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2019-09-23
San Francisco Foundation;
The Foundation recognizes that nonprofits play a key role in disaster relief and recovery for vulnerable communities and that many of these organizations will serve as "first responders" because they are already trusted resources in these communities through their daily provision of safety net services. To enable the Foundation to help meet the immediate relief needs of vulnerable communities in the aftermath of a disaster, it developed agreements with key social service grantees for rapid, almost automatic, grantmaking during the initial post-disaster period when communication systems are compromised and needs assessments have not yet been conducted. Additionally, to increase the likelihood that these organizations would be in a position to deliver services and utilize these funds, the Foundation sought their commitment to disaster planning and offered technical assistance to support them in their efforts.
2017-12-05
Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School;
This report, prepared on behalf of the San Francisco District Attorney by Quattrone Center affiliate John MacDonald and Steven Raphael, examines sources of racial disparity in criminal justice outcomes in San Francisco, complementing prior work on this topic completed by the Center on behalf of the San Francisco Public Defender. It finds that substantial disparities exist, but most can be explained by preexisting factors occurring prior to the lodging of cases with the district attorney's office. Moreover, racial disparities have narrowed since the passage of California Proposition 47 in November 2014.
2017-11-27
Public Profit;
San Francisco ExCEL is the After School Programs office of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), responsible for administering and monitoring federal and state funding for school-based after school programs and for aligning programming with district goals for student success. In the 2016-17 school year, 22 community-based organizations operated ExCEL programs in 88 schools throughout San Francisco.
2008-11-13
Performing Arts Workshop;
This report includes evaluation findings from the first of three years of data collection for the Performing Arts Workshop's ARISE Project (Arts Residency Interventions in Special Education). The ARISE Project offers public schools weekly artist residencies lasting between 25 and 30 weeks in theater arts and creative movement for third to fifth grade students. Classrooms participating in ARISE are identified as Special Day Classes or general education classes with special education inclusion (or mainstreamed) students. The ARISE residencies emphasize critical-thinking while engaging in the creative process. In the 2007-08 school year, the Workshop provided ARISE residencies to 24 classrooms from five schools within the San Francisco Unified School District. The report includes the ARISE program methodology; the evaluation methodology; background information on arts education for students in special education; results from the data collected during the 2007-08 school year; a discussion of factors that affect findings and program impact; and recommendations. The appendices to this report include our statistical analysis, data collection instruments, and informed consent forms.
2011-02-28
Performing Arts Workshop;
This is the final performance reports from the Performing Arts Workshop to the U.S. Department of Education about Project ARISE (Arts Residency Interventions in Special Education). The report includes performance measure data for the Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) grants program. The ARISE Project offers public schools weekly artist residencies lasting between 25 and 30 weeks in theater arts and creative movement for third to fifth grade students. Classrooms participating in ARISE are identified as Special Day Classes or general education classes with special education inclusion (or mainstreamed) students. The ARISE residencies emphasize critical-thinking while engaging in the creative process. Over three years from 2008 to 2010, the Workshop provided ARISE residencies to 63 classrooms from five schools within the San Francisco Unified School District.
2010-02-01
Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest);
This report presents information on the clients and agencies served by The San Francisco Food Bank. The information is drawn from a national study, Hunger in America 2010, conducted in 2009 for Feeding America (FA) (formerly America's Second Harvest), the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers. The national study is based on completed inperson interviews with more than 62,000 clients served by the FA national network, as well as on completed questionnaires from more than 37,000 FA agencies. The study summarized below focuses on emergency food providers and their clients who are supplied with food by food banks in the FA network. Key Findings:The San Francisco Food Bank included approximately 491 agencies at the administration of this survey, of which 341 have responded to the agency survey. Of the responding agencies, 235 had at least one food pantry, soup kitchen, or shelter.32% of pantries, 43% of kitchens, and 40% of shelters are run by faith-based agencies affiliated with churches, mosques, synagogues, and other religious organizations (Table 10.6.1).Among programs that existed in 2006, 69% of pantries, 53% of kitchens, and 47% of shelters of The San Francisco Food Bank reported that there had been an increase since 2006 in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program sites (Table 10.8.1).Food banks are by far the single most important source of food for agencies with emergency food providers, accounting for 89% of the food distributed by pantries, 41% of the food distributed by kitchens, and 33% of the food distributed by shelters (Table 13.1.1).As many as 87% of pantries, 76% of kitchens, and 77% of shelters in The San Francisco Food Bank use volunteers (Table 13.2.1).
2009-11-30
Honoring Emancipated Youth (HEY);
In interviews with professionals HEY identified multiple concerns with the utilization of the TILP and duplicative work it seemed to create. This multi-page report clarifies the issues that professionals and youth identified and offers many solutions; it is meant for those making decisions on how workers use the TILP and legislators defining the legal purpose and relation to California Welfare and Institutions Code.
2010-03-01
Honoring Emancipated Youth (HEY);
The Child Welfare Worker is supposed to be the central professional managing a youth's case. However, as a youth prepares for independence, their needs will increase as they consider their current placement and their plans for the future. With the many plans to be made, many misconceptions develop about roles and responsibilities. This document can help the youth and their supporters more clearly understand the limitations and roles of others, and provides simple recommendations to all parties on how to best serve youth. It may also be relevant to upper management as they make decisions on how to structure the emancipation processes.
2009-07-30
Honoring Emancipated Youth (HEY);
Youth aging out of foster care may continue to need adult mental health services, but unfortunately, because the mental health system is disconnected, youth often fall through the cracks.
2010-11-30
Honoring Emancipated Youth (HEY);
Although foster youth should only emancipate from care if reunification or adoption is not possible by the time the youth must age out, some youth still return to the same families from whom they were removed.
2009-07-30
Honoring Emancipated Youth (HEY);
An ex parte hearing is an emergency court hearing, in which only one party appears before a judge and requests a dismissal from foster care, or emancipation, without a defendant's presence. The ex parte hearing is a tool used by attorneys when timing is essential in the emancipation process.
