Sf, doca, grantees, pathways to grantees and the Language Access network so you know we have been were in year two of our pathway to Citizenship Initiative which is to try to get as many of the estimated 100,000 legal permanent residents in San Francisco on naturalized and thus far this collaboration of Community Based organizations has reached over 5,000 san franciscans who are eligible. They processed 15 new applications for citizenship and the doca grantees have reached almost all of the 5,000 estimated doca eligible youth and processed 600 applications and i have to commend the Unified School District because without christina and the School Districts partnership we wouldnt be able to get any of this done as well as lonnie. We also have 14 doca dream sf doca fellows on board this year and for them funding it and theyre doing outreach and education to their own constituency so we place them in the cbos to help with the outreach and of course were around partnering with the immigrant
Initiative which is to try to get as many of the estimated 100,000 legal permanent residents in San Francisco on naturalized and thus far this collaboration of Community Based organizations has reached over 5,000 san franciscans who are eligible. They processed 15 new applications for citizenship and the doca grantees have reached almost all of the 5,000 estimated doca eligible youth and processed 600 applications and i have to commend the Unified School District because without christina and the School Districts partnership we wouldnt be able to get any of this done as well as lonnie. We also have 14 doca dream sf doca fellows on board this year and for them funding it and theyre doing outreach and education to their own constituency so we place them in the cbos to help with the outreach and of course were around partnering with the immigrant partnering groups and on sanctuary city and immigrant rights. We were asked recently by one of the Senate Offices to provide information on immi
New position, the unaccompanied program coordinator, so were really happy we can do that to support the School District around coordination and outreach to the young people. With the office of civic immigration and affairs with the director we are supporting the doca work which is partnering with several Nonprofit Agency totion provide the Legal Services to ensure that young people and families that want to apply for status, for doca status they can. We also partially fund the Dreamers Program that director pond was referring to which is the first of its kind in supporting young people who are undocumented to have trainings and career awareness and opportunities to have a job and to learn skills. On top of that we partner with we fund many nonprofit agencies that provide Lingual Services to the community and all of our programs are throughout the city ranging from child care, to after School Programs to teen programs, Family Support programs and Youth Employment programs and in all of
By one of the Senate Offices to provide information on immigrants and the refugee population in San Francisco and i thought it was an odd question coming from them because i assume d they had all the information but they didnt, so you probably know most of the information. Over 25 of the country immigrants live in california and over one out of every three San Francisco residents is immigrant. There are estimated 30,000 or more undowsmed immigrants in San Francisco and while only one in 14 children in San Francisco is an immigrant 54 have at least one immigrant parent and 34 are headed by an immigrant. Since the refugee act of 1980 we have received hundreds of refugees by San Francisco. 80 of the participants in the human agency cash assistance program, rca, are asylees and families are aided by calworks. And finally when it comes to where you have some gaps and disconnects. About 75 of all immigrants in San Francisco have arrived since 1980 and the proportion of linguistic isolation i
About how do we address the system and address this issue might be the first start to this. I know that our nonprofit agencies have a direct link to the young people and their families and maybe thats where we start to make sure were coordinating appropriately. I like the idea of connecting the bits and pieces of data were getting from the feds to perhaps some of our other services thats through the Want Department of Public Health or through the Human Services agency so we can at least get an idea of the you know, the types of kids that were serving so we can at least narrow it down what they need but right now we dont have a very good answer for that and we would love to to be a partner in that. We can convene meetings and folks to have this conversation but i have to say that ms. Kent has been a phenomenal convener of Department Heads and service providers, particularly around this issue. The mayor has shown great leadership. No, i appreciate that. We have someone that will coordina