Proclamation Declaring November 2, 2016 as Alameda Collaborative for Children, Youth and Their Families Day. (City Manager 2110)
Hearing none. Now I'm going to proceed with the proclamations. Three A Proclamation. Declaring November 2nd, 2016 as Alameda Collaborative. For Children, Youth and Their Families. And to this evening to accept this proclamation. Supervisor Wilma Chan and Jim France, Community Development and Resilient Resiliency Coordinator and Staff of the Collaborative. Any and all of you, you could please come to the podium, and I will read this proclamation. I think Supervisor Wilma Chan might be joining us later then. All right. Proclamation. Whereas in the mid 1990s, through a series of meetings between the city of Alameda, Alameda County, Alameda Unified School District and representatives of various youth serving organizations in the city, it was determined that a mechanism for ongoing collaboration and sharing of ideas and information would enhance services in the community. And. Whereas, in 1996, the Alameda City Council, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and the Alameda Unified School District Board of Trustees committed funding and staff resources to advance the formation and operations of the Alameda Collaborative for Children, Youth and Their Families. The collaborative and has since then met on a monthly basis to plan and implement many activities to benefit children, youth and their families. And. WHEREAS, these activities initially included a report card on the status of Children, Youth and Families. A leadership role in the building of the skateboard park at Alameda Point out loud Teen Magazine Youth Yellow Pages in the Mix A forum for mixed race, youth and their families and Alameda walks a program formed to emphasize health and exercise, which continues today. And. Whereas, in 2001, the collaborative began coordinating the season for nonviolence programs and activities in our schools in an effort to ensure that our young people live in a safe, hate and violence free community. And. Whereas, these efforts have continued to grow to include the coordination and co-sponsorship of year round nonviolence activities such as bullying, education and prevention programs. Annual Harvey Milk Day events and the screening of Bully. Milk and facing fear in the Alameda Theater chain Dating Violence Awareness Month Activities in our schools. The 2015 Everyone Belongs Here campaign led by a Eustis LGBTQ roundtable and this year's Juneteenth celebration led by a Ucsd's Black Achiever Alliance. And. Whereas, in 2010, 2011 and 2012, the collaborative was recognized by America's Promise Alliance as one of the nation's 100 best communities for young people. And. WHEREAS, the collaborative co-sponsors annual Equip for success, school supply drives and holiday toy programs benefitting Alameda low income children and youth. And Let's Move Alameda, which encourages healthy nutrition and physical activity among all children and youth in the community. And. Whereas, in 2014, the collaborative adopted the all in Alameda County New War on Poverty campaign is a long term initiative and formed subcommittees to help develop and implement strategies to strengthen early education, employment for youth and food security in the city of Alameda. And where, as a result of the efforts of these all in subcommittees, the collaborative co-sponsored Career Path Ways, job fairs and Snow High School in 2015 and 16 and this year has launched an early care assessment survey to gain a better understanding of the early childhood education resources available in our community. And. Whereas, the community looks forward to the collaborative, continued important work with the youth and families of Alameda. And. Whereas, on November 2nd, 2016, the Collaborative will be hosting a 20th year anniversary reception to celebrate its achievements and partnerships with community organizations now therefore be resolved by Treasurer Spencer, Mayor of the City of Alameda. Hereby proclaim November 2nd, 2016 as Alameda Collaborative for Children, Youth and Their Families, 20th anniversary day in the City of Alameda and encourage all citizens to support and participate in its observance. Thank you. Mr. Franz. It's amazing that over the last 20 years, all of this has been done with a part time staff and an incredible community, the folks here that support the youth and the children in Alameda. I had the opportunity of taking this position on eight years ago and I've followed. Audrey Lord Houseman, who had done it for the prior eight years. And it was just sort of getting into a well-maintained vehicle that was just doing extraordinary things. I was amazed when I first joined the collaborative to see the things that they have done and with the support of. Yourself and the mayors before you and Supervisor Chan and Supervisor Alice Edgar and the extraordinary school board representatives. Again, you were. You were one of them over the years that gave the support to the organization. They've been able to do extraordinary things. You folks have heard the list. I invite you to stay afterwards and take a look at all of this amazing memorabilia on the walls. The season for nonviolence. The bullying work, trying to instill civility in the community and starting with our youth, where it's the most important, probably the most memorable event we had was when we were first recognized as one of the 100 best communities for young people. And we had 1700 folks join us on The Hornet for a family celebration. These were great years. These are great years. And they're going to be even greater years as they move forward because the. Members of the community support us to such an extent. The school board and the school district is always with us and with the help of you folks and the nonprofit to support youth. We're in good hands to move forward. Thank you so much for all you've done and all of the folks in the community have done to support our youth. Thank you. Thank you, Jim. Member Ashcraft. Thank you. Thank you for that. Those nice remarks, Mr. Fans, and all your good work. Is there an event tomorrow that you might like to tell us about? Well, thank you for that. Yes. For those of you that aren't going to be able to rush down right now and come and look at what we have on display here in the chambers. From 430 to 6 tomorrow afternoon, we will be having an event that would include some presentations, a keynote speech by Supervisor Chan. Supervisor Chen was our first our first supervisor co-chair and she's come back to do it again. She's got an incredible history and incredible support and it will be going from 430 to 6 in the evening right here in right here in the chambers. And I'd like to I'd like to thank. Liz Varella from Building Futures and Mark Morales and some of the other folks that have come in, the organizations that support us day in and day out and make the collaborative what it is. Thank you. Thank you. Any other council member comments? I want to share. First of all, I want to thank Mr. France for all of the efforts he's put into this. We are very unique to have such an organization that meets monthly. I personally have been part of these meetings for at least ten years as PTA council president on the school board and now as mayor. And we have representatives from 30 to 40, I guess 30 to 40 organizations that come once a month and we all get together. And it is amazing because that is actually how we unite all of our nonprofits and social service organizations from the school district, the county, because we have a supervisor here and then the city. And that's how when we're all talking and meeting once a month that we can make it work, we really connect through that meeting. It's, you know, please take time to look around, join us tomorrow. And then if you are an organization that does service in our town, you'll think about joining us. You can come on down and see. That's really when you can help coordinate your services with other organizations, other people that are just like you trying to, you know , step up and serve our community. So huge thanks to everyone that participates in the collaborative. Mr. Franz Our supervisors and I really look forward to continuing the work with the collaborative and seeing more of our service organizations participate. Thank you. They? Next Proclamation three be proclamation declaring November 1st, 2016, as extra mile day. All right to receive this proclamation, Jennifer Williams, president of our Social Service Human Relations Board. And then we also have some of the recipients.