Working Together to Support San Franciscans After Incarceration 2Nd

Working Together to Support San Franciscans After Incarceration 2nd Annual Reentry Summit Safe Communities Reentry Council Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Jack Adams Hall César Chávez Student Center San Francisco State University

AGENDA

8:30AM Registration and Coffee Visit Voices from Inside Exhibit and the Resource Area

9:00AM Opening Greeting: Jason Bell and Heather Weigand, SCRC Members Welcome: Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Summit Overview: Public Defender Jeff Adachi

10:00AM Plenary Panel of Criminal Justice Partners Panel Moderator: JoAnn Mar, public radio producer Plenary Panel Introduction: Mayor Gavin Newsom Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi • Sheriff Michael Hennessey • District Attorney Kamala Harris • Public Defender Jeff Adachi • Deputy Chief Patrick Boyd, San Francisco Adult Probation Department • Phillip Torda, West Bay District Administrator, Parole, CDCR • Chief Deputy Secretary Marisela Montes, Adult Programs, CDCR • Daniel Zurita, Supervisor, US Federal Probation

11:45AM Short Break and Lunch is Served Music provided by Dr. Rachelle Rogers-Ard

12:15PM Reducing Violence through Successful Reentry Lunchtime Keynote Address by Luis J. Rodriguez

1:15PM At Home and in Communities: Decreasing the Disproportionate Impacts of Violence and Incarceration Therese Rodriguez, Project WHAT!, Community Works • Kyle Sporleder, Project WHAT!, Community Works • Corinne Pope, Children of Incarcerated Parents, Office of the Public Defender • Rudy Aguilar, Parolee Services Network, Department of Public Health • Ronald Sanders, Transitions Clinic • Kenneth Rodgers, Senior Ex-Offender Program • Cedric Akbar, Positive Directions Equals Change/No Violence Alliance • Abdul Aziz (R. Hardy, Jr.), No Violence Alliance • George Jurand, San Francisco Sheriff’s Department/No Violence Alliance

2:30PM Inside and Out: Increasing Access to Appropriate Services and Resources Panel Moderator: JoAnn Mar, public radio producer Dan Macallair, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice • Senior Deputy Ronald Terry, San Francisco Sheriff’s Department/No Violence Alliance • Billy Booker, No Violence Alliance • Richard Rendón, San Francisco Pretrial Diversion Project/No Violence Alliance • Lisa Murphy, Walden House/FREE Women Coalition • Eddy Zheng, Community Youth Center • Allyson West, California Reentry Program • Karen Brown, Northern California Service League • Jason Bell, Project Rebound, San Francisco State University • Bill Buehlman, All of Us or None

3:45PM Closing Remarks: Public Defender Jeff Adachi

4:00PM Program Ends

STRATEGIC PLANNING FRAMEWORK Safe Communities Reentry Council

About The Safe Communities Reentry Council (SCRC) was formed in 2005 by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, who continues to co-chair the Council with Public Defender Jeff Adachi. The SCRC consists of over 300 individuals, representing over 80 organizations and departments. We are focused on improving the system to support people returning to San Francisco from local jails, state prisons, and federal prisons.

The SCRC is currently engaged in a Strategic Planning process to set forth our goals and actions for the coming two years. The Plan will be finished in December. This Framework provides an overview of where we are at. We invite you to join our planning process.

Mission The Mission of the SCRC is Ato promote the safe and successful return of formerly incarcerated individuals to our community by developing a comprehensive support system that reduces violence and recidivism and promotes public safety.@

Vision The Vision of the SCRC is our picture of the future—if we all do our part to develop a comprehensive support system that reduces violence and recidivism. Our Vision includes four prongs:

• Very few people will be incarcerated. • For those who are incarcerated, individualized reentry planning will begin on the first day of incarceration, and will be comprehensive, holistic, with access to an array of in-custody supportive services and resources. • Families of individuals who become incarcerated will be offered an array of supportive services and resources, from the point the person becomes incarcerated through successful reentry. • People who are leaving prisons and jails will be connected to appropriate, individualized, and coordinated services and resources in their communities.

Goals and Actions The SCRC is currently developing its goals and action steps for the coming 2 years. The working areas of action are: Education and Employment, Services for Individuals and Families, Basic Needs, and Barriers to Benefits and Identification. The policy and program actions within each area are still being developed.

Implementation Structure To ensure that we make positive and lasting change, the Strategic Plan must be implemented successfully. To this end, the SCRC is developing an Implementation Structure to enact the Plan; the activities involved in successful implementation are outlined on the following page.

To Get Involved To get involved in the strategic planning process, or in other SCRC efforts, please contact: Jessica Flintoft, SCRC Program Coordinator, (415) 553-1593 or [email protected]

BIOGRAPHIES (listed in order of first appearance)

Heather Weigand Executive Director, FocuzUP & Director of Client Services, LAEP Heather Weigand is the founder and Executive Director of FocuzUp, a criminal and social justice agency. The past two years, FocuzUp has worked with The Life After Exoneration Program “LAEP” providing an array of expertise and leadership. Weigand serves as LAEP’s Director of Client Services and New Programs. Currently, her efforts are directed to developing avenues of funding and service provision to persons wrongfully convicted and incarcerated for crimes they did not commit and exonerated through the use of DNA forensic technology. She leads this new national civil rights movement through “Speaking for Justice,” an advocacy and public education program that addresses systemic defects and fatal flaws in the United States criminal justice system.

Heather works toward legislative reform and is helping to push several Senate Bills through California legislation with allied organizations like the ACLU to help minimize the impact of wrongful conviction. Heather helped to craft “The Exonerated Restitution Act of 2007” with New Jersey Congressman Payne’s legislative office and has written a model state bill that will provide funding to non‐profits serving California’s exonerated ex‐prisoners. In March 2007, she authored and delivered the first case service and treatment provision model for exonerated ex‐prisoners at the Innocence Network Conference at Harvard University.

Prior to founding FocuzUp, Heather worked in the non‐profit sector serving as clinical coordinator for one of California’s largest substance abuse programs working with at‐risk and formerly incarcerated populations. Heather obtained her B.A. with honors in Criminal Justice from San Francisco State University and was chosen as the University’s 2007 Hood Recipient of the College and Behavior and Social Sciences as well as the 2007 Outstanding Criminal Justice Student of the Year. She commits herself to help integrate and empower the formerly incarcerated through policy change, holistic programming and building human & social capital in people and communities that remain in the margins. Heather is a formerly incarcerated person and served a decade in and out of the California prison system, after battling a 20‐year drug addiction.

