Is. Because we have a juvenile probation officer on site, i work with them intimately. I know the Decision Making process is not always the best. Our young people that are coming in are primarily africanamerican youth, and we work closely with them as well as the parents to make sure they get all their needs met. We work with most if not all communitybased organizations as closely in San Francisco to make sure the young kids are getting the services they need. I have been doing this for 20 years. I was so passionate and committed to doing it that i went back to school. So that i could find out more about what is impacting our young people. So for those kids that come to clark, 95 are impacted by at least one episode of trauma. Of that 95 , 85 are impacted by two or more episodes of trauma. Our young people need all of the adults in this city to reform, to reimagine, to do something very different for our young people. Your young people do not need to be in jail. And so i want to be a part of that perform process. I have had to go through one reform already and i no ewhat it takes. I am more than happy to provide my expertise and to be a part of this team so that the next generation doesnt have to go through what the current generation is going through. Thank you so much. I appreciate your time. Supervisor walton thank you so much. Next we have kimo and i dont want to butcher the last name, so i will call the first name only. Just for the record, it is withdraw seat 9. I misinterpreted that as the working regular joe. So now i am here. Thank you. Copy and paste everything denise said into my record. So i can just get to the real stuff. And like ron, i have admiration and respect and you will get somebody very with quality that has been doing this work, but unlike ron, i am going to tell you why i am better than all of them. I have i am a resident of San Francisco. District 10, by the way, and just want to make a comment that our District Supervisor walton, you make that chair look good. And thank you for your services. And my family lives in bayview. I am currently with ycd and re. Entry through ipo and prior to that i did work with sunset youth services. The length of Work Experience really came from when i was at cjcj. When i arrived, they had a project and when i got promoted under the leadership we expanded those diversion alternatives to i think six or seven additional programs. Two of which are adopted by the city. And again, it is not just myself, but my mentor who is still the executive director and through the collaborative efforts in working with cbos and like denise says, our colleagues of probation, sheriffs department, police, and the community to develop sort of the juvenile reentry unit which was just a Collaborative Team and then there was the league program. I hope that effort would speak volume in sort of, like, what i can bring to the disarming the differences and looking at the whys and why are we here. Because really folks are trailblazing and this is a big city, and it is really down to what is about these kids. Thank you. Supervisor walton thank you. Next we have valentina sedeno, seat two. Good morning, supervisors. Okay. I am honored to apply today for seat number two. An active member of the Mission Peace cla cla b rative and the financial collaborative and Justice Coalition and San Francisco nate frif the mission living in the bayview as well. And really speaking to just person who has been formally impacted by the system, multiple systems, and through the juvenile and foster care. I am still directly impacted with a personal Family Member still incarcerated. And it just engaging the whole criminal Justice System overall. I have lost my brother to incarceration as a lifer. He has been in at least 17 years and over 20 years the juvenile Justice System failed him. So i want to be part of working group that can help reform the systems and in the institutions and reimagining what real juvenile justice looks like and can be. I am a longtime advocate working over 22 years with nonprofits with mission girls, and now with ycd as Reentry Services program manager. So i just really want to be part of a working group that can help change the dynamics of the structure that currently has a mini institution prison like setting to stop further institutionalization of young people. I know firsthand the impact that it has on families. And i would rather invest our funds that we currently use to lock up young people to alternative detentions. So as a person personally effected by longterm incarceration, understanding the affects of the system involvement, i just feel i can bring a critical perspective to the working group and help shape and reform the system that is currently in place with a more rehabilitative approach. Thank you. Supervisor walton thank you. And next we would like to bring up dinky dinky withdrew. My apologies. Hence why we said with the exception in some cases. And i dont see hattie breed. She may be coming later. Julia thompson . Seat 3. Hello. I can speak, right . Supervisor walton definitely. Go ahead. I am julia thompson, born and raised in San Francisco, district six. I am 19 and i am formerly incars nated juvenile. I am incarcerated juvenile. I ampere to speak on my peers and spent ages 14 and 18 in and out of Juvenile Hall and group homes until age 19. Only one charge. I know i can be a great asset to this work group because the experience and knowledge that i have gained and have and my goals and intentions is to speak on my experiences to the adults in this group to get an insight on what juveniles go