Supervisor, served for many years on the partnership and the domestic abuse, board of directors. Please help me to welcome president chiu. Thank you, dr. Murase. And i want to thank all of you who are here tonight, representing the beautiful diversety that is San Francisco. And we are asian, we are latino, we are white, we are black, and tonight, we stand together wearing the color purple. A color that represents the bruises, that we all want to see ended some day. I am proud to be here representing our San Francisco board of supervisors. Our board, we have stood with you with our community, and to make sure that we have programs that are funded where they need to be and to make sure that we have our policies where they need to be. And i want to take a moment, i, i know that claire joyce and inaudible mother is with us today and claire, what happens 14 years ago, i know is something that we all mourn every day, every one who is here. But you know that your daughter and your family name
Lacency it is against the values of human rights, we stand with the men, women and children that are victims and survivors of Domestic Violence. We stand with our Community Justice partners, and victims advocates, and the community to bring to light the issue of Domestic Violence, and in order to keep it out of the shadows. And we stand with you, to help victims find a voice, safety, and shelter. And adult, probation, stands with you to foster a culture of justice, and support, for the victims and the survivors of Domestic Violence. Thank you. Thank you, so much chris cal, our last speaker tonight before closing healing song, is board of supervisors president , david chiu. A true advocate in the fight against Domestic Violence, who even before he was elected supervisor, served for many years on the partnership and the domestic abuse, board of directors. Please help me to welcome president chiu. Thank you, dr. Murase. And i want to thank all of you who are here tonight, representing the
Thank you for being here. Through whatever you are passionate about, service will improve your life as well as the lives of everybody that you serve. Thank you again, for being here, for paying attention to this. And thank you to mary. For her inspiration. Thank you, so much, nicole and we also honor the memory of lewis and her family, who are here as beverly mentioned and next we will be hearing from the adult probation, director crystal tuluc who is here on behalf of the adult probation chief, wendy still, and please help me to welcome crystal. Good evening, thank you to inviting adult probation to participate in this event, parking San Francisco Domestic Violence awareness month. And the Mission Statement of San Francisco adult probation is protecting the community, serving justice, and changing lives. And we emphasize changing lives because over the past five years with the vision and drive achieved still, adult probation has been elevated as being a nationally and internationally
Next, please help me to welcome, someone who represents the heart of this community, my dear friend, beverly upton. I am so honored to be with everybody today. This work goes on, and it is difficult but it goes on. What does it take to shine a light on Domestic Violence . What does the city have to have . Well, tonight we will see that it is going to have city hall lighting up purple. But what does it really have to have at its heart . It has to have leadership and it has to have justice and it has to have advocacy, leadership really starts at the top, and in San Francisco, it starts with mayor ed lee and his team at city hall and preventing and intervening and funding those of us who try to stop Domestic Violence. Thank you. David chiu, and the board supervisors, their doors are always open to us and we meet with them year round on the legislation and budgetary issues and their leadership shows, every single day. Emily murase, dr. Murase, and the department and the commission on the s
Thank you, and i sing something that is more familiar with everybody. Aint going to let nobody turn me around turn me around turn me around aint going to let nobody turn me around i am going to keep on walking, keep on talking, going to let the freedom. Turned me around aint going to let no violence turn me around i am going to keep on walking, keep on talking, marching up the freedom land come on you all know it. Aint going to let nobody turn me around, turn me around turn me around. Aint going to let nobody turn me around i am going to keep on walking keep on talking marching up to the freedom land thank you. Another round of applause for emma jean. In closing, i just wanted to thank the Mayors Office in particular, deputy chief of staff Paul Henderson and arocha, and now this Domestic Violence beverly and her crew. And my amazing staff and especially policy director kandel and policy fellow, ifton for the tireless efforts to make tonights events happen and please admire our city hal