C. Jason Bell Director (ASI), Project Rebound, San Francisco State University Jason decided to commit himself to education when he was sitting on the 5th tier at San Quentin state prison with a seventeen‐year sentence. He wanted to work to change the lives of people like himself— people whom no one had encouraged during high school and who were trapped in what felt to him like a downward spiral. “I quickly realized that the prison system was not designed for people to actually better themselves. There is absolutely no correction in the department of corrections. I had to take my destiny in my own hands.”

After some investigating, Jason discovered that he could take college classes while in prison. With the help of friends and family, he scraped together the money to pay for courses. He negotiated with prison guards and administrators for the materials necessary to studying. He learned how to study amid chaos and violence, prioritizing his time and sticking to a strict study regimen. Jason taught himself to develop his mind while struggling simply to remain sane in a restrictive and punitive institution.

After nine and a half years, in 2001, Jason was paroled. He left Solano State Prison with twenty‐four college units from Ohio University. By spring 2002, Jason was working in the City College Second Chance program for the formerly incarcerated. He continued there until graduating with an Associates degree in May 2003.

In fall 2003, Jason began attending San Francisco State as a Project Rebound student. Rebound staff helped Jason adjust to the complicated and demanding university lifestyle. Jason soon began volunteering with Project Rebound, and he has been involved as a student and a worker ever since then. This last year, Rebound has struggled with changing staff, and Jason’s presence has been central to the program remaining a visible and valued presence on campus. Jason helped host an event at SFSU for SFSU and City College students and faculty to meet one another. Representing Project Rebound, Jason also introduced Angela Davis to the campus when she spoke at SFSU in fall 2004. Jason also represents the Program and SFSU off campus in San Francisco’s Youth Guidance Center and the city’s jails.

Jason says, “Education has truly empowered me.” His aim upon graduation is to continue helping to empower others. He has earned his BA degree in Sociology in 2005 and since gone on to the graduate school of counseling at San Francisco State.

Ross Mirkarimi Supervisor, District 5, City and County of San Francisco Supervisor Mirkarimi was elected in November 2004 and represents District 5, which encompasses the Haight‐Ashbury, parts of Hayes Valley, Western Addition, Alamo Square and a portion of the Inner Sunset neighborhoods. He founded the Safe Communities Reentry Council in 2005, and continues to co‐ chair the Council with Public Defender Jeff Adachi.

Supervisor Mirkarimi has lived in San Francisco for 20 years where he's been a tireless force for progressive change. He has led legislative efforts and campaigns to make City Hall more accountable to the people, worked to put underdog progressive candidates in elected office and stopped corporate abuse against seniors and low‐income families.

He has led some of the most seminal campaigns and legislative causes in San Francisco seen during the last ten years; chief among them are: Prop. H, Police Reform and Accountability; Public Power; Sunshine Laws; Return of District Elections; Campaign Spending Limits; Enactment of Transgender Rights; and the creation of the Department of the Environment. Mirkarimi has also helped a number of underdog candidates win elected office.

Supervisor Mirkarimi cofounded the California chapter of the Green Party over 14 years ago and has been involved in many civic and community service activities such as Director for SF Nuclear Freeze Zone Coalition; union negotiator for DAI Association union; member of the IFPTE Local 2; member of the Harvey Milk Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Democratic Club; member of the Iranian‐American Chamber of Commerce; environmental analyst for the Harvard Study Team (Iraq) Bayview Hunters Point, California Base Closures; and member of the National Organization for Women (NOW).

Committee and Board Assignments: Chair: Public Safety Committee, LAFCo Vice‐Chair: City & School Select Committee Member: Budget & Finance Committee, Transportation Authority

Boards and Commissions: Representative on the Association of Bay Area Government Executive Board (ABAG) Representative on the Association of Bay Area Governments‐Finance Authority Representative on the Children and Families First Commission Representative on the Disaster Council Representative on the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo)

Previous Occupations: District Attorney Investigator ‐ White Collar Crimes, Environmental Crimes, Elder Abuse Progressive Campaign Consultant\Community Organizer

Community and Civic Activities: Director, SF Nuclear Freeze Zone Coalition Co‐Founder, California Green Party Union Negotiator, DAI Association; Member, IFPTE Local 2 Member, Harvey Milk lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Democratic Club Member, Iranian‐American Chamber of Commerce Environmental Analyst, Harvard Study Team (Iraq) Bayview Hunters Point, California Base Closures Member, National Organization for Women (NOW)

Jeff Adachi Public Defender, City and County of San Francisco Before being elected as Public Defender in March 2002, Mr. Adachi previously worked as a deputy public defender in San Francisco for 15 years and in private practice for 2 years. From 1998‐2001, he served as the Chief Attorney of the office. He has tried over 100 jury trials, including numerous serious felony and homicide cases, and has handled over 3,000 criminal matters throughout his career. Mr. Adachi has served as co‐chair of the Safe Communities Reentry Council since 2005.

As one of the country’s few elected public defenders, Mr. Adachi oversees an office of 90 lawyers and 50 support staff. The office represents over 23,000 people each year who are charged with misdemeanor and felony offenses. The office has a $17 million dollar budget, and provides a range of innovative programs to its clients, a full‐service juvenile division, as well as the Specialty Courts and Reentry Unit, which includes the Children of Incarcerated Parents Program and the Clean Slate Program. The office also has one of the country’s top intern programs for law students and graduates.

In 2004, Mr. Adachi called for a moratorium on sending youth to the California Youth Authority, the state's facility for juvenile, after a series of reports revealed poor treatment of youth. Eleven other counties throughout the state later passed similar moratoriums. The office sponsored a juvenile justice summit, which organized youth advocates from around the Bay Area around local and statewide juvenile justice reform.

Mr. Adachi serves on the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigents and is a member of the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Adachi has also taught with BAR/BRI bar review for over 10 years and has published five books in this area. He is the co‐author of Chapter 25: Immunity for Testimony, in the California Criminal Law Procedure and Practice book, and a past board member of the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice and the San Francisco Bar Association. He is a past president of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. He has been a certified criminal law specialist since 1991.

Mr. Adachi has also been involved in community activism in the Bay Area for the past twenty‐five years. Beginning with his work on the Chol Soo Lee case, a Korean immigrant on death row who was wrongfully convicted of murder but later freed, Mr. Adachi has been involved in many community based organizations and has advocated on issues affecting minority and disenfranchised communities.

