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"content": "\u003cp>Pink hues adorn the horizon as the sun rises on a nondescript parking lot at Long Beach City College. The lot is quiet but not empty, with the same gray asphalt and slightly faded white lines as any other one on campus. But from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., it is much more than a place to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lot is a designated area for Long Beach City College’s Safe Parking Program, an initiative from the college’s Basic Needs Center that offers safe overnight parking for students and connects them to resources like showers and Wi-Fi. The program was created to address a particular student demographic: homeless students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccleague.org/sites/default/files/images/basic_needs_among_california_community_college_students-final-2023.pdf\">report (PDF)\u003c/a> from the Community College League of California found that 2 out of 3 of the state’s community college students struggle to meet their basic needs and almost 3 out of 5 are housing insecure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help these students, multiple legislative measures have tried to create safe parking options similar to Long Beach City College’s. The most recent effort was \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1818?slug=CA_202320240AB1818\">Assembly Bill 1818\u003c/a>. Introduced by Assemblymember Corey Jackson early this year, the bill would have required the California Community College and California State University systems to create pilot programs to provide safe overnight parking for students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parking lot homeless programs are a best practice that’s been used throughout the nation; churches have done it, cities have done it, it’s time for colleges to step up and do it too,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was killed in the appropriations committee on Aug. 16 but would have required the California State University to select five campuses to participate in the pilot program; the California Community College chancellor would have had to select 20. The pilot program would have lasted through 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appropriations committee, which assesses the financial viability of a bill, estimated that establishing pilot programs across the Cal State system would cost around $500,000 as well as an additional $2.25 million in annual costs. For the California Community Colleges, the committee estimated between $91,500 and $112,00 in one-time costs and $10 million to $13 million in annual costs for the duration of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Mendez, coordinator of Long Beach City College’s Basic Needs Program, oversees the safe parking program and said those estimates sound high, although he acknowledges that costs will vary from campus to campus. Long Beach City College has been able to fund its program for less than the committee’s estimated costs by working collaboratively with other departments and using existing contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the bill had garnered support from organizations like the California Faculty Association and the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, several community college districts and the California State University system opposed it. Some of their concerns include liability risk and cost. They also argue that providing secure overnight parking is not a permanent solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Safe Parking LA parking permit on a car windshield in a ‘safe parking’ lot in Los Angeles, on Feb. 11, 2019. By 2023, the organization was operating 7 ‘safe parking’ lots monitored by security guards in the Los Angeles area, offering a temporary 12-hour safe haven for people who live in their cars or RVs. \u003ccite>(Kyle Grillot/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Letitia Clark, chief communications officer for the South Orange County Community College District, said the district has been investing in programs that support basic needs, including housing, as well as exploring building housing on campus as part of their facilities master plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want any mandates or anything that would take away from that, and especially with an alternative that we actually don’t think is safe and really provides a good quality of life for our students,” Clark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendez at Long Beach City College acknowledges that overnight parking is not a housing solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not in the understanding that providing our students a safe place to park is providing them housing,” Mendez said, adding that the program is just one of the many resources available for students facing housing insecurity. However, overnight parking provides an immediate safe space while students are connected to longer-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providing holistic support\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Started in 2021, the program has evolved over the years. The lot is now located next to the college’s campus safety building, which has allowed Long Beach City College to cut down on the nearly $500,000 they spent the first two years hiring an outside security company. Students have access to the bathroom in the campus safety building throughout the night and can access the locker room showers from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the nearby school stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being next to the campus safety building means overnight security officers and parking employees periodically check in on the lot as part of their routine rounds. Mendez said that despite there not being 24/7 surveillance, there haven’t been any safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lot has 15 parking spots reserved for safe parking participants from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m., although the program can have around 30 folks enrolled at a time. Mendez said they rarely have issues with capacity because students use the resource to varying degrees — some enroll as a backup because they are at risk of losing their housing, others may only need a night or two while they wait to relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the Safe Parking Program need to be enrolled in the primary terms of fall and spring. However, they can continue using the program during summer and winter without being enrolled during those terms. They must also be independent; service animals are allowed but students can’t be living in their vehicle with family or have dependents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These eligibility requirements have evolved as Mendez and his team assess what is realistic and better serves students. Originally, the program required students to have their vehicles registered and an up-to-date license, but now that is something the college assists them with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once enrolled in the program, students receive a welcome packet, sign a liability release form and are connected with a case manager to find long-term housing, whether that be through one of the college’s community partners or elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 2022–23 academic year, the program had a total of 24 students. Twelve of them found transitional or permanent housing. For fall 2023, 21 students enrolled in the program, two obtained permanent housing and 19 of them continued into spring 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community has also been supportive of the program. Mendez said that since it started, the program has received donations of blankets, gift cards, hygiene kits and other necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliot Stern, the president of Saddleback College, spoke against AB 1818 during a Senate committee hearing, arguing that colleges need to get students out of their cars and into their basic needs centers so their needs can be “addressed holistically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Long Beach City College, students access the parking program through the basic needs center and its online request form. What began as a COVID-19 emergency aid application has continued to be a useful one-stop-shop application for students seeking help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For all of our basic needs efforts, we always take a wide scope and try to cast the widest net we can,” Mendez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey asks whether students are facing housing insecurity, which could mean they are struggling to pay rent or have to move frequently, or if they are homeless, meaning they don’t have a permanent place to live. If they answer yes to either, the survey then asks if they’re sleeping in their vehicle, couch surfing, staying in hotels or borrowing a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through this data, the Basic Needs team can directly connect students with specific resources. For students who self-identify as living in their cars, the outreach coordinator then refers them to the Safe Parking Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When students aren’t allowed to park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>AB 1818 was inspired by the experiences of students attending campuses without overnight parking. The bill originated as a response to Cal Poly Humboldt evicting students living in their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 25, 2023, Cal Poly Humboldt students received a \u003ca href=\"https://mailings.humboldt.edu/general/2023_10_25/index.html\">mass announcement\u003c/a> stating that the university would begin enforcing a parking policy it had previously overlooked and would be evicting students who were found sleeping in their vehicles overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those students was Caleb Chen, a second-year public sociology graduate student. He applied to Humboldt in late June of last year and knew finding housing would be difficult. After doing some research, he learned about the university’s alternative living community and figured it would be feasible to live out of his van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen was in the graduate lounge with a friend when they both got the email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, the jig is up,” his friend told him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eviction announcement said allowing students to sleep in their cars was “unsanitary” and “unsafe” — terminology that not only made students feel dehumanized but also something they considered inaccurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Butterfield standing inside his RV. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brad Butterfield, president of the Alternative Living Club, a school club created by Humboldt students living in their cars to form a community and advocate for establishing a mail service, said the administration brought up similar sanitation concerns when they pitched the idea of a safe parking program on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need, nor ever asked for, bathrooms, showers or security,” said Butterfield, a journalism senior. “All we need is a place to park overnight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butterfield lives in an RV, which has a built-in bathroom. He has a membership at a local gym and showers there. For students without RVs, Chen said there still are bathrooms on campus that are open 24/7 and that most undergraduate students shower in the school gym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really difficult to be pretty much told that you can’t exist,” Butterfield said. “We weren’t causing any harm. We all kept a really low profile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butterfield said that at the time of the evictions, 25 to 30 students were living in their cars. Some lived in discrete vehicles like SUVs, while others lived in RVs like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email announcement stated that campus officers had received calls from members of the community “expressing fear and frustration about the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were never any issues between the vehicle dwellers on campus,” Butterfield said. “Not between us as a community and certainly not between us and the campus community at large.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Butterfield checks the top of his RV for leaks in Arcata on Aug. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Butterfield, it was quite the contrary. He said some students had told him they felt safer knowing there were students in the parking lot at night who could call the police if anyone was trying to break into their car — something the group had done in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stigma around homelessness is something that Mendez from Long Beach City College has been fighting since the beginning of the safe parking program. He said the staff have a student-centered approach and are mindful of treating students with dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all of these negative stereotypes about what a homeless person is instead of realizing that these college students are coming here to be successful. They’re coming here to work on their long-term goals and help themselves and their families,” Mendez said. “I think that level of dignity has made the biggest impact beyond the actual connection of housing partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mischaracterization of homeless students is what ended a 2019 bill that was also advocating for safe parking. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB302\">Assembly Bill 302\u003c/a> was introduced by Assemblymember Marc Berman and would have required community college campuses to allow overnight access to parking, bathroom and shower facilities for students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill made it to the appropriations committee, where it underwent significant amendments that Berman said “watered down the bill” and “treated homeless community college students like pedophiles” by placing restrictions for campuses within a certain distance from elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12000987,news_11988775,mindshift_64314\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really unfortunate and damaging in terms of stigmatizing homeless students. And so, because of a lot of those reasons, we decided to stop the bill from moving forward and work on other solutions to the issue,” Berman said. He later drafted Assembly Bill 132, which successfully passed and required every California Community College to establish a basic needs center and hire a basic needs coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, another student tried starting a pilot overnight parking program at his campus. Grayson Peters, now a UCLA alumni, was a founder of UCLA Safe Parking and came across similar arguments from his administration at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said UCLA administrators told him allowing students to live in their cars and park overnight was “fundamentally unsafe.” Peters said that while he agrees with the statement, the alternative can be even more dangerous for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students are actively sleeping on unsecured city streets a few blocks over, without the benefit of university guards or university facilities or the student gym nearby to go to the restroom in the middle of the night if they need to,” Peters said. “The status quo is more unsafe than the solution we’re proposing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butterfield and his partner have experienced that risk. After being evicted, they tried to find safe places to park around the city. But Arcata has a 72-hour parking limit, which meant they had to relocate every three days. Butterfield said the Arcata police have harassed them multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like we’re constantly trying to outrun the police because they keep wanting us to move from here to there to here to there,” Butterfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State Humboldt referred students to a safe parking program run by a local nonprofit organization, but that program ended this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Goldman, the associate director of the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, said data shows that a student’s proximity to campus can affect their academic outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Safe parking] is not only giving them a safer option, but an option that is conducive to them reaching their goals,” Goldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such was the case for Chen in Humboldt, who, before the eviction, was doing much better academically because the commute time was so short, and he didn’t have to stress about where he would spend the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen spent the remainder of the semester and the following one at a local public parking lot. He now lives in a studio apartment he can afford because of loans and scholarships and is splitting rent with his partner, who moved up to Humboldt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caleb Chen stands in the parking lot where he lived in his van at the California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, in Arcata, on Aug. 24, 2024. Due to the high cost of housing and education, some students at the university lived in their vehicles on campus prior to the university, prohibiting them from doing so in the fall of 2023. Chen, a sociology graduate student, said that finding affordable housing near the university is challenging and only possible for him this year after moving in with his partner and receiving a fellowship that can be applied toward rent. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When that announcement happened in November, it was just a wrench into a lot of people’s livelihoods, let alone academic success,” Chen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said he was disappointed that the bill was “mischaracterized” by the educational systems as encouraging students to live in their cars as opposed to more effective interventions. Moving forward, now that the legislature is on a break until January, Jackson said he will be scheduling a meeting with the Cal State and California Community Colleges chancellors to see if “there’s ways that we can still get this done.” If not, he will be reintroducing the bill next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Student Senate for the Community Colleges said they will continue to advocate for student basics needs including securing funding for dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jetaun Stevens, a senior staff attorney with the nonprofit law firm Public Advocates, said she hopes the bill returns with a greater coalition behind it. She said that while AB 1818 was mostly sponsored by the author, working with advocacy organizations who can co-sponsor the bill would help bring forward student stories and amplify the potential impact of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes it does take [bills] that are somewhat controversial quite a few times before they make it across the finish line,” Stevens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Briana Mendez-Padilla is a fellow with the College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. CalMatters higher education coverage is supported by a grant from the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was killed in the appropriations committee on Aug. 16 but would have required the California State University to select five campuses to participate in the pilot program; the California Community College chancellor would have had to select 20. The pilot program would have lasted through 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appropriations committee, which assesses the financial viability of a bill, estimated that establishing pilot programs across the Cal State system would cost around $500,000 as well as an additional $2.25 million in annual costs. For the California Community Colleges, the committee estimated between $91,500 and $112,00 in one-time costs and $10 million to $13 million in annual costs for the duration of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Mendez, coordinator of Long Beach City College’s Basic Needs Program, oversees the safe parking program and said those estimates sound high, although he acknowledges that costs will vary from campus to campus. Long Beach City College has been able to fund its program for less than the committee’s estimated costs by working collaboratively with other departments and using existing contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the bill had garnered support from organizations like the California Faculty Association and the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, several community college districts and the California State University system opposed it. Some of their concerns include liability risk and cost. They also argue that providing secure overnight parking is not a permanent solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021119-LA-SAFE-PARKING-GETTY-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Safe Parking LA parking permit on a car windshield in a ‘safe parking’ lot in Los Angeles, on Feb. 11, 2019. By 2023, the organization was operating 7 ‘safe parking’ lots monitored by security guards in the Los Angeles area, offering a temporary 12-hour safe haven for people who live in their cars or RVs. \u003ccite>(Kyle Grillot/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Letitia Clark, chief communications officer for the South Orange County Community College District, said the district has been investing in programs that support basic needs, including housing, as well as exploring building housing on campus as part of their facilities master plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want any mandates or anything that would take away from that, and especially with an alternative that we actually don’t think is safe and really provides a good quality of life for our students,” Clark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendez at Long Beach City College acknowledges that overnight parking is not a housing solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not in the understanding that providing our students a safe place to park is providing them housing,” Mendez said, adding that the program is just one of the many resources available for students facing housing insecurity. However, overnight parking provides an immediate safe space while students are connected to longer-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providing holistic support\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Started in 2021, the program has evolved over the years. The lot is now located next to the college’s campus safety building, which has allowed Long Beach City College to cut down on the nearly $500,000 they spent the first two years hiring an outside security company. Students have access to the bathroom in the campus safety building throughout the night and can access the locker room showers from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the nearby school stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being next to the campus safety building means overnight security officers and parking employees periodically check in on the lot as part of their routine rounds. Mendez said that despite there not being 24/7 surveillance, there haven’t been any safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lot has 15 parking spots reserved for safe parking participants from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m., although the program can have around 30 folks enrolled at a time. Mendez said they rarely have issues with capacity because students use the resource to varying degrees — some enroll as a backup because they are at risk of losing their housing, others may only need a night or two while they wait to relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the Safe Parking Program need to be enrolled in the primary terms of fall and spring. However, they can continue using the program during summer and winter without being enrolled during those terms. They must also be independent; service animals are allowed but students can’t be living in their vehicle with family or have dependents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These eligibility requirements have evolved as Mendez and his team assess what is realistic and better serves students. Originally, the program required students to have their vehicles registered and an up-to-date license, but now that is something the college assists them with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once enrolled in the program, students receive a welcome packet, sign a liability release form and are connected with a case manager to find long-term housing, whether that be through one of the college’s community partners or elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 2022–23 academic year, the program had a total of 24 students. Twelve of them found transitional or permanent housing. For fall 2023, 21 students enrolled in the program, two obtained permanent housing and 19 of them continued into spring 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community has also been supportive of the program. Mendez said that since it started, the program has received donations of blankets, gift cards, hygiene kits and other necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliot Stern, the president of Saddleback College, spoke against AB 1818 during a Senate committee hearing, arguing that colleges need to get students out of their cars and into their basic needs centers so their needs can be “addressed holistically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Long Beach City College, students access the parking program through the basic needs center and its online request form. What began as a COVID-19 emergency aid application has continued to be a useful one-stop-shop application for students seeking help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For all of our basic needs efforts, we always take a wide scope and try to cast the widest net we can,” Mendez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey asks whether students are facing housing insecurity, which could mean they are struggling to pay rent or have to move frequently, or if they are homeless, meaning they don’t have a permanent place to live. If they answer yes to either, the survey then asks if they’re sleeping in their vehicle, couch surfing, staying in hotels or borrowing a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through this data, the Basic Needs team can directly connect students with specific resources. For students who self-identify as living in their cars, the outreach coordinator then refers them to the Safe Parking Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When students aren’t allowed to park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>AB 1818 was inspired by the experiences of students attending campuses without overnight parking. The bill originated as a response to Cal Poly Humboldt evicting students living in their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 25, 2023, Cal Poly Humboldt students received a \u003ca href=\"https://mailings.humboldt.edu/general/2023_10_25/index.html\">mass announcement\u003c/a> stating that the university would begin enforcing a parking policy it had previously overlooked and would be evicting students who were found sleeping in their vehicles overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those students was Caleb Chen, a second-year public sociology graduate student. He applied to Humboldt in late June of last year and knew finding housing would be difficult. After doing some research, he learned about the university’s alternative living community and figured it would be feasible to live out of his van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen was in the graduate lounge with a friend when they both got the email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, the jig is up,” his friend told him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eviction announcement said allowing students to sleep in their cars was “unsanitary” and “unsafe” — terminology that not only made students feel dehumanized but also something they considered inaccurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_05-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Butterfield standing inside his RV. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brad Butterfield, president of the Alternative Living Club, a school club created by Humboldt students living in their cars to form a community and advocate for establishing a mail service, said the administration brought up similar sanitation concerns when they pitched the idea of a safe parking program on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need, nor ever asked for, bathrooms, showers or security,” said Butterfield, a journalism senior. “All we need is a place to park overnight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butterfield lives in an RV, which has a built-in bathroom. He has a membership at a local gym and showers there. For students without RVs, Chen said there still are bathrooms on campus that are open 24/7 and that most undergraduate students shower in the school gym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really difficult to be pretty much told that you can’t exist,” Butterfield said. “We weren’t causing any harm. We all kept a really low profile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butterfield said that at the time of the evictions, 25 to 30 students were living in their cars. Some lived in discrete vehicles like SUVs, while others lived in RVs like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email announcement stated that campus officers had received calls from members of the community “expressing fear and frustration about the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were never any issues between the vehicle dwellers on campus,” Butterfield said. “Not between us as a community and certainly not between us and the campus community at large.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_11-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Butterfield checks the top of his RV for leaks in Arcata on Aug. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Butterfield, it was quite the contrary. He said some students had told him they felt safer knowing there were students in the parking lot at night who could call the police if anyone was trying to break into their car — something the group had done in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stigma around homelessness is something that Mendez from Long Beach City College has been fighting since the beginning of the safe parking program. He said the staff have a student-centered approach and are mindful of treating students with dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all of these negative stereotypes about what a homeless person is instead of realizing that these college students are coming here to be successful. They’re coming here to work on their long-term goals and help themselves and their families,” Mendez said. “I think that level of dignity has made the biggest impact beyond the actual connection of housing partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mischaracterization of homeless students is what ended a 2019 bill that was also advocating for safe parking. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB302\">Assembly Bill 302\u003c/a> was introduced by Assemblymember Marc Berman and would have required community college campuses to allow overnight access to parking, bathroom and shower facilities for students living in their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill made it to the appropriations committee, where it underwent significant amendments that Berman said “watered down the bill” and “treated homeless community college students like pedophiles” by placing restrictions for campuses within a certain distance from elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Grayson Peters, now a UCLA alumni, was a founder of UCLA Safe Parking and came across similar arguments from his administration at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said UCLA administrators told him allowing students to live in their cars and park overnight was “fundamentally unsafe.” Peters said that while he agrees with the statement, the alternative can be even more dangerous for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students are actively sleeping on unsecured city streets a few blocks over, without the benefit of university guards or university facilities or the student gym nearby to go to the restroom in the middle of the night if they need to,” Peters said. “The status quo is more unsafe than the solution we’re proposing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butterfield and his partner have experienced that risk. After being evicted, they tried to find safe places to park around the city. But Arcata has a 72-hour parking limit, which meant they had to relocate every three days. Butterfield said the Arcata police have harassed them multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like we’re constantly trying to outrun the police because they keep wanting us to move from here to there to here to there,” Butterfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State Humboldt referred students to a safe parking program run by a local nonprofit organization, but that program ended this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Goldman, the associate director of the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, said data shows that a student’s proximity to campus can affect their academic outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Safe parking] is not only giving them a safer option, but an option that is conducive to them reaching their goals,” Goldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such was the case for Chen in Humboldt, who, before the eviction, was doing much better academically because the commute time was so short, and he didn’t have to stress about where he would spend the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen spent the remainder of the semester and the following one at a local public parking lot. He now lives in a studio apartment he can afford because of loans and scholarships and is splitting rent with his partner, who moved up to Humboldt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/082424_Safe-Parking_AH_14-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caleb Chen stands in the parking lot where he lived in his van at the California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, in Arcata, on Aug. 24, 2024. Due to the high cost of housing and education, some students at the university lived in their vehicles on campus prior to the university, prohibiting them from doing so in the fall of 2023. Chen, a sociology graduate student, said that finding affordable housing near the university is challenging and only possible for him this year after moving in with his partner and receiving a fellowship that can be applied toward rent. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When that announcement happened in November, it was just a wrench into a lot of people’s livelihoods, let alone academic success,” Chen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said he was disappointed that the bill was “mischaracterized” by the educational systems as encouraging students to live in their cars as opposed to more effective interventions. Moving forward, now that the legislature is on a break until January, Jackson said he will be scheduling a meeting with the Cal State and California Community Colleges chancellors to see if “there’s ways that we can still get this done.” If not, he will be reintroducing the bill next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Student Senate for the Community Colleges said they will continue to advocate for student basics needs including securing funding for dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jetaun Stevens, a senior staff attorney with the nonprofit law firm Public Advocates, said she hopes the bill returns with a greater coalition behind it. She said that while AB 1818 was mostly sponsored by the author, working with advocacy organizations who can co-sponsor the bill would help bring forward student stories and amplify the potential impact of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes it does take [bills] that are somewhat controversial quite a few times before they make it across the finish line,” Stevens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Caramagno said administrators told her she hadn’t violated any policies, but after she shared one of the complaints with colleagues, she was fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghannam said faculty members at UCSF have also been told not to wear pins with the Palestinian flag or with watermelons, a symbol of support for Palestinians, but they are free to wear other symbols of support, such as the LGBTQ pride flag or Black Lives Matter pins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like different rules apply, and that has the immediate impact of putting a chilling effect on faculty, staff and students who want to speak, who want to do academic research in this area, who want to show their solidarity,” Ghannam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF was also notably the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986812/some-bay-area-universities-reach-deal-to-end-encampments-but-students-say-their-fight-continues\">site of the stiffest university opposition to student encampments\u003c/a> among Bay Area campuses. 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So it’s a very McCarthyist moment for us as faculty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12005195 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-018-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF officials did not immediately return requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for UC Berkeley declined to answer questions about allegations specific to its campus and directed KQED to the UC Office of the President.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unfair labor practice charge was timed “to counter the even more restrictive practices on free speech and assembly that the UC has imposed at the start of this academic year,” said Constance Penley, president of the Council of University of California Faculty Associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those rules include \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002150/uc-academic-workers-union-says-new-protest-policies-will-limit-free-speech\">revised restrictions on encampments\u003c/a> and a ban on wearing masks for the purpose of concealing identity. Students and faculty also criticized the university system when the policies were announced last month, saying they are meant to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001778/students-suspended-over-pro-palestinian-protests-tread-a-fine-line-as-fall-semester-begins-at-bay-area-universities\"> deter pro-Palestinian protests.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charge builds on a similar filing by UCLA faculty members in response to the university’s handling of the student encampment there, accusing administrators of knowingly standing by while counterprotesters attacked the camp, then sending in police days later to clear the camp and arrest participants, including some faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked for comment on Thursday, officials for the UC’s Office of the President pointed to their response to the initial charge from UCLA faculty. 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Much of the policy is not new, but it centralizes rules regarding where and how students can protest, and it introduces a new reporting system for discrimination after multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989050/pro-palestinian-stanford-protesters-detained-after-occupying-presidents-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high-profile antiwar protests\u003c/a> — including a barricade inside the office of the university’s president that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991389/press-freedom-groups-want-charges-dropped-against-stanford-student-journalist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resulted in 13 arrests\u003c/a> — in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rule on facial coverings requires people to remove them for the purpose of identification “under circumstances covered by the Campus Disruptions Policy,” similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002150/uc-academic-workers-union-says-new-protest-policies-will-limit-free-speech\">policies introduced at other universities\u003c/a> this fall. People could be asked to remove masks for identification if they are violating policy by disrupting or preventing classes, lectures, meetings and other activities, obstructing the movement of any person around a campus building, or refusing to leave a building that is closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a method of surveillance that a lot of students don’t necessarily feel comfortable with,” Emily Williams, who was a spokesperson for the Stanford Against Apartheid in Palestine coalition in the spring, told KQED. They said some students were worried about the “subjectivity” of the requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a time where COVID-19 rates are rising and other infectious diseases, as people are returning from their travels for the summer, it’s a policy that might scare people out of wearing facial protection because of the fear of being surveilled or being singled out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overnight camping policy, which disallows staying outside on university campus between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m., has also been updated to prevent “setting up structures that remain between those hours,” regardless of whether people are in them. The policy was \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/02/preserving-free-speech-safety-white-plaza\">enforced in February\u003c/a>, ending a sit-in by pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus’ White Plaza that had lasted more than 100 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005209\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-017-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus in Stanford, Calif., on April 25, 2024, calling for the university to divest from Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, Williams said that a later encampment set up in April was allowed to remain in place until June 5, when campus leaders dismantled it after the occupation of the president’s office by protesters. Stanford’s new president, Jonathan Levin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/stanford-debuts-freedom-expression-policy-19772135.php\">told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> two weeks ago that the school would enforce and be clear about its policies this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email shared with students on Tuesday, campus leaders said the new Freedom of Expression website provides interim guidance on “the application of freedom of expression principles in different contexts around campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus of our policies is on having reasonable, viewpoint-neutral time, place and manner rules that leave ample channels for expression,” the message from Provost Jenny Martinez and Vice Provost for Student Affairs Michele Rasmussen reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site also centralizes rules for events on White Plaza, where large “spontaneous” gatherings by campus affiliates are allowed without advance permission. The policy requires credence for planned events and adherence to “rules regarding amplified noise and other issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002172 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS19790_GettyImages-493193647-qut-1020x702.