Anything else. And in any event, fcs is going to be notified, and if the arrested parents or the school, either fcs is notified and the School Resource if heser and if they are not available the School Principal and it is something that we are working on the Domestic Violence and the general order and dealing with this issue about children and Domestic Violence scenes and the incarceration of the parents. 30 percent of the children report having seen a respect equilibrium weapon drawn or sirens, when thir parents were arrested. Does sfpd have the ability to limit the amount of exposure. It is going to be flashing lights. Well, it is going to be. It is not an emergency when they are not supposed to have the lights and sirens on and they will not have the guns on if it went bad, we are probably going to have the lights and siren. Okay, thank you. Thank you, very much. Captain. We are talking about the joint meeting of the joint commission. So ladies and gentlemen, i have on the list, 12 people to make the presentations and i am going to have to cut some of them and let the department of the Public Health and kenneth, human, Service Agencies and noel and the department of children, and the department of Child Support, and the San Francisco unified, and we dont have a lot of time to allow to you make a presentation, if you like you can submit your slides, or your talking point for the files, and so that should anyone, and i want to thank you for your time for sitting through this and i am grateful. And so we do have two more speakers and first we have a presenter from the juvenile probation and then that will be followed up by adult probation. I am the director of probation services. And i am here on behalf of chief nasu, who is unable to be here and i believe that it was sophie that said that there needs to be more work on the data, and standing here, i would have to agree. We would like to address the services that will assist in addressing the trauma as well as stabilizing their homes. And as a matter of daily practice, our staff always inquire as to the where abouts as parents and seek to establish the care givers for all the youth. And conduct a family finding effort, through the notification coordinator who works to locate the family members who serve as the replacement or even as a means of providing Additional Support for the youth under our care. We have a program known as aim hire that will assist in addressing the specific needs of our youth and families, they are meant to address the cultural competence in any language needs as well. And as the board is probably already aware, with the extension of foster care, and the juvenile probation is also working with the youth up to the age of 21. And we have brought on two social workers to work with our minor dependents and we konlt to assist the youth in the transition into adulthood by linking them to the Employment Services and the transitional housing when there is no permanent home to the life skills and Case Management as well as the Clinical Services within the community. And additionally, they are currently working on two new programs that we hope to implement by the end of this summer, and for sure by the fall, that focused on Family Support and engagement and i think that someone mentioned about parenting programs and to a certain degree it is what these are and we are just trying to call them more Family Support and engagement. The parents are opening to Parents Program and right . They feel like they dont, and it kind of has a negative connotation to it, and so, these are some of the things that we are working on and we hope that we will assist in the stabilization of homes and revent the reentry into the detention and foster care. And so we, in closing, i will say that we recognize the importance of the families where incar ration has been a part of their life and work with others to be sure that this sis you is a consideration. While we help the youth to remain or connect ko the stable homes. Could you describe to us what is the percentage of juveniles that are on probation, that have a parent who is incarceration or has been formally incarcerated. We dont that data, as i mentioned earlier, what she said from the juvenile commission was right on task there. Thank you very much. And our next presenter will be jennifer from adult, and yes, adult probation. I am the director of the Reentry Division and i just want to offer to feed half of my time and i have the two points that i can make and sure. I am here on behalf of chief wendy to whom the issue is of primary importance, and we are continued, and so that we have invested substantial resources in a new program and it is an alternative sentencing program, in partnership on the juvenile and criminal justice, at cameo house that houses up to eleven women and 22 children, and the alternate is the sentencing program, affords the woman the opportunity to serve their time out of custody. And so that they are not separated from their children and may have up to two children each, and avoid, jail or ultimately prison commitment. And obviously, ultimately avoid, children entering the foster care system and so apd supports the expansion of the alternatives to incarceration for parenting individuals, and opportunities to keep Families Together in the community, rather than being separated, and we also, recognize the need, as we have heard a lot about today, for mental health, services, and services for individuals, children, with learning differences, special needs, and developmental disabilities, and regardless of their status, and regardless of their status as a cal work recipient, for example, or a foster care, and one of of the challenges, foster care, child and one of of the challenges that we experience is that the experience on probation are disconnected from the other Community Based services that find their life line is through the Probation Department which creates kind of a disincentive to be successful in probation and terminate and so we advocate for more Services Available for the children and families that address their urgent needs. Director . Thank you. Karin, the director of Child Support and thank you for the time, and i just really wanted to quickly say with respect to our demographics, for our caseload, we have approximately 53 percent african american, 33 percent latino and with about eleven percent asia and three percent caucasian and i want to highlight