Unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula as indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditional is the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in the traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland, and we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestor elders and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you. So now i believe we need to move into the vote to excuse current and future absences. Laura, if you have any guidance around this, are we going to use the current ones . So its just if anyone needs to flag a future one. Okay. Is there any future absences that need to be okay . Thank you so much. Okay. All right. So well move to item number two. Item number two, which is Public Comment on any matters within our jurisdiction that are not on the agenda. So ill turn it over to you. Ive members of the public who wish to provide in person Public Comment on this item. Please line up at the podium now. Each person will have two minutes to speak. For the records. There are no inperson Public Comments. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item over the phone should call. 415655500011. Access code. 26642568461. And then pound if you havent already done so, please dial star three to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmute and you may begin your comments. Please note that you will have two minutes as moderator. Do we have any Public Comments on the phone for the records . There are no phone, Public Comments. All right. Thank you so much. So now well move to item three, which is approval of minutes from august 24th, 2023. Is there a motion motion to approve the minutes . So moved by vice chair dantonio . Is there a second . Second. All right. A second, second by member cunningham denning. All right. So well move. Is there any Public Comment for approval of minutes , members of the Public Comment who would wish to provide inperson Public Comment on this item, please line up at the podium now. Each person will have two minutes to speak. For the record, there are no inperson Public Comments. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item over the phone should call. 415 a6550001 access code. 26642340097. Then pound if you havent already done so, please dial star three to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Please note that youll have two minutes to speak. Moderator do we have any Public Comments on the phone. For the records . There are no phone, Public Comments. Thank you so much. So well now take a roll for a vote. Member cunningham denning yes. Vice chair dantonio yes. Member friedenbach yes. Member. Preston yes. Chair williams yes. So the motion passes, so the minutes are approved. Well now move to item number four. Our presentations from local providers serving subpopulations. Were very excited about this item. And thank you, everyone, for joining. We first have a presentation by george axon from third street youth Clinic Center and clinic. Welcome director jackson thank you. Good morning. Good morning. So joy jackson, morgan, representing third Street Youth Center and clinic. This is a proud moment because i get to pass the mic to our Housing Leadership team. So coming to the podium is berna posadas, our director of housing and Adriana Ambriz from our our Program Director at the Navigation Center. So welcome. How do i put the presentation on . If you can open it and then well, uh. Oh, there it goes. All right. Thank you for allowing us to present today. My name is bernard posadas, director of housing for third Street Youth Center in clinic. My name is Adriana Ambriz and im the resident director for the lower polk Navigation Center. All right, so today we wanted just to go over a couple of our programs, but also provide you just some housing data in general with our housing programs that we have. Our median age is about 22 years old that we serve on a daily basis, 58 of our youth identify as black and african american, 76 of the youths state that they use substances as alcohol or drugs. Seven 37. 5 of the youths state that they have Mental Health. Regarding our assessments, we are a youth access point as well. And so 61 of our assessments identify as female, 73 identify as black and african american. With that, we wanted to give a quick overview of who we are, what we do. So our goal, obviously, is to End Youth Homelessness primarily in the bayview. Hunters point neighborhood and the surrounding areas of San Francisco. Since we have multiple locations across San Francisco, the youth that we do serve are around 18 to 27 years old, primarily everywhere, right . We have the lower pole Navigation Center as well in the middle of the tenderloin, lower polk as well. We focus on serving our black youth and also our bipoc community. We serve about 168 clients on a daily with all of our housing programs collectively, we since january first, 2020 through september 27th, which was yesterday, we had served a total of 1613 youth and completed. 868 assessments. This is also because we were open during the pandemic and gave Still Services to the youth that needed them connected them to Housing Resources as well. Our youth Access Points serve serve primarily 18 to 24 year olds. We provide problem solving, housing navigation, rapid rehousing referrals, permanent Supportive Housing referrals, emergency housing voucher referrals and transitional housing referrals as well. We have about five locations where all of our youth Access Points case managers provide services us. So being our main location, which is in bayview, Hunters Point on third street and is our newly opened cove office, feel free to come down, take a look. Were super excited about it. Its considered kind of like a drop in center where we have washer and dryer services, showers. We provide food if they need it immediately, things like that. And also we partner with the sac office. So we have a location there as well. We have our hyde street 700 street, which is the lower polk Navigation Center. And then we also partner with sf state as well. So we try to provide more accessibility in San Francisco, considering the resources that we do have available to the youth. We want to make sure were outreaching as much as possible. Our youth Access Points, data being that we had served 868 youth, 524 identified as female, 323 identified as male, nine identified as transgender, and eight identified as no single gender. 629 identified as black and africanamerican, 376 stated that they had Mental Health. 233 stated that they had alcohol or drug abuse. 