pleasure to work with harlem and i'm enjoyed working with steve, and michael and today, sharon who is now retired and michelle in her place. many attorneys in the city attorney's office and countless. it has been a pleasure and with a number of other staff people, management levels, people with offices and people who work in the field, it has been a true honor and a treat. in thinking back about my career, the first time i met your staff career was in 1967. i was at fonsaca and in 1977 i got became a consultant and met more people and in 1984 gene killager was a general manager and wooed me to work in general service. at the beginning of my career i never even thought of working in the public sector. and i never thought that my introduction to that would be the city and county of san francisco. it's kind of a trial by fire in some ways but it has been rewarding. extremely rewarding. for the last 18 years i've had the unique and also very rewarding experience of working where the 26th wholesale customers, your wholesale customers are member agencies for the last ten years working for t

is the new director of the new york public library shawnburg center for research in black culture in harlem, new york. >> i want the center to be as aggressive and as well-positioned as possible, to be a resource to anyone who has questions about the kind of country we live in and the kind of country that we can live in. >> mohamed is a respected scholar and grandson of the founder of islam. >> given i was not three years old, not yet three years old when he passed, i have never tried to claim more connection to him than my biographical connection. >> as it turns out, mohamed took office during the same time the shamburg took a collection from malcom x. >> my grandfather and malcom x created the space in the country necessary for the real change that took place in the 1960s. >> keeping history like that alive for generations to come is only one of his goals. >> what is special and perhaps unique about mohamed is that he is not only a brilliant scholar and public intellectual but also an extraordinarily gifted administrator. >> mohamed want the hambushambu be a place where people learn from

briefly touched on this family success coach that we talked about in harlem. these are meta staff that will be at these community hubs and really service ambassadors for the mission promise neighborhood. they are the connectors and work with families to further assess needs and goals with the financial capability lens and talking with our partner organizations and especially at the school site. we looked at, there are a lot of services available at the schools but the financial education, the financial coaching is something that they lack and so we feel this is a huge value to add to bring on site and their approach is around building trust around coaching and empowering families to meet their goals. so i will talk a little bit about another very exciting piece around the valuation and our john gardener team is here, maria who is a researcher and monica lopez and laurel is here. this you -- thank you for coming ladies. i may call you if you have more to talk about. this is really an outcome driven data driven and outcome driven project. as you know our service

reach out to people who are clearly living on the streets and our program was in the western part of harlem. we would bring people sandwiches and we developed relationships with people. one of the things that would happen wins once in a while we would talk to somebody, and we think we know that guy, his name is george. i would say george, how are you doing, would you like a sandwich. he runs the other way because he's had interaction with us before who the sandwich was an entry to getting them locked up for 6 months and whether or not you think that people living on the streets were you consider that a life, those people do consider it their life. so we feel that there absolutely needs to be more services for all levels. we do not feel that we need a coneject ral and problematic extra involuntary process in california and certainly not in san francisco. >> thank you. [ applause ] . i know we are going to be -- this hearing and discussing a lot more about outpatient mental health treatment but let's take a moment to hear from danny mcclaegen from san diego. tell us about the program. is it w

i briefly touched on this family success coach that we talked about in harlem. these are meta staff that will be at these community hubs and really service ambassadors for the mission promise neighborhood. they are the connectors and work with families to further assess needs and goals with the financial capability lens and talking with our partner organizations and especially at the school site. we looked at, there are a lot of services available at the schools but the financial education, the financial coaching is something that they lack and so we feel this is a huge value to add to bring on site and their approach is around building trust around coaching and empowering families to meet their goals. so i will talk a little bit about another very exciting piece around the valuation and our john gardener team is here, maria who is a researcher and monica lopez and laurel is here. this you -- thank you for coming ladies. i may call you if you have more to talk about. this is really an outcome driven data driven and outcome driven project. as you know our service

