it is not enough just to have a summer program. it does not matter if we have a great program that is only three or four hours. it really does not help the working families in the city, our working families and our city. what we wanted to do and did through the most recent rfp process was to expand summer programs. if you get funding from our department, and you need to provide at least five or six hours of summer programming so that parents and families can go to work. the program will be meaningful for them. they can actually use it. for this round, we were able to fund close to $2.4 million of summer services. this is beyond what we did last year. mayor newsom: that is what people want to know. >> it is definitely and enhancement. under

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we have worked collaborative with the school district, the police department, the youth program urban services, ymca, juvenile probation, and the d a's office to develop a pilot that was launched late april through the end of the school year, and we targeted this pilot with two communities that contributed most to the chronic and habitual truant to population, and that was in bayview and the western addition, so with the baby station and the northern station in particular, and we then went out and did a lot of outreach to all the roll calls for both of the stations and talked with police officers. we have done outreach to the community resource centers, with a number of community-based organizations there in the schools, that a number of the young people participate in. and there are a couple of new members to the select committees, so let me talk a little bit about how this was intended to be operational and. we have discovered, and we have come up with a strategy where the police will go -- if they see young people hanging out the 20 hours of 9:00 and noon on any day monday through

we are trying to create a one- stop center where we would actually provide youth academic and psychosocial assessments, and it would work closely with the district in order to be able to prevent some of the current attitude of continuously being truant. i wanted to invite someone who has been collaborating -- collaborating with us a lot more and taking initiative on a day-to-day basis. liz jackson is the person that has been one of the instrumental people that has been supporting some of the day-to-day work there at the center. >> thank you. good afternoon, commissioners, board of supervisors. i'm the executive director of program development with the ymca in san francisco and branch manager with urban development services ymca. first of all, let me thank you for your continued interest and support of the truancy assessment and referral center. we have been working since january to come up with a comprehensive strategy and plan and have actually begun to launch a pilot that my colleague, the director of the tarc center, will give you more details about. we have worked collaborative with th

we are looking forward to great things from the youth. >> very, very briefly into one aspect of those three main areas that we focus on. that is our service connection model. we are very proud of the service collection model. they can actually use that to progress their lives. so briefly, the goal is to stablize the families, as i mentioned before. we were very intentional about creating a service network that's behind the service connection m working with that. we have been able to bring the human services agency to the table. the office of economic work force and development, the housing authority, sfra. it really is a collaborative mode. not only for programming, but how we direct those. there is a strong focus on work force development. chair maxwell: i just wanted to say, this is really an historic model. we have not done this before in san francisco. we worked very, very hard to get this model, because at one time it was just hands off. that was h.u.d. we did not have our services in there. we had nothing going on. and then one day, the light came on, and we did some work, we di

it is our solution to distribution of the youth pass lifeline. you might be wondering, what is the fast pass? it would cost $10 a month, and its purpose is to be given to students who qualify. -why create the fast pass? it would be for the students to have affordable muni access. there are a few main reasons why. >> the first reason why, as you can see on the pie chart, the unified students are strongly dependent on muni. about 70% of the school district students take muni. it is very important for them to have a mode of transportation. the second one is the rising cost of muni. in may, 2009, it was

rec park staff run a huge storage chip program and also in natural areas -- a youth stewardship program and also a natural areas program. both could complement the programs at heron's head park. similarly, india basin and heron's head offer similar wetlands habitat and passive recreation opportunities and would complement each other well in terms of the capacity that rec-park has for soliciting public participation and the unique habitat is that both of these sites offer. for example, the it red anc and aprpark program called "the greenagers" is made to increase teenagers' commitment to working in a natural environment and give those youth peea peer group among those who share interests. we think a group like that would be great to tap for their interest and involvement in heron's head park as well. with that in mind, i am requesting today your authorization to advertise an opportunity for a port-funded grant to a qualified nonprofit organization to provide environmental education programs similar to what we have been operating for the past four years, with some new twists to take advan

in the hopes of the youth commission, is to get the ball rolling rather fast. september hopefully can be the first month that we can start this program. two other notes i wanted to throw in there. >> i do appreciate how you reformatted the application form and maybe we can take note of that in some of the applications. i do think that this is a little unclear in terms of what the application is like. i like how you guys redid it. do you have an extra copy of that that you can give? >> are there any other questions? >> why don't we open it up to -- why don't we see how many members of the public want to speak and then we'll come back for questions in a second. why don't we provide two minutes per speaker and invite up any individuals interested in speaking, come forward. if there are other speakers, if they could come and line up so we have a sense of how many speakers we'll have for this item. >> good morning, supervisors, and commission. as you know, transportation will be cut to high school student starting this august, and with the assignments, many of the s

