October 14, 1998

The meeting was called to order at 6:12 PM. Present: Vitaly, Kutner, Lamo, Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Ozoa, Prozan, Robertson, Rothman, Slozberg, Turner (10) Excused: DeVries, (1) Absent: Chen, Johnson, Rogers, Tactay (4).

1. Prioritization of Recommendations: The remaining recommendations were prioritized beginning with Health and Mental Health. For each section there was open discussion around questions or concerns with specific recommendations as well as requests for background information on various City departments. The two clusters chosen for this section were Funding and Training, which include the following recommendations.

Funding: 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 72, 77 (10 votes)
Training: 60, 63, 61, 68, 78 (9 votes)

The Youth Services recommendations were prioritized after the group decided on how to better cluster this section. Several members stated they were concerned that Youth Services was an extremely important section and that too many recommendations would be lost if we could only choose two clusters. All the recommendations from this section were put together and Task Force members decided on how to better cluster them. The following clusters and recommendations were chosen.

Assessment/Policy: 80, 82, 83, 85, 87, 91, 94 (approved by consent)
Support/ Training/ Funding: 79, 84, 89, 95, 96, 98, 99, 100 (approved by consent)

Juvenile Justice was the last section to be prioritized. Members requested that a tour of Youth Guidance Center be scheduled. After discussion re: specific recommendations and questions about YGC the following clusters and recommendations were chosen.
Safety/Policy: 104, 105, 106, 110, 111, 114, 115 (approved by consent)
Training/Programs and Committees: 103, 107, 108, 109, 112, 113 (approved by consent)

2. Final list of Recommendations: No recommendations were added or deleted from the groups that were previously prioritized. Members felt that any extra prioritization would be the job of the working groups.

1. Working Groups: The Task Force will have informal working groups whose role will be to facilitate the implementation of the chosen recommendations. There will be five working groups: Youth and Schools, Family, Housing and Shelter, Health and Mental Health, Youth Services and Juvenile Justice. The tentative membership on the working groups is as follows (bold names indicate a strong commitment).

Youth and Schools  Adrian Lamo  Lena Turner	Family, Housing and Shelter   Lawrence Ozoa  Rebecca Prozan  Meg Robertson	Health and Mental Health  Bryan Kutner  Meg Rothman  Oren Slozberg
Youth Services GiGi Otalvarro-Hormillosa Oren Slozberg Bryan Kutner Lena Turner	Juvenile Justice Vitaly Meg Rothman Lawrence Ozoa

2. Queer Youth Gay Bashing Incident in Wyoming: No action was taken during this meeting.

Joshua Todd announced that the next meeting would be Tuesday, October 27^th, 401 Van Ness Ave. Room 322.

Michael Johnson will no longer be able to serve on the Task Force. The Task Force is actively recruiting applicants to fill his slot. If anyone knows of a young person who would like to serve on the Task Force please call Josh at 554. 6446. The Task Force encourages youth of color, transgender and HIV positive youth to apply.

Lawrence Ozoa announced that the Dimensions Queer Youth Clinic is up and running in the Castro. Lawrence provided flyers and cards to help publicize the clinic. If anyone has questions regarding the clinic contact Lawrence at LYRIC 703.6150 X 13.