i think we were impressed in visiting the harlem children's zone, no matter how you enter the children's zone, whether it an after school program or social work service or you join one of their charter schools, once you are in, there is a stickiness, there is an embrace, we are going follow-up with you, we are not going to let you get away. we've captured you and you are part of us now maybe there are some procedures and more importantly we get to know who you are and we make sure that you are successful. by linking our school districts we have more boot on the ground to develop that embrace and to make sure we are making it through the system. we are looking at challenges of research base of allocating funding and working how to work more effectively. we just want to bring some of those details and ideas and any questions you may have we are welcome to it. >> are there any questions or comments? i just had one and that was i remember when i sat on the school board when we saw expulsions come to us which was the same pattern with no credits and they are going to the county schools. the q

not say which ones they are and it competes for my favorite painting in the exhibition it is view of harlem with bleaching grounds in the foregrounds and one of the most important innovations for the 17th century, dutch landscape painters was the way that they approached the sky. for any of you who have traveled to the netherlands you know that there is a low horizon line and i have been told that the dutch people and i can be corrected. that they call their clouds the dutch mountains because the landscape is so low that really you get these massive clouds in the sky and that is the kind of important topography to talk about. this is another example by the same artist and it is a winter scene, and as i move through these images of different paintings from various national schools. i don't want to talk too much over them but to let you feel how the atmosphere and the mood is changed by the different kinds of clouds that the artists have chosen to depict. and i wanted to also var clearly indicate it was interesting when putting together this powerpoint, i don't typically like to put any words

but it is working in east harlem, where we toured with finkelstein. if i look at this whole corner, i've got a shelter, i've got a bench so a senior can sit, i've got glass so they feel safe, i've got shade so they don't feel too hot. they've got cutouts so they can use their ramps or walkers. >> how are you today? >> sreenivasan: for seniors like the aarons, being able to get out and about to do their errands is essential to staying out of assisted living. >> you go there, and everybody has white hair. they don't look like they are enjoying life. to me, to be able to do things yourself rather than have something done for you, you know, to try your best to do as much for yourself as possible. >> sreenivasan: age-friendly also partners with the private sector to help businesses better serve older customers. the changes are simple: better lighting, a place to sit and larger fonts so seniors can see what's available. local stores like fairway markets offer shuttle buses and in-store assistance. >> if you are in the retail business and you want to serve a

reach out to people who are clearly living on the streets and our program was in the western part of harlem. we would bring people sandwiches and we developed relationships with people. one of the things that would happen wins once in a while we would talk to somebody, and we think we know that guy, his name is george. i would say george, how are you doing, would you like a sandwich. he runs the other way because he's had interaction with us before who the sandwich was an entry to getting them locked up for 6 months and whether or not you think that people living on the streets were you consider that a life, those people do consider it their life. so we feel that there absolutely needs to be more services for all levels. we do not feel that we need a coneject ral and problematic extra involuntary process in california and certainly not in

i briefly touched on this family success coach that we talked about in harlem. these are meta staff that will be at these community hubs and really service ambassadors for the mission promise neighborhood. they are the connectors and work with families to further assess needs and goals with the financial capability lens and talking with our partner organizations and especially at the school site. we looked at, there are a lot of services available at the schools but the financial education, the financial coaching is something that they lack and so we feel this is a huge value to add to bring on site and their approach is around building trust around coaching and empowering families to meet their goals. so i will talk a little bit about another very exciting piece

pleasure to work with harlem and i'm enjoyed working with steve, and michael and today, sharon who is now retired and michelle in her place. many attorneys in the city attorney's office and countless. it has been a pleasure and with a number of other staff people, management levels, people with offices and people who work in the field, it has been a true honor and a treat. in thinking back about my career, the first time i met your staff career was in 1967. i was at fonsaca and in 1977 i got became a consultant and met more people and in 1984 gene killager was a general manager and wooed me to work in general service. at the beginning of my career i ver even thought of working in the public sector. and i never thought that my introduction to that would be the city and county of san francisco. it's kind of a trial by fire in some ways but it has been rewarding. extremely rewarding. for the last 18 years i've had the unique and also very rewarding experience of working where the 26th wholesale customers, your wholesale customers are member agencies for the last ten years working for tho

he and i worked together, in harlem, and slam jam on the basketball tournament. and the foundation which we started, but we were in working together. we were in the gym all the time, working with young ladies, and playing basketball, and letting them go to college and stuff like that. that was his dream, that's what he was all about, that's why he was there that day in the morning because he went to work at 8:00. so he can be uptown by 4:30. and come to the gym and work with. we mad five girls playing in the wnba, last year we had a young lady that won the new york olympics. >> so the volunteer work that he was doing is that impact even years later, james, what are your memories of that day, and when you first heard the news about your brother? >> i felt sad, and bad, because my brother was a good man. his colleagues, of the basketball league, he was taken money from his own pocket, and trying to get them scholarships. and i just -- i was just mad, because my brother never did nothing bad. and for all the people in that building, i wish they were still here, beca

unified's program, some people are credentialed teachers, some who are supervised by credentialed teachers, harlem children zone, wrap-around services. seem like the hybrid approach where it's community and nonprofit and some governmental or semi-governmental agencies. that seems to be the way things are going now. do you think that's the rye way to go forward or are there other strategies that maybe sneed to be tried to help african-american boys that aren't really on the table right now? >> i can't say enough about the importance of there being an employment aspect to this. if you look at numbers of those who are killed over that period jill tucker described, i bet very few of them had jobs, very few of them had careers. you've really got to recognize the young people who think they're going somewhere because there's something to live for, because they have a family, they have a career, they have a future, are going to be -- make different decisions than young people who are headed nowhere. and so we really have to address that aspect of the problem. >> and i think what's interesting about this

i was driving around the battery to get to the harlem tunnel, for ten years through construction workers and heavy traffic. >> and even though it looks complete, there's still construction going on. while the tower is up, there's plenty going on around it that's still under construction. >> it's gorgeous. >> it's beautiful. i've seen the video before. it's beautiful to look at it, no matter how many times you look at it. >> makes you proud. >> absolutely. ♪ the only thing we have to fear is... fear itself. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] bob's heart attack didn't come with a warning. today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you've had a heart attack, be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. then you'll love lactose-free lactaid® it's 100% real milk that's easy to digest so you can fully enjoy the dairy you love. lactaid®. for 25 years, easy to digest. easy to love. that hasn't been cleared yet. ♪ uh! i just want to celebrate [ male announcer ] every time you say no to a cigarette you celebrate a little

bringing here to harlem, apollo. you're doing some great things. we need a show like this to help our people understand where we need to go from here. >> you know, we just two weeks ago, we commemorated the 50th anniversary of martin luther king's speech, "i have a dream." couple hundred of us marched. martin looututher king, groups, national action network, other groups, urban league, but in order to do that we have also be prepared and deal with our individual stories. you have a different kind of story. you came from a household in detroit, mother and daddy there, but you still faced challenges. you still had to make it. tell people how, in your young years, you caught on to something that inspired you. because i read about how there was some businessmen in the community and you used to go sit behind the desk and dream. >> yes. well, you know, i grew up in lansing, michigan. my father worked for general motors for 30 years. my mom worked at the school calf ti cafeteria and i didn't know african-americans could own businesses. so it was two black

a sick professor who is also a medical doctor taking a walk through his community in harlem at about 8:15 when he heard people yelling ghetto sam ma and terrorists. he was attacked by 20 young men on bikes. passers-by helped him to escape. he suffered a fractured jaw. as much as this attack made us sit up and take notice, it is how the doctor responded to the silence that led us to invite him to the studio as our foot soldier of the week. dr. prabhjot singh issing from columbia university, also a physician who lives and works in harlem and a national community health expert. i'm honored to have you here on the set. tell me it your reaction to this crime. >> first of all is, thanks so much for having me on the show. of course, the immediate reaction is certainly shock, but very quickly afterwards, there was an immediate sense that we have to do something, that we reaches more deeply than i think what the nypd who are doing an excellent job can do. we need to actually redouble our focus and efforts on this amazing community we live in and make sure that thing like this don't happen to