In 1995, Mr. Adachi founded the Asian American Arts Foundation, which produced the Golden Ring Awards from 1995‐1999 — the Asian “Oscars” which honored artists such as Chow Yun‐fat, John Woo, Ming‐Na Wen, Oliver Stone and others, and provided critical arts funding to emerging Asian American artists and arts organizations. He also served as chairperson of the Asian American Theater Company and is a past president of the San Francisco Japanese American Citizen’s League.

More recently, Mr. Adachi launched an organization known as Bayview MAGIC (the Mobilization for Adolescent Growth in our Communities), which is a collaboration between 40 youth and family agencies in the predominantly African‐American community in Bayview Hunters Point in San Francisco.

In 1992, Mr. Adachi was the recipient of the California State Bar Association’s prestigious Hufstedler Award for public service. In 1997, Mr. Adachi received the Asian American bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award for exceptional legal advocacy, and in 2003, was honored by the Asian American Bar Association of the Silicon Valley. Mr. Adachi was featured in the PBS Documentary, “Presumed Guilty,” a film about the San Francisco Public Defender's office, which aired nationally in 2002.

Mr. Adachi graduated from Hastings College of the Law in 1985 and attended undergraduate studies at U.C. Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Mutsuko and daughter Lauren.

JoAnn Mar Independent Radio Producer JoAnn Mar is an award‐winning journalist and documentary producer who has worked in public radio for many years since the mid‐1980’s. Her feature reports and documentaries have been broadcast on National Public Radio, Voice of America, Justice Talking, Living on Earth, the Charles Osgood File, Pacifica Radio, Soundprint, the BBC, and the AARP series Prime Time. Documentary topics have covered death and dying, date rape, the plight of Chinese garment workers, dieting and weight loss, public education, mail order brides, and Indochinese refugees in San Francisco.

Several of her programs have won national broadcast awards. Most recently, JoAnn Mar received the prestigious 2005 George Polk award for investigative radio reporting on the topic of prison privatization. She is also the recipient of awards from the New York International Radio Festivals, the United Nations Department of Public Information, the Ohio State competition, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the American Women in Radio and Television, the Clarion competition (Women in Communications), the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel competition, and the Asian American Journalists Association.

Currently, JoAnn Mar is a 2007 media fellow with the Open Society Institute and is working on a documentary on the California prison crisis. The target date for completion and national distribution is Fall 2008.

Her involvement with prisons started in law school at Syracuse University, when she took part in the school's prisoners’ rights clinic for two years. After graduation, she worked for eight years as a public interest attorney, representing indigent clients.

As part of her work in media, JoAnn Mar has been a news reporter and anchor at KPFA, a community radio station in Berkeley, California. She received a special commendation from the Berkeley Unified School District in 1998 for her school board broadcasts and reports (print and radio) and she is on staff at KALW, a public radio station in San Francisco.

Gavin Newsom Mayor, City and County of San Francisco As San Francisco’s youngest mayor in 100 years, Gavin Newsom has brought fresh ideas and renewed energy to the City and County. He has earned a reputation as an innovator on issues ranging from homelessness to the environment, healthcare to education.

Mayor Newsom’s refusal to accept the status quo is clearly seen in his innovative solutions to end chronic homelessness. A problem considered to be the "third‐rail" of San Francisco politics, homelessness was deemed unsolvable by many local politicians. But by implementing a model that emphasizes housing and services first, 5,224 homeless individuals have left the streets, 2,907 of which have been placed in permanent supportive housing and 1,864 individuals which have been reunited with family or friends. In addition, Mayor Newsom’s volunteer program, Project Homeless Connect, has gathered an incredible 22,000 San Franciscans to volunteer their time to assist the homeless – connecting them with medical attention, federal benefits, and a host of critical services.

In 2005, Mayor Newsom pledged that San Francisco would undertake Universal Healthcare for all San Franciscans. In 2006, in partnership with Supervisor Tom Ammiano, the groundwork for Newsom’s plan began to take shape and in July 2007, the Health Access Plan (HAP) will launch, ensuring that all 82,000 San Franciscans currently without insurance are guaranteed comprehensive, high‐quality healthcare.

To curtail the inefficiencies of bureaucracy and connect citizens directly to all facets of the city’s government, Mayor Newsom launched 311. 2,300 city telephone numbers were replaced by a single 3 digit number that can be used to access a live operator, 24‐hours a day, 7‐days a week, 365 days a year, and available in 140 languages. 311 allows for services to be tracked more effectively, minimizing response times for issues such as pothole repair, trash pickup, and parking and traffic complaints.

In the face of increasing housing costs, in 2005 Mayor Newsom announced Home 15/5 ‐‐ a groundbreaking initiative to facilitate the development of 15,000 new housing units over five years, 5,400 of which will be made affordable to low and moderate income San Franciscans. To cope with the massive federal cuts in housing programs like Hope 6 and the Section 8 program, the Mayor will also initiative HopeSF in 2007, an effort to rebuild San Francisco’s most distressed public housing sites.

Striving to undertake the issues that affect us globally, Mayor Newsom has also elevated San Francisco’s environmental stature. In 2004, he unveiled San Francisco’s Climate Action Plan, which aims to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions by more than 2.5 million tons by 2012 and curb global warming through strict goals that exceed the United Nations Kyoto Protocols. The Mayor has also set a course for San Francisco to have the cleanest public transportation fleet in the nation by 2007 and transition the city’s entire taxi fleet to hybrid, alternative fuel, and green vehicles. In addition, San Francisco led 150 cities in signing the Urban Environmental Accords, which mandated the implementation of green building and public space improvements. Mayor Newsom has also committed to studying new alternative sources of energy that exist – such as tidal, wave, and wind power – because of San Francisco’s unique placement at the gateway to the Golden Gate and Pacific Ocean.

Before embarking on his career in public service, Mayor Newsom was a successful small businessman. In 1992 he opened his first local business, the PlumpJack Wine Shop. Today, PlumpJack owns and operates 15 separate businesses throughout Northern California. Gavin Newsom was born October 10, 1967 to the Honorable Judge William Newsom and Tessa Newsom. He grew up in the Bay Area and graduated from Santa Clara University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Michael Hennessey Sheriff, City and County of San Francisco Michael Hennessey has served as Sheriff of San Francisco for 27 years, and was elected to his seventh term in November 2003. As Sheriff, he has won widespread recognition for the outstanding success of his innovative in‐custody treatment programs. He is one of the nation’s pioneers in establishing direct supervision jails that have proved to be safer and more cost effective than traditional linear jails. He has also been nationally recognized for his recruitment program for women and minorities, including gay men and lesbians. His staff is among the most diverse in the nation and reflects the diversity of San Francisco’s population. At the height of the AIDS crisis, he was named Law Enforcement News’ Man of the Year for leadership in fact‐based policy and training regarding AIDS in jails and prisons.

Sheriff Hennessey’s efforts to rehabilitate prisoners include a wide range of prisoner education and substance abuse recovery programs, such as SISTER, a drug treatment program for women, and the Garden Project, a post‐release job‐training program. Recidivism studies show that both of these programs significantly lower participants’ rate of re‐offense and return to custody.

Sheriff Hennessey was instrumental in implementing another innovative in‐custody treatment program, Resolve To Stop the Violence (RSVP), which was started in 1997 and is a result of collaboration between organizations that advocate for victim’s rights and provide services for survivors and the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. RSVP offers treatment for male offenders with violent histories, services to victims of violence and restitution to the community for the harm caused by violence. RSVP was honored in 2004 with the prestigious Innovations in Government Award from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

In September 2003, Sheriff Hennessey opened the Five Keys Charter High School, which provides prisoners with the opportunity to earn high school diplomas while in custody. Prisoners who are released before they complete the curriculum may continue their studies at the Post Release Education Program, or PREP. The name Five Keys refers to the five most important factors in successful re‐entry to the community after incarceration: education, employment, recovery, family and community. It is the nation’s first charter high school to be operated inside a county jail.

A native of Iowa, Sheriff Hennessey graduated from St. John’s University, Minnesota, with a bachelor’s degree in history, and received his J.D. from University of San Francisco in 1973. He is the longest serving Sheriff in California and the only one who is a lawyer. In 1975, he founded and directed the San Francisco Jail Project, a legal assistance program for indigent prisoners with civil legal problems, and provided training for law students and new lawyers while offering technical assistance to the Sheriff’s Department.

Kamala D. Harris District Attorney, City and County of San Francisco In December 2003, Kamala D. Harris was elected as the first woman District Attorney in San Francisco's history and the first African American woman in California’s history to hold the office.

Inaugurated on January 8, 2004, DA Harris is bringing San Franciscans a “smart on crime” approach – prosecuting crime with resolve while remaining committed to rehabilitation and preserving civil liberties.

DA Harris has combated violent crime with intensity and focus. She has raised felony conviction rates to 67 percent, the highest in a decade, and is aggressively targeting child sexual offenders. She has substantially reduced the City’s backlog of homicide cases and expanded support for witnesses of violent crime. To combat one of San Francisco’s biggest challenges, gun violence, DA Harris created a new gun specialist team and implemented tough new gun charging policies.

Taking a leadership role locally and statewide to protect women and children, her work to defend exploited children recently resulted in successful state legislation that creates increased punishment for those who sexually exploit youth. The legislation was one of the only felony sentence enhancements passed in California in recent memory and builds upon the DA’s previous success in spearheading San Francisco’s first safe house for prostituted youth.

In 2005, DA Harris took on the perpetrators of the modern day slave trade by co‐sponsoring legislation that enacts new felony punishments for human trafficking. The California Trafficking Victims Protection Act makes human trafficking a felony in California. The measure is one of the most comprehensive of its kind in the nation, addressing intra‐state trafficking and combining both criminal and civil remedies to combat human trafficking.

DA Harris has also brought innovation to the handling of narcotics and quality‐of‐life crimes. Launching unprecedented programs of outreach to San Francisco communities, she has expanded Community Courts and brought free legal clinics to immigrant neighborhoods.

DA Harris was raised in Berkeley. Her parents, both professors, were active in the civil rights movement and instilled in Harris a strong commitment to justice and public service. That commitment led her to Howard University and then to UC Hastings College of the Law. A veteran prosecutor in both Alameda and San Francisco counties, DA Harris has handled hundreds of serious and violent felony cases, including homicide, rape and child sexual assault crimes.

Patrick J. Boyd Chief Deputy, San Francisco Adult Probation Department Patrick Boyd is a lifetime resident of California. He is the father of three. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of California , Santa Barbara and a Masters in Public Administration from the California State University, Sacramento. Patrick has worked in community and institutional corrections for 37 years. Experiences have included Juvenile and Adult Probation, State Parole, the Governor's Office of Criminal Justice Planning, State Prisons and the Division of Juvenile Justice. Patrick has managed academic and vocational education, substance abuse education, prerelease education, job placement, medical, mental health, casework supervision, and custodial programs. He was a trainer for the Leadership portion of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Management Training Program. He served as Chief Deputy Warden at Mule Creek State Prison and Folsom State Prison.

Patrick was President of his community's School District Board of Trustees for nine years and is a member of the El Dorado County Juvenile Justice Commission. He is a member of the California Probation, Parole and Correctional Association. Patrick is the Chief Deputy Adult Probation Officer for the City and County of San Francisco.

Phillip Torda West Bay District Administrator, Parole, CDCR Phillip Torda administers parole operations in Sonoma, Napa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties. He began career with San Joaquin County Probation Department. He has worked assignments in both Juvenile and Adult Divisions. He began his career with the Division of Adult Parole Operations in 1996, as Parole Agent in San Jose. He is currently a Parole Administrator for the West Bay District.

Marisela Montes Chief Deputy Secretary, Adult Programs, CDCR Marisela Montes joined the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) in June 2006. She is currently the Chief Deputy Secretary of Adult Programs which includes responsibility for education, vocation, day treatment, offender programs, reentry and community partnerships.

Prior to accepting her current assignment with CDCR, Marisela served as the Deputy Director of Administration for the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans). She had previously spent over 16 years with the California Department of Corrections in each of the major divisions including Adult Prisons, Parole, Administration, and the Executive Office. She also has experience with the Department of Social Services, State Personnel Board, California Postsecondary Education Commission and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Daniel Zurita Supervisor, US Federal Probation Dan is a Supervisor with the United States Probation Office, serving the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Dan has been a community corrections professional since graduating with a Psychology and Anthropology degree from the University of California at Davis in 1990. Early in his career he worked in the Juvenile Hall, with the Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program, and as a Deputy Probation Officer for Yolo County. In 1992, he moved to Solano County and served as a Deputy Probation Officer in the City of Vallejo. In 1993, he moved to San Francisco City and County and served as a Deputy Probation Officer supervising a primarily Spanish speaking domestic violence caseload. In 1995, Dan became a United States Probation Officer where he was responsible for preparing presentence reports for three years. In 1998, he became a supervision officer serving the Alameda and Contra Costa County communities. In 2001, he returned to the San Francisco headquarters office after being promoted to the Treatment Services Specialist position. As a Treatment Services Specialist, he was responsible for supervising individuals with an extensive substance abuse, mental health, or violent history. In March 2003, Dan was promoted to a Supervisor and works with officers in supervising their cases out of the Oakland U.S. Probation Office.

