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For me, its been a life journey, but its everything thats allowed me to become who i am today, which is a person who loves to reach out and help another person get his life back on track. Some of the things ive experienced here in San Francisco is homelessness, longterm drug addiction, all those problems ive overcome. Today i work in and out of the county jails, out of san bruno, [speaker not understood] brightvthv. I currently supervise intern counselors who try to go out and change peoples liv...

The california youth authority. And we in the confinement of youth Young Children in and the Prisoner Reentry Program and abolishing the death penalty. We take on three critical issues. The first panel has a riveting discussion about gangs. And reducing Gang Violence. On our panel are former gang members, gang intervention workers, police, public defenders, and researchers. We talk about strategies to reduce Gang Violence. I will introduce the keynote speaker in a moment. The second panel is a c...

Francisco, helping youth out in bayview and Hunters Point area. People who are marginalized with a lot of disparity, helping them to get into different programs. From there, i worked with the adult populations here in San Francisco for over the past 10 years, helping people to get into Treatment Centers throughout the city of San Francisco. Most of my work is very much targeted here in San Francisco. I currently am a Program Manager here in San Francisco. I also am a certified treatment counselo...

Item number 1 . Item number 1, resolution concurring with the controllers establishment of the Consumer Price index for 2013, and adjusting the access line tax by the same rate. Thank you. We have monique zamuda from the controllers office. Good morning, members of the committee, monique zamuda deputy controller. Consistent with the 911 fee requirements, the controller reviews on an annual basis, the Consumer Price index that allows us to set the fee based on the Consumer Price index that we hav...

Provide legal representation to 20,000 people every year. It is our goal to ensure that we have the best legal representation possible. We started this nine years ago, to increased consciousness and awareness of the issues that affect Public Safety in criminal and juvenile justice reform. I am proud to say that this is the ninth summit. We take on issues like closing the california youth authority. And we in the confinement of youth Young Children in and the Prisoner Reentry Program and abolishi...

The Budget Stabilization reserve is our side by side reserve that was created dlu the financial policies through the board of supervisors and it was crafted so that we can continue to put away money in a reserve and be able to withdraw it a little more flexibly than a rainy day reserve allows, we cannot make changes to the rin nee day reserve without going to voters whereas this is locally sponsored and with twothirds vote, we can make changes to the rules of this particular reserve. Again, it a...

Know, not having a strong mother or father in their household, and this is a good chance when i was benefiting back in the late 80s down in the tenderloin, that that child was being affected by my benefits. So, that aint nothing im really proud of. So, this is my way of trying to redeem myself, maam. Thank you. Yes, maam. Thank you. Stephen fields, are you here . Come on up. So, the reason im interested in becoming part of the Reentry Council, its something that ive always wanted to do, but i di...

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance subcommittee meeting for wednesday, march 13th, 2013. My name is supervisor mark farrell. I will be chairing this committee. I am joined by supervisor eric mar and supervisor john avalos. I would like to thank the members of sfgtv who are covering this meeting, jennifer low and Jessie Larson and the clerk of this committee, victor young. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Yes. Please silence a...

Come back the next day i was hired. When i walked out of there, i said i was going to find me some [speaker not understood] in this community and thats what i did. So, what i did, i developed a website, home boy hotline, i went and got the 501 c 3 and i found 20, i got 10 to 25 employers all over the bay area thats willing to hire people, to shelter, in the tenderloin, i got a couple telemarketing places. Also i deal with on the private Industry Council in oakland, i deal with western community ...

I currently am a Program Manager here in San Francisco. I also am a certified treatment counselor and currently attending college out at San Francisco state university, applying for graduate school to become a social worker. I worked with the mayor with the court systems. Aye im more familiar with the probation department. I am familiar with the reentry and i am very familiar with incarceration. I served time both in state and federal facilities in the united states. For me, its been a life jour...