francisco human rights commission regarding the needs of lgbtq youth in san francisco. this proposed legislation was to address the needs for sensitivity training and cultural competency for all of the departments and for the city departments and their contracted agencies who are receiving pardon me, $50,000 or more for city-funded administration for youth services. the training would address at a minimum, lgbtq youth with disabilities, lgbtq youth with hiv, immigrant 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
visiting the commission s web site. the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit good morning, everyone and welcome to the thursday, june 6, 2013, meeting of the board of supervisors and neighborhood services and safety committee, my name is david camp os and i am the chair and we joined by norman yee and supervisor eric mar is excused the clerk of the board is derek evans and before we turn it over to the clerk, i also want to acknowledge the following members of stgtv staff, jessy larson, and jennifer low. could we have a motion to excuse supervisor mar? could we take that without objection. and mr. clerk if you have any announcements. make sure that you silent all cell phones and devices and complete the speaker cards and the file should be submitted to the clerk, items acted upon today will appear in the agenda unless always stated. i want to acknowledge john gibner who is help
today will appear in the agenda unless always stated. i want to acknowledge john gibner who is helping to cover the meeting today with that mr. clerk, if you call item number one. it is a hearing regarding various city departments efforts to implement, the lease bean gay, and transgender chapter 12 n. we have been joined today at the committee by supervisor john avalos who is the main sponsor of this item that is co-sponsored by supervisor weiner and myself and i want to thank supervisor avalos for his leadership, for asking this hearing, welcome to the committee and supervisor the floor is yours. thank you, chair campos and i want to thank you for quour co-sponsor ship along with supervisor scott weiner, this is a hearing to review what the city is doing to provide sensitivity training for the city employees and contractors who interact with lesbian, lgbtqq. this goes back to the 90s when the youth commission and the human rights commission have hearing in response t
lgbtqq. this goes back to the 90s when the youth commission and the human rights commission have hearing in response to committee stories about the youth who access the health services in the city experiencing discrimination, and even some cases violence. and these hearings led to the adoption of the chapter 12 m of the code requiring the sensitivity training for youth serving the city departments and employees and contractors, however, chapter 12 n, does not specify for maintaining compliance with training requirement and enforce naturally there is little effort to implement these trainings. and there are a number of indicators of the out needing need for competence and compassionate services for the youth. perhaps the most sobering is the data from the school district on the increase risk of suicide among the lgbtq students, 35.5 percent of less beans bisexual and 49 percent of transgender youth have attempted suicide compared to six percent of the non-transyouth, they are
board is derek evans and before we turn it over to the clerk, i also want to acknowledge the following members of stgtv staff, jessy larson, and jennifer low. could we have a motion to excuse supervisor mar? could we take that without objection. and mr. clerk if you have any announcements. make sure that you silent all cell phones and devices and complete the speaker cards and the file should be submitted to the clerk, items acted upon today will appear in the agenda unless always stated. i want to acknowledge john gibner who is helping to cover the meeting today with that mr. clerk, if you call item number one. it is a hearing regarding various city departments efforts to implement, the lease bean gay, and transgender chapter 12 n. we have been joined today at the committee by supervisor john avalos who is the main sponsor of this item that is co-sponsored by supervisor weiner and myself and i want to thank supervisor avalos for his leadership, for asking this he