296 stated that they had experienced Domestic Violence. Moving forward. We wanted to kind of talk about the programs that we had in connection with our youth Access Points and whats available to our organization to be able to provide matches to the youth that we serve. One of our programs being home point, as we call it, at third street, is a Rapid Rehousing Program that it has an extended period of time allowing the youth to really work on on sustaining their permanent housing, maintaining permanent housing and being able to not return into the homelessness response system. With this program specifically, it was designed with the help of youth. So we had a Youth Focus Group tell us what they wanted, right . Lets hear from you. What do you need . Whats a good amount of time for a rapid rehousing for you to be successful . In our program, alongside with having intensive Case Management, they also get the full year first year subsidized 100, allowing them to really focus on their employment needs, their education goals, build up a savings, working with their case manager and building up a budget. And so that way they can have a savings after the first year is completed. Its truly a Housing First model, which has been set exceptionally successful with the youth that weve had. Its a smaller program, it has eight slots, so its very minimal. We hope to grow this program. With this. We have served 21 youth, 19 identified as black or african american, seven identified as male, 14 identified as female, three identified as being part of the lgbt community, and 90 have successfully completed the program. Whether thats retaining their housing or moving on to a Different Program that was able to also successfully transition their current housing into the new program, such as like some of them also transitioned into permanent Supportive Housing, noticing that they needed more support with their Mental Health and their capability of securing their housing and not returning back to the homelessness response system. Another program that we have is our rising up Rapid Rehousing Program, a lot more familiar in the community, a lot more partners that we collaborate with, such as brilliant corners, larkin street and so forth. The moving costs are provided as well, but its also a tiered subsidy. The best thing about this program, it allows the clients to also cash out and create a savings if theyre doing what they need to do, such as paying their rent three consecutive months or being employed for four months at a time. And holding consistent employment. So we want to reward those things for them. This also has a Case Management with them. They meet with clients on a weekly basis on support with brilliant corners. We support with the housing, navigation and landlord mitigation and advocating for the clients with any issues that arise with their partners. Our rapid rehousing data has served so far. 93 youth collectively 39 identified as female, 49 identified as male to identified as transgender 70 identified as black or african american. 29 stated that they had Mental Health 18 identified as being part of the lgbtq plus community and 24 of our youth identified as former foster youth. Additionally we also had our emergency housing voucher program. I have one slide with all of the data. We provide Case Management up to two years consistently from being unhoused and housed. We provide housing, navigation and landlord mitigation and advocacy. Were available 24 over seven just in case anything arises where they need help in communicating with their landlords of what their needs are for barrier removal, Financial Assistance, such as moving costs, furniture, childcare, transportation, even anything that might be a barrier to them being successful or retaining their housing. Currently at this time there are no more slots available, but we have served 62 youth and matched as well internally with our coordinated entry and 34 so far have been housed. And as of yesterday, five rtus were submitted to the housing authority. So our numbers will increase. We expect them to continue to be housed. Lastly we have our sfsu rapid rehousing. We partner with lyric and the Chancellors Office to be able to provide Housing Resources to the students at San Francisco state. Also connecting them to coordinating entry. Our program consists of Case Management up to 12 months housing location on landlord incentives, barrier removal, Financial Assistance and we provide about 8000 per youth. We are currently working on our data. We are transferring from paper files to digital files. So hopefully next time that were here presenting to you all will have more clear cut data. I will now pass it on to adriana birx. Thank you, berna. So i get the privilege to introduce to you guys today the laura polk Navigation Center, the laura polk Navigation Center is a safe place to youth who are 18 to 27 years old. We do have 75 code coed beds. It is a congregate living environment. The clients do have to be self selfsufficient in order to be there. What we offer, we offer housing. Our youth have a safe and clean place to be comfortable. If they have secure lockers, they have their own personal space. We do welcome their service animals, their companion animals or personal animals that they are welcome to be there with their pets. But we do offer the youth meals. They are offered three meals a day, but for the most we kind of keep our cafeteria open 24 hours. So the youth are able to get snacks , food, whenever they kind of feel that they would like some. We do provide health and wellness services, so we do actually have a therapist on site at all times who are on call as well. So we are blessed to have that. Its relatively new, so we are, you know, very blessed to have that on site with us. Our education. We support the youth to continue their education, their employment. We definitely encourage the youth with their employment. We have services there like ramps, who is there every tuesdays and thursdays to provide services for their employment and our data. So we have served 631 youth. Our average stay is 73 days. The average age of our youth. There is 22 273 identified as black african american, 188 identified as female, 392 identified as males, 24, two identified as transgender. 196 stated they have Mental Health and 156 stated that they have used alcohol or drugs. Thank you. Im back. And so after discussing the programs that we have available to us internally at third street, we also wanted to be able to discuss what we and our clients need. Its the same need for all of us, right . Because we want to be able to support them with the things that they need and be an advocate for them on their behalf. So first things that come to mind, obviously the list could go on, but we wanted to focus on low barrier and flexible spending contracts, increasing of staffing. You saw the programs that we had and we are operating with eight staff and considering our data, i think were doing pretty well. Increase of staff means more outreach, more connections, more collaboration with external partners as additional Navigation Centers as we operate. One, we see the need. Sometimes were completely full and can no longer accept referrals for weeks on an ongoing basis. And so to turn away referrals from other partners, like where are they going to go, what services are they going to have right . More Housing Options for matching as a youth access point, were limited to referring to slots that are allocated to us and the programs that we have internally. Were a smaller upcoming organization and we see the need for this extremely for our youth that come to us. We dont have enough matches to match the number of assessments that come in on a daily basis. So with that, we have a waiting list for clients to be matched. Excuse me , all low barrier applications and access to treatment and Detox Centers more transitional housing, permanent Supportive Housing, housing units. When i say low barrier applications, have you guys seen the applications for psh . Its 30 pages long. Client has already done a lengthy assessment. It has disclosed things about their lives that are triggering right. In order to be matched to get a higher score and then once theyre able to get into a queue, they have to do everything all over again for these applications. Getting and obtaining disability forms right . Some of our youth get discouraged at how long these applications are. Maybe its the literacy, maybe its just the Financial Literacy of the rent, the moving costs and things like this. Another issue that weve seen with our psa is also being unable to double dip with certain programs that we have been in that clients have to provide their move in deposits solely on their own due to contract limits and contractual guidelines, increasing the length o