Special Initiatives
Student Success Fund
DCYF in partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District is pleased to announce the creation of the Student Success Fund. The Fund creates the opportunity for the city to address the ongoing recovery of the COVID-19 pandemic through strategic and sustained investment in coordinated and cohesive vision for student achievement. The Fund creates the opportunity to allow schools to have sustained and robust funding to address the longstanding systemic and societal inequities we face in public education through a targeted investment in transforming the way we do school.
School Crisis Support Initiative (SCSI)
Under the leadership of the DCYF and SFUSD, the School Crisis Support Initiative is a multidisciplinary initiative that brings systems partners and community-based organizations (CBOs) together to rapidly identify, track, and monitor high risk incidents and intervene real-time with de-escalation and conflict resolution supports for students from schools across the City.
Our415
Our415 is a coordinated communication initiative that originates from Mayor London Breed's Children & Families Recovery Plan which found that children, youth, transitional age youth (TAY) and families are unaware of the programs, resources and supports offered by the City & County of San Francisco. Through ongoing coordination with City and CBO partners and youth-focused outreach & marketing, Our415 will employ a multi-pronged, community-rooted approach to bridging the information gap found in DCYF's 2022 Community Needs Assessment and connecting youth & families to the City's wealth of programs and services.
Mayor’s Children & Family Recovery Plan
Mayor London Breed tasked DCYF to lead the development of a City-wide Children and Family Recovery Plan with the intention of elevating and addressing the urgent needs of the City’s children, young adults, and families who have all been impacted by COVID-19 in May 2021. This plan will allow leaders and community to work together to fill gaps in recovery approaches and speak with one voice about the needs and strategies needed in the near and medium terms so that our families can heal and thrive. The Recovery Plan is aimed at uplifting the many beautiful, valuable, and resilient community voices that call San Francisco home and providing solution-based recommendations to alleviate their needs at the source of the issue
Students and Families RISE (Recovery with Inclusive and Successful Enrichment)
Students and Families RISE (Recovery with Inclusive and Successful Enrichment) Working Group was established to advise the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor, and the San Francisco Unified School District in the development, adoption, and implementation of a plan to coordinate enrichment and retention services provided by City departments, the School District, and community partners to youth and families adversely affected by COVID-19 school closures and distance learning programs.
Community Hubs Initiative
San Francisco’s efforts to support children, youth and families through the COVID-19 pandemic is the focus of a new case study, Showