Thrilled that this happened and we have been able to recently really show our support for peer resources at a time of transition when its needed. I am committed myself as others connected to the program to be a supporter of whatever needed. Thank you. Thank you. Roll call please. Thank you. Ms. Wong. Yes. Ms. Fewer. Yes. Mr. Haney. Yes. Ms. Maufas. Yes. Ms. Mendoza. Aye. Ms. Murase. Aye. President norton. Yes. Seven ayes. Commissioners, if you will do the honors with the certificates. Thank you. All right. The next item we have recognition of mentoring for success. Mr. Superintendent. Thank you president norton. I would like to ask kim coats and the staff of mentoring for success to please come forward. [applause] and mr. Kevin [inaudible] good evening superintendent, commissioners, i am can i havein trin from the support department and i promise said we would be quick today so my reputation is on the line so we have two programs in the department we are very proud of. Yes peer resourc
Audience tonight who are now or who have ever been associated with peer resources to please stand. [applause] thank you so much and so i turn it over now to ms. Tam to say a few words. Hi. Once again i am ms. Tam director of peer resources. Thank you. We are honored by this commendation and excited to be here. We especially while i have the chance i want to thank you all for your support at peer resources especially at this critical time of transition and as the superintendent mentioned we are now independent and a project of community initiative, so moving forward peer resources mission is to create justice change in our schools and communities through the leadership of young people engaging, training and advocating for young people, and with that im going to turn the podium over to Dominique Sanchez. [applause] all right. So i am Dominique Sanchez and i want to thank the school board and the superintendent for this honor and having me here and Peer Resource Program is a program that
Dominique sanchez and i want to thank the school board and the superintendent for this honor and having me here and Peer Resource Program is a program that allows the youth to educate their peers and we cover topics such as peer pressure, self esteem, sexiel Decision Making and my class is working in racism and we work on how to combat interpersonal and racism and we get to pick the topics that we want to learn about, but personally pier resources is not just a program to do extra circular activities and i can open up. I surround myself with people from different backgrounds. I feel im a leader and can compete in the top ton Ivy League Schools and i can take on everything and i want to thank her for her help and i never thought i would be up here speaking and i am thankful for being here and lets go 49ers. [applause] any comments from the board . Well, i will just say on behalf of the board how much we appreciate the work of peer resources for our students and thank you to the commissi
Aye. President norton. Yes. Seven ayes. Commissioners, if you will do the honors with the certificates. Thank you. All right. The next item we have recognition of mentoring for success. Mr. Superintendent. Thank you president norton. I would like to ask kim coats and the staff of mentoring for success to please come forward. [applause] and mr. Kevin [inaudible] good evening superintendent, commissioners, i am can i havein trin from the support department and i promise said we would be quick today so my reputation is on the line so we have two programs in the department we are very proud of. Yes peer resources. Thank you very much for honoring peer resources. Theyre a great part of my department and also parenting with them is our mentoring for success programs. We have four grants. We had a [inaudible] with the District Attorneys Office and this is one of the projects were partnering with the District Attorney on. We currently have 640 mentors in the city mentoring 740 students but the
Have been an active supporter of peer resources for more than 20 years and i am just really thrilled that this happened and we have been able to recently really show our support for peer resources at a time of transition when its needed. I am committed myself as others connected to the program to be a supporter of whatever needed. Thank you. Thank you. Roll call please. Thank you. Ms. Wong. Yes. Ms. Fewer. Yes. Mr. Haney. Yes. Ms. Maufas. Yes. Ms. Mendoza. Aye. Ms. Murase. Aye. President norton. Yes. Seven ayes. Commissioners, if you will do the honors with the certificates. Thank you. All right. The next item we have recognition of mentoring for success. Mr. Superintendent. Thank you president norton. I would like to ask kim coats and the staff of mentoring for success to please come forward. [applause] and mr. Kevin [inaudible] good evening superintendent, commissioners, i am can i havein trin from the support department and i promise said we would be quick today so my reputation is