(applause). >> now, we know that most of the organizations and most of the youth that are here are from district five and the western edition but it is also a growing family, a impressive growing family and just one year ago we were here and did not know what the word mo magic was and if it wasn't for the persistence and tenaisity of the community partners today we wouldn't be here for the second annual summer show case. this isn't just about non violence and restorative justice. this isn't just about hope and having fun in the summertime. this is about community. this is about building community. this is about doing something with consistency and love and being able to shine in city hall and broadcast exactly how we feel about great programs and our kids and the future in doing so in a wonderful atmosphere today i want to say thank you to mo magic and all the ceo's that made this happen and thank you for being here and supporting our children and our wonderful organizations. thank you very much. (applause). >> i think i am bringing up assembly member mark leno who has been steadfast in

the california youth summit accounts of emerging leaders from the chicano latino youth leadership project, jr. state of california and the california ymca youth and government programs. thank you for being part of our hi-5 and giving us a wave in an earlier picture. if you want to be part of future hi-5s email us at mornings@cbs5.com and we're also on facebook and twitter. >> great photo, wonderful cause, continued success to you guys. here's a look at ocean beach and it's foggy out there. we have clouds and drizzle at the coast. here's a look at the daily planner. as you move around the bay, still looking at low clouds. so much so we have delays on arrivals at sfo. just short of one hour. if you are traveling, you might want to call ahead and inland a mix of sun and clouds. plenty of sunshine this afternoon. sunshine clouds around the bay temperatures upper 70s. and lingering low clouds for the coast so much so temperatures at the coast in the lower to mid-60s for daytime highs. inland warming up to near 80 in mountain view and sunnyvale. 80 in santa clara, lower 80s in san jose. the upp

the summer youth employment program will be -- keeping us engaged. the summer youth employment program will be enhanced. 3005 human beings have the dignity of work. thank you for his leadership. this is amazing. here is the good news. we just got the appropriation of of the house for enhancements. if the senate agrees, this is a staggering number -- if the senate agrees, we will draw down from $154 million into our local economy for. that is how this program is. over half of those are african americans. i am so proud of that. this is a big deal to get started, so this extends to the entire board for the hard work on this. thank you, speaker policy, and thank you for highlighting this. after school for all will be a reality in this year's budget. that is of a deal as well. we will be 97% there with this budget carmen something that got -- with this budget, something i think we should be proud of. they create a new office of child care and early learning. thank you for their guidance and support. phase one will be the consolidation of staff, and then w

it is about really digging deep and understanding that there are youth, even though we do not like to think about, there are youth who have experience complex multiple trauma in their lives, and it is not as simple as they do not want to go to school where they do not want to learn or whenever we say, so it is really exciting to me to see that we are now looking at this as a city challenge that we need to all work together and bring whatever our pieces are to the table, and yes, it is true that san francisco unified school district has not been able to solve this, and i can say for me personally in my background, it has been really frustrating -- early in the game when i would have these one-room schoolhouses with maybe two or three teachers and there were no social services, and now, to really see this coming to fruition where we recognize that those issues are the domain of education or the domain of all of us because they are our kids is really exciting, and i'm very new to student support services, so what i can say is that the commitment was there before me to engage in tarc and

fran, what is the extent of the problem with youth in america?urvey from samhsa is that around 10 million, a little over 10 million of our young people, are using alcohol and substances. that actually breaks down to 26 percent of them are drinking and another 17 percent of them are binge drinking, which is having more than five drinks in a row at one setting. so it's a concern of ours that our young people are really starting to accelerate drinking and drugging than they have in the past.