Programs, and this pilot will also include additional caregivers, who provide what grandmas do, like what mayor breed talked about, so often, aunties and grandmas show up to support our youth. As i step back and think about building a community where every young person can experience all that it means to be free, i want to end today with a quote from a young person who grew up right here in San Francisco and was interviewed by our friends at the elements freedom center. She said, freedom is when we reach back and pull the next sibling with us because we see your brilliance, and we know that you will shine when surrounded by real love. Let us pull each other with us, and let us all move forward with love as we move forward. Thank you very much, and it is my pleasure to introduce doug styles, the executive director of Huckleberry Youth Program [applause] thank you, alia. Thank you, mayor breed. Thank you, my classmate, emily. Thank you to larkin for hosting this fabulous event. Its an Incredible Group of people for this collaboration thats been brought together. What we need to start with is that trafficking, Sexual Exploitation happens here in San Francisco. These are our children. It is a systems issue, not an individual issue. No one chooses to be exploited. Trafficking and exploitation inhibit the entire community from thriving. Thats why weve all come together to change the trajectory of lives of young people affected by trafficking and exploitation and to prevent others from becoming more deeply involved. In 1967, Huckleberry Youth Programs established the first youth shelter for run aways in the country, addressing reasons why people found themselves on the streets of San Francisco. Unfortunately, our 52 years of experience, we have seen too many young people commercially sexually exploited and too many young people at risk of human trafficking. But every day, we also experience the resiliency of young people. This project is an attempt to bring together various experts from various fields to provide the needed supports for young people to heal and to provide the chance and the necessary tools to reduce the risk of further exploitation. As one of the partners in this project, Huckleberry Youth Programs will provide case manager and Mental Health support to divert young people to a safe and healthier life. Our experience, working with adolescents in challenging situations, whether its Mental Health counseling, Juvenile Court diversion, we know that young people thrive when they direct their own future. Our process is to listen to each youth, hear their hopes and dreams, regardless of their current situation, to traem thtraem treat them as human beings and become a catalyst for changes. Huckleberry Youth Services will be part of the crisis team to provide services to young people when are they need it the most. Well be able to work with young people to maintain their current living situation, and for those with less permanent housing, a placement coordinator will help determine a safe Living Environment for their future. We will provide Residential Counseling staff. Finally, if Emergency Shelter is needed, huckleberry house will provide temporary safe home environment. As a native san franciscan myself, raising my daughters in this city, i am very proud to see this collaboration come together and very excited to work with this Incredible Group of people. I look forward to a future where we no longer need these services or these programs. When all of our children are safe, healthy, treated justly, and are well educated. But we have a lot of work to get there. By working together with the support from the California Department of social services, i believe we can build a stronger community. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much, doug and alia. In closing, i want to introduce the San Francisco continuum team, the department of the status of women, just give a wave. Huckleberry, youth and family services, family builders, west coast childrens clinic, Edgewood Center for children and families, claires house, learning for action, berkeley human rights center, and of course larkin street Youth Services. [applause] finally, i want to give a shoutout to the Mayors Office of human tracking. Through these bodies, San Francisco has odd voe indicated for critical services. Through this grant, were going to be tackling Homeless Service and housing options. I want to thank the housing Advisory Board and Youth Advisory Committee for putting this all together. Thank you for joining us. [applause] [ ] homelessness in San Francisco is considered the number 1 issue by most people who live here, and it doesnt just affect Neighbors Without a home, it affects all of us. Is real way to combat that is to work together. It will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and Community Members all coming together. [ ] the product homeless connect Community Day of Service Began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. What we do is we host and expostyle event, and we were the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. Theres over 120 Service Providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5 to prescription glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting, showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal Service Providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that Service Today here it is an actual, tangible Service People can leave with it. I am with the hearing and Speech Center of northern california, and we provide a variety of Services Including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. To follow updates when they come into the Speech Center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their year, deciding on which hearing aid will work best for them. If they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use it for any other services that they need. San francisco has phenomenal social services to support people at risk of becoming homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of waste. Bringing everyone into the same space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to sign up for medical, what you need identification, you dont have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a d. M. V. , you go across the hall to the d. M. V. To get your i. D. Today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming to cs for followup service. For a participant to qualify for services, all they need to do is come to the event. We have a lot of people who are at risk of homelessness but not yet experiencing it, that todays event can ensure they stay house. Many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for medical or learning about d. M. V. Services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. I am the representative for the volunteer central. We are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. On a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get tshirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. Our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the Different Service areas and help them find the Different Services that they needs. One of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing is by working with Homeless Outreach teams. They come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into shortterm shelter, and talk about housing1st policies. We also work very closely with the department of Public Health to provide a lot of our services. We have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service. We have folks that help give out lunches in the cafe, we have folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. Volunteers, i think of them as the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. Participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets. We do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their pets with them. They can bring them into the event as well. We also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. We also have a bag check. You dont have to worry about your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. We get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss, but they didnt know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. Our next event will be in march, we dont yet have a date set. We typically sap set it six weeks out. The way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. We always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. A lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they dont know how they can help, and defence like this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. 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