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
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 cooperation and collaboratio
Shift and in San Francisco we are proud of the work around the issue of tolerance but we look at it as prevention. We dont want to be responding to issues once they happen so we work very hard to build relationships that are truly centered around individuality in the schools so to be proactive we build these strong communities. We have conversations about our communities. Our balance score cards at every one of our schools developed and revises every year has a component talking about a safety Healthy Community in it. We talk about fair processes. We talk about having conversations in circles so no one is ahead of the conversation, so we all have equal standing those conversations. Our behavioral guidelines at schools have in are based on this notion of equity and equality and this notion were going to treat efer everyone fairly and jill mentioned my former title and superintendent of social justice and people say thats San Francisco and we believe that a right to a education is i soci
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, 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
Want that to be true we have to be just with one another and i think thats what were trying to do in oakland. [applause] District Attorney. Well first of all i would like to thank you for putting this together. I also want to thank katie miller and rebecca from my office and consistently at the forefront and in the community and Common Sense Media who became a partner last year and katie and her people and rebecca and the School District we started Public Information a year ago and my partner Richard Carranza who is an incredible superintendent, someone i am proud to work with. First of all let me tell you that bullying takes many different shapes. It can be physical, it can be emotional, it can be verbal. I can tell you having been a non English Speaking student and immigrant early on and quite frankly times that were very different that we were bullied all e time and didnt know it was bullying and right to the point i actually dropped out of school, and i think its also important to