because at least it s action oriented, you know, or achievement oriented. i was just a little bit alarmed. commissioner maufus? thank you, supervisor campos. supervisor olague, to your point, i think what you see presented before you today is what the district is doing in recognizing [inaudible] has been happening and not turning a blind aye, and taking some very purposeful, very direct, very intent action and including our staff, our teacher [multiple voices] i don t want to disregard that. also, in particular the very, very strategic about how we bring our students along so they are not falsely led to a place and a path to nowhere. but really, truly, to a path and pathway to somewhere and that at least they have an opportunity to make a choice. but if they didn t have those opportunities to even get to the place to make a choice, then we truly are at fault. and i would agree with you and the concern of others here, and probably everyone in this room, of our histor
couple of instances we provided some support groups for young people to talk about what the challenges were that they had met with successful. these were almost voluntary we worked with the y and we worked with west side services to provide some of those support groups. and we had a couple in some instances. i think it would be good to have the young people kind of give input as to what they found what were the challenges they found in obtaining some of these jobs. sure. i just want to note we have been joined by the director of the department of children youth and families, maria su. supervisor cohen. thank you. maria is here just in time to hear me compliment the presentation. thank you so much. i liked the fact that you were able to identify the risk factors. that s exactly what i m looking for, some thought here in what you re seeing over the last several years. curious to know how long have you been collecting this data? we ve been collecting this data throug
also the chair of youth city services. our priority, no. 7, is implementing 2007 pay recommendations. san francisco, there are approximately 5700 homeless and most are used between the ages of 20 and 24. 6000 lack a high school diploma. 5000 neither work or go to school. not only does the population represents the future adults but also the current generation of voters. then-mayor gavin nissen newsome proposed [unintelligible] the youth task force issued a report containing 16 recommendations. they include involving disconnected youth in municipal decision making and expanding operations for tay, creating individualized plans for disconnected youth. transitioning to adulthood, providing safe and stable housing and more. some departments have responded remarkably such as the mayor s office of housing which convened the working housing workgroup. the city needs to improve its relationship with tay. san francisco is falling short of the regionally assigned goals particularly
we allocated $685,000 to support services for transitional age youth which include case management, bed ged prep and services. president chiu: there is one agency that is point on this even though there are three staff leads in each department has a deputy director. who is is maria su -director? i think the best person is glen eagleston. essentially, he reports to iran and iraq can speak to that. president chiu: your report to him? i am just as colleague. he had another meeting to go to. president chiu: what we often find is to have disconnected services across a number of agencies and it is difficult to find who is setting the goals. do you have a sense of when is a good check and to understand if there is a task force, if there is some body that will be achieving some goals, when is the next milestone? there is a tay executive committee that will be meeting on their own. that is all the executive directors of cbo providers that work with tay. i wish i could speak
i am the chair of theyouth the chair of the youth immigration committee. although san francisco is a sanctuary city and provides a lot of opportunity for immigrants students, as an immigrant myself [unintelligible] and my friends and i don t speak a lot of english or just a transition to a new environment. as well as survey conducted by bcyf. and some youth employment forms. there is consensus that access to a job is a big priority for undocumented youth. a job allows us to better support our family and learn about what this new country is about. how can we provide opportunities for undocumented youth? there is this program that pays undocumented youth. there are many options. scholarships, internships, stipends. because immigrant youth ssa boulder will population. we hope that you can create another program that will help support undocumented youth and ask bcyf to extend the program to give opportunities to undocumented youth. supervisor chu: thank you. hello. prior to