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other outdoor areas — Meyer Green, the groves next to the Oval, Manzanita Field, and Panama Street Clearing — have been designated for large events. Small gatherings can be held in a wider variety of settings, but events held at these locations with over 100 participants, loud sound, marching or running, or a high-profile speaker will be subject to new Major Event Protocol, which requires permission from the Office of Student Engagement or registration by a faculty or staff member. The site says permission won’t be denied based on the “viewpoint of speakers or participants,” but organizers must follow registration rules and work with campus authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New policy also tightens rules on recording and taking photos of lectures and official course-related activities and limits allowed photos for personal use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Widespread recording may chill open discussion within classrooms when students are faced with the possibility of a comment made in class ‘going viral’ on social media,” the policy reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second website linked in the provosts’ email also introduces a new Title VI process for students to report discrimination, replacing the university’s Protected Identity Harm Reporting (PIHR) protocol. It includes an early screen for reports involving speech protected by federal or state law, a structure for providing updates on existing claims and a dashboard for reporting incidents to the community, according to the message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders say the new process is in response to concerns with PIHR, including confusion about its purpose, the timeline for following up on submitted reports and “long-standing concerns about the potential for the PIHR process to chill freedom of expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new system is formed around Title VI, which prohibits institutions receiving federal funding from discriminating on the basis of race, while the previous focused on “protected identity harm,” which the email calls “vague.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the guidance is “interim,” administrators said in the email sent to students on Tuesday, and some policies will continue to be evaluated over the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said that how students respond largely depends on how the policy changes affect their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s just a matter of being able to experience it first and see how they’re going to play into action,” they told KQED. “Student reaction could largely vary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The response at USF included only monitoring by on-duty officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Berkeley, one sergeant and 17 officers were deployed to a May 31 protest where students and demonstrators occupied a building, the report said, and university police did not have enough officers to safely address the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986578\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/020FAA02-736A-40D4-834F-1886DEB22C6E_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/020FAA02-736A-40D4-834F-1886DEB22C6E_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/020FAA02-736A-40D4-834F-1886DEB22C6E_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/020FAA02-736A-40D4-834F-1886DEB22C6E_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/020FAA02-736A-40D4-834F-1886DEB22C6E_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/020FAA02-736A-40D4-834F-1886DEB22C6E_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents fill the yard at Anna Head Alumnae Hall in Berkeley on May 16, 2024, an abandoned UC Berkeley building near People’s Park that pro-Palestinian activists occupy. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police Commissioner Kevin Benedicto requested the report in late spring when protests were ramping up across the country. He said that the lack of reported use of force is positive but that the high number of officers on the UC Berkeley campus raises some questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seventeen officers and a sergeant is a huge deployment,” Benedicto told KQED. “I just do want to make sure that we’re asking the right questions and that we’re really keeping up strong efforts to ensure really smart resource allocation of our very scarce police resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Humboldt, SFPD responded to a request from university police for 250 external law enforcement officers on April 27, \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/cal-poly-humboldt-palestine-protest-police/\">according to an email obtained by The Appeal\u003c/a>. Cal Poly Humboldt police policy permits officers to seek assistance from outside law enforcement if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12004860 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240415-880GazaProtest-015-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails show law enforcement officers developed an action plan to combat what they described as the “threat of domestic violent extremism and criminal behavior” supposedly presented by protesters, and they shared these plans and materials with incoming officers from around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One SFPD sergeant and 10 officers were deployed to the Redwood campus at 11 p.m. on April 29, SFPD said. SFPD provided “a uniformed presence,” “traffic control,” and “assisted in a skirmish line one block away” from where local police and Humboldt County sheriff’s deputies were making arrests, according to the report. Officers also received overtime for the deployments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Support only for local police as needed/necessary due to possible violent participants,” SFPD said in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Quezada, a photographer for the Eureka Times-Standard who was escorted off the campus on April 30, said there were officers “from all over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers were “fully armed with everything that I can imagine law enforcement or a militarized person could have,” Rouhollah Aghasaleh, an assistant professor at Cal Poly Humboldt’s School of Education, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griffin Mancuso, the editor in chief of the Cal Poly Humboldt student-run paper, the Lumberjack, said students heard rumors leading up to the April 29 raid that officers from out of town were coming to campus. The evening that hundreds of riot police arrived to arrest protesters and take down barricades, Mancuso said he saw police cars from other counties parked around the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that that was a possibility going in, that there would be a fairly wide variety of officers,” Mancuso said. “I think [local police] were kind of preparing for the worst. I personally expected it to escalate way more than it actually did. And thankfully it didn’t. But I can only assume that’s why they pulled in officers from around California. We don’t really have a super extensive police force here, and we certainly don’t have the kind of gear that other forces do from bigger cities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benedicto said deployment decisions are made by the San Francisco police chief and command staff, not the Police Commission, which is tasked with setting policy and has some oversight authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to micromanage the department in terms of its individual deployment decisions. That’s not something the commission wants to be in the position of doing or does,” Benedicto said. “I think the outcome, hopefully, is to ensure that the public are aware that this is how their resources are being used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne of the tallest buildings in South Los Angeles is the Compton courthouse. It’s an imposing monument to justice in a city plagued by crime and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the security checkpoint and up the elevator to the 12th floor, there is a one-of-a-kind courtroom in California that’s taking a different approach to handling child welfare cases involving babies and toddlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside its door, books and toys fill a waiting room. In one corner, there’s a cozy gliding chair to nurse or rock a baby to sleep and a soft mat that invites kids to play on the floor. Colorful paintings hang on the wall, showcasing Compton’s unique features, like the black cowboys who ride horses through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998822\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A woman dressed in black clothing stand in a room with a play set and toys behind her.\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judge Ashley Price inside the general waiting room that she has revamped to be more welcoming to families visiting her courthouse in Compton on July 31, 2024. Zaydee Sanchez/KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We realized that we really wanted to create a space where the children and their families could wait and feel a little bit more comfortable when they have to come to court,” said Ashley Price, a dependency court judge who oversees this courtroom, “It’s already stressful and overwhelming as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, young children, especially babies under 1 year old, are removed from their homes and placed in the child welfare system \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/child-welfare-early-childhood/data\">far more than older kids\u003c/a>. They also tend to have longer stays in foster care. It’s a traumatic experience that takes place during a pivotal period of attachment and development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Price is transforming the way she handles cases involving children under 3 years old by intentionally putting their mental health at the center of decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bedrock of our court is recognizing how harmful separation can be and can we find a way around that with extra help and support,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The outside of a tall building with a few palm trees in the front.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Los Angeles County Superior Court in Compton. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents come to dependency court when child protective services investigate them for mistreatment or neglect. A judge holds hearings to decide whether the allegations are true and whether the child should be a dependent of the court, which gives it authority to make decisions about the child’s care and home placement. The judge and lawyers work out a temporary living arrangement, which may require placing the child with a relative or in foster care while the parents work on meeting certain safety and behavioral criteria – like completing substance abuse treatment or parenting classes – to keep their parental rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price modeled her courtroom after \u003ca href=\"https://www.zerotothree.org/our-work/itcp/the-safe-babies-court-team-approach/\">Safe Babies\u003c/a>, a national program by the child advocacy organization Zero To Three, which prioritizes building relationships with parents and providing them the social services they need so they can meet the court’s requirements and quickly reunify with their babies. While not every baby gets returned to their parents, the program aims to provide services that strengthen the parent-child relationship, even if the baby is ultimately placed with a relative or adoptive parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998821\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed.jpg\" alt='A sign on a table that says \"Free hugs.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A table with a sign providing free hugs can be seen inside Judge Price’s courtroom in Compton. Zaydee Sanchez/KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To do that, Price partnered with attorneys representing the parents, children and Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services. The same attorneys from each team appear before her court every day, so they’re familiar with every case and family they see. Before starting the program, they visited social service providers in the community so they could better refer families to those organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, if we’re going to send our families to a place to have anger management classes, our courtroom has been there, too,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with other courtrooms in LA County’s vast dependency court system, this one has a lower caseload and is specially staffed with a community coordinator to connect families to the social services they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Falcioni, an attorney with Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, said he typically handled 130 cases before being assigned to the Compton dependency court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Compton, with what we’re doing here, which is arguably radically different than the existing system, my caseload is right around 50,” he said. While every dependency court’s goal is to reunify families, he said the lower caseloads in Price’s courtroom give the judge, lawyers and social workers more time to weigh factors, like the parents’ circumstances or the baby’s mental health, that other courts may not have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re able to provide a lot more oversight, not like a police state type of oversight, but in a more restorative justice mindset of how do we come alongside this family that could be hurting, could be dealing with that level of dysfunction that’s placing their children at risk of harm, to breathe peace and sanity and restoration into this family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt='The outside of a building with a sign that reads \"Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles Compton Court.