Really three parties a year. You have the government, president kiirs supporters. You have machars supporters. And you have this group of detainees who are not either. That is, they are looking for a broader party role, a broader use of the Party Mechanisms and authorities. And to make them part of the negotiati negotiations, you have to enlarge those negotiations to allow for views other than just the two contending parties. But you need to do that to give them a role, because there are two things that have to happen. After a cease fire, you have to have an understanding as to what the governments going to look like for the next two years. And that means that those people now detained, and president kiir, and people from machars side, have to agree on the structure of a government over the next two years. Meanwhile, you have this what i think a broad constitutional process that delves into the longer term issues of democracy, human rights, and governance. So this is a complicated nego
Transgender. So they are a part of that program. So lets move on to highlight women that are in our permanent Supportive Housing program. And we have 118 women in our permanent Supportive Housing, 33 are in what we call the care not cash program. And 89 in the care not cash programs. And two, women are the veron and the Mary Elizabeth inn, which is also the entity that manages both of those properties. They are called the mayor elizabeth inn. And our Services Provided in the permanent Supportive Housing is intake and assessment, out reach and engagement and food pant triin some of our buildings and definitely medation and housing and conflict resolution. And so i want to end my presentation this morning, and tell you about a very Exciting Program that hsa was able to win one of five awards across the nation. And it is called families moving forward. And it was a National Competitive prokurment through the department of health and human services. We were awarded a 4. 3 million grant, an
Shelter to house the two populations together because they move from church to church. This Pilot Program has been awarded to the providence foundation, and it is going to be held in the Western Addition at the bethel ame church. And at one point, it was the family winter shelter and we changed locations about two years ago. So, we are going to pilot this program with 30 mats for women only, it will begin the sunday before thanksgiving and it will end the last calendar day in the month of february. So some of the services that are provided are universal services in our shelters that are provided for women, who access our shelters. And what i would like to highlight that i highlighted when we talked about shelters is that we do have a Public Health nurse, who is assigned to both the single adult shelter and the family shelters who can intervene when clients have a higher aquuty that requires more medical attention and that is kate shooten from the department of Public Health. So the cen
Meet the goal. 216 families on the San Francisco centralized wait list for shelter, the last count showed an increase in the number of Homeless Individuals and families and a decrease in the percentage of those living on the street, 15 percent of homeless families in 2011 were on the street and 5 percent in 2013. Families experiencing homelessness are as a whole, similar to other low income family and face a range of obstacles, they face things. In San Francisco, it is most frequently cited cause of homelessness, followed by job loss, my colleagues at hsa and the department of Public Health will describe our Service Model in more detail but i would like to share the highlights to the Services Offered to the families. Coordinated entry, and wait list, and compass connectg points and transitional housing families who can qualify, can also access assistance from housing counselors, rental subsidies and benefits access assistance and a separate shelter and housing system for Domestic Viole
Budget cuts civic under current law you have problems there is not enough money currently. We will offer amendments on the democratic side to stand up for students and parents. Twothirds of the College Graduates have an average debt of over 29,000. The general consensus is we ought to do more to make college more affordable. I used to be able to see that far. [laughter] just a few years ago. You mentioned in School Subsidies can you explain it . To make under current law if you borrow from the federal government for a student loan the government subsidizes the Interest Payment while you are still in school. The proposal from the fiscal condition would require the student paid the interest cost. So as a student or the parents pay the interest while they are in school . Yes. For the graduate Student Loans the policy was adopted recently maybe two years ago spinet that is an important point for students to be prepared now they have to pick up soloed payment. It was a bipartisan basis a co