There. Thank you very much. Thank you, caller. Supervisor peskin any other members of the public for general Public Comment for todays meeting . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and were adjourned. Thank you, chair. Please remember to remain on team. Sfgovtv and producers, getting ready for timm this meeting will come to order. And welcome to the september 25th special meeting of the joint city, School District, and city college select committee. Im supervisor haney, chair of the committee. Our clerk today is erica major. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect the City Employees and the public, the elective chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken to the local state and orders and directives. The members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if physically present. 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And if you submit via email its forwarded to the supervisors and it will be included as part of the official file. Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk. Are you finished the announcements . Clerk yes, would you like me to take roll . Supervisor haney yes, please. Clerk [roll call] you have a quorum. Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk. Please call the first item. Clerk item number one is a hearing on the current services, programs and accessibility of Mental Health care for children and youth. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on item number 1 should call the number 1 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1462995419. Press pound, and pound again. Press star, and 3 to get into the queue. The system will prompt you that you have raised your hand. The system will indicate that you have been unmuted when we get to Public Comment. Thank you. Supervisor haney thank you. Did you read the first the first item . Clerk i did, thank you. Supervisor haney great. Thank you, madam clerk. And im going to turn it over to the primary sponsor of this first hearing, president yee, who is with us. I want to thank you, president yee, for calling this hearing. You know, this is obviously a very challenging time for everyone in our country and in our city, but especially our kids who are young people who are struggling with a lot of uncertainty, who had their entire lives uprooted at a very vulnerable time. Who have in many cases lost the important connection that theyve had to the community, at school, and being there in person with supportive adults and their peers. And the challenges and questions around Mental Health and addressing the needs of Mental Wellness and Mental Health of our young people is something that, obviously, was of critical importance even before covid. I want to thank the School District and dcyf and everyone for continuing that commitment during this very challenging time. It is critical that we not only think about the academic needs of our students and youth in the city, but also their Mental Wellness and Emotional Wellness and physical wellness. So i really do want to appreciate president yee for calling this hearing and working so hard and making sure that we are also keeping this a priority at the forefront of our work. And so with that, before we begin the hearing and invite our presenters, im going to ask president yee if he has any introductory comments or remarks. President yee thank you, chair haney. And my colleagues on the board and also trustees shelby and commissioner moliga. I dont know the other commissioners anybody else is on, but thanks for being here and being part of this committee. I actually called this hearing it seems like centuries ago. This issue came up around december last year, and i asked i actually called for a hearing around that time. I wanted to give our departments and the School District some time to really look at the issue more carefully before asking who hold a hearing itself. And then the pandemic sort of hit. So i just want to give some background. It stems from the situation where there was it was brought into light that there was really a lack of services for the students there in terms of Mental Health services. And, of course, i knew that there was some services in our high schools at the time, but even with the high School Situation was a lack of services. And since december, i have spoken to several High School Students who have really articulated the need for even more than what they actually have in the School Districts the high school. And so it was through that challenge of probably not having enough services for High School Kids and almost having no services for kids that are in middle school. And, you know, its not anything new for anybody that with the children our youth, that is actually the toughest time of kids when theyre growing up is actually in the middle school stages. They have a lot of challenges to overcome, theyre growing, transitioning from being very dependent to almost independent in terms of different spectrums, all of these hormones going on and so forth. In reality we actually lose more kids in middle school, they wont go into high school mentally prepared. So its a big, big issue that we need to address. So at the time when i was thinking about this hearing it was more of lets figure this out. I mean, what do we really need . What are the best practices for our kids in school . And i want to also mention that Mental Health services the need for Mental Health services doesnt just start in middle school but its really intensifying. We need it in Elementary School, as you know. My professional career is in Early Education and in particular Certain Center centet we ran, that i ran as an organization in the tenderloin and in the sunnyside area, not sunnyside, but sunnydale. That we realized even at the preschool level we needed to make sure that theres Mental Health services for the children and their families. So here we are, now fast forward, basically 10 months later were having a hearing in which i started on one foot and now landing on the other foot and realizing that, oh, my god, this is not just about the longterm of dissecting the need in the long term, but as you probably already know with this pandemic, one of the things that have come up is, my goodness, the need for Mental Health services has increased like more than two or threefold. Im talking to i have spoken to people that do counselling, Mental Health services for adults, and these are independent people that have clients, and theyre saying that it doubled the caseload. And were hearing stories about what is happening in the homes, the stress thats going on there. And, you know, one of the things that im hoping that we could do today is to unfold that a little bit i know that this area initially was not about that, but i think its important that whatever information we have from our departments and the School Districts and the city college that we should really put it all on the table, look to the need now. I mean, in terms of the Immediate Response to whats going on with our kids. And also i want to say this hearing is probably needed to be done to focus our attention a little bit on children and youth. Really because weve in the city weve done a fairly good job, led by supervisor haney and supervisor ronen and several others to really point out that we need more Mental Health services for people on the streets and the homeless. And were looking at it thanks to those supervisors, theyre pushing those. And most of the discussions i have heard on the board of supervisors is