G. Now, lets hear yours at the only online forum with a direct line to Stephanie Miller. The only thing that can save america now current television. Join the debate now. [ music ] stephanie all right, all right, all right. You got it 24 minutes after the hour 1 800 stepj12 the number toll free from where. Anybody who is a low level factor that wants to be a staffer, here he is, kal penn. Good morning. Good morning thanks for having me on kamieniecki thanks for think doing on, you are in massachusetts right now . I am. We are driving up to New Hampshire from massachusetts in pennsylvania yesterday. Doing campaigning. Stephanie i was going to say isnt the president ahead 20, 30 points in the president s home state of massachusetts. We are doing a lecture at boston college. There are a lot of great folks in the bordering states, a lot of californians encouraged tou drive into necessary nevada and folks in massachusetts drive over to New Hampshire to help us. Stephanie this is what its do
6foot something. Next to him is [applause] and next to him is George Gaston and elect to the District Attorney of the city and county of San Francisco in 2011 after winning more than 62 of the vote which in San Francisco is very enviable and focused on reducing violent crime, protecting vulnerable victims and respecting with high School Truancy and rel havent to the conversation today. Last is cheryl young and the chief executive director of gate path and oversees a large nonprofit in San Mateo County and focus on turning disabilities into possibilities and shes a wonderful addition to the panel and its an area that School Districts have to deal with in terms of special needs and what were talking about affects these children if not more than the other children so thank you cheryl. [applause] so we have a large panel and they can all tell you i sent them an email yesterday said you will have a brief time to say what you do, what your organization is doing, address the needs of the kids
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 that victim and we want that offender to change their ways and we want that the climate and culture in which the bullying takes place begins to change and its not acceptable so we use a combination of hard power
The hard power in a Prosecutors Office, in a Police Department, its arresting. Its putting in jail. Its going in court and find this person guilty and punish them. Thats a kind of hard power and most of what is done in a Prosecutors Office most of the resources are devoted to those hard power tasks, but although we devote less resources to soft power there are probably more important and soft power is where you change the hearts and minds of people. Where you try to change cultures, try to change the norms in the community are and certainly in 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, throu
You will have a brief time to say what you do, what your organization is doing, address the needs of the kids suffering or facing bullying and i told them they have two to three minutes, not 23 minutes and im going to hold them to it so jeff lets start with you. Sure. Thank you. I think one thing that a perspective that prosecutors can to this discussion is first of all the reason people become prosecutors generally they dont like it when other people are taken advantage of. It really offends the very core for a prosecutor. You know i often joke i dont even like when people cut in line but i recognize there is not necessarily a remedy to that, but so bullying is something that almost everybody has had an experience in their life of being bullied, and i think one perspective as prosecutors is if we dont address this todays bullies and if we dont address it are tomorrows batters, and todays victims of bullying becomes tomorrows victims. That is painting with a very broad brush, but its s