Come back the next day i was hired. When i walked out of there, i said i was going to find me some [speaker not understood] in this community and thats what i did. So, what i did, i developed a website, home boy hotline, i went and got the 501 c 3 and i found 20, i got 10 to 25 employers all over the bay area thats willing to hire people, to shelter, in the tenderloin, i got a couple telemarketing places. Also i deal with on the private Industry Council in oakland, i deal with western community center, i deal with hospitality house, downtown in San Francisco. These places help you get your resume together. And what i did also, i went and found all the websites that would offer job training. I just put everything on one website, any type of place that would help you with a legal resource and housing, i found a place in oakland, let you stay there for 18 months and you can get Truck Driving skills, construction trade. Upon release a lot of people dont want to go back to the same environm
My mom and this was not my mom. She went on to say she was thinking of committing suicide and she went on you tube and found some videos that some of jills friend had made about jill. And she thought, if somebody loves jill that much, maybe somebody loves me. Im always touched by that. Some day bullying will be something of the past. I also wanted to say we need to work and i see representatives here of cities and counties because those same children are on sports teams under the city rec department, they are receiving services and they are in programs with the county and so having this training, having this awareness go beyond the schools is really important. So i thought id mention that. The other thing that we are moving towards in education is more digital. Well see less textbooks and more Digital Learning and with that we are promoting a Digital Literacy policy which deals with a number of issues and im going to go back and look at the draft policy to see how well it deals with th
I currently am a Program Manager here in San Francisco. I also am a certified treatment counselor and currently attending college out at San Francisco state university, applying for graduate school to become a social worker. I worked with the mayor with the court systems. Aye im more familiar with the probation department. I am familiar with the reentry and i am very familiar with incarceration. I served time both in state and federal facilities in the united states. For me, its been a life journey, but its everything thats allowed me to become who i am today, which is a person who loves to reach out and help another person get his life back on track. Some of the things ive experienced here in San Francisco is homelessness, longterm drug addiction, all those problems ive overcome. Today i work in and out of the county jails, out of san bruno, [speaker not understood] brightvthv. I currently supervise intern counselors who try to go out and change peoples lives and touch their lives in
Much more on that in just a moment. This morning, new sexual abuse allegations against Dennis Hastert. Well be getting a lot into that in just a little bit. Hillary clinton is hammering republicans on Voting Rights as she gets ready to launch the next phase of her campaign. And a motorcycle rally in iowa starts the next phase of the republican race for the white house. We begin this morning with the difficult day ahead for joe biden and the entire biden family. The funeral mass for his son, beau who was himself a rising plal star. The former attorney general of delaware. He said he want today run for governor of delaware. He died one week ago at the age of 46. The funeral is set to begin later this morning in delaware. Two and a half hours from now. It will be hard in wilmington delaware. We will be carrying it live here on msnbc. President obama is expected to deliver a speech. We are live outside that church. If you will please set the scene for us what we can expect today. Reporter
Next, the 25 minute debate on the senate floor. It is now time for us to vote up or down on the nomination for many reasons. The nomination has been before us now inadequate time to get the information which our colleagues have asked for. There is also the looming fact of sequestration. We need to have a secretary of defense who is not only in office, but whose leadership is not in limbo, but is there. Our troops need it. Their families needed. Our country needs it. We have 66,000 military arsenal in harms way in afghanistan. The president of afghanistan has directed the United States to remove its special Operations Forces from a key afghan province. Our military bases key decisions about the pace of the drawdown between now and the end of 2014. The size and composition of a residual force in terms of conditions for the ongoing presence in afghanistan of the United States Coalition Partners after 2014. At the same time, we face new and growing threats elsewhere, including the ongoing