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As I listen to the city officials talk about data sharing, I’m curious — and eager — to hear an example of how the data sharing has informed policy and action.

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Collaboration across sectors and nonprofits is not usually funded work. When our contracts are only fee for service, we don’t get funded for the work that needs to happen to break down silos. Non profits have great ideas and seen successes. But we often can’t move forward with programs that work because we don’t have funding for collecting data, doing cross sector work, or even creating new EBP that come FROM CBOs and those closest to the work. We need to change some of the ways nonprofits are funded to allow for innovation

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Can the city start by setting a goal for contracting timelines?

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Thank you for bringing up the importance of data sharing!

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Where is the Dept of Public Health MCAH division today? How are they partnering with these four orgs to support the health of our children, youth, and families?

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Happy to know these incredible female leaders are at the helm of youth serving departments!

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Can there be a process where all CBOs doing the work are funded? As a self-funded FRC, spending 100K of my own funds to support SF families is difficult as a mother of 5…

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The lessons we learned in the pandemic - we can do things together, achieve big goals, and get out of our own way. Let's go!

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We need to invite more cross sector collaboration with the health care sector as well, especially sharing data.

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Its helpful to identify gaps in our systems at macro and micro levels so NPOs know where best to match services

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Loved the “Community Treatment Plan” idea mentioned by Ingrid (DEC).

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More of this. More opportunities for us all to connect, share knowledge, identify gaps, and identify available resources. Example: DPH holding monthly meetings for CBOs to come together and discuss how they’re supporting their targeted population.

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A high profile city such as San Francisco who dares to dream is also susceptible to increased scrutiny and "bad actors". What about transparency, oversight, and accountability? How does that fit into the great cross departmental work that is happening?

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Joy and wellbeing is achievable and needs to be a driving force - not just patching holes in the system.

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So appreciate this work and the use of collective impact model. Funding sources need to not only allow for collaborations but require it as conditions for funding. It is hard for orgs to otherwise do it as it requires a lot of effort. Does nonprofits are disincentivized from collaborating across sectors in particular.

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The panel was beautiful and inspiring and reminded me of all the elements of sustainability and scale up. 1. Having a shared goal and coalescing 2. Creating innovation/intervention around it 3. Funding!

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Nonprofits need this if we are going to really do better for meeting the complex needs of the community.

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Let’s make these goals happen so we can have a continued strong cradle to career path starting from TODAY!

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Collaborating to support Black children and families 

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Collaborating to support Black children and families 

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Let’s put together a specific collective/coalition with cradle to career goals and data tracking. It’s the most important place to start and we can use what’s learned to build a broader system over time. Also let’s reinvigorate OCOF (Our Children Our Families) as a framework for this!

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Such a good example of community initiated, community led need to push city and district leaders to do what’s needed for young people and families. What are the barriers to expanding this program if there are over 3000 unhoused sfusd families?

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An example of departments working at cross purposes is how MOHCD moved to eliminate almost all funding from family law legal services, despite the need for it as reported by family resource centers

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The panel made more curious about how to also cultural with in organization/departments.  How do you dismantle gatekeepers as you still have oversight with shared leadership.   Motivating to hear real stories and the compassion make things happen. 

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The panel made more curious about how to also cultural with in organization/departments.  How do you dismantle gatekeepers as you still have oversight with shared leadership.   Motivating to hear real stories and the compassion make things happen. 

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I can’t tell you how refreshing it is to see a group of women leaders speak about the challenges and opportunities that exist within the City Departments and beyond. It’s obvious they care!

City can do better by showing up in community and being ready to talk and be flexible with CBOs and people in the community. It’s happening, we just need to continue the work.

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Really great panel! Love to see women in leadership ❤️

1000% agree with data integration across the board!!

This would really help all of us see where some families are slipping between the cracks.

Creating an actual one system that all frc’s, hsa, shelter system, and SFUSD use.

Also the stay over program needs more attention. I work at an FRC and I’ve had multiple families come to me crying having not the best experiences at the stay over program and willingly choose to stay in their car or in a tent than go back there.

Some issues that I’ve heard is that the food is not good, staff are rude, there is no warm water to shower, and they are constantly being drilled by staff over every little thing. The hours of operation are also not realistic for daily life.

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RFAs and grants (RFGA) often land arbitrarily across CBOs. How can we move from fragmented reporting toward shared infrastructure — one that aligns school, city, and community data?

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Prior to the pandemic it was easy to connect with SFUSD staff. We had a dedicated person who knew our programs and could help us get information to young people and their families. We’ve lost that connection post-pandemic. How do we easily connect with appropriate staff at SFUSD to speak about programs that support justice system impacted young people (12-24 years old)?

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The panelist did an amazing job!

I don’t think there is a better way to say what has been said but I would just repeat it here in my own words just as it was shared. Let our data speak to each other, let the systems be aligned and we need more operational funds so we can do this work better and more efficiently.

I believe the city can also do better by improving information and communication flow with tools so that departments can work togethe.

I believe this answers the question of how the city can do better to improve cross departmental coordination.

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Please support teachers and educators for a lot of us is also facing homelessness

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Hsa/cps was noticably absent from this conversation which i think is indictive of a larger issue that deserves the attention of people in positions of power 

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Hsa/cps was noticably absent from this conversation which i think is indictive of a larger issue that deserves the attention of people in positions of power 

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The panel gave me hope on how the city of San Francisco is helping our children. A city that is lacking in children. It gives me hope for the next generation of families in San Francisco.I really want to see how fcc , friends & family care and centers can support homelessness and family support but we also need support. Also I am very thankful for all the community partnership I honestly think they are the main reason For the raise in kindergarten readiness

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I'm happy to hear them speak about collaboration, that's expected for CBOs, but the city departments never really do. Hiding behind bureaucracy is not acceptable. I'm proud of those women for pushing this forward.

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Yes to funding and yes to data alignment. Another magic wand request: can we make invoicing our contracts easier? As a nonprofit, ExCEL and DCYF requirements have become tedious and burdensome. It took 9 months to receive funding from DCYF last year.

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Addressing the needs of four year olds for out of school time (OST). 

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Addressing the needs of four year olds for out of school time (OST). 

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If we want UPK rollout to be successful, we have to consider how it works well during after school and summer.

We need funding to support CBO youth development staff to support four year olds in TK. Right now staff working with 4s are struggling, because the developmental needs of that age group requires deeper ECE knowledge.

A resourced professional learning community and coaching/observation model for these staff could make a big difference.

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It would have been nice to have the opportunity to ask questions. Either send in questions ahead of time or throughout the day.

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How can we lean in on whole-child/community schools models? There are 27 in the city and located at schools where is a natural anchor for families, the community schools bring the supports to families. These are long standing models who often run programs before school starts and long after school ends including summers.

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We have a couple of city contracts that are funding our staff full-time (at 40 hours/week), but don’t provide enough funding for us to cover full fringe benefits for those staff (payroll taxes, medical, retirement, LTD). That should never happen. We have to pay staff AND their fringes. This is especially bad on contracts that have been serving the city for a while. Please ensure your contract dollars allow us to cover both. Ask us how we’re doing with this gap and partner with us to cover the gap if your department can’t. Thanks.

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I feel like process has become so much more difficult in the past couple of years. Resources have been so much more difficult to obtain, so much unnecessary red tape, hoops to jump through almost testing to see how much you will endure. You are burning out all the good non profit workers who really care!!!