Dan is a member of the Federal Probation and Pretrial Officers Association. He is also the Northern District of California representative for the Office of Probation and Pretrial Services Defendant and Offender Workforce Development Partnership and he’s been an active member of the San Francisco Safe Communities Reentry Council since March 2007.

As a San Francisco resident he has also been actively involved in his community. He is a former Board Member of the Visitacion Valley Planning Alliance and a current member of the Midtown Terrace Home Owners Association. He is an active supporter of the Center for Young Women’s Development and he has also served as a volunteer at La Raza Centro Legal’s Workers’ Rights Clinic.

Luis Rodriguez Activist and Author Luis Rodriguez is convinced that a writer can change the world. Indeed it is through education and the power of words that Rodriguez saw his own way out of poverty and despair in the barrio of East LA and successfully broke free from the years of violence and desperation he spent as an active gang member. Achieving success as an award‐winning Chicano poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more — until his young son joined a gang himself. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in the bestseller Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., a vivid memoir that explores the motivation of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants. Always Running earned a Carl Sandburg Literary Award and was designated a New York Times Notable Book; it has also been named by the American Library Association as one of the nation’s 100 most censored books.

Rodriguez is also known for helping start a number of prominent organizations — such as Chicago’s Guild Complex, one of the largest literary arts organizations in the Midwest; Rock a Mole (rhymes with guacamole) Productions which produces music and art festivals, CDs and film; and Youth Struggling for Survival, a Chicago‐based non‐profit community group working with gang and non‐gang youth. In addition, he is one of the founders of the small poetry publishing house Tia Chucha Press, as well as Tia Chucha's Café & Centro Cultural—a bookstore, coffee shop, art gallery, performance space, and workshop center in Los Angeles.

An accomplished poet, Luis Rodriguez is the author of several collections of poetry, his latest being My Nature is Hunger: New and Selected Poems 1989‐2004 (Curbstone Press). His poetry has won a Poetry Center Book Award and a PEN/Josephine Miles Literary Award among others. His books for children, America Is Her Name and It Doesn't Have To Be This Way: A Barrio Story, published in both English and Spanish, have won several awards including a Patterson Young Adult Book Award and a Parent’s Choice Book Award. Luis Rodriguez is also the author of Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times and a novel, Music of the Mill. Luis Rodriguez’s honors include a Lila Wallace‐Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a Lannan Fellowship for Poetry, a Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature, a California Arts Council fellowship and several Illinois Arts Council fellowships. He was one of 50 leaders worldwide selected as “Unsung Heroes of Compassion,” presented by the Dalai Lama.

Luis Rodriguez conducts workshops, readings, and talks in prisons, juvenile detention facilities, universities, public and private schools, and homeless shelters. He addresses the complex but vital issues of race, class, gender, and personal rage through dialogue, story, poetry, and art.

Art is the heart's explosion on the world. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis‐ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order. — Luis Rodriguez

Therese Rodriguez Project WHAT!, Community Works My name is Therese Rodriguez. I am 24 years old, married, and have a 9 month old beautiful baby boy. I was born and raised in the Mission District, the heart of San Francisco. I am currently in my last year in the Social Work Masters Program at SFSU and am also working on my Pupil Personnel Services Credential, which will enable me to work as a certified professional in the public school system; I also received my Bachelor of Arts in Social Work. My passion and career goal is to work with children, youth and families that are oppressed, underserved, marginalized and disenfranchised in a clinical, case management, community organizing or administrative setting. I am currently working on doing outreach and raising awareness around parental incarceration.

Kyle Sporleder Project WHAT!, Community Works My name is Kyle and I've had to grow up too fast. I'm a young man that had to endure the abuse of my father, live away from home for two years as a result, and watch the gradual deterioration of my family. But, I'm only one of many. There are countless others who have faced the same or worse, yet they have been overlooked and their experiences have been trivialized. That's why I joined Project WHAT; it gives me the opportunity to have my voice be heard, and hopefully, to help make people care about preventing anyone else from missing out on their childhood. Aside from my passion for helping others, education is also an important part of my life. I attend Leadership High School in San Francisco, a perfect fit for burgeoning youth who want to work toward accomplishing their goals, achieving their dreams, and improving themselves. During my time at Leadership, I've discovered that I have a talent for oral and written communication. Thus, I hope to one day put my skills to good use by pursuing a career in journalism, law, or politics.

Corinne Pope Client, Children of Incarcerated Parents Program, Office of the Public Defender Corinne Pope was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She is a single mother of two‐year old daughter, Savannah. Corinne is currently enrolled at Laney College, with a focus on Real Estate. She is currently a client of the Children of Incarcerated Parents Program of the Office of the Public Defender.

Rudy Aguilar Program Coordinator, Parolee Services Network, SF Dept. of Public Health I participated in the planning and design of the Community Services Project, a diversion project funded by the California Youth Authority. We designed with the community diversion programs for youth paint and glue snifters’/abusers; established community substance abuse education and various outreach activities. With a grant from the Office of Criminal Justice Planning, the Ventura Probation Department embarked in a planning process in which I was involved; we planned and implemented the Narcotic Impact Treatment Program, a program very similar to what is now Drug Court. I also was involved in the planning, design of Los Hermanos Inc.; a culturally specific Latino/a residential substance abuse treatment program in the early 70‐'s. I organized the community around the planning and design of the first culturally specific Latina Residential substance abuse program in Ventura County. I organized the community to redesign a culturally specific residential substance abuse program for Latina women in San Mateo County, which later became the Latino Commission of San Mateo County, a culturally specific Alcohol and drug program for Latino/a women and men. I organized the community with Hispanos Unidos, a community group, the planning of the first alcohol and Tobacco free Cinco de Mayo, in Redwood City. I participated in the planning and implementation of the Clean and Sober Experience CASE a social model substance abuse in custody treatment program in the San Mateo County jail. I was involved in the planning of the California department of Corrections in custody treatment programs, participated in the cross training of the Corcoran in custody treatment program, with Phoenix House and Walden House and institutional staff. Also involved in the implementation of the Bay Area Services Network, BASN programs in the bay area and have managed treatment programs for parolees since the 90's. I was involved in the planning of the SB1344 drinking driver programs for San Mateo County, and have been involved in DUI program management since the 80's. Educational and Professional Background: Cal‐State North ridge, Oxnard & San Mateo Community College; Ethnic Studies & Alcohol and Other Drug Studies.

