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And grocery and our summer lunch and after School Snack Programs and serve the free meals in the dining rooms and shelter and serves fresh fruits and vegetables. To offer more nutrition food and offer the nutrition programs and even in the food in the urban gardens and they also treat the health needs of the residents and many of whom do not have have the food. And this is the result of many, many people coming together and these this help to identify the assets and the challenge and develop the recommendation to ensure that all sff ans are food secure and free. And the leaders of a nonprofit ...

Have the report. I want to note for the record that we have been joined by scott weiner. And the second challenge around the Food Resources is the fact that again, cal fresh which is the Food Stamp Program is highly effective but it is under enrolled as a state of cal, we actually ranked last in the country, in terms of participation in this program. The local food stamps has been growing over the past years. And the growth is pretty phenomenal. Now as you all probably heard in the media, there was a cut to the food stamp benefit levels at the end of october. And that was as a result of the st...

San francisco and the food banks and the tender loin, development and the ucsf center for populations at San Francisco general hospital. As we come together, we really work to figure out how to collaborate and how to improve this situation we know that there are programs that we can get data for but we wanted to see the system as a whole and to be able to have the data to analyze that and we wanted to make this Information Available to groups and other department so that we will be able to join in and make sure that all are eating healthy. And i am going to go into the framework that we have u...

The reentry pod. The work of the chief within our department in our efforts in sacramento has resulted into this nearly 4. 2 Million Contract by the state for us to attend to the ab 109 realignment population in a way that no other county has, but we expect because of the funding mechanisms on how they have predicated with this program as is already begun in a small way without any funding that we expect other counties to follow suit. This was unofficially nag rated 1 year ago today. But because of the bureaucracy of the state, it has taken us a little bit of time to navigate through those fin...

Office for the great work their analyst did in looking at this complicated issue, but to briefly the idea for this reentry pod came from noticing a gap. When inmates are being released from state prison, if there is not a warm hand off, the connection, the recidivism rate the parole was receiving was 78 percent. We have an 85 percent successful completion rate. We started charting those that were object skonding and not showing up. The population had such greater likelihood of not only showing up but being successful in completing their post releasing time if in fact we were able to engage wit...