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Burundi a senior Army Official said that the president has been removed. It is a statement immediately dismissed as a joke by the president s Media Advisor. Protestors have been on the streets for more than two weeks challenging his bid to run for a third term. We are going to try to talk to malcolm webb in the burundi capitol. What more can you tell us . Right now we are with hundreds protesting. A couple of Army Vehicles and Armored Vehicles are traveling around with soldiers. The army is seen...

Of me will not attend. Suzanne giraudo, please. Good afternoon, supervisors to understand a little bit about who i am i have been on the commission, i am a practicing child and adolescent psychologist and i am director of the Child Development center at california Pacific Medical center, were the largest provider of Child Development services in San Francisco and in northern california. Last year, serving, we had over 20 thousand visitors of children in the birth to 18 age range. I have an incre...

Been a director for from the last five years, its a high quality preschool site now. We totally embrace diversity, we bring in people from the womens incarceration program, we do a lot of inclusion work, we have a lot of children who are homeless, i add voi kate for the community, i believe in social justice, i believe at risk children being treated like everybody else. I grew up in a large irish native American Family when i was the only one to graduate from college on a scholarship after livin...

Children hospital oakland and [inaudible] try to as a consortium and group address the issues of increased developmental needs within the city and county particularly. I feel that i have the experience in history to continue to work with the challenges in support of kids and families within the city and county. First five is really essential to our city, not only to support children and families in their services but through various programs and platforms such as the frcs that we work diligently...

Of children, i do a lot of social, emotional work on people especially on the population that needs it. We do a lot of behavioral support plans with our children, i do not believe in expelling preschoolers which is common, we keep the children, we work with the family and we work with the program and these children successfully graduate. Ive been fortunate to have a mentor my entire life that taught me what i was doing. I can tell you i do what i do because someone gave to me and i believe its t...

Child care dom f comes into the city, the worse things are i think for our delivery system, so thats why i like to do it and im going to keep my comments brief because im nervous, so im open for questions. Thank you. Whats the size of your site . 14. And you have other staff besides yourself . Two others. What kinds of Child Development do you ak chess in terms of knowledge or getting information around Child Development in terms of keeping your i have masters degree from Early Childhood educati...

Maintain the capacity needed to meet the needs of our Young Children 05, this would include Facilities Development helping to make them safe and healthy as well as the development of our workforce. A system that prepares all children to be ready to learn when they go the kindergarten so they can have successful elementary educational experiences throughout their education through high school and for long life learning, a system thats equitable in termser of access and one that supports our most ...

Ready to learn and with the executive functioning and all the great things that quality Early Education can do for them. This first slide is justthis our pie and this represents 39. 8 million the office manages and [inaudible] the bulk is in subsidize. We have programs for california works families and are subcontract out the state contract and have a Homeless Initiative in infant and toddlers who in shelter or had a recent shelter stay and siblings and also a low income subsidize for infant and...

Of people thought of baby sitting and there is a change primarily because of Brain Research and understanding of about Early Brain Development and the opportunity to make a difference with poor children and disadvantaged groups and to support families. Using early care as a economic support is a win win win. It is a ecpneumic support and driver for providing quality options for families so they can go to work and feel good where their clern are and early support for children so they reach school...

Is just a example of the San Francisco preschool center rates. The top blue line is based on the 85 percent of the market so that is what the federal fwidelines are that if you vavoumper you should be able to access 85 percent of your market, however, states across the country dont always implement. They do the survey and konet always implement those rate increases. In california we have a voucher system and state contracted system and so the state contracted system lagged far behind the voucher...