through and how the system actually can help us and help us and our families. And not just separate and isolate us. I have been a part of the bodies work with the young Womens Freedom Center and the Youth Law Center and meetings to better care for youth and families and solutions look like. I think Better Solutions would be talking about employment and housing opportunities for youth. I say employment and housing because from my own experience i was too young to have a real job and from others experience, having stable housing would have helped them focus on Different Things like education if the money they get for us being in there was given to us and in instead of in my case, i would have avoided finding a way to get it. Thank you, julie. Thank you. And now were going to go a little bit out of order. And call up miss Joanna Hernandez for seat five. Good afternoon. Good morning. Afternoon now. And thank you so much. I have to get back to work as a working parent. I am here to submit the application for seat five. It is really hard to speak about this very topic because as someone who is the founder of families understanding the system, a support group for parents to navigate such a confusing system, i started organizing this group when my son was in Juvenile Hall. And we approached Juvenile Hall to create the guide because there was no guide to navigate that Juvenile Hall system. Parents didnt know how to visit their child. I am born and raised in San Francisco. Started and grew up in the project and moved to the mission. And i have been working in the reentry field for about 20 years and the in custody director for five keys inside the county jails. And most importantly, i am here to speak on behalf of myself and my family. I feel that we need to not only interrupt but stop the generational incarceration. Its big and it is happening every day. And in my professional career i see more and more young people being transported from Juvenile Hall straight to the San Francisco county jails and i see firsthand the impact that it not only has on them but that it has on their children and their families and their mothers. My son was i saw firsthand the impact on how Juvenile Hall failed my son. I think my son would not be in jail facing a life sentence if it wasnt because of what happened at Juvenile Hall. The probation officer and the counselors, everything that was done there was not done in the correct way. I think that having the voice of the mother and someone with a professional experience can bring some big impact to the committee. Thank you. Supervisor walton thank you. And now we have danielle russworm, seats three and four. No danielle . Okay. Kandy kalani ifopo, seat four. K. I. Hello. Good afternoon. I just like to present myself my full name. Kandy kalani ifopo. And i prefer k. I. Why am i here today . I am here today before i continue, though, i am asking for the initiatives to be supported for me to step to the side for seat four or i have advocate there be another youth seat on this working group because in todays society, we need to have the balance and invest in Youth Leadership in this city. And i ask to be considered to be applying for seat one and two as well. And ls a member of the jjpa. And i wouldnt be doing that because if i didnt have the support and along with all the comrades behind me to have the power in my voice to say that as well. And so why i am asking that i be considered for seat one and two as well is someone who queer, a gender nonconforming person who has access and then all my folks back in Hunters Point and the district that i was born and raised in, what does it look like for me toed a to advocate and create access for all folks from the district to the mission to the point to the tenderloin. That is my goal. And what i want to contribute to this working group. I am someone who still lives here in Hunters Point. And i represent young kids who are Pacific Islanders who are next to the increase of being incarcerated. And someone who is formerly incarcerated myself and my goal here today is to intentionally be a part of this working group and bring intentional support and speak for those who cant be spoken for. And so i just wanted to finish off that i am glad that this is being created and that we are all here for the same reason. Thank you. Supervisor walton thank you. Magdalena apostol, seat five. Good afternoon. I really find it difficult to explain the reason i am here starting with the question, my expertise. There is no mother that has expertise in having an incarcerated child. I wish no mother ever gets one of these. Until you face it. Why am i here . Because we really need a change. I dont like the statistics out of the Juvenile Hall for two years. I dont want to repeat myself, but she was the only one that graduated high school. Although the provisional officer declared him a professional career criminal. He graduated high school and he was transferred to stockton. Right now two years over there. And i messaged him at 10 00 and i said, peter, today you will be talking. What would you change if you got the chance . So he said, mom, jail time is to find yourself, not to be peeking through the fence. And that is what most of us, we do here. Not him. The statistics is the things that i dont like. Out of 400 plus children in the stockton facility where our children out of San Francisco are getting transferred, no more than 50 take any classes. And no more than 20 are really studying. Why . The kids need jobs. And education. And we are the ones that are responsible for that. And my son had unbelievable