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Barriers that i think weve had a great leap in is providing Scholarship Applications so we now have the Scholarship Application available in chinese spanish russian and vietnamese and tagal will be coming towards the end of the summer now that thats on board there so along with the application for scholarship were also providing some written email communication weve been translating to be able to communicate with our scholarship clients to remind them to renew or remind them that they are signed up for a particular program so weve done a lot of work in trying to stay connected on that in that ...

This the the first school in the country to have a bilingual to log center. We represent the largest number of filipinoamericans in San Francisco. Were a little bit closer to city hall and its great to be here at the center. It was really the community that pushed for the recognize of this community and to have this language recognized as one that all our departments should have to our of times could be included i want to recognize terry from our Filipino Center with rudy and hes here in the south market we have many south market leaders and, of course, jess listen and mayor one of our residen...

Another claung. So, i mean something tells me a lot of those folks are not aware or dont feel like they can call 311. I know your office dont great work Human Resources how do you publicize the 311 service so it wloongz to everyone not just the english speaker well, we dont have marketing funds so the best way to advertise is to make sure that every department has the 311 logo. We try to get brochures to them. One of the things we do is partner with the School District and part of their third grade curriculum is to learn about San Francisco so we worked on two of the plans four did School Dist...

With the kind of investment its worth it so as we recognize the need thats one way we can educate people by transferring them to 311 i completely agree with what youre saying. Thank you. I appreciate it. The next speaker is from the department of children and youth. I dont see and then right afterwards we have 3 more folks. So thank you for the slides and. It would be easier for me okay. Thank you. Good morning supervisors from the department of youth and their families. Maria our director had a meeting scheduled so im going to be here. Im going to go over what were doing were a two Tier Depar...

Agencies. For me personally the sfmta are folks that are being sited on the buzz but there are no explanation on what their sited for so usually theyre given the citation and told to go on. So brief i want to share some of the changes we see this explains some of the issues weve heard today. One i think considering you know where the cabinets the reason they come to secondly a lot of the client interactions we see they say why access the Community Services theyre in english so this barrier starts right away because they dont know the Language Access support is there and they dont see why they ...