Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Are very important. We need to know our right. And to keep reporting the immigrant vote. Thanks to these fund, and you all, the supervisors, and our Community Organization we can continue to preserve our sanctuary city. With our values, of our sanctuary city. Thank you. Tran16 next speaker please get good afternoon my name is amy lynn im a i am here today to advocate for the budget allegation at 250,000 each year for the next two years to get over the course of the week last week, we have witnessed how an unsettled administration terrorizes and attempt to disrupt peoples daytoday life and make them feel unsafe going to and getting their children to. Moments like this remind us why the work to empower and affirm immunity members that they belong here. They have right in their access to basic services is not jeopardized speak misinformation. I work with a cord group of undocumented parent and empower them to understanding their rights as migrant and as parent two kids in the School District to get have long face challenges advocating for the cells on their children. Act this way participation is enabled by this elaborative work to educate, empower and mobilize communities and for them to meaningfully participate in the communities they love and belong. Please continue to advocate along side immigrant families and ensure the funding info to emigrant collaborative for us continue to work a long time migrant the travel time. Good morning supervisors, i am here in support of the immigrant voting collaborative area we began in may 2018 to inform immigrants of their rights and the risk associated with non it is an voting on school board elections. Since that time we have look into over 6000 Community Members who are impacted by noncitizen voting. We work with the department of election to ensure implementation is accessible, and community friendly. Flying in the face of the tran 50s San Francisco is hitting setting nationwide president. Not necessarily on allowing noncitizen to vote, but how we implement noncitizen voting. There are several cities and municipalities that have reached out to us in their eyes on severances will in terms how we roll out the initiative. The outright attack on immigrant communities, the collaborative are part of the broader safety net of services that San Francisco provides to its immigrant Community Members. As immigrants are under siege, we need to be prepared and we need to inform Community Members of their rights and the risks. As the voters declared in november 2016, that they want immigrants on noncitizen to be able to vote in school board election. The school the city of San Francisco has a responsibility, which means fully funding the immigrant collaborative at 250,000 a year for two years to get San Francisco needs to stand wrong and not just with our words, but our actions and resources to fully fund the collaborative. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors area and give her your time. I am the director of Youth Development at the youth council. I managed the asian Youth Prevention Services program. It began in 1987, a consortium of asianpacific islander associations including j cyc community center, and the vietnamese Youth Development center. We are proud to have been a pioneer for sub abuse prevention versus for the community not only in San Francisco, but across the country. As we face an increasing number of low income ati families in the city, i am asking you to support 240,000 to restore the much needed services to the citys most vulnerable children, youth and families area thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors and members of the committee. I am one of the Program Managers area do we have a partnership with asian Youth Prevention Services and i come here today to request review of the budgeting process for the asian youth Prevention Service for the year of 2,0192020, and also which should be allocated to the department of children youth and families. Sorry. We asked that you acknowledge [inaudible] the one that will be impacted by this funding would be our families and the student. Which api students make up 40 of the district the islander committee has been riddled with violent, Mental Health issues and drugs. [inaudible] we are taking positive steps in the right direction by not only supporting our youth and helping families, stronger connectedness in the families, more support around Family Communication and building up their families in our communities. And also with our culture. We know some of the values that we possess in our culture will help out our young youth. [inaudible] i know that is one of the bigger things. By restoring the services or our community it would build skills, leadership skills, communication, Mental Health awareness to better help our communities and have a better outcome in the future. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors area my name is debbie, i am the associate director for the asian Youth Prevention Services grant at the jeffers unit Japanese Community council. I was a College Intern at a y ps and before that a high school participant. This program has been a part of my life for over 13 years now. The asian Youth Prevention Services graham is much more than just a sub than use prevention program. I cannot put a price on the amount of support i received from account orders and peers as a heist participant. The tools and skills i learned from this program helped me make healthy decisions, and succeed. I believe in this program, that is why am here. I believe prevention work makes a Lasting Impact on a young person. As the cities api population continues to grow, program like the asian Youth Prevention Services provides a safe and welcoming face needed for youth from our most honorable communities. I hope that many more young people will be given the opportunity to be a part of the grant. And on their behalf i am urging you all to support the full amount of the asian Youth Prevention Services request area thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you so much for having this opportunity for us to provide public comment. My name is lori, and i am the health and Wellness Program manager at the vietnamese Youth Development center. We are also a heart of the asian youth inventions services consortium. I am here today to speak on behalf of not just the contortions, not just the organization that i work for, but as a southeast asian, one youth in such high risk, as well as on behalf of the youth that we serve here. Growing up as a cambodian immigrant, in a town where we were almost always forgotten about. I somehow miraculous the made it out of the juvenile Justice System runs. I made it out of avoiding teen pregnancy. I graduated high school. I cannot speak on behalf of my peers without the same scenarios. Many of them are now grandparent. They are in the prison and the juvenile Justice System for their children, and so, so many southeast asians have fallen through the cracks, and growing up, there were not any program that offered services prioritizing asian youth. Services that are not only culturally responsive but linguistically. I cannot trust the power to be able to provide Prevention Services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate for our young people, in navigating a city that is so new to them, and with pressure from society, and parents, and schools. I can speak to the power of the return on this invest. I urge you to please consider our request. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors, my name is cindy tran. Im a supervisor at the asian Youth Development center. I want to become behalf of the youth that i work with. Being a part of the rh1 we do a lot of programming with Community Health programs to get and to get accepted into Great Schools and colleges and create their own journeys. But, this is like having these services gave them a stepping down to be exposed to how to become a Community Leader. These Immunity Health Readership Program give them the ability to talk and share it dances living in the tenderloin, growing up as an immigrant and also being a part of a low income working class background. Things that they can share with their ears and build community with. I feel like these pogroms, right, not only do they help them navigate life also feel more confident with them else. In addition to that, learn about the history, and how to gauge a better environment for the community. Throughout these program i have my youth conduct interviews with Community Members, and they have done Great Community organizing work area i am so proud. However, we have been working under to be intentional with this work we do with our youth, knowing they are the future, i believe i really hope that you support this to provide more funding for our consortium in order to to need to do this work area thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon everyone. Im a family educator from the youth center. We collaborated with the rh1 consortium to provide Substance Abuse and resilience. Over the years, providing services to multilingual families our consortium has received recognition for achieving youth and families throughout sentences go. Serving populations including api low income families, immigrant and families surrounding Mental Health issues to get the asian Youth Prevention Services has under age drinking among api, strength and bond and families to learning inventive parenting skills area for an, many of our immigrant families fill disconnected and have issues communicating with children growing up in the United States get bringing parents on their children closer and strengthening the relationship. Asian Youth Prevention Services was not an available resource it would be a devastating loss in our community. For us to continue to providing this critical service, we are here to ask the board of supervisors to support the asian Youth Prevention Services consortium, 240,000 in the budget. Thank you so much for your time. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is vanessa reynolds. I am representing the Theater Center which is the bay areas premier lgbt q plus petersons 1881. I am here today to respectively asked in addition to all of the important issues put before you today that you add Art Education to your priorities get the theater has brought free health and wellness education plays to students, in the San Francisco unified School District for over 30 years. At that time, they have served over half a Million Students as an inch addition of San Franciscos health curriculum. Youth aware serves are the 19,000 k12 students annually and supports teachers and administrators by reinforcing the health curriculum. This program is part of us these requirement under Education Code 519344 hiv prevention education, including a section about body image, gender, and sexual orientation. Its offered at no cost to all participating San Francisco schools read we served 14,00769 student during 84 shows up 49 was in the sf ufc. On the importance of diversity to the cities next veneration area please help us create a more effective sentences will [inaudible] you so much for your time. Yay technology. I am Jennifer Walsh and im the abilities integrator for the Community Living Campaign Area at the Community Living campaign we help build this wheels and tools needed to have a good life. We create community all around temperance is the in unique ways. We believe everyone has their own gift with the out works of neighbors and friend to communities so they can be there for each other, plus have fun and be more active together. To have the ability to give back to our community. The community has to be physically, emotionally and psychological. We are beginning with physical act as. All about making simple issues fixable by shining light on them so people can have the power to fix them. While our new campaign is eating construction areas more accessible for more abilities, we are targeting the block between mission and market. Everyone is welcome to our next meeting on july 9 at 12 pm teen 63 mission, fifth floor. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors im here to talk about the housing for the homeless, for families, for use, for elderly and disabled. Be sure that we get housing for all of these categories, okay . In support of. Thank you. Good afternoon, i am a member of senior and disability action team. I am here to request support for the budget, that is the senior operating city submitted by supervisor tran11. Also the Senior Housing subsidy. Thank you. [speaking native language] good afternoon my name is guadalupe a. Thank you for giving me a few minutes of your time. I am here because i am supporting the fight for the sub the. This fight is for us to have a better life. About 1. 5 years i was evicted. [speaking native language] and its really hard after living in in place for 14 years, and paying rent, that actually i was merely able to afford. Speak because [speaking native language] i know how a person suffers because we dont want to leave from a city that we made our city. [speaking native language] i know in your hand, lays a big responsibility. To take Big Decisions for the city. Okay, let me. I hope you guys continue to support, and guide you to make the best decision so you can continue to help us with subsidies to make our life better. Because [speaking native language] i know there is a lot of asked today, and i regard i pray god that he will enlighten you so you can make the best decision. Thank you. Hi. Good afternoon. My name is mina, on the interim executive director of the San Francisco Suicide Prevention. The only 24 hour crisis hotline in San Francisco. We literally save lives through the hotline, manned by a staff and 200 volunteers that dedicate over 200 hours per year to answer san franciscans in crisis area San Francisco is an unusual city and out the Golden Gate Bridge also lives here. It really attracts the highest suicide rate in the western hemisphere because of that. As i walked into the 57yearold agency i saw that our building was at risk. Which would mean the collapse of a or City Infrastructure for Mental Health. We were funded, over 25 years ago to receive about 2000 called. In reality we are receiving 70,000 calls a year. As the city has grown, and as Suicide Awareness has really used area we receive about 580,000 from the city currently and it has remained flat for the last 25 years to get i discovered while fundraising has been robust math organization, we really need to offset the Operational Foundation of the organization that has been compromised and not sustainable for over five years. Our call center is jimmied together. We really want the board of supervisors, today, to know that we know the city is reasonable. We have had multiple conversations with the department of health. With a lot of the leadership transition we have not had much leverage increasing the base. I want you to know that to 35 of our callers are homeless or at high risk of eviction. 20 of our callers thank you. Next speaker. Hello, my name is robin and i might isolate count or at San Francisco Suicide Prevention. In 1. 5 years i have taken 681 calls from people contemplating suicide. This is a story for my first volunteering, donating the rest of a young girl just 18 years old. She said she did not want to be saved, but just wanted somebody to talk to. Within 10 minutes, i was able to connect with her will to live, and get her to collaborate in her own rest. Something that our lien specialized in in one i kept her talking while we collaborated with San Francisco though dispatch and we tried to collaborate for paramedics to arrive on site. This was difficult as she was wondering the str