Ronald Sanders Community Health Educator, Transitions Clinic No biographical information received by time of printing.

Kenneth Rodgers Counselor, Senior ExOffender Program Kenneth Rodgers has been in the field working with people of various backgrounds such as criminal justice, alcohol and drugs culture, homeless, veterans, and mental health populations. Mr. Rodgers has been in the field since 1996 as an alcohol and drug counselor, formerly with Liberation House (residential treatment facility for men) for eight years. He has been with the Senior Ex‐Offender Program since 2002, working in the trenches with those incarcerated and formerly incarcerated. Mr. Kenneth Rodgers is the recipient of numerous awards from local, state and government official. Also served 7 months with Roads to Recovery at San Francisco County Jail 7 & 5.

Cedric Akbar Executive Director, Positive Directions Equals Change/No Violence Alliance No biographical information received by time of printing.

Abdul Aziz (R. Hardy, Jr.) Client, No Violence Alliance Abdul Aziz has been a NoVA participant since December of 2006. Abdul is a full time student at City College pursuing a double major in Music and Film Production. He is planning to transfer to San Francisco State University Extended Learning Program to complete his certification. Abdul is a self‐ employed music producer. His career goal is to own and operate an independent record label and film production company. Aziz is active with the San Francisco Muslim Community Center under the leadership Imam Abu Qadir el‐Amin. He also works with Positive Directions Equals Change in the Bayview District of San Francisco.

George Jurand Program Coordinator, Community Programs, SF Sheriff’s Department/NoVA George Jurand is currently Program Coordinator for San Francisco Sheriff's Department Community Programs. Mr. Jurand is the Co‐founder of The STARTRAC a domestic violence batterer's program for men of color and the People of Color task force and The Healing Circle for the soul support group. Along with established author and criminal justice expert, John Irwin,they developed an elective course for University of Berkeley titled Substance Abuse Intervention with the Criminal Offender. Mr. Jurand is certified Restorative Justice Trainer, Substance abuse counselor, Relapse Prevention Specialist, Domestic Violence counselor, Adult Education teacher, and Conflict Resolution trainer and is a highly regarded lecturer on these topics particularly at secondary, college, graduate schools and has appeared on local and national media.

Daniel Macallair Executive Director and CoFounder, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice Mr. Macallair’s expertise is in the development and analysis of correctional policy for youth and adult offenders and has implemented model programs throughout the country. In the past ten years his programs received national recognition and were cited as exemplary models by the United States Department of Justice and Harvard University’s Innovations in American Government program. In 1994, Mr. Macallair, received a leadership award from the State of Hawaii for his efforts in reforming that state’s juvenile correctional system. He is presently a consultant to juvenile justice systems around the country and frequently provides expert testimony on correctional practices and juvenile justice reform.

Mr. Macallair’s research and publications have appeared in such journals as the Stanford Law and Policy Review, Journal of Crime and Delinquency, Youth and Society, Journal of Juvenile Law and Policy, and the Western Criminology Review. His studies and commentary are often cited in national news outlets. Mr. Macallair recently edited a book on juvenile justice reform and co‐authored two recent studies on the California youth corrections system. He teaches in the Criminal Justice Department at San Francisco State University and is an invited speaker and trainer at conferences and seminars throughout the country.

Ronald Terry Senior Deputy, San Francisco Sheriff’s Department/No Violence Alliance Ronald Terry is currently a Senior Deputy with the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. As a 12‐year law enforcement professional, Ron has distinguished himself through advanced certification to the instructor level in weapons and weaponless defensive tactics, by working on the department’s computer network infrastructure, and by assisting with the coordination of the opening of the new San Bruno jail facility. Ron Terry is a San Francisco native and he brought to the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department a degree in computer network administration along with significant experience in project administration. As Project Manager for the NoVA project, he brings together his knowledge of law‐enforcement, his success in project management and a passion for improving the quality of life for all San Franciscans.

Billy Booker Client, No Violence Alliance Billy Booker has been a NoVA participant since February of this year. Billy is a full time student at City College pursuing a degree in health and science. His goal is to become a Substance Abuse, HIV and STD counselor. Billy is expected to have his certification in one year. He is currently working as a peer advisor and outreach worker for the Extended Opportunity Program and Services Second Chance at City College. Billy is a community activist and volunteers his time with the Circle of Elders to stop the violence in the Western Addition of San Francisco. Billy is also a poet and writer and his work has been published in Only the Dead Can Kill.

Richard Rendón Deputy Director, San Francisco Pretrial Diversion/No Violence Alliance Member of NoVA project management team, Deputy Director of San Francisco Pretrial Diversion, Inc. and Founding director of the Court Accountable Case Management Center (CACMC), Richard Rendón received his undergraduate degree in social work and public policy from the University of California Berkeley and his Masters in Social Work from New York University. Having worked in the field of forensic social work and alternative sentencing for the past 10 years, he has centered his work on providing immediate access to harm reduction treatment and services to court mandated clients as an alternative to incarceration. By bringing 11 community providers together under one roof at the Court Accountable Case Management Center Richard has proven an expertise in successful and accountable program design, grant writing and developing community treatment collaborations. While working with clients individually and in groups that are dealing with problems associated with homelessness, mental health, schizophrenia, HIV, gang life and criminal justice he has designed creative alternative sentencing treatment solutions that satisfy the courts while bringing abstinent based community providers together around harm reduction treatment. He facilitates a harm reduction group and began the first court mandated marijuana group called Blunt 101 for 18‐25 year olds facing their first felony drug sales charge. Richard has case managed over 2,000 ex‐offenders. He has worked and studied at the Center for Court Innovation and Red Hook Community Court in New York City as well as currently studying and receiving his clinical supervision from Patt Denning, PhD and Jeannie Little, LCSW or the Harm Reduction Psychotherapy Center in San Francisco. He has also recently become a member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. His most recent project is Blue Horizon’s, taking ex‐offenders out of the traditional environment and combining counseling and sail training on the Bay.

