Organization trying to keep up with the cost of living. However, the cost of living in San Francisco is an oozing at a rate or at some point the organization will not be able to raise enough money to pay people to work and live here in the city. Our organization are committed to spending significant resources. The city needs to come fit to paying true livable wages for staff and nonprofits provide Crucial Services on behalf of the city and county services of San Francisco. We are grateful for the things of the 3 cost increase. Our frontlines half need more than that to survive. Thank you for your time. Hello my name is madison, i am here today on behalf of boys and girls club of San Francisco. Im going to read the following excerpt on behalf of one of our club members. Nine years old, coming home from school, headed to the boys and girls club, shots ring out. Lets build on the concrete. The street riddled with shell casings. I ran to the boys and girls club. I burst at the doors and landed in the arms of rebecca. The Behavioral Health specialist to get that night the club stayed open. By the time i left it was dark. The streets were blocked off. 42 shell casings were marked with evidence others. The club was always my refuge. The excerpt i just shared is not an isolated incident. Our Behavioral Health socialist did not ask if this pump number had a diagnosed Mental Health condition before providing services. The time she spent with her was not considered billable client hours. In the immediate support she was able to provide was only possible due to the embedded Behavioral Health model that the boys and girls club divides. Much of the current Behavioral Health funding that the city provides is extremely descriptive and limiting. Providing embedded culturally competent trauma informed and easily accessible Mental Health services for youth and their families get this includes Early Intervention and prevention work which is a fundamental part of our Youth Development strategy. The city needs to provide increased flexibility with Behavioral Health dollars and a shift of focus to include more funding for tentative Services Area thank you. My name is david ruiz, im 16 years old. I am here today on behalf of the boys and girl love of San Francisco. I have attended the excelsior clubhouse in district 11 or four years and i have been a member of our president ial Advisory Council for two years. I was really surprised to hear that the boys anger level only has one city contract to serve teens. The contract is very specialized and only reaches 125 teens. The club goes far beyond this contract the club serves about 2500 teens per year. With 12 locations across districts five, six, eight, nine, 10 and 11. Comprehensive Team Programming at the boys and girls club is extremely important to me because i have been able to participate in Team Leadership programs like keystone. Mpower to create events on projects that address relevant issues like homelessness. Not only at excelsior, but the greater San Francisco community as well. The club has given me many opportunities and experiences i will carry with me into adulthood. My favorite memory was my first trip to chicago. It was my first time traveling. The clubs current city contract does not cover the full scope of work they do with teens like me. In order to continue this critical work we need more funding for comprehensive Team Programming. It is essential to invest in the youth because we are the leaders of tomorrow. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello, i am terrel jones, i am 17 years old. I am here today on behalf of of boys and girls of San Francisco. I have been a member of the [inaudible] i am part of the Advisory Council which has shown me how i can make an impact on the boys and girl love with my opinions and ideas youd last year 378 teens were connected to jobs throughout the club. 100 of core seniors graduated from high school, working 49500 hours of Services Area services. [inaudible] comprehensive Team Programming at the boys and girls club is extremely important to me because the clubhouse except all youth. It has help me accept myself as a black person and part of the lgbt community. My favorite part of the club is going on College Tours because i was able to ask arians going to sacramento state, and university of nevada. I can figure out what i want to do with my career. In order to continue to do this critical work, the boys and girls love of San Francisco needs funding. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, board of supervisors. I just want to say thank you for taking the time to really listen to all of the needs of the citys most vulnerable resident. As you can hear from the youth that came up here to advocate for themselves and also for myself to advocate for all of the youth and families that could not come today. We are in our second week of Summer Program and we are serving over 200 youth today. Even our High School Youth are working and volunteering to make sure that they have internship opportunities for college. Im here taking as a number of api counsel to support the act, but also to support the ask to support services for Mental Health and our academic enrichment program. To promote Higher Education particularly for filipino immigrants youth. Our program, we have a Youth Program and a college prep program. Although we focus mainly on academics we have found in our program is that there is a high need for Mental Health. Weve had to do a number of suicide aviations every year. Filipino youth, in sentences, have the highest prevalence of depression. One in for of our youth Seek Services for depression, selfharm, suicide, and their families as well need support. Many of them live in srl, do not have basic right i do not have adequate housing or job. I am sure many of you know that can have a toll on them being able to focus on school, and get those services. Im really here to advocate to make sure you can help support our services for our youth and families, to make sure they can get Mental Health support and we can provide Higher Education support to all of them. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. My name is harry, the Program Director of Family Support services. I am here to talk to you about programs and services that we provide Family Support services for Family Resource center for families experiencing personal violence, family violence, Community Violence and also our youth who are in this home that do not have opportunities youth around. I am here to ask for your support. As well as support our program for youth area thank you. I am jack, and i work at the Family Resource center. We were able to survey 100 youth and do a focus group. I wanted to relay the message to you guys so in this valley, they dont feel like they have a place to go to to do things and learn. And also they feel and safe in the neighborhood. Often times they just stay home and feel isolated. It was tested that you guys can allocate funding for our youth to woody. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good afternoon board of supervisors had my name is lorena, i am the Family Support specialist for the program, which is part of the frcs. It is home of heart and caring. Our program is home to many of our latino and immigrant families get in their children. We offer families a safe and nurturing these sorry safe and nurturing space in which they can be a stronger and healthier family. Child interactive groups, parenting classes, cultural and family event with wellness support to conventional, traditional and alternative ways to get we are requesting that you please continue supporting us, and consider including additional funding to sub worked the infrastructure. And more intensive needs of families and there are many. We need for our families to be empowered, feel supported, and hopeful in order to thrive despite our current harsh little on social climate. Thank you. [inaudible] i am here to ask for your support for the city, we are Resource Center in the city, for the more vulnerable families of the city. We all know the situation are extreme right now. The housing crisis is a total crisis our families are surviving those families with small children. Sometimes they dont have a place to go, they dont know where to find resources to find even food or support. To get the health services, etc. We are vital for these families right now and that is why we would like to look at those is something very valuable for the city. [inaudible] continue supporting the funding and also looking into increasing funding because we are really there for the families, and the families need us to exist for the them to get the services and support they need to have Healthy Families area thank you. Hello. I came here on behalf of Mary Elizabeth was founded and has a history of porting women since 1914. This is a long history of contribution towards equality. And protection of vulnerable individuals. Since 2009, providing safe housing to victims of Domestic Violence. Which my mom and sisters were. Since 2009, Mary Elizabeth also provide Supportive Services to critical homeless victims which my mom would be today, if we would not her as our children. But thanks to cash programs we have been able to keep this safe haven running. However, due to problems with budget and underfunded programs, the city keeps our unit rental rate, at one 85 per unit. That is way below the 1100 that sros have been charging upon programs like that. Such low amount compromises our mission and prevents our population from having basic needs an example being the news program which was discontinued in 2017 after more than a decade inviting breakfast, lunch and dinner for women, with access teaching are limited. Please dont reduce our funding. Taking care of the most vulnerable as we exercise our civility. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors he had my name is maggie, and i am the district 3 appointee of the youth commission. I am here today to urge you to consider our Budget Priority asked that we presented earlier in the year. We have six parities which include 1617yearolds, the board of hazarding housing for traditional youth. Services for children with incarcerated parent and mandatory trauma and youth Cognitive Development training. We have been working on these Budget Priorities for our entire term. Please take this into consideration. Thank you. My name is doris mom here and support of the Community Connectors graham, excuse me. Of the Sf Community Housing organization as the other women whose talk about this, if deals trivial in the face of many of these organizations. Fortunately our ask is also fairly trivial. What the Community Connectors do, right now, i merely and these were not gotten district is provided methods and means for seniors to remain in their homes as we age. I am a recent exile from the world of work, and it has not been an easy transition. Having others to discuss loss of opportunity, loss of nervous, lost a friend has been essential. The heart that each of you has back in your office that we delivered earlier today were admitted by seniors who went to a knitting class read it seems trivial. That also got people who would otherwise be sitting alone in their home in solitude out communicating with their neighbors, watching one another, making sure we get out and we get size, we get mental exercise and we take care of one another. I hope that helps you to see why it is important for this small amount of funding to not only keep going in the church payment basements that are costing twice as much but also expanded to other neighborhoods get this is very close neighborhood focus group. Thank you very much. Hello my name is tim gallegos we had asking the board to consider Ballot Initiative since the training for those working within our for the homeless community. Particularly the Mental Illness or learning disabilities. Mandatory training for all employees is a must read working within or for the homeless immunity. The shelter monitor community will step up and patrol do a little more patrolling and we have to police our shoulders a little bit better, that would ensure the homeless are treated with dignity follow up with complaint establish a universal code of conduct or guidelines for staff working directly with the homeless ovulation. Commercializing mandatory sensitivity training similar to that of a guard card boosting funding to pay workers a better wage and ensure better treatment to the clients of the shelters and more available funding. Im proud member of the lgbt q community, currently at the navigation center. Currently homeless and currently incarcerated. Thank you for your time. Hello. My name is elma davis. I am a mother of seven. We come from florida, we have been here in the area almost 2 years. When i send my son to special cool, he comes back with problem Child Protective Services situation removed from california to florida i we are look for any legal help for my son. He is 12 years old, and we just moved to San Francisco so he can get a better chance, and make it out of the Domestic Violence problem that we have. Right now we are homeless, we have been in a bunch of different offices, the v. A. Is our last stop. We hope that sentences go is an opportunity for us, as a family to shake Domestic Violence problems. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. Thank you for your time this afternoon. My name is bill hirsch and im the director of the Referral Panel in San Francisco. I want to make a couple of points. First of all, sometimes advocates are often accused of being selfserving in these hearings. I think it is important to remember that sometimes the communities that we are speaking on behalf of do not have a voice in the budget process. That is reflected unfortunately in the document that we see this year. Time and time again we do not see the priorities identified by Community Members reflected in the budget documents. I just want to point out 2 compelling need that were not addressed in the mayors Budget Proposal. The first is full funding for implementing prop f, the civil right to counsel. People do not anticipate the need for an attorney. Once they get an eviction notice i can assure you that becomes a compelling need. We did not see any additional funding to implement the measure how we ask your support of the proposal. The other item i would like to draw attention to is the very compelling Mental Health needs of long term hiv survivors there are many studies which document Mental Health needs of this community. There have been many public forms in San Francisco which have tried to draw attention to this compelling need. We are asking for 500,000 in order to continue an initiative that the supervisors into the budget this past year. 500,000 to continue services that have just initiated in this current fiscal year. It would be terrible for us to do continue services which have just been launched. Thank you for your time, and your consideration. Thank you very much. I am caesar, when i was a youth, and i was homeless. The larkins was there for me serving younger than 18 up to 24. This shelter was healthy and safe. I am here because many of my friends are will in shelters, navigation center. Unfortunately, they are not white as safe and healthy as the larkins shelter was also, the navigation centers, the intake assessed is a bit of a barrier, just to get into the navigation center. I think that is somewhat discriminatory. I said arent funding doctrines services for People Living in an able housing unit they must also fund sex Worker Services a lot of work has been introduced, i support that. Want to see the graham expanded citywide. As an hiv positive person i was fortunate enough to nullify for hiv transitional housing. Transitional housing should be available to all San Francisco regardless of the hiv status. As i sai