Family Violence Council - September 3, 2014

Family Violence Council

Minutes

3 - 5 pm, Wednesday, September 3, 2014

San Francisco City Hall, room 305

San Francisco, CA 94102

Present:

Presiding Judge of the Superior Court, or designee: Judge Kathleen Kelly

President of the Board of Supervisors, or designee: Supervisor David Chiu

District Attorney, or designee: Elizabeth Aguilar Tarchi, Marianne Barrett, Jackie Ortiz

Public Defender, or designee: Simin Shamji

Chief of Police, or designee: Captain Teresa Gracie; Capt. Joseph McFadden, Lt. Trenia Wearing; Sgt. Rachael Kilshaw

Sheriff, or designee: Kathy Gorwood; Ali Riker; Delia Ginorio

Chief of Department of Emergency Management, or designee: Robert Smuts; Cecile Soto

Chief of Adult Probation, or designee: Andrea Wright, Sunny Schwartz

Chief of Juvenile Probation: Allen N ance

Director of the Department of Public Health, or designee: Dr. Leigh Kimberg

Director of Human Services Agency, or designee: Sylvia De Porto

Director of Child Support Services, or designee: Freda Randolph Glenn

Director of Department of Aging and Adult Services, or designee: Jill Neilsen

Director of Domestic Violence Consortium, or designee: Beverly Upton

Director of San Francisco Elder Abuse Forensic Center, or designee: Shawna Reeves

Director of San Francisco Child Abuse Council, or designee: Kathy Baxter, Katie Albright

Chair of Batterers Intervention Programs Subcommittee, or designee: Antonio Ramirez

President of Commission on the Status of Women, or designee: Nancy Kirshner-Rodriguez

Executive Director of the Department on the Status of Women, or designee: Dr. Emily Murase

Director of Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families, or designee, Aumijo Gomes

Superintendent of San Francisco Unified School District, or designee: Erik Martinez

Absent:

Mayor, or designee:

Director of Department of Animal Care and Control, or designee:

Other attendees:

Noah Arroyo, SF Public Press; Paula Hernandez, Juvenile Probation; Jerel McCrary, Bay Area Legal Aid; Shelli Rawlings Fein, First 5; Ken Theisen, Bay Area Legal Aid;

The agenda was approved. [ Kelly/Barrett /All]

The minutes were approved. [Shamji//Nance/All]

Elder Abuse Update – Shawna Reeves discussed the elder abuse awareness event. She described the 2 day train the trainer event in which elder women who wanted to learn about elder abuse prevention and do elder justice were taught how to give presentations and also asked what they thought what they thought their communities wanted.

The Forensic center is going strong and has restarted the elder death review team.

Justice and Courage – The Council voted to create a Justice & Courage committee of the Family Violence Council to continue the ongoing work of the Justice and Courage Oversight Panel. [Murase/Tarchi/All] The following people agreed to be part of the committee: Beverly Upton, Ken Theisen, Antonio Ramirez, Liz Tarchi, Delia Ginorio, Teresa Gracie, Jackie Ortiz, and someone from Adult Probation to be determined. The first meeting will be 9/26 from 9:30-11:30 at Bay Area Legal Aid.

Recommendations for departments 2014-2015. Each department contributed a family violence related recommendation for it to work on in the upcoming year.

