Our office we devote significant resources to this. Just a couple of examples. We have something called the parent project, and i am very grateful in a time of really reduced funding our board of supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a shoe string out of our office, and its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. A Second Initiative we are working to make happen is something called school Link Services where theres all of these different resources floating out there to help children, to help young people, but often its not centralized in the school and so it involves a lot of coopera
And its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. A Second Initiative we are working to make happen is something called school Link Services where theres all of these different resources floating out there to help children, to help young people, but often its not centralized in the school and so it involves a lot of cooperation and collaboration between all different county agencies and were sphere heading that, so those are some of the efforts we have taken in our office, and again from a perspective of the prosecutor and it really offends our sensibility for someone to be taking advantage of to be harmed or abused and
Supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a shoe string out of our office, and its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. A Second Initiative we are working to make happen is something called school Link Services where theres all of these different resources floating out there to help children, to help young people, but often its not centralized in the school and so it involves a lot of cooperation and collaboration between all different county agencies and were sphere heading that, so those are some of the efforts we have taken in our office, and again from a perspective of the prosecu
And in my comments at the beginning i spoke of the wonderful experience and having 3,000 opportunities yesterday see bully the movie. I spoke of all of the administrators seeing bully when they came back from summer break and develop their plans on their campuses here, so i would like to go deeper and talk about a couple of things and before that i appreciate what rosylyn and the Previous Panel said about the term bullying and run the risk of it meaning something generic and meaningless and the word of the day, so lets talk about what it is. Its assault. Sometimes its aggravated assault. Its kidnapping. Its coercion of human rights. Its stalking. These are different pictures when you think about it in those terms. Thats what bullying is so in San Francisco unified we say we have a zero tolerance for bullying or any kind of activity like bullying i want to decouple zero tolerance from the notion of having punitive measures because we dont believe in that. We mean that every classroom, e
Parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. A Second Initiative we are working to make happen is something called school Link Services where theres all of these different resources floating out there to help children, to help young people, but often its not centralized in the school and so it involves a lot of cooperation and collaboration between all different county agencies and were sphere heading that, so those are some of the efforts we have taken in our office, and again from a perspective of the prosecutor and it really offends our sensibility for someone to be taking advantage of to be harmed or abused and we want there to be justice for