the work with the Sheriffs Department and we go in and we are the first county in the state of california. We provide the on Sight Services to the parents and the reason that this is so critical, and so important, for these families is upon release the families are facing a tremendous amount of debt and we have since 2006, identified over 3300 parents, and those parents are responsible for a debt that exceeds 21 million, and most of that is the cost for the public assistant and there is a commit thament they make when they draw down and, so it is truly critical for us to get in front of this issue, so i just wanted to highlight that work and in addition to that, and we are working with it is service and we are working on the office of economic and Workforce Development to get the parents employed, thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for your work. Thank you. And thank you. And okay. And mr. Chair, that concludes the presentation, and we have a stack of comment cards, it is that i have been told that we are going to be breaking up the Public Comment into groups and i am not sure how that is organized. Maybe i will call Public Comment, i will bring up sidney, and Elizabeth Har ris, and kerri, and then amiratuby, hello. Hello. My name is sidney klenis for 18 and a half years my stepfather was incarcerated in federal prison for more than 50 years i have been a teacher of children and teachers and parents writing books on how to support childrens growth and development i have been a commissioner in pasadena and i was the first child to visit alkatraz, these facts combine to make me an expert on children with parents in prison since i have the practical experience of what that means and understanding of Childrens Development it was on my initiative and i have grateful to jeff for mentioning it that the bill of rights was adopted by this board of supervisors and all community continues to meet prompt direct action from you. To make the lives of the many, many children who have a parent in prison or jail, safer or more come prehenable and more respectful. How can we have children visiting their fathers and mothers in rooms where they cannot touch each other . How can we have children who for leans of adult anger or poverty do not see or touch or hear their jailed parent for the whole of their inprisonment. Great, how can we allow our punishments to make it the case that the children are doing time right along with their parents. And except when there is clear and present danger if the parent and child meet, this relation should be honored i propose that the board of supervisors create a Standing Committee to defend the children of prisoners to take. We dont have time for two paragraphs. We will take it. Thank you very much. Elizabeth harris, you are next. Elizabeth harris here . Okay. All right, we will move on, kerri shinder . Next is amira tuby. Much of what i had planned to say has been said, and i am grateful to project what and to the public defenders and others for their statistics. What i would like to share with you very briefly is three sentences about my background, first of all i work inside california state prisons as a volunteer facilitator as the alternative to the Violence Project which is internationally known for reducing recidivism and one of the things that they speak of is their pain in being separated from their children. Some of whose children are now in their 20s or 30s. I also work on the outside with children of incarcerated parents and as a person who has worked as a resource teacher both at the Elementary School level and also in the Community College level, i see, the Ripple Effect of what happens when families are split. And so that is part of my background. And because of time, there are several things that i am asking you people to take a look at. One is, if you have not read the book, beyond prisons, that you pick that up. That is a very clear and wonderfully written piece about what happened in the disparity, the Racial Disparity in this country and why. The second thing is to please not vote for more prisons. More, jails expenditures, we need more programs, like project what, we do not need more prison beds. I am going to call up the entire project team, i understand that you have one speaker speaking on your behalf . Come on up to the front. I am just going to call into the record the names of the project what people that are standing in support of the speaker, we have amira, daniel yam and maria, and lala jana and alex and desere, and jessica. You may daniel. And allow me to speak on extent for the entire project. I am 19 years old, and i have been part of the project since the summer of 2013, i described your high school and the school of the university of pennsylvania in the fall. My dad is living under the political asigh lum in the United States he was arrested in china for corruption charges and due to the special identity and later he was deported to the United States for have aggressive political attitude in 2010. I came here to enjoin him in 2013, there is no doubt that i love the United States as a nation and a soccer team, but, because this is the United States that who accepted me, and my father when his only country did not welcome there, but the prison system here sometimes makes me doubt the reason why i chose here over staying in china for a less liber ated and yet a less chaotic life. What i want you to know about children with incarcerated parents is that we are a group of children who seem to be aware, but actually we are around you every day, we were born with a pair of parents and so were we, your childhood was filed with the joyful memories of your parents, but ours were not. You love your parents and want them to be around you all of the time and so do we, you feel like you cant live without either one of your parents but we have to, look into your heart and stand up and try your best to support the children with incarcerated parents we deserve your help because we are the future of the United States of america. Great. