Situation you have unaccompanied minors and its not clear to me who would give consent on their behalf to share information across the health department, the School District, and Legal Service providers. Are you looking at ms. Wong to come up as well. I am curious im not sure [inaudible] i think it would be good to have the same youth Teacher Mental Health counselor, houser able to talk to one another and share information, so its going to really take a village to make sure these youth are successful and ifer were not sharing information and is a lowed in identities then i am worried were not going to get there. So i share your children and i have been digging around that question too, so i have been working with the federal government to try to get them to actually give us the names of these kids and the locations of where theyre being placed because the one unique thing about the surge is theyre coming through you know theyre turning themselves over at the border or the majority at l
Of leads. In terms of instructing us making sure that the services are culturally and linguistally appropriate and remember some of the ln languages are not spanish and theyre indigenous to guatemala as well so we have to make sure we have shows services available. As dph has seen are they coming from other countries as well in terms of Behavioral Health . In terms of Behavioral Health lonnie said this is a developing story. Theyre not coming into the clinic at a high point right now. You will hear from the School District and legal folks that is where its beginning. We will see more youth as theyre identified and have issues from trauma with primary care. Fortunately were embedded with primary care and we will find out and treage them to other services and we have youth that come from many countries and certainly are constantly working with lots of folks. Thank you so much. Sure. Good afternoon i am sylvia and director for Service Service with the Human Services agency. Child protecti
So the government has asked us to open offices in three locations, houston, new york and washington, d. C. So thats just one of the side things that have happened as a result of the influx. So our philosophy, though, is that best interests should be driven by childrens rights. And so what this means is that what the child wants is very, very important. And in most cases, we will not go against that unless the childs safety is at issue. We cant just say that honduras is dangerous and he shouldnt go back. We have to have very factspecific information about that child. We have to be subject to crossexamination, by the childs attorney, by the judge, by the Trial Attorney. We have to prove what were saying. Okay. Best interests, i just want to talk a little bit about that. First of all, its the law of all 50 states. Its also the law, obviously, of the convention on the rights of the child and the crc, that language in the crc came from our laws. And yet when it comes to immigrant children,
And carefulness. An effort. The numbers recently over the past year have become staggering. Our agency and many others cannot possibly meet the need in the current situation. We have been turning away cases which is heartbreaking. So thats the bad news. But we are in a community that has a wealth of Nonprofit Community nonprofit agencies with experience and with commitment and we are also in a community that is an incredibly generous committed private bar. This summer our Office Hosted 2 trainings for private attorneys who wish to volunteer in these cases between the 2 trainings over 200 attorney showed up. But we dont have the staffing to properly utilize that energy. We werent weve not been able to send nearly the number of cases that we want to to these volunteers but because the cases are there but because we dont have the staffing. This supplemental make a difference and together with the city, the Nonprofit Community, and the private are working together with the supplemental we
Providers. This is an area where having a lawyer makes an anonymous difference in outcome. If we as a city do not act now to increase the capacity of nonprofit providers result will be more wrongful deportations and in enormous social and Economic Cost to the city. I want to address a particular issue has come up in this discussion which of the role pro bono attorneys in meeting the needs of unaccompanied youth. The short answer is that for crisis of this magnitude the resources of the private bar critical as they are simply cannot close the justice that is why the patient is so essential. In the bay area were fortunate to have a strong proponent community is given the time and resources to a host of issues such as family law law landlord issues we work as a [inaudible] we know that that is an important complement to but never the replacement for the role of nonprofit attorneys. Last month we were fortunate to receive a grant through the city to the right to Counsel Program to assist w