change. I cant believe my eyes how much he changed for these four years to be fulltime student and full time working with a computer and science major. He said, the kids are fighting because they do nothing. They need simple cars, basic instructions, and computers. Give them three of them and make them busy. Thats it. They are not going to be fighting all day long. They are youngsters and they are teenagers. With all the money that ms. Ronen has said we do need to steer these kids and these 400 kids that do nothing, we just cannot afford it because they become again and again on the streets and get back to where they are right now. Thank you very much. Supervisor walton thank you. Jane faalataina, seat 5. Forgive me if i mispronounced your last name. Good morning. My name is jane faalataina, seat five, and i have been a resident of San Francisco entirely all my life. Born in hawaii. Raised right here. And i am here to tell you my qualification for seat five. My qualification is the system impacted adult and now a mother of a son who is currently in youth authority. I am a prime candidate to voice the needs of my community. I am a proud Pacific Islander female who works to advocate to young adult youth who have experienced childhood trauma excuse me, i am pretty nervous, my first time, through Street Services as an employment trainee manager and instructor and case manager, i have worked experience of reaching out to communities and developing the skills to obtain and maintain employment. And the process of teaching and facilitating young adult youth and job training readiness, and in addition, i would like to implement my story in order to meet the young people where they are at in homes to redirect harmful behaviors and become a leader in the role model for our community. Why do i want to be appointed and what do i hope to accomplish . I am passionate and committed to the work i do, not only the work i do at Market Street but also in the community, and with my nephew and nieces and my family. And to prevent youth to experience similar hardship that run prevalent in our community. Thank you. Supervisor walton thank you. Ms. Sabrina hall, seat five. Hello, all. Aam sabrina hall and i am an american of the africanamerican parent advisory council. This is my second term on the Student Council at the Elementary School and members of mothers and fathers and green action and bayview. Also and a member of San FranciscoImpact Partners working to end homelessness infrastructure. And because i am fresh out of a shelt we are my four kids. The reason why i wanted to be on this is i am a mother of someone affected by the juvenile Justice System. My 16yearold was in juvenile when she was 13 and now she is a mother of a sixmonthold baby. Prison data and court files show a link between School Truancy and crime. Nearly 60 of the kids incarcerated couldnt read at third grade level. These figures calculated by the tribune serve as a grim reminder that absence from school at the early age is often the first warning of criminal misconduct that can destroy young lives as well as burden society with cost of street violence, welfare and prison. The Environmental ProtectionAgency StatesHealthy School environments play an Important Role in the health and academic success of children. Exposure to environmental hazards in schools can negatively impact the health of children and school staff. UnHealthy School environments can also affect attendance. Children in minority, low income and other underserved populations as well as children with disabilities can experience higher exposures to multiple environmental contaminants. These programs have the added benefits of reducing absenteeism. I am on the student side council and this is from paul revere. All the students that are late from zip codes 94124 and 94110. As you can see i dont know if you can see that. The Justice System is buys yaed against youth of color. I believe that people need to start seeing that the adult court system ignores the environmental factors that affect adolescent behavior, especially from communities like district 10. We need to stop blaming the parents and the children for their behavior problems, and we need to look to see where the students are coming from. Many of the kids at these schools, they want more resources, more programs, and i am looking for a school right now for my daughter. Schools are segregated. And that is sad. They need more events and we need to reach out to the Community LikeShawn Richard and brothers against guns to volunteer in the schools. We need to just stop blaming our children and close down juvenile justice. We need to look into the environmental factors that is causing the mental issues with our students. I hope you guys consider my application. I do a lot of Community Organizing in my community. I am a supervisor at starbucks and i volunteer at tandem and put book boxes. I organized bayview night out at starbucks with mayor breed. And mothers challenge sfufd and organized coffee with a cop with the bayview officers. And i got malcolm x preschool and i am very involved in the community and schools as well as still involved in my san diego organizations because they also are with a plight out there as well. Supervisor walton thank you, sabrina. Thank you. Supervisor walton james lawrence, seat five. Good morning. Thank you for the time and consideration. After spending the last 25 years leading the development and distribution of some of the most Disruptive Technology of products on the market, i find myself now at the intersection of technology, diversity, and