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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...

Situation you have unaccompanied minors and its not clear to me who would give consent on their behalf to share information across the health department, the School District, and Legal Service providers. Are you looking at ms. Wong to come up as well. I am curious im not sure [inaudible] i think it would be good to have the same youth Teacher Mental Health counselor, houser able to talk to one another and share information, so its going to really take a village to make sure these youth are successful and ifer were not sharing information and is a lowed in identities then i am worried were not ...

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...