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right lets see we have another group of folks that we are going to call together, Community Works, one family . Speaking as a group . Yeah. So i understand Community Works, you are going to come together and do you have one speaker. All right. I would like to just for the record call in, or name the folks who are going to be standing, ruth morgan, sarah carson, nadia sharif, eric rice, william ray, and the run the one Family Program in the San Francisco jails and it provides, parenting classes, and supervisor vices all of the visits all of them and we provide the support services for the parents who have open cases cps cases and behind me is my staff, who teaches the classes and offers the support and we also provide therapy for families. I have a waiting list that is 8 months long for them to have a therapist to sit with them and all of our classes have waiting lists and i would like to be able to double my staff and be able to have much more visiting happening between the children and their parents, these are contact visits and they are supervised and supported by the social workers and i want to take the time to talk about the out in the Community Work she does. One of the programs that i over see is roots, and as from the dcf had mentioned it is the first School Based Program for the youth that are impacted by having a parent incarcerated in San Francisco. The students who put on a play in the community, and i discovered that i was affected by incarceration and i discussed my main to take it away and i learned that the criminal Justice System is messed up. I urge you to support that small amount of money that will make a difference. The last four comment cards that i have Elizabeth Harris, are you back . Okay. And i see, is it, tenan. Okay. And thank you. And brian, and then, i dont know what this is. And something martin . Ralph or raymond . Good afternoon, thank you supervisors, for holding this important hearing. First i would just want to say that it is unfortunate that you know the first three hearings, the first three items today were given so much time and this one had to be cut short. But thank you for holding this hearing, my name is tom and i am with the californians united for the responsible budget a state Wide Coalition for 65 organizations reducing the number of people in prison and in jails and the number of prison and jails in california. As we have the discussion of the needs of the youth with the current or formally incarcerated parents and the possibility of a replacement jail, at 850 brian street and we are going to keep a few things in mind. Often, the parents of the children who are in prison, and the rates of custody and the Research Shows that all of the prit on interrupts the damages and severs family bonds and any of the incarcerations is bad for families, and they often lose their homes and jobs and connections with their family and friends. And we need to invest in the Community Based alternatives that are not controlled by Law Enforcement and we need to build the Strong Communities and not jails. Thank you. Richard martin . Brian mencia seeing none, are there any other member of the public that would like to speak at this time . All right. Come up. I know that you guys are in a rush, i just, it is more of a statement, i just want us to remember that when we speak about victims of crime, that these children and the families of the people that commit the crime are also victims, and i would love to see, and i dont have the numbers, to see how much money california gives to victims rights, and i would love to see if it is not happening some of that money not just dcyf supporting the programs but the state of california actually supporting such programs so they can also safe money to save these kids. Thank you. Your name. Joe caldaron. Thanks. I am back. So, she made a presentation. My name is azisi and i am 17 from project what i just wanted to basically add as i shared my story with you guys, earlier i just wanted to say that basically if you guys could find a way to make resources more available like earlier like trying to catch it early like what yee was saying, the earlier that you can catch it the better and it is a shame that the other hearings took so long, bye. Thank you very much. All right, i just want. Mr. Chair, i would like to close out Public Comment and close with just the remarks about how grateful i am for the folks that are working on the city side and on the nonprofit and organization sides, specifically want to call out our many very talented and frankly the future of San Francisco and our youth commissioners and also our youth advocates that have worked with project what, to the adults that are providing the leadership and the guidance and the love and the mentor ship, thank you, this work is incredibly important and it is a matter of lifeanddeath, and colleagues i hope that i can count on your support on joining me as i continue to push this agenda forward to require that the city agencies do a better job of keeping the information and the data needed so that we cannot only create the policy to have a positive effect on the young peoples lives of San Francisco, but also so that we are change makers and as you know, the old adage, if San Francisco goes, and so does california and the rest of the country, and hopefully we can start a movement in our city. Thank you. Thanks, supervisor cohen for her leadership and nonwho has presented but most importantly to the young men and women who have come out and speak on this powerful and i do apologize, that the presentation has to be cut short. We have a lot more things that need to be done sxai lot of the things that i want to say here is why it needs to be careful as we make future investments like this idea of investing in extended or a new jail and i think that money could be used in other ways and i think that is yet another reason why we need to rethink that, and with that, supervisor cohen do you want to continue this or file it . I would like to file it to the call of the chair. We are going to continue it to the call of the chair. Thank you. If we could have a motion to continue. Without objection. Thank you very much, and mr. Clerk, do we have any other business after the committee. No more business. Thank you, the meeting is adjourned and we have a meeting of the rules committee that will be followed by this, and i know that we are taking a break before that happens. Thank you. [gavel] good afternoon, welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, june the 17th, 2014. Madam clerk, could you please call the roll . Supervisor avalos . Avalos present. Supervisor breed . Breed present. Supervisor campos . Campos present. President chiu . Present. Chiu present. Supervisor cohen . Cohen not present. Supervisor fal