funding. staffing. facilities and yet they died on the vine. you know why? because they couldn t collaborate. that s the elephant in the living room. they came from different paradigms. let me conclude with this. i talk about hope. growing up. seeing some of the things i saw. i learned a very important lesson and that was this. streets around here. selling newspapers on the border town. i saw things a young person shouldn t see. i learned an important lesson and it s this. in order not to get beat up. i am speaking to you the way my father talked to me. he was a doctorate from the field. you can tell i really value of the elders. he taught me a lesson. all the things i put up with. have hope. because i remember, coming home sometimes and i said, look what i bought you on special. people were making fun of me. do you know what color the shirt was? a bright yellow shirt. i looked like a light bulb. the role of the elders is important. when you talk about hope, ladies and gentle
streets around here. selling newspapers on the border town. i saw things a young person shouldn t see. i learned an important lesson and it s this. in order not to get beat up. i am speaking to you the way my father talked to me. he was a doctorate from the field. you can tell i really value of the elders. he taught me a lesson. all the things i put up with. have hope. because i remember, coming home sometimes and i said, look what i bought you on special. people were making fun of me. do you know what color the shirt was? a bright yellow shirt. i looked like a light bulb. the role of the elders is important. when you talk about hope, ladies and gentlemen. i want to remember the works of victor franco. he looked, he was one of the survivors of a/sweuts. this too shall pas. the best way to build hope is have a plan. when i talked about being on the streets. it s very operational. have bigger brother and cousins. that coalition building. i was flying back. i did a key-note. goi
mihoe. because i respect, you are always angry. no it s the fire in me. the day i stop being angry is the day i stop caring. let s talk about collaboration. i did the best practices paper. sb 95. we have programs throughout the state. they had money. funding. staffing. facilities and yet they died on the vine. you know why? because they couldn t collaborate. that s the elephant in the living room. they came from different paradigms. let me conclude with this. i talk about hope. growing up. seeing some of the things i saw. i learned a very important lesson and that was this. streets around here. selling newspapers on the border town. i saw things a young person shouldn t see. i learned an important lesson and it s this. in order not to get beat up. i am speaking to you the way my father talked to me. he was a doctorate from the field. you can tell i really value of the elders. he taught me a lesson. all the things i put up with. have hope. because i remember, coming home somet
i also want to give a special thanks from anderson and anderson counseling. if you have ever seen the movie anner management, george was the consultant on that movie. he is an expert in conflict mediation. i want to thank george as well. i am so very honored to introduce our key-note speaker this morning. doctor francisco revelez. and mta director annette ford all were people who were self made, are self made. doctor revelez was born in el paso. he labeled as a migrant worker. he also served as a division one principle with credentials in biology and chemistry. how did he get from biology and chemistry? today he is a senior faculty member at california university and he has dedicated his entire career to get out of survivor mode to empowerment mode. he believes that when young people are made to feel successful, they are better able to take a stand and feel empowered. he has expressed that in so many ways. he is a researcher. each mind is a world with carlos santana and edwar
pain with that, huh. in the book i wrote. i interviewed 60 role models and all of them were at risk astronauts. it made us who we are. i have scars. i have a doctorate, but also scars. wisdom comes from making mistakes. i have made a lot of mistakes ladies and gentlemen. i am going to speak about collaboration. i am going to talk about the role of expectations. i will speak to the value of hope. because when you re in an ugly situation. hope means so much. it s a global concept. in the research i do with resilience of children. close your eyes. bear with me. go ahead and hope them. i am not going to take you through a visiblization. i charge for that. some of you did not close your eyes. you looked at the other people closing their eyes. i asked students why? because i don t trust people around me. there are islands when children run to the nearest adult. if i am not dressed like this. i am dressed like i do at home. that guy must be a gangster. when i speak about at riskness