This park is open. Just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of San Franciscos our community to the meridian gallery has a 20year history of supporting visual arts. Experimental music concert, and also readings. Give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. And lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] meridians stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. It gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. It is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. You want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. I felt like at meridian, it could do some good. We did not even talk about price until the day before the show. Of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community.
Level of migration, and sometimes by the time that the police and we get there, there is very little that can be done. And unfortunately that is not only bad for the family, it is bad for our community and it is bad. And you know, i have saw this before and you know, i have used it and i am stealing this work from everyone else and i heard once that a few, engaged in Domestic Violence in your home and you are almost guaranteeing that your sons, will grow up, to be abusive themselves and end up in jail. And we need to work together, to win this cycle of violence and we need to get to the day, for having, this meeting and this come ration of success to suppose to still talk about one out of every four women being the victim of the violence in their life and i am really honored for the company that we have hear today and we have a lot of work to do and i look forward to being able to continue to work with you. Thank you. Before i introduce my commissioners i want to report that thanks to
Domestic violence survivor and that means, working collaboratively with the Police Department and the department of Emergency Management and making sure that we are able to respond and identify those bi lingual officers, who can provide critical response, and we significantly increased investments in services to women and survivors of violence and their families. And the city did provide increased funding for Community Based Domestic Violence agencies with a particular focus on at risk populations. Such as the lgbt q and limited english, and immigrant survivors and we have expanded training on the Domestic Violence for the agencies and the Community Partner and that means that we work in a very collaborativive way, for just the violence and cross training and training over 437 criminal justice. inaudible and that includes, judges, that includes all other personnel that are working within our criminal justice system. And we have also made sure that we have victim responses to the system
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Report, when it is in your fully bound form and review it. And really appreciate the work that has gone into not the report, itself, but the work that has gone into making the critical and necessary changes that we have the Critical Response to the Domestic Violence in San Francisco and let me just give you a few of those highlights etch of which is not more important than the other and each stands alone with great importance. And one, we have been able to achieve the greater accountability for Domestic Violence, offenders and working with the probation department, and and the others to achieve this end and we have exexpanded Language Access for Domestic Violence survivor and that means, working collaboratively with the Police Department and the department of Emergency Management and making sure that we are able to respond and identify those bi lingual officers, who can provide Critical Response, and we significantly increased investments in services to women and survivors of violence