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New position, the unaccompanied program coordinator, so were really happy we can do that to support the School District around coordination and outreach to the young people. With the office of civic immigration and affairs with the director we are supporting the doca work which is partnering with several Nonprofit Agency totion provide the Legal Services to ensure that young people and families that want to apply for status, for doca status they can. We also partially fund the Dreamers Program that director pond was referring to which is the first of its kind in supporting young people who are...

By one of the Senate Offices to provide information on immigrants and the refugee population in San Francisco and i thought it was an odd question coming from them because i assume d they had all the information but they didnt, so you probably know most of the information. Over 25 of the country immigrants live in california and over one out of every three San Francisco residents is immigrant. There are estimated 30,000 or more undowsmed immigrants in San Francisco and while only one in 14 children in San Francisco is an immigrant 54 have at least one immigrant parent and 34 are headed by an i...

About how do we address the system and address this issue might be the first start to this. I know that our nonprofit agencies have a direct link to the young people and their families and maybe thats where we start to make sure were coordinating appropriately. I like the idea of connecting the bits and pieces of data were getting from the feds to perhaps some of our other services thats through the Want Department of Public Health or through the Human Services agency so we can at least get an idea of the you know, the types of kids that were serving so we can at least narrow it down what they...

You have has been really tremendous. And i think from the School District side just knowing that were going to be receiving potentially 200400 students all at once or in dribbles or how it was we were going to be accepting the students there was a part of me who was a little bit nervous but a part of me that was proud because we do serve so many undocumented students already and we dont categorize them and are you or are you not and you come into the system and served like anyone else so as a district we were prepared to help the new students that came in and i am comfortable with the services...

It you hit it right on the button that data and having numbers and names is extremely difficult. Data collection is going to be really important for San Francisco, especially if the city is going to tap into any state or federal funding that may become available. If we can forward to the next slide i think were one slide behind here. We have a mayors page and bilingual resource guide and translated materials provided to families by the San Francisco immigration court. We translated a number of websites in the city to multiple languages including the aca website and victims portal and immigrati...