Lisa Murphy Walden House/FREE Women Coalition I was born in Philadelphia, raised in Texas, and recovered nomad. I started college at the age of 16, on the 20 year MSW plan. I spent 27 months incarcerated at VSPW in Chowchilla, and paroled in March 2007 to Walden House on my own accord to reduce my recidivism rates, and graduated Walden House as of August. I was an emancipated minor and on my since the age of 15. I have been to four continents. I have 2 years, 9 months clean and sober. I am an accredited Montessori Pre‐Primary teacher, but obviously cannot teach anymore. I have worked at Walden House for 5 months since May 2007. I have been working with the FREE Women Coalition since May as well, and look forward to a long and fruitful relationship.

Eddy Zheng Community Youth Center Having arrived in Oakland, California, from China at age 12, Eddy Zheng was incarcerated at age 16, serving 21 years in the prison system, where he transformed into a critically minded and self‐educated individual. He earned his college degree, participated in youth and religious programs, organized San Quentin's first poetry slam, and published two zines. After receiving parole in 2005, Eddy was transferred into a immigration detention facility by the Dept. of Homeland Security, which now seeks his deportation for the crime he committed as a teenager. He currently works for Community Youth Center in San Francisco and visits schools to speak to and counsel young people about the importance of education, self‐respect, individual responsibility, and community awareness.

Allyson West Executive Director, California Reentry Program Allyson West is the founder and Executive Director of the California Reentry Program, a nonprofit that recruits community volunteers to provide one‐on‐one pre‐release advising to prisoners at San Quentin State Prison. Allyson has a B.A. in mathematics from UC San Diego and an MA in progress at UC Berkeley in Asian Studies. She spent 11 years in banking, and achieved the position of Vice President. Since leaving banking in 1992, Allyson has dedicated herself to public service in various capacities. Some of her past affiliations include the Friends of Tibetan Women's Association, Prevention By Design, the Habeas Project, the Tibetan Nuns Project, and the State of California Department of Health Services STD Control Branch. She founded the California Reentry Program in 2003. Prior to the founding of the California Reentry Program, she taught math in, and helped coordinate the Patten University program at San Quentin, which led her to begin to provide and coordinate pre‐release services to the students there.

Karen Brown Northern California Service League Karen Brown comes to this panel with extensive experience and knowledge of the Criminal Justice System in California. She is the Program Director of Northern California Service League’s Day Reporting Center. Through a contract with California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation this new program, administers, facilitates and provides services designed to decrease the recidivism of at risk parolees in San Francisco. Before this assignment Ms Brown was Community Resource Coordinator for NCSL’s San Francisco and San Mateo Counties Parole and Community Team (PACT). She is one of the founders of the PACT program which had its beginnings in Alameda County. This pioneering program has served as a model which has been duplicated through out the state. Ms Brown was Project Manager of BASN (Bay Area Service Network) where she provided administrative and management program oversight for the 9 Bay Area counties. She helped to implement one of the first therapeutic communities in the California State Prison System in Norco, CA.

Bill Buehlman All of Us or None No biographical information received by time of printing.

Making a Difference: Orrick's Community Responsibility Commitment

Orrick lawyers and professional staff share a commitment and responsibility to enhance the communities in which we live and work. Through a combination of pro bono legal services, financial contributions and volunteerism we support strategies that bring services, education and cultural arts to those who would not otherwise have access. The Community Responsibility Program Committee works to ensure that our efforts have the maximum impact. To that end, we have designated three areas of emphasis:

• pro bono legal services and legal assistance • education • cultural and arts organizations

Orrick's Community Responsibility Program will be honored as Outstanding Grantmaker in the Bay Area on National Philanthropy Day, November 14, 2006 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Northern California Grantmakers.

The San Francisco Business Times ranked Orrick among the top 50 corporate philanthropists in the San Francisco Bay Area for 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Community Involvement

We foster community involvement efforts at the local office level as well as firmwide, organized and supported by the Community Responsibility Committee and professional staff. In addition to their volunteer time, last year Orrick's attorneys and staff financially supported nearly 190 community service organizations and activities, including:

• The Children's Storefront, a tuition‐free independent elementary school in New York City's Harlem where we provide everything from books to after‐hours tutoring. • Students Rising Above, a scholarship program for low income, at‐risk San Francisco area high school seniors for which we organized an inaugural fund‐raising gala. • Second Harvest Japan, a food distribution program for the needy that received the gift of a delivery van from our Tokyo office.

Contact Orrick

As a firm, Orrick is deeply committed to doing everything we can to support our lawyers and professional staff so that they can continue to make contributions to important causes around the world. To that end, we consider charitable requests from our lawyers and staff only. For more information on Orrick's Community Responsibility Program, please contact Beth Sullivan by email, [email protected], or by phone at 415‐773‐5614.

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FACT SHEET

The California Endowment, a private, statewide health foundation, was founded in 1996 to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians. The Endowment was established by the Blue Cross of California and currently has assets of approximately $4 billion. Since its inception, The Endowment has awarded more than 9,000 grants totaling approximately $1.7 billion to organizations in California. Guiding the Endowment is its belief that California should be the beacon of an effective Multicultural Approach to Health – an all encompassing approach that serves individuals regardless of financial status, racial origin, cultural beliefs, gender, age, sexual orientation, geographic location, immigration status, and physical or mental abilities.

The Endowment’s vision for a healthy California involves more than the absence of disease. It is a state where community members and policymakers work together to improve health and health care, and where there is a respect for the experience and knowledge of the people who are most directly affected by health disparities. It is a state where all have a strong sense of self-worth and practice healthy lifestyles, where diversity is a source of strength for communities, where health problems are addressed promptly and effectively to minimize their consequences, and where prevention is a shared agenda and partnership is the norm.

The Endowment strongly believes that to fulfill the mission of a healthier California, we must all become more effective leaders and catalysts for change. This “we” includes community residents, policymakers and grant makers. An important factor in our work as a change agent is “grassroots-to-treetops” advocacy and mobilization. The Endowment actively promotes and supports an array of grassroots coalitions which are deeply rooted in communities and know best the conditions that need to change, as well as statewide and, in some cases, national organizations. Together, these individuals, organizations and coalitions act to influence health decision makers and shape policies and systems at all levels so that they reflect ideas that emerge from the grassroots and work for everyone.

