Work with the Department on Children, Youth and Families to identify afterschool and summer programs that are free/affordable.
To ensure that free or affordable afterschool and summer programs exist and are adequately funded, we joined all of the members of the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor’s Office, city departments, and public and private partners in supporting Proposition C in November 2014, which reauthorized funding for the Children and Youth Fund and Public Education Enrichment Fund. Both funds were previously passed by voters to support and strengthen the community-based service delivery system for children, youth and families with a focus on prevention and early intervention and to provide critical funding to improve education quality, respectively. The reauthorization of both funds was an important victory in supporting critical youth-serving programs.
With a consistent stream of funding secured, we will continue to work with the Department on Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF) to support existing and new programs available to Sunset District residents. DCYF provides funding for Out of School Time (OST) programs that provide learning opportunities for youth during after-school hours, weekends and summers.
More than $15 million is granted annually to more than 200 programs in neighborhoods across San Francisco. In 2015, we supported Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center’s (SNBC) request for additional funding to accommodate their wait list and Sunset Youth Service’s (SYS) request for funding to support their Upstar Café program, which educates youth on healthy food choices through a series of experiential learning activities. We also partnered with SYS for a June 2015 Discover Your District event in which residents had the opportunity to explore SYS’ offerings for youth, such as its recording studio and digital recording capabilities.
As part of the FY 2015-2016 & 2016-2017 budget, the Mayor announced adding an additional $1.8 million to eliminate the waitlist for summer programs and including $2.5 million to fund 820 slots to eliminate the waitlist for after school programs. These are important investments the City must make to support youth and Transitional Age Youth (TAY) in our community.
Finally, we held our second District 4 Mobile Job Fair in the Sunset District which provided youth who live and/or attend school in the district the opportunity to interview with local small businesses for summer employment.
We will continue to work on bringing additional programming that is needed in the Sunset District, such as programs for Transitional Aged Youth, and developing public/private partnerships that can assist youth outside of the typical school day.
Find out more:
Learn about Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center’s afterschool and summer programming:
Learn about Sunset Youth Services’ afterschool and summer programming:
http://sunsetyouthservices.org/
Check out all of the Out of School Time programs that DCYF offers in the Sunset District and throughout the city: