Lacency it is against the values of human rights, we stand with the men, women and children that are victims and survivors of Domestic Violence. We stand with our Community Justice partners, and victims advocates, and the community to bring to light the issue of Domestic Violence, and in order to keep it out of the shadows. And we stand with you, to help victims find a voice, safety, and shelter. And adult, probation, stands with you to foster a culture of justice, and support, for the victims and the survivors of Domestic Violence. Thank you. Thank you, so much chris cal, our last speaker tonight before closing healing song, is board of supervisors president , david chiu. A true advocate in the fight against Domestic Violence, who even before he was elected supervisor, served for many years on the partnership and the domestic abuse, board of directors. Please help me to welcome president chiu. Thank you, dr. Murase. And i want to thank all of you who are here tonight, representing the
Thank you for being here. Through whatever you are passionate about, service will improve your life as well as the lives of everybody that you serve. Thank you again, for being here, for paying attention to this. And thank you to mary. For her inspiration. Thank you, so much, nicole and we also honor the memory of lewis and her family, who are here as beverly mentioned and next we will be hearing from the adult probation, director crystal tuluc who is here on behalf of the adult probation chief, wendy still, and please help me to welcome crystal. Good evening, thank you to inviting adult probation to participate in this event, parking San Francisco Domestic Violence awareness month. And the Mission Statement of San Francisco adult probation is protecting the community, serving justice, and changing lives. And we emphasize changing lives because over the past five years with the vision and drive achieved still, adult probation has been elevated as being a nationally and internationally
Next, please help me to welcome, someone who represents the heart of this community, my dear friend, beverly upton. I am so honored to be with everybody today. This work goes on, and it is difficult but it goes on. What does it take to shine a light on Domestic Violence . What does the city have to have . Well, tonight we will see that it is going to have city hall lighting up purple. But what does it really have to have at its heart . It has to have leadership and it has to have justice and it has to have advocacy, leadership really starts at the top, and in San Francisco, it starts with mayor ed lee and his team at city hall and preventing and intervening and funding those of us who try to stop Domestic Violence. Thank you. David chiu, and the board supervisors, their doors are always open to us and we meet with them year round on the legislation and budgetary issues and their leadership shows, every single day. Emily murase, dr. Murase, and the department and the commission on the s
Level of migration, and sometimes by the time that the police and we get there, there is very little that can be done. And unfortunately that is not only bad for the family, it is bad for our community and it is bad. And you know, i have saw this before and you know, i have used it and i am stealing this work from everyone else and i heard once that a few, engaged in Domestic Violence in your home and you are almost guaranteeing that your sons, will grow up, to be abusive themselves and end up in jail. And we need to work together, to win this cycle of violence and we need to get to the day, for having, this meeting and this come ration of success to suppose to still talk about one out of every four women being the victim of the violence in their life and i am really honored for the company that we have hear today and we have a lot of work to do and i look forward to being able to continue to work with you. Thank you. Before i introduce my commissioners i want to report that thanks to
Domestic violence survivor and that means, working collaboratively with the Police Department and the department of Emergency Management and making sure that we are able to respond and identify those bi lingual officers, who can provide critical response, and we significantly increased investments in services to women and survivors of violence and their families. And the city did provide increased funding for Community Based Domestic Violence agencies with a particular focus on at risk populations. Such as the lgbt q and limited english, and immigrant survivors and we have expanded training on the Domestic Violence for the agencies and the Community Partner and that means that we work in a very collaborativive way, for just the violence and cross training and training over 437 criminal justice. inaudible and that includes, judges, that includes all other personnel that are working within our criminal justice system. And we have also made sure that we have victim responses to the system