And identifying safety issues and reunifying children if possible. If not we determine a permanent plan for the child through legal guardianship or adoption. All children in need of protection of abuse and neglect are eligible to get services and its the legal responsibility to seek out relatives to serve as a viable placement option for the youth within the United States and within their home country so thats what our staff would do, locate relatives and place them with them. At this point family and Children Services has not seen an increase of the children come being to our attention. Many children are being placed with relatives. We have been in discussions with the state department of social services that indicated that is where the federal government is placing these children is relative and family other family members. We anticipate as ken said that as children remain in this country for some period of time we may at a later point and time begin to see children coming to our att
Department is responsible for investigating the service determining if children should be in the home or removed from the home on a temporary basis while working with the children and identifying safety issues and reunifying children if possible. If not we determine a permanent plan for the child through legal guardianship or adoption. All children in need of protection of abuse and neglect are eligible to get services and its the legal responsibility to seek out relatives to serve as a viable placement option for the youth within the United States and within their home country so thats what our staff would do, locate relatives and place them with them. At this point family and Children Services has not seen an increase of the children come being to our attention. Many children are being placed with relatives. We have been in discussions with the state department of social services that indicated that is where the federal government is placing these children is relative and family othe
Quickly. And unfortunately, mr. Lee passed away that evening. That had a great impact on brian and me. It was very sad, but it was so touching that he had seen mr. Lee and mr. Lee had confirmed that brian was number one driver. This is San Francisco paratransit. Its not perfect; we have our ups and downs late trips, frustrated customers, stressed out drivers. But at our best, we get our riders where they need to go on time and with a smile. And when we Pay Attention real carefully and notice whats happening on the van, taxi, or at the senior center, we notice that our drivers make a difference in the riders lives and the riders make a difference in the drivers lives. Good afternoon and welcome to the city and School District select committee for september 25, our first regularly scheduled meeting post legislative recess. I want to thank the staff at sfgtv and Jennifer Lowe for making the transcript available on line and recognize our clerk derek evans. I am your chair and joined by our
Our attention. They would come to our attention if there were any allegations of abuse or neglect or through Mental Health services they were referred to us because there were issues with the families they are with. Any foster care providers that we utilize are required to complete a state licensing process for background checks and a grounds inspection, and most recently this require became a standard for all relatives and non related extended family members so we are now in the process of having the samesame standard as we call it for relatives and extended family members and licensed caregivers. We are working with the department of Public Health to develop a First Encounter protocol and i am working with the state department of social services in discussing this issue and usually we have about a monthly call. Weve provided the departments numbers Contact Numbers for our child abuse hot line and for our Foster Parent recruitment line because we have seen an uptake in people interest
And commissioner wynns. I am notified that we dont have a quorum today to take actions today but have a quorum from the board of education members. I would like to apologize to the members of the city family that worked so hard to prepare for the meeting today but given everyone has taken the time to come out and present on the issue before us also to speak on this i worked with the clerks and we are going to call the item so that any members of the public that have presentations can still do so and then we can have Public Comment and that we will have to reagendize this item for next months joint select Committee Meeting in order to take action on this item. Committee members who does make it here will be sure to ask questions during Public Comment to extend your time period and of course any members of the public can speak after that so this hearing oh i guess we should take roll call first. On the call of the roll. Supervisor kim. Here. Kim present. Supervisor avalos. Avalos absent.