December 15, 1998

The meeting was called to order at 6:15 PM. Present: Vitaly, Chen, Kutner, Rothman, Slozberg, Turner (6) Excused: Butler, DeVries, Michaels, Ozoa, Rodgers (5) Absent: Lamo, Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Prozan, Robertson (4) Non Voting Members present: Winna Davis, MOCFY. Members of the public were also present.
 
2. Approval of Agenda: Quorum was not present, agenda was not approved.
 
3. Approval of Minutes December 9th, 1998. Quorum was not present, minutes not approved.

4. New Business:

Presentation by Deborah Alvarez, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Children, Youth and their Families and Winna Davis, Senior Grants Manager: In past MOCYF has focused on 3 major areas: 1- Grant making organization that uses community input to develop funding priorities. 2-Writing the Children Services Plan. 3- Crisis Center for issues related to youth throughout the city. Deborah would like to change the focus of MOCYF so that the new Department of Children, Youth and their Families looks at the bigger picture. The new foci of MOCYF will be:
Planning and Coordinating-instead of focusing on 15 million which is the children’s fund, MOCYF should be a coordinating center to plan how to create a delivery system for youth that can direct the larger fund of money outside of Prop J or children’s fund money. San Francisco spends close to 360 million dollars on children and youth services, this does not include school district or capitol funds. School District funds equal another 600 million dollars. MOCYF should look to how we can better serve our youth with the entire pot of money not just their 15 million.

Policy- MOCYF will help to set a youth friendly agenda on a federal, state and local level and help change policies which now limit us from having more control on the larger sum of money available for youth services.

Accountability- MOCYF will spend more time determining the quality and impact of how we spend our money. This will include looking at what MOCYF does with the data it collects from the agencies it funds and how to make that data more useful. Help to build service capacity and a quality data collection system and evaluation framework.

Currently MOCYF funds 6 agencies that work with queer youth, those agencies are:

LYRIC, Communities United Against Violence, Legal Services for Children, the Sage Project, Arc of Refuge and Central City Hospitality House.

Next steps: Deborah will be meeting with Department heads to reestablish the Human Service cluster group which will focus on training and building staff capacity to work with diverse populations and diverse needs of children and youth.

How can the Task Force be involved:

-Members who work for MOCYF funded projects should go to meetings and help to develop the new data collection system.

-Email, fax, call Deborah directly with feedback & input on how to better the system for youth.

-Be part of dialogue with MOCYF and community, put LGBTQQ issues out there.

-Work with MOCYF to create

5. Announcements

Next meeting will be December 22th, from 6-8pm in Room 322, at 401 Van Ness Avenue.

Brian Kutner, Meg Rothman, Vitaly, Roy Butler and Sky Rodgers will not be at meeting.

Young, Loud and Proud steering committee is looking for people to serve and help plan the national conference in July.

January 23, Queer Youth speakers bureau training will be held. Speakers go to high schools and middle schools to do awareness about LGBTQQ youth issues.