Grants are awarded to organizations that support The Endowment’s mission and whose applications are focused on one of the three following goals:

• Access to Health: To improve the health of underserved individuals and families by expanding access to health and mental health services.

• Culturally Competent Health Systems: To advance the knowledge, attitudes, skills and experience of health providers and health systems to effectively serve California’s diverse communities.

• Community Health and Elimination of Health Disparities: To build healthy communities by improving the social and physical environments that shape health behaviors and outcomes.

Led by its Board of Directors and President & CEO Robert K. Ross, M.D., The Endowment is headquartered in downtown Los Angeles with regional offices in Sacramento, San Francisco, Fresno and San Diego. Program officers actively work throughout the state to identify, support and partner with community-based organizations. For more information about The California Endowment, please call (800) 449-4149, or visit our Web site at www.calendow.org.

THANK YOU!

The Safe Communities Reentry Council would like to thank our fiscal sponsors of this event:

San Francisco State Institute for Civic and Community Engagement The California Endowment Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe, LLP

More information about each sponsor is contained in your folders.

The 2nd Annual Reentry Summit would not have been possible without the creativity and hard work of the members of the Safe Communities Reentry Council. In particular, special thanks goes to staff of the Office of the Public Defender, and the staff of the San Francisco State University Institute for Civic and Community Engagement.

Thanks also to all of the inmates of San Quentin State Penitentiary, Valley State Prison for Women, and San Francisco County Jails who contributed their insights through their letters in the Voices from Inside Exhibit.

Thank you to the Access to Resources Working Group, a joint collaboration of the San Francisco and Safe Communities Reentry Councils, for their hard work in published the first edition of Getting Out and Staying Out: A Guide to San Francisco Resources for People Leaving Jails and Prisons.

Thank you to Luis Rodriguez for delivering the keynote address.

Thank you to Dr. Rachelle Rogers-Ard for playing the grand piano for us today. More information about Dr. Rogers-Ard’s music be found at www.ebav.net or by emailing [email protected].

Thank you to SFGVTV for recording and broadcasting the event.

Thank you to Guerra’s for providing lunches for our event.

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I N S T I T U T E F O R C I V I C & COMMUNITY E N G A G E M E N T

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The Institute for Civic and Community Engagement provides real world opportunities for the develop- the corporation for ment of intellectual skills and capacities essential for individuals who are active citizens. With a curricu- national service lum grounded in social justice, San Francisco State University provides students, faculty, sta! and community partners opportunities for community initiated research, practical programs and direct service to e!ect social change in the public, private, nonpro"t sectors and the local, state, national and california service international arenas. ICCE is a catalyst for sustainable change and a dynamic public arena for debate corps and dialogue on our most pressing social issues.

sf human services STRATEGY network The Institute for Civic and Community Engagement participates actively in strategic planning, city and county of community development, housing, violence prevention, nonpro"t capacity building, and other san francisco services in neighborhoods throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. By engaging faculty, students and public intellectuals, we have maintained a university presence, brokered key partnerships, and provided services with a special focus on two neighboring very low-income city college of communities, just minutes from the SFSU campus, with a multiplicity of inner city, immigrant, san francisco and gentri"cation issues. At any given time during the academic year, over 8,000 SFSU students participate in community service learning and civic engagement courses with place- de anza college ments for research and action at hundreds of sites throughout the city and the region.

san francisco DEFINITIONS foundation WHAT IS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT? sbc / at&t Civic engagement means working to make a di!erence in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, intellectual skills, values, and motivation to american association make that di!erence. At San Francisco State University, it means promoting the quality of of state colleges and life in a community through both political and non-political processes. universities “A morally and civically responsible individual recognizes himself or herself as a member of a larger social fabric and therefore considers social problems to be at least partly his or her own; such an carnegie foundation individual is willing to see the moral and civic dimensions of issues, to make and justify informed for the enhancement moral and civic judgments, and to take action when appropriate.” of teaching (Civic Responsibility and Higher Education, T. Ehrlich)

WHAT IS COMMUNITY SERVICE LEARNING? Community Service Learning (CSL) is a teaching method that incorporates academic study and community service experiences. Students enrolled in a course divide their time between classroom instruction and service in the community. They utilize the service experience as a course text for both academic and civic learning.

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PROGRAMS & INITIATIVES Susan Alunan, Founding Director - America Counts Perla Barrientos, Assistant Director - American Democracy Project - California Campus Compact (CACC) Jason Chandra, Systems Administrator - Center For Small Business Andy Johnson, Comptroller - Community Leadership Academy Emergency Response (CLAER) Kelly Komasa, Program Coordinator - Democracy Matters Rowena Manalo, Office Manager - Nonpro"t / Neighborhood Capacity Building Vannu Nguyen, Fiscal Coordinator - Rehabilitation Engineering Technology (RET) - San Francisco Project Homeless Connect - San Francisco State University’s Community Service Learning - San Francisco State University’s Katrina/Disaster Response Hub California Campus Compact - SBC’s Partnership for Reading - Stay in School Family Resource Center (SISFRC) Elaine Ikeda, Executive Director - Urban Scholars Program: The Urban Curriculum - “The Course” Amra Stafford, Senior Program Coordinator - Village Dancers Tram Bao Vu, Office Coordinator - Violence Prevention - Voter Education/GOTV - Whirlwind Wheelchair International (WWI) Stay in School Family Resource Center

Key Neighborhood Partnerships Kelly Komasa, Program Coordinator Visitacion Valley Summer Miranda, Center Manager South of Market Mariya Lyublina, CalWORKs Advocate Shirley Castillo, Student Parent Advocate Project Sponsors and Institutional Partners (partial list) Sarah Eitelbuss, Event Coordinator The Corporation for The City and County of Shante Saulsberry, Outreach Coordinator National Service San Francisco California Service Corps City College of SF Brandi Parr, Child Friendly Room Coordinator San Francisco Foundation De Anza College SBC/AT T American Democracy Project Human Services Network Whirlwind Wheelchairs International

Distinguished Urban Fellows Ralf Hotchkiss, Chief Engineer Chris Howard, Industrial Engineer Rene Cazenave Ralf Hotchkiss Bob Incerti, Technical Director Gordon Chin Richard LeGates Tom Ehrlich Brian Murphy Marc Krizack, Director of Operations Roma Guy Hadley Ro! Alida Lindsley, Production Designer Sharen Hewitt Gerardo Ungson Jamie Noon, Seating Specialist Georgiana Hernandez Calvin Welch Pat Murphy, Office Administration

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