our youth advocates, who will be joining us to make this happen. and i want to welcome brandy wyndham from our baby youth advocate program. [applause] hello, my name is brandy wyndham. i m 15 years old attending thurgood marshall as a junior. have i been living in bay view all of my life, witnessing and experiencing many thing that s have taken place in my community. what i like about my community is we re able to relate to one another with similar views and do our best to stick together as a community. bay view is facing bad publicity because of the thing that s go on within it. i can personally say bay view needs a huge change. this community lacks support in different areas. teens walk around streets with low self-esteem and no hope so they decide to run to the streets with their friends. they barely have anyone to go to for help, guidance or encouragement. violence is also one of the main problems in bay view since jobs and programs aren t really available. they have no
support it. thank you, sarah. thank you. we re rare very fortunate to have staff that work tirelessly to make dreams a reality. please welcome c.y.c. project manager, eddie zhang. thank you very much, everyone. i m very grasteful for all of your presence because all of you represent the models that we need to follow as city officials, as community based organization leaders and as he people who want to make positive results in our community. because without you, there will not be any one of us left y? we have to come together. this is definitely an historical moment for all of us. one of the things i know is that there are a lot of historical drama in this community. while many of the people don t know about the suffering of african-american communities, suffering of asian community and the latino community, who really are the nucleus of this community, then we don t know about each other s history. we don t know about what we go through all the time. starting the youth,
thank you for joining as this morning. this is another milestone in cyc history, the opening of our bayview branch office. in 1970, we opened the organization to expand our geographical reach to over 4000 east and families each year. it is heartwarming to see some many of our friends, colleagues, and supporters to share this special day with us. we are also honored and humbled by so many of our city and state officials from our funding agencies and foundations. thank you up for being here. and now, it is my privilege to invite mayor lee to say a few words. thank you, sarah, for your leadership here and jamie for your board leadership as well. i m here along with board president david chiu, supervisor cohen, who represents his district, community leaders that are here, extremely valuable city officials, police chief, juvenile probation official as well. i see tom. welcome, welcome. [applause] tom has historically been a big supporter of young and thank you very much, tom,
thank you. to make this branch office possible can t be happening without funding support. we first must acknowledge the california endowment for supporting our vision of the establishment of this branch office. and we must acknowledge and thank the mayor s office for the continuing staff support we have received over the years. at this time i would like to interdue brian chiu, director of community development for the mayor s office of housing, to say a few words. i just wanted to say what a pleasure it was for our office to receive the community development programming for the city and be able to offer c.y.c. a $50,000 grant, seed money really, to kick off this program. i have been familiar with the great work c.y.c. has done since my community activist days in the 1990 s. for a number of years, sarah and i have been talking about the need to bring c.y.c. into the southeast, to recognize the changing demographics of the city. and we were really looking to support and ag
thank you for joining as this morning. this is another milestone in cyc history, the opening of our bayview branch office. in 1970, we opened the organization to expand our geographical reach to over 4000 east and families each year. it is heartwarming to see some many of our friends, colleagues, and supporters to share this special day with us. we are also honored and humbled by so many of our city and state officials from our funding agencies and foundations. thank you up for being here. and now, it is my privilege to invite mayor lee to say a few words. thank you, sarah, for your leadership here and jamie for your board leadership as well. i m here along with board president david chiu, supervisor cohen, who represents his district, community leaders that are here, extremely valuable city officials, police chief, juvenile probation official as well. i see tom. welcome, welcome. [applause] tom has historically been a big supporter of young and thank you very much, tom,