Im honored to be considered as a mayoral appointee to the new citizens advise have i Committee Seat 4 representing philanthropy, currently serve as Program Director [inaudible] our sole mission at the foundation is to increase access to high quality Early Education for San Francisco lowincome children and families. Since our inception in the 80s, the foundation sought to work in partnership with providers, with families, with the School District and with the city to create high quality system of care for children and families. Just briefly, my work at the foundations fathers a decade of public service. I had the challenge of serving as the director of policy and planning and being one of their early Human Service coordinators for them mayor newsoms initiative. [inaudible]. I would say its notable for this convening that hoover the most exciting and flourishing parts of my career, i founded the child care facilitys fund during welfare reform and under my tenure, we created 12 new state
Child care dom f comes into the city, the worse things are i think for our delivery system, so thats why i like to do it and im going to keep my comments brief because im nervous, so im open for questions. Thank you. Whats the size of your site . 14. And you have other staff besides yourself . Two others. What kinds of Child Development do you ak chess in terms of knowledge or getting information around Child Development in terms of keeping your i have masters degree from Early Childhood education, and i teach at San Francisco state in Child Development, ive been teaching there for 8 years. There are a lot of people in the field who actually go back to stay on with quite frequency to keep up to date with a lot of the Child Development knowledge thats happening in the field. Right. And thats been built into the system. I dont think so. I think the increase in demand for the assistant of b. A. s for preschool teachers and more education for assistance thats prompted more people to go bac
Ballot created and Sandee Blechman was chosen, as a current chair of cpac and last year as a chair of our Public Policy committee, i am confident that she will represent cpac and be an asset to the committee. I wanted to note that half of our members of our committee are [inaudible] information shader will reach beyond cpac to our community at large. As i take minutes, these are shared with our lists that are sent out to over 500 people in our community. I thank you for your leadership and the Community Process in developing the office of early care and Education Citizen Advisory Committee and you appointing Sandee Blechman for seat number 9. Thank you, right on the bell. My name is lynn maris, im standing as director of the [inaudible] i wanted to strongly support fonda davidson to be on this committee, fonda has worked with me for the last 8 years but she has been a leader in Early Childhood education for 30 plus years. It is not an accident that fonda dividers and Cross Cultural Fam