about that. Which is a good thing. So what i dont want us to do is to use lose focus on our kids. You know, and to make sure that it takes us back into the awareness that it really does deserve attention. So today my goal and hopefully everybodys goal is to actually figure out what were actually doing for our kids, figure out whats the gap. Its really simple. Whats the gap, and how were going to fill that gap. You know, and i know that its been challenging. And i dont really expect that were going to come out of this hearing, you know, agreeing on heres all the money and heres all the resources that we will need and well take everything 100 . But we have to know that we have to take care of, and we have to know what direction we want to take this. We have to identify what resources we have now. And we have to identify new resources. We have to identify how to coordinate our services better. Were serving the same kids, whether its from the city, city college or from the School District, or from project entities. So thats basically what im hoping for. And i feel looking at the presentations that we could take some big steps today. So with that, i dont know if theres anybody else that wanted to any select Committee Members that might want to say something. If not ill go ahead and invite the presenters. So the presenters in this particular order, i will first ask the School District to present, and that is kevin hog hogan. And then d. P. H. Will be arah mann, the associate director of children and youth and families assistant care. And then ill invite the staff from city college of san San Francisco. And then originally she was going to present discussing and looking at the presentations that we are sort of duplicating everything and i asked her really not to present, to do anything formal, but shell be asked questions and shell talk about her the role in all of this. So without any further adieu then, lets get started. Kevin, are you there, the director of safety and wellness. Hi, i am here, supervisor. President yee hi, kevin. Can you all see the slides . President yee yes. Okay, there we go. President yee thank you. Thank you, supervisor, and thank you all for allowing me to talk for a few minutes about the services that we provide to our students in San Francisco unified. My name is kevin gogan and i work in School Health programs which is one of the programs and the student Family Support division. Our agenda for today next, please is to review our Mental Health and risk data for our students. Look at the services that are available to our students and to take a quick look at some additional Mental Health needs that weve identified with our partners in the department of Public Health. Next, please. School Health Programs is aligned with the district to provide each and every student with quality instruction and equitable support. And the Department Works primarily in the service of students and families so that our students can be safe and healthy and ready to learn and to be to participate fully in the 21st century. Our shared focus remains to keep our students safe and healthy and emphasizing our antiracist healing practice, and districtwide wellness checks and using our district coordinated care plan for wellness and partnership. Next, please. I wanted to thank our partners, including the department of children and youth and families and the department of Public Health as well as any number of communitybased organizations that really do work with us to provide the broad array of services that we are able to provide students during the school day. Next, please. So i wanted to look at the data. And the yrbs is administered every other year in San Francisco and we have been doing this now for close to 30 years in the district. We have this is the middle school data and id like to take a look at the percentage of the middle School Students who ever seriously thought about killing themselves. While it states that theres no change, that is a technical term, we are concerned by the number because it does appear to be going up. Its a quadratic change that our statisticians are saying doesnt count. 2,305 students were surveyed for this. It is generalizable to our student population. And its weighted data for us. So this is a number that were looking at. And that we that helps to us drive our programs and we also share this data with our city partners. Next, please. This is a snapshot of our high school data. And here are 2,169 High School Students surveyed. There are slightly different questions in high school, but if we take a look at the first question there the percentage of students who considered attempting suicide, thats a quadratic change and a bit of a leap for us. It causes us some concern. If you look at the third question, the percentage of students who felt sad and hopeless, almost every day for two weeks in a row, its gone from 26 to 31 in two years. We will be administering this survey again in the fall more than likely. We are slated to do it in the spring, but given Distance Learning were working with the centers for Disease Control to determine the best time to administer this to get valid data. Next, please. This is this aggregated databased on gender, ethnicity and the Sexual Orientation of our students who felt sad or hopeless for two weeks in a row. Theres been a rising number of filipino x students who have expressed sadness and hopelessness. So this is a number that and this is the subpopulation of our students that we are beginning to focus on even more in providing services, but also understanding what some of the critical needs that those students may need. And also we take a very close look at our African American students as well as our latin x students for this. And then, of course, while we do have Robust Services within our School District for our lgbt students, you can see that you are still twice as higher there for those students to demonstrate some sense of sadness or depression. Next, please. Within the department, within School Health programs, we have some mentor social workers as well as administration staff. And we have received last year until midmarch when we went into Distance Learning, 139 logged consultations that were broken down as followed. These calls came in from social workers or School District nurses directly into the department. Broken down 62 percent, a third of the calls by level elementary, middle and high schools. And you can see that its broken down here, general consultation being the highest with Suicidal Ideation next. And then general Mental Health, of course, is an ongoing concern at about 14 . Next, please. On this slide, you can see all of the staff that we have available to our students throughout the district. Whether we are in brick and mortar or in Distance Learning. We have 39 of our 65 Elementary Schools have at least a. 5 nurse at their sites. All k8, all middle and all high schools have at least a. 5 nurse as well. In our high school program, you can see that we have a more robust program, and this is a San Francisco model that has been touted as a best practice throughout the state and the country. Our High School Wellness programs. Social workers every school in the district has at least a. 5 social worker. Every k8 and middle school has a fulltime social worker. And every high school has a fulltime social worker. In addition to the Additional Team members shown there. Next, please. Our objectives during Distance Learning are to connect with all of our families through the Family Wellness<