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Valuation and our John Gardener team is here, maria who is a researcher and monica lopez and laurel is here. This you thank you for coming ladies. I may call you if you have more to talk about. This is really an outcome driven data driven and outcome driven project. As you know our services are required by doe to be evidence based. We have established the common indicators and outcomes and now we are working with our Partner Agencies to ultimately ensure that we are all working in achieving what...

The schools were selected when we submitted the grant in 2011. They were some of the ones that were recipients of the School Improvement grants and i dont know the full story behind these schools but i think the School Improvement grant and some of the most in need. So thats so there is seven in the district but we only picked four and as far as the Community Hubs and maybe kevin and or car lean can address. I appreciate the way the schools were picked. I im more interested in how the schools we...

And the chief executive director of gate path and oversees a large nonprofit in San Mateo County and focus on turning disabilities into possibilities and shes a wonderful addition to the panel and its an area that School Districts have to deal with in terms of special needs and what were talking about affects these children if not more than the other children so thank you cheryl. [applause] so we have a large panel and they can all tell you i sent them an email yesterday said you will have a bri...

In a time of really reduced funding our board of supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a shoe string out of our office, and its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and...

Brief update on where we are in implementation. We started back in january. Our organization was about 30 people, we are now upwards of 60. All to support the work that meta is doing, that Mission Promise neighborhood is doing. We spend a lot of time hiring, interviewing and compiling a great team that is working hard together. We have contract with our partners. We had a fantastic backpack give away at the high school with the mayors office. We had our launch where a lot of city leadership came...

Office, in a Police Department, its arresting. Its putting in jail. Its going in court and find this person guilty and punish them. Thats a kind of hard power and most of what is done in a Prosecutors Office most of the resources are devoted to those hard power tasks, but although we devote less resources to soft power there are probably more important and soft power is where you change the hearts and minds of people. Where you try to change cultures, try to change the norms in the community are...

Go into anyone of these sites you can enter into pipeline. Thats another way that we are looking at it. We are looking at what it means to be in a Community Hub and what are the logos and all that stuff so we can create that Community Within these organizations. I briefly touched on this family success coach that we talked about in harlem. These are meta staff that will be at these Community Hubs and really Service Ambassadors for the Mission Promise neighborhood. They are the connectors and wor...

Shoe string out of our office, and its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. A Second Initiative we are working to make happ...

Staying true to the vision many also just knowing and effectively engage wg our students and clients and families. I think we were impressed in visiting the harlem childrens zone, no matter how you enter the childrens zone, whether it an after School Program or social work service or you join one of their charter schools, once you are in, there is a stickiness, there is an embrace, we are going followup with you, we are not going to let you get away. Weve captured you and you are part of us now ...

Think all members are learning to under and work across organizational cultures, expertiseings policies and practices. We all do things somewhat differently and have policy regulatory guidelines and different compliance issues as well as aspirational issues at times and those are important for us to learn how to blend. Thats the human sides and the developing of contract and mous. These are legal things and developing accountability. Sharing data which was raised earlier. Identifying meaningful ...