Department	Recommendation
Adult Probation	Victim/survivor program within APD; improving restitution; address history of victimization of probationers
Animal Care Control	(not present)
Batterer’s Intervention Programs	(not present)
Board of Supervisors	Send staff member or Supervisor attend the meeting
Child Abuse Council	Will look at gaps once other recommendations come in and fill in
Commission on the Status of Women	(1) Update FVC legislation; (2) make sure FVC report comes out annually; (3) including girls; (4) presentation on toxic stress/ACES
Department of Aging	Joint outreach campaign; SF continue on statewide level for budget augmentation or legislation to strengthen infrastructure of APS; train with SVU for APS workers (maybe joint training on dv and child abuse and elder abuse)
Department of Child Support Services	Develop a training product to share with community about what they do
Department of Children Youth and Families	Focus on violence prevention funding (JPD and DPH) – Family Resource Center funding – First 5 – maybe working with families of kids in JPD system
Department of Emergency Management	Internal training for staff – refresher training – improve training maybe in partnership with other call centers in the area; FVC council training for refresher to train on all 3 topics – include stalking
Department of Human Services	Development of joint protocol between law enforcement and child welfare on how to handle investigations and then train on that
Department of Public Health	Improve data collection system; Bring together all forms of family violence and trauma to be nationally recognized trauma informed center; train 9000 people in trauma informed care – 1700 in upcoming year; trauma champions at each worksite
District Attorney	(1) CDAA training on dv for newer ; develop protocols and policies on elder abuse cases; legislation on elder abuse continuations when DA is on another; continue collaboration with HSA and SFPD at Child Advocacy Center; staff training Child Sexual Assault and Physical Abuse training from CDAA; protocols for new courthouse dog; supporting legislation people who possess and distribute child porn; protocols for court dog; Claims specialists at Victim Witness will get training that advocates get on dv, child abuse so they can make appropriate decisions;
Domestic Violence Consortium	continuing courtwatch; working on Language access at court
Elder Abuse Forensic Center	Increase attendance at Forensic Center MDT teams by 25%; make APS workers who present more comfortable; bring in superstar speakers – consumer law, medi-cal; focus on prevention -
Juvenile Probation	Training probation officers on child trafficking: Responding appropriately and best practices
Mayor	lighting up city hall purple;
Police Department	working on referral cards when parents are arrested and there are children; updating dv 6.09 general order and the officer involved policy; would like to work more closely and collaborate
Public Defender	Opening up even more between public defender office and other agencies who are part of FVC; since many defendants have history of abuse – see that person succeed
Sheriff’s Department	(1) putting inmates coming out of d.v. court on priority list to put in RSVP and Sisters Program for the women; (2) Prioritizing individuals with family violence into NOVA program for persons who are released case manager for persons who are victims of family violence; New vocational programs for inmates; children of incarcerated parents
Superior Court	Continue Justice partner meetings – share information;
Unified School District	Will come back with concrete language; priority now with lgbt youth who are disproportionately victims of violence; also young men’s health program; looking at dating violence – and ensure lgbt and trans youth are included; how to support unaccompanied minors;

Update from Juvenile Probation Department: - Chief Nance gave an update on some issues at JPD. They have a small number of people who are referred for dv – 19 in caseload (about 2% of overall kids in the system) but suspect that dv underreported in dating relationships. Very different dynamics in juveniles – not necessarily power and control; mental health issues; parenting issues. There is a judge that hears family violence cases in the juvenile court – team of probation officers and judge to review cases and staff cases and coordinate resources. They rely heavily on intensive supervision and services – aggression replacement training at JJC; overwhelmingly referrals are male in dating violence; female referrals are violent to parents and siblings, but not dating partner. Power dynamic is different with youth/parent than with intimate partners.

There is a change in policy on turning undocumented youth over to ICE – Oregon sheriff found liable for holding an individual for ICE detainer – so in CA atty general has said not to hold for ICE unless supported by court order. Engage in juvenile justice practice without subjecting youth to immigration proceedings where possible; differentiate with youth who are with their parents than youth who are unaccompanied. Most of the youth they see with greatest challenge are unaccompanied minors – mostly from Honduras and engaged in illegal drug sales in the city. Trying to engage HSA if possible. JPD can’t allow an unaccompanied minor to just leave the system – must turn over to a responsible adult. The office of refugee resettlement has responsibility for taking unaccompanied minors, but you get to ORR through ICE. In SF try to avoid that outcome and try to place in group homes or to HSA but those youth don’t stay in those settings – they run away and return to streets.

Jerel McCrary gave an update on the Sentencing Commission. SF is investigating whether to have a drug diversion program similar to Seattle’s. Judge Bryer gave a report on the need for evidenced based sentences; thought there should be bench officers on the commission; advocated for state commission – significant racial impact from mandatory minimums. The Commission heard reports on programs for young adults – CARC program; report on differences between 18-25 youth and those over 25; maturity complete at 26; people age out of crime around 25; specialty courts for young adults; pre trial and post adjudication release with intensive supervision and specialized facilities.

Next meeting: November 19, 2014, 3:00-5:00 pm, 400 McAllister, room 617.

Family Violence Council - September 3, 2014 - Meeting Minutes