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County Superior Court in Compton. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leslie Heimov, executive director of Children’s Law Center, said her organization is dedicating more financial resources to allow her staff to maintain a low caseload in Price’s courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said when she began defending children 30 years ago, there was no process for ensuring that when a baby is removed from home, the parent shares information to the foster caregiver about the baby’s favorite lullaby, eating or sleeping routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we’re in such an adversarial, high-stress and often law enforcement-involved situation, all the things that are good for babies and small children are out the window because there’s this focus on safety first, but safety to the exclusion of well-being,” Heimov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s excited about Price’s courtroom style because it asks all parties to work toward a solution that promotes the baby’s mental health and well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998531\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A stuffed animal giraffe stands in the back seating area with a blue illustration on the wall of cars on the road.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stuffed giraffe stands near a seating area inside Judge Price’s dependency courtroom at the Los Angeles County Superior Courthouse in Compton. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her courtroom, Price provides snacks and crayons to help families get through their hearings. In one corner, there’s a tall stuffed giraffe that she said has been a hit with the kids. She also makes a point of sitting at a desk facing parents instead of presiding from a bench above them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, I think that has contributed to this feeling that parents are constantly being judged and criticized,” she said. “And so I like to kind of take away that dynamic and come down and sit with them at their same level and look at them eye to eye and talk to them about what do you need? How can we help you? How can we support you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moana Galala, 28, appeared before the judge last November after giving birth to her second daughter, Eliza. A social worker was worried Galala wasn’t fit to care for the baby because she had a history of addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001982\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a young child dressed in green on a inflatable apparatus.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galala plays with her four-year-old daughter, Nevaeh, in Carson on Aug. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Four years earlier, she lost custody of her first daughter, Nevaeh, after the newborn tested positive for drugs. The circumstances were dire: In June 2020, Galala underwent an emergency C-section alone in the hospital because of pandemic restrictions. She was placed in a medically-induced coma after her blood pressure spiked, and she suffered cardiac arrest. When she was released from the hospital, she wasn’t allowed to see the girl she named “Heaven” in reverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right after I gave birth to her, they took her from me,” Galala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galala said that experience sent her spiraling downward. A dependency court in Monterey Park, east of downtown Los Angeles, gave Galala’s sister custody of Nevaeh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went through a bad depression. My postpartum was horrible,” she said. “You know, it made me drown myself in drugs even worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was ordered to appear before Price, Galala begged the judge for a chance to prove herself as a mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After consulting with social workers and lawyers, Price allowed Galala to stay with Eliza – on the condition that they move in with a relative and that she undergoes rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young children play in a white inflatable house.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevaeh and Eliza play in the jumpy house with their one-year-old cousin Kassy at a family event in Carson. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At first, I was only allowed to be with Eliza at my mom’s, but I was not allowed to go anywhere with Eliza until I had proof that I was able to stay in program for at least 30 days,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she did, she celebrated by taking her daughter to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And even though the baby was still a baby, it was just the principle,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galala said the court team celebrated every milestone, like when her husband Eric got clean and took parenting classes. When the couple won back their parental rights eight months later, Galala thanked Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told her she gave me a chance to bond with my baby that let me know the importance of my part to her as a mom. And that’s what made the difference in my drive to do good, continue being sober,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a young child with other adults in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galala holds her daughter Eliza as she and her sisters buy from a local clothing stand in Carson. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Galala said her entire family came to the last court hearing, and Price and the lawyers gave her a framed picture with the word “HOPE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word stands for the court’s name: Helping Our Parents Excel. The court team also signed their names and included their phone numbers on the back of the frame, Galala said, to let her know she can call whenever she needs them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thanked them for treating her fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have this saying that I tell my sister all the time: ‘I’m never above you, never below you, always beside you.’ And I was telling them, ‘this is how I feel about you guys,’” Galala said. “‘You guys weren’t better than us, and we weren’t below you guys. We were just side by side trying to accomplish a goal together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, her recovery from addiction has led Galala to heal her relationship with her sister, which allowed her to be more involved in Nevaeh’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001985\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a white shirt holds the hand of a young child in a bounce house as another young child watches above them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galala’s sister, Apo, plays with Nevaeh and her daughter, Kassy, in the bounce house at a family event in Carson. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_12001659,news_12001846,news_12000933\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court is compiling data to measure the impact of this work, but Price said so far she’s seeing a difference. The court team has reunified families more quickly, reflecting \u003ca href=\"https://www.zerotothree.org/resource/resource/safe-babies-approach-evidence-and-impact\">a similar outcome seen by Zero to Three\u003c/a> at more than 140 courtrooms in 30 states that are taking a similar approach\u003ca href=\"https://www.zerotothree.org/resource/resource/safe-babies-approach-evidence-and-impact\">.\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0190740923005236?via%3Dihub\">A study found \u003c/a>children whose cases went before a Safe Babies courtroom had a higher rate of reunifying with their parents than a comparison group and were more likely to exit foster care to a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the attorneys are telling me is that the parents leave the courtroom, and even if they don’t get a favorable ruling, they understood what happened,” Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When parents feel like they’re being heard and are treated respectfully, they’re more willing to continue cooperating in their child’s best interest, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note\u003c/strong>:\u003cem> An earlier version of this article incorrectly named Ben Falcioni’s organization. He is an attorney with Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, not Children’s Law Center.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ne of the tallest buildings in South Los Angeles is the Compton courthouse. It’s an imposing monument to justice in a city plagued by crime and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the security checkpoint and up the elevator to the 12th floor, there is a one-of-a-kind courtroom in California that’s taking a different approach to handling child welfare cases involving babies and toddlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside its door, books and toys fill a waiting room. In one corner, there’s a cozy gliding chair to nurse or rock a baby to sleep and a soft mat that invites kids to play on the floor. Colorful paintings hang on the wall, showcasing Compton’s unique features, like the black cowboys who ride horses through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998822\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A woman dressed in black clothing stand in a room with a play set and toys behind her.\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-117_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judge Ashley Price inside the general waiting room that she has revamped to be more welcoming to families visiting her courthouse in Compton on July 31, 2024. Zaydee Sanchez/KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We realized that we really wanted to create a space where the children and their families could wait and feel a little bit more comfortable when they have to come to court,” said Ashley Price, a dependency court judge who oversees this courtroom, “It’s already stressful and overwhelming as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, young children, especially babies under 1 year old, are removed from their homes and placed in the child welfare system \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/child-welfare-early-childhood/data\">far more than older kids\u003c/a>. They also tend to have longer stays in foster care. It’s a traumatic experience that takes place during a pivotal period of attachment and development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Price is transforming the way she handles cases involving children under 3 years old by intentionally putting their mental health at the center of decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bedrock of our court is recognizing how harmful separation can be and can we find a way around that with extra help and support,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The outside of a tall building with a few palm trees in the front.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-120-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Los Angeles County Superior Court in Compton. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents come to dependency court when child protective services investigate them for mistreatment or neglect. A judge holds hearings to decide whether the allegations are true and whether the child should be a dependent of the court, which gives it authority to make decisions about the child’s care and home placement. The judge and lawyers work out a temporary living arrangement, which may require placing the child with a relative or in foster care while the parents work on meeting certain safety and behavioral criteria – like completing substance abuse treatment or parenting classes – to keep their parental rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price modeled her courtroom after \u003ca href=\"https://www.zerotothree.org/our-work/itcp/the-safe-babies-court-team-approach/\">Safe Babies\u003c/a>, a national program by the child advocacy organization Zero To Three, which prioritizes building relationships with parents and providing them the social services they need so they can meet the court’s requirements and quickly reunify with their babies. While not every baby gets returned to their parents, the program aims to provide services that strengthen the parent-child relationship, even if the baby is ultimately placed with a relative or adoptive parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998821\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed.jpg\" alt='A sign on a table that says \"Free hugs.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Judge-Ashely-Price-109_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A table with a sign providing free hugs can be seen inside Judge Price’s courtroom in Compton. Zaydee Sanchez/KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To do that, Price partnered with attorneys representing the parents, children and Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services. The same attorneys from each team appear before her court every day, so they’re familiar with every case and family they see. Before starting the program, they visited social service providers in the community so they could better refer families to those organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, if we’re going to send our families to a place to have anger management classes, our courtroom has been there, too,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with other courtrooms in LA County’s vast dependency court system, this one has a lower caseload and is specially staffed with a community coordinator to connect families to the social services they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Falcioni, an attorney with Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, said he typically handled 130 cases before being assigned to the Compton dependency court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Compton, with what we’re doing here, which is arguably radically different than the existing system, my caseload is right around 50,” he said. While every dependency court’s goal is to reunify families, he said the lower caseloads in Price’s courtroom give the judge, lawyers and social workers more time to weigh factors, like the parents’ circumstances or the baby’s mental health, that other courts may not have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re able to provide a lot more oversight, not like a police state type of oversight, but in a more restorative justice mindset of how do we come alongside this family that could be hurting, could be dealing with that level of dysfunction that’s placing their children at risk of harm, to breathe peace and sanity and restoration into this family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt='The outside of a building with a sign that reads \"Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles Compton Court.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-121-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County Superior Court in Compton. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leslie Heimov, executive director of Children’s Law Center, said her organization is dedicating more financial resources to allow her staff to maintain a low caseload in Price’s courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said when she began defending children 30 years ago, there was no process for ensuring that when a baby is removed from home, the parent shares information to the foster caregiver about the baby’s favorite lullaby, eating or sleeping routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we’re in such an adversarial, high-stress and often law enforcement-involved situation, all the things that are good for babies and small children are out the window because there’s this focus on safety first, but safety to the exclusion of well-being,” Heimov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s excited about Price’s courtroom style because it asks all parties to work toward a solution that promotes the baby’s mental health and well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998531\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A stuffed animal giraffe stands in the back seating area with a blue illustration on the wall of cars on the road.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/JUDGE-ASHELY-PRICE-105-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stuffed giraffe stands near a seating area inside Judge Price’s dependency courtroom at the Los Angeles County Superior Courthouse in Compton. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her courtroom, Price provides snacks and crayons to help families get through their hearings. In one corner, there’s a tall stuffed giraffe that she said has been a hit with the kids. She also makes a point of sitting at a desk facing parents instead of presiding from a bench above them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, I think that has contributed to this feeling that parents are constantly being judged and criticized,” she said. “And so I like to kind of take away that dynamic and come down and sit with them at their same level and look at them eye to eye and talk to them about what do you need? How can we help you? How can we support you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moana Galala, 28, appeared before the judge last November after giving birth to her second daughter, Eliza. A social worker was worried Galala wasn’t fit to care for the baby because she had a history of addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001982\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a young child dressed in green on a inflatable apparatus.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-119-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galala plays with her four-year-old daughter, Nevaeh, in Carson on Aug. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Four years earlier, she lost custody of her first daughter, Nevaeh, after the newborn tested positive for drugs. The circumstances were dire: In June 2020, Galala underwent an emergency C-section alone in the hospital because of pandemic restrictions. She was placed in a medically-induced coma after her blood pressure spiked, and she suffered cardiac arrest. When she was released from the hospital, she wasn’t allowed to see the girl she named “Heaven” in reverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right after I gave birth to her, they took her from me,” Galala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galala said that experience sent her spiraling downward. A dependency court in Monterey Park, east of downtown Los Angeles, gave Galala’s sister custody of Nevaeh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went through a bad depression. My postpartum was horrible,” she said. “You know, it made me drown myself in drugs even worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was ordered to appear before Price, Galala begged the judge for a chance to prove herself as a mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After consulting with social workers and lawyers, Price allowed Galala to stay with Eliza – on the condition that they move in with a relative and that she undergoes rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young children play in a white inflatable house.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-120-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nevaeh and Eliza play in the jumpy house with their one-year-old cousin Kassy at a family event in Carson. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At first, I was only allowed to be with Eliza at my mom’s, but I was not allowed to go anywhere with Eliza until I had proof that I was able to stay in program for at least 30 days,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she did, she celebrated by taking her daughter to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And even though the baby was still a baby, it was just the principle,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galala said the court team celebrated every milestone, like when her husband Eric got clean and took parenting classes. When the couple won back their parental rights eight months later, Galala thanked Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told her she gave me a chance to bond with my baby that let me know the importance of my part to her as a mom. And that’s what made the difference in my drive to do good, continue being sober,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a young child with other adults in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-129-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galala holds her daughter Eliza as she and her sisters buy from a local clothing stand in Carson. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Galala said her entire family came to the last court hearing, and Price and the lawyers gave her a framed picture with the word “HOPE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word stands for the court’s name: Helping Our Parents Excel. The court team also signed their names and included their phone numbers on the back of the frame, Galala said, to let her know she can call whenever she needs them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thanked them for treating her fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have this saying that I tell my sister all the time: ‘I’m never above you, never below you, always beside you.’ And I was telling them, ‘this is how I feel about you guys,’” Galala said. “‘You guys weren’t better than us, and we weren’t below you guys. We were just side by side trying to accomplish a goal together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, her recovery from addiction has led Galala to heal her relationship with her sister, which allowed her to be more involved in Nevaeh’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001985\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a white shirt holds the hand of a young child in a bounce house as another young child watches above them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SAFE-BABIES-COURT-128-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galala’s sister, Apo, plays with Nevaeh and her daughter, Kassy, in the bounce house at a family event in Carson. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Families had been expecting to begin getting answers this week about which campuses would shutter after the 2024–25 school year as part of the district’s “resource alignment campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know there’s a lot of anticipation and emotions around our recommendation and how SFUSD will support the affected communities, but it is essential that we carefully review everything before making the announcement,” Superintendent Matt Wayne said in a statement postponing the release of the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district had previously said the list of schools recommended for closure would come on Wednesday. The Board of Education is expected to vote on the list of schools in December and close the campuses at the end of the academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wayne did not specify a new date for the list but said that it would be released next month and that the rest of the expected timeline has not changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glen McCoy, a grandparent of two San Francisco Unified School District students, speaks during a press conference held by the United Educators of San Francisco outside of the district offices in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The decision comes after weeks of pushback from the teachers’ union and parents groups, including United Educators of San Francisco and Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Closing schools in San Francisco will not save money,” Cassondra Curiel, the president of United Educators, said at a press conference on Monday that was planned before the delay was announced. “There are no costs to be saved. 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What it has done is cost us a lot of stress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has said that the goal of closing schools is not to save money but to “improve the experience for students and teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By aligning the number of schools we operate with our current enrollment, SFUSD can manage resources more effectively and ensure every school is fully enrolled and well-supported,” Wayne said in his statement, adding that the closures have the potential to decrease operating costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240916-UNIONSFSCHOOLCLOSURES-33-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parent Havah Kelley speaks during a press conference held by the United Educators of San Francisco outside the San Francisco Unified School District offices on Sept. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Curiel said the district should not discuss closures until it stabilizes other priorities. The district is facing a staffing shortage and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000784/sf-teachers-students-face-uncertain-future-as-budget-crisis-threatens-closures\">massive budget deficit\u003c/a>, which has already led to increased state oversight and poses a risk of takeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Marrero, the executive director of Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco, said that many parents still don’t feel like they have enough information about what the transition will be like if their school is slated to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a plan that actually details what that transitional life is like,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other school communities where school would not close will be impacted, generations of families would be impacted, their immediate community would be impacted — businesses, nonprofits — so it’s a big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12000784 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/010_KQED_SFUSDSchoolBus_03022023-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wayne said he decided to move the announcement to ensure that the district is looking at “every angle” of the district’s operations that will be affected, including after-school care, transportation and grant funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure we get this right,” he said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978035/sfusd-considers-school-closures-and-mergers-amid-declining-enrollment\">first announced in March\u003c/a> that it would close, merge and co-locate a number of schools after this academic year. The closures will be SFUSD’s first in 20 years, spurred by consistent enrollment declines since 1999 that have left about 14,000 empty seats across campuses. More than 4,000 students have left the district since the 2017–18 school year, and SFUSD could lose 4,600 more by 2032, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wayne said that leaders of the initiative are working to ensure that the district’s fiscal analysis is strong, that a transition plan and support systems are in place, and that equity audits conducted are integrated into the recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The waiting game is unfair, and parents need stability,” Roberto Hernandez, a parent of a Mission High School 11th-grader, said during the teachers’ union press conference on Monday. “School is supposed to be a safe space for learning, yet the emotional safety of our children is at risk. Not knowing if your school is going to be closed creates anxiety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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K2C is the first universal children’s savings account in the nation. Every kindergartner who attends public school in San Francisco receives a college savings account automatically opened by the City of San Francisco with a $50 incentive. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The kindergarten to college program makes the concept of college real for every child in our public school system,” Cisneros said. “The families that have saved millions of dollars in these accounts are very impressive, but those millions of dollars really represent, in my mind, millions of conversations that parents have had with their kids along the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program was launched by Cisneros and then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2011. Initially, deposit-only accounts were opened in the names of about 1,100 kindergarteners with an initial deposit of $50 in public funds using the Citi Start Savings platform. In its second year, the program doubled the number of children in the K2C cohort, according to Cisneros, and in its third year, it expanded to every student entering kindergarten at an SFUSD school. Children who were not enrolled in the program in its pilot years also received an account by the time they graduated high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11952106 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65708_032_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program costs the city $25 per student per year, according to Amanda Fried, the chief of policy and communications for the treasurer’s office. With state and philanthropic funding included, the total price per year is about $36 per child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By high school graduation, students have an average of 28 times the initial investment — “It’s quite cost-effective,” Fried said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar college savings plans have been created in municipalities across the state, including in Oakland and Los Angeles. In 2019, during Newsom’s first term as governor, he introduced a statewide program, CalKids, that creates savings accounts with an initial deposit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11720307/san-francisco-gives-kindergartners-free-money-for-college-could-it-work-statewide\">for every newborn in the state of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cisneros said that some of the best days for the K2C program are when classes of kindergarteners or first graders line up at the teller window and make deposits to their own college savings accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really build hopes and aspirations and dreams for children by talking to them from when they’re very young throughout their entire childhood, making sure they understand what all of the opportunities for success are when they grow up,” Cisneros told KQED. “I believe that this program, these college savings accounts, have made those conversations happen and improve the outcomes for these kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The district contracted the American Jewish Committee to provide training at George Washington High School, Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, Abraham Lincoln High School and Balboa High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The training was titled “Who Are the Jews: Jewish Identity and Antisemitism in 2024,” and there was a plan to include more schools in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 11 months since Hamas attacked Israel, and since Israel retaliated with a military campaign in Gaza that has killed over 40,000 Palestinians, schools across the Bay Area have been disrupted by tension over how to supervise education about the war, political expression by faculty and students, and accusations of antisemitism and Islamophobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workshop cancellation reveals a unique challenge facing school districts, teachers, administrators and parents tasked with educating students in a multicultural setting like San Francisco’s public schools amid a fraught and emotional conflict that hits close to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand how the workshop unraveled, KQED spoke with parents, staff and experts, along with advocacy groups that supported or opposed the training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks don’t focus as much as we should on just how hard it is to educate effectively and appropriately about issues that are this complex and nuanced, like the history of Israel and the Middle East, as well as where the stakes are enormously high and emotions are understandably high, like the war in Gaza, because people are dying,” Joe Kahne, a UC Merced professor who studies student civic engagement, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12003861 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1020x698.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, dozens of teachers in Oakland participated in unauthorized teach-ins, presenting pro-Palestinian lessons. In May, Berkeley Unified School District Superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985599/berkeley-antisemitism-hearing\">testified before Congress\u003c/a> on the district’s handling of antisemitism allegations in public schools after a group of Jewish parents, along with the Brandeis Center and Anti-Defamation League, filed a federal complaint in February alleging severe antisemitism in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the U.S. Department of Education announced investigations into SFUSD and Oakland Unified School District for alleged civil rights violations and claims of religious discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some SFUSD parents and local community groups raised alarms about the American Jewish Committee’s support for Israel. In an internal email forwarded to staff by school principals on Monday, SFUSD administrators Karling Aguilera-Fort and Davina Goldwasser said the workshop wouldn’t take a position on the Israel-Hamas war and that the training was “just awareness building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, Katrina Kincade, an SFUSD spokesperson, told KQED that the workshops would be rescheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to ensure each and every student and staff member feels and experiences safety and a sense of belonging in our schools,” she said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julia David, an English teacher at George Washington, said that the idea for the training originated among parents and staff concerned about the treatment of Jewish students in the city’s schools. She described incidents ranging from pro-Palestinian student walkouts to protests of war to reports of “Free Palestine” being written on campus to graffiti of swastikas on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said the Jewish Student Union, which she sponsors, had been made to feel uncomfortable on campus by staff who identified as pro-Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12003439 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCSFProPalestineProtest1-1020x792.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought that it was really important to have training about Jewish identity in a multicultural society led by Jews,” David said. “Being a Jewish student in the middle of a really charged political time has brought unique challenges to our school and to our students, and to our educators and our parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This training is just about educating people on what the Jewish identity is and our experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David said she and a small group of other Jewish parents and staff reached out to the American Jewish Committee, one of the oldest Jewish advocacy organizations. The nonprofit agreed to provide the workshops at no cost to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Lee Filner pointed out that the AJC was chosen by the Biden administration to lead the national effort against antisemitism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have just been too many antisemitic incidents in the district,” Filner said. “It’s leading a lot of parents I personally know to flee the district for private school, and we just can’t afford to lose more students from the district. Especially in this budget situation, because we’ve created a hostile environment for students just because of who they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An email announcing the workshops reached a group of Jewish parents and political organizers who are critical of Israel. Alex Lantsberg, a Jewish parent of students at two of the high schools on the workshop list, said he was shocked and dismayed when he learned about the AJC-led training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Educating people on antisemitism is absolutely imperative in this time when antisemitism is being used to justify an ongoing genocide,” he said. “If SFUSD wanted to actually assist its faculty and staff, it would be best to do so in a way that actually recognizes the multiple strands of Jewish thought regarding the question of antisemitism and how all of these things come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents of Palestinian students in the district, like Sonya Awwad, questioned how closely the AJC’s values align with San Francisco’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a group that openly opposes a cease-fire in this war and does not have a neutral position in the conflict,” she said. “And San Francisco did vote on a resolution for a cease-fire, so that in itself seems conflicting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progressive groups affiliated with SFUSD, like the Arab Resource Organizing Committee, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Jewish Voices for Peace, criticized the workshop. The groups called for the district to hold a similar training about Islamophobia or anti-Palestinian sentiment, which they said is also on the rise, according to a joint press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Awwad and a small group of parents met with administrators to discuss the war’s impact on their children. Awwad said parents described bullying, racism and isolation plaguing students, particularly those with family in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002125 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-10-KQED-1020x749.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any kind of anti-racism training is important,” Awwad said. “So why are our students’ concerns not being met with training that would advocate for them as well?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several parents who advocated for antisemitism training said the overwhelming political messaging coming into their children’s schools made it difficult for students to learn. Some voiced their frustrations with AROC, a group that has come under scrutiny for facilitating student walkouts at SFUSD schools. After a parent group demanded an investigation into AROC’s contract with schools last year, students rallied outside of the district’s office in the organization’s defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Brysk, the AJC’s regional director of northern California, hopes the antisemitism training will be rescheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We neither endorse nor oppose candidates for office. We’re an apolitical organization, not only because that’s what the law requires, but we’re also known to be a nonpartisan organization that doesn’t engage in politics,” he said. “More importantly, I don’t see how that relates to anti-bias training about antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 50,000 students are enrolled in San Francisco public schools, which educate the majority of the city’s children. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/school/buena-vista-horace-mann-k-8-community-school\">Buena Vista Horace Mann\u003c/a> is a Spanish immersion school for students from kindergarten to 8th grade in San Francisco’s bustling Mission District. But by night, it transforms into something completely unique in the city: a homeless shelter for families with children enrolled in the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter provides a hot meal, a shower and a place to sleep in the gym or auditorium. It was formed six years ago by some of the parents of the school who, during a particularly rainy winter, asked if they could sleep in the hallway or an empty classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were staying in cars. They were staying in laundromats. They were riding the bus or BART back and forth every night just to pass the time in a place that felt relatively safe,” Principal Claudia DeLarios Moran said. “And here we had a building that wasn’t in use out of school time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school partnered with the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to care for these families. The city pays for their housing, and the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/our-work/housing-shelter/\">Mission Action runs the shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Beds, blankets and personal belongings in a gym.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter beds are set up in a gym at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of families experiencing homelessness or on the verge of homelessness has grown in San Francisco since then, and in recent months, the shelter has had to turn away families at the door when it fills up. Advocates and educators like Moran worry this is traumatizing for kids in desperate need of stability. Studies show housing insecurity early in life affects\u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/154/2/e2023064551/197596/Trajectories-of-Housing-Insecurity-From-Infancy-to?searchresult=1\"> children’s health down the line\u003c/a> and their\u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/product-files/Students_Experiencing_Homelessness_BRIEF.pdf\"> chances of finishing high school\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That level of insecurity in their home lives makes it really difficult for them to concentrate on whatever amazing instruction the teachers have in store for them once they get here every day,” Moran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As principal of a community school, Moran said her job is to make sure that students’ basic needs are met so they can learn better. That means partnering with local food, health care and housing organizations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59903/when-students-basic-needs-are-met-by-community-schools-learning-can-flourish\">turning the campus into a hub for easy access to services\u003c/a> its immigrant and low-income student population needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving kids a safe place to sleep and a predictable routine can help lessen their anxiety. The shelter also focuses on the parents’ mental health by connecting them to social services and job training programs to help them get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To boost their morale, parents at the shelter are able to cook a meal together twice a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooking gives the parents agency and helps lift their self-esteem, said the shelter’s manager, Jacqui Portillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They feel relaxed, they feel connected, they’re accomplished, they did something,” Portillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing headphones and holding audio equipment speaks with a woman wearing a blue vest and jeans in a gym.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqui Portillo, community services director for Mission Action (right), speaks with KQED reporter Daisy Nguyen at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The parent has to be okay in order to support their kids,” she said. “And this little moment is helping them to really be more engaged with the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit, several shelter residents volunteered to make red pozole – a spicy and hearty Mexican soup. Reporters Daisy Nguyen and Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli spoke with two moms at the shelter, who explained what cooking does for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Maria Figueroa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Figueroa migrated from Tijuana, Mexico, in July 2023 with her 18-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. She said it was too dangerous to raise her children in Mexico and is seeking political asylum in the U.S. When she arrived in San Francisco, she enrolled her kids in school and went back to school herself to train to be an in-home caregiver for sick and elderly people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said her kids often ask when they will get to taste her cooking again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell them, ‘God willing, when we have our own little place’ because, to be honest, we just can’t cook like that here [all the time] … only when an opportunity like this comes up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black hooded sweatshirt pours soup into a large pot in a kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Maria Figeroa helps make pozole in a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She decided to make her signature dish – pozole – because it reminds her of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we met, Figueroa had been staying at the shelter for nine months and said she saw the place as home and the shelter residents, her neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A hand touches chiles in a pan on a stovetop.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Maria Figeroa helps make pozole in the kitchen of a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of how you see the situation, we’re all here for the same thing. We all need a home, we need a place to sleep, a place to eat while we figure out our situation and here, we all see each other and what we’re going through,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Analy Padilla\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Analy Padilla is from Honduras and has been living in this country for 21 years. She also came to this shelter nine months ago after her husband lost his job, and they couldn’t afford the rising cost of rent in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she, her husband and their two sons spent several nights sleeping in their car. They called everywhere for an open shelter space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when they told me there was a spot for my family to stay here, I cried,” Padilla said. “I was so happy. I was finally going to have a home to be with my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990407\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a pink t-shirt cuts food on a cutting board in a kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Analy Padilla helps prepare pozole in a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Padilla said it’s not easy sharing the bathroom, eating and sleeping spaces with strangers or packing up her stuff each morning. The experience hit her 15-year-old son Kevin hard, she said. At school, his grades dropped, he skipped classes, and he became withdrawn. [aside postID=\"news_11996078,news_12003407\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said she urged him to see the bright side of their situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him: ‘This is only temporary. We will soon get out of here. Then you will have your own space and your life will go back to normal. But give thanks to God that we have a mattress, a blanket and that you’re not outside in the cold. Many people have to spend their nights outside.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said as the last school year progressed, he became more comfortable at the shelter and played with other kids there. She said he also joined a support group at his high school to talk through his experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He ended up liking it because, on the last day of the group, he told me, ‘Mom, the group is going to end, and we need to bring something to share.’ And I saw him so excited,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she also tries to make the best of the situation, and getting to cook together helps her feel like she’s part of a big family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that every two weeks, the cooks rotate duties: some decide what to make while others help with the prepping and cleaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We make a good team,” she said. “If someone doesn’t know how to do something, someone else will know how to do it. But we all add our own seasoning there in the kitchen.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/school/buena-vista-horace-mann-k-8-community-school\">Buena Vista Horace Mann\u003c/a> is a Spanish immersion school for students from kindergarten to 8th grade in San Francisco’s bustling Mission District. But by night, it transforms into something completely unique in the city: a homeless shelter for families with children enrolled in the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter provides a hot meal, a shower and a place to sleep in the gym or auditorium. It was formed six years ago by some of the parents of the school who, during a particularly rainy winter, asked if they could sleep in the hallway or an empty classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were staying in cars. They were staying in laundromats. They were riding the bus or BART back and forth every night just to pass the time in a place that felt relatively safe,” Principal Claudia DeLarios Moran said. “And here we had a building that wasn’t in use out of school time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school partnered with the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to care for these families. The city pays for their housing, and the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/our-work/housing-shelter/\">Mission Action runs the shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Beds, blankets and personal belongings in a gym.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter beds are set up in a gym at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of families experiencing homelessness or on the verge of homelessness has grown in San Francisco since then, and in recent months, the shelter has had to turn away families at the door when it fills up. Advocates and educators like Moran worry this is traumatizing for kids in desperate need of stability. Studies show housing insecurity early in life affects\u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/154/2/e2023064551/197596/Trajectories-of-Housing-Insecurity-From-Infancy-to?searchresult=1\"> children’s health down the line\u003c/a> and their\u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/product-files/Students_Experiencing_Homelessness_BRIEF.pdf\"> chances of finishing high school\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That level of insecurity in their home lives makes it really difficult for them to concentrate on whatever amazing instruction the teachers have in store for them once they get here every day,” Moran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As principal of a community school, Moran said her job is to make sure that students’ basic needs are met so they can learn better. That means partnering with local food, health care and housing organizations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59903/when-students-basic-needs-are-met-by-community-schools-learning-can-flourish\">turning the campus into a hub for easy access to services\u003c/a> its immigrant and low-income student population needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving kids a safe place to sleep and a predictable routine can help lessen their anxiety. The shelter also focuses on the parents’ mental health by connecting them to social services and job training programs to help them get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To boost their morale, parents at the shelter are able to cook a meal together twice a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooking gives the parents agency and helps lift their self-esteem, said the shelter’s manager, Jacqui Portillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They feel relaxed, they feel connected, they’re accomplished, they did something,” Portillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing headphones and holding audio equipment speaks with a woman wearing a blue vest and jeans in a gym.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-30-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqui Portillo, community services director for Mission Action (right), speaks with KQED reporter Daisy Nguyen at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The parent has to be okay in order to support their kids,” she said. “And this little moment is helping them to really be more engaged with the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit, several shelter residents volunteered to make red pozole – a spicy and hearty Mexican soup. Reporters Daisy Nguyen and Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli spoke with two moms at the shelter, who explained what cooking does for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Maria Figueroa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Figueroa migrated from Tijuana, Mexico, in July 2023 with her 18-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. She said it was too dangerous to raise her children in Mexico and is seeking political asylum in the U.S. When she arrived in San Francisco, she enrolled her kids in school and went back to school herself to train to be an in-home caregiver for sick and elderly people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said her kids often ask when they will get to taste her cooking again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell them, ‘God willing, when we have our own little place’ because, to be honest, we just can’t cook like that here [all the time] … only when an opportunity like this comes up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black hooded sweatshirt pours soup into a large pot in a kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-63-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Maria Figeroa helps make pozole in a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She decided to make her signature dish – pozole – because it reminds her of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we met, Figueroa had been staying at the shelter for nine months and said she saw the place as home and the shelter residents, her neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A hand touches chiles in a pan on a stovetop.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-58-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Maria Figeroa helps make pozole in the kitchen of a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of how you see the situation, we’re all here for the same thing. We all need a home, we need a place to sleep, a place to eat while we figure out our situation and here, we all see each other and what we’re going through,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Analy Padilla\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Analy Padilla is from Honduras and has been living in this country for 21 years. She also came to this shelter nine months ago after her husband lost his job, and they couldn’t afford the rising cost of rent in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she, her husband and their two sons spent several nights sleeping in their car. They called everywhere for an open shelter space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when they told me there was a spot for my family to stay here, I cried,” Padilla said. “I was so happy. I was finally going to have a home to be with my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990407\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a pink t-shirt cuts food on a cutting board in a kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-40-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter resident Analy Padilla helps prepare pozole in a teacher’s lounge at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Padilla said it’s not easy sharing the bathroom, eating and sleeping spaces with strangers or packing up her stuff each morning. The experience hit her 15-year-old son Kevin hard, she said. At school, his grades dropped, he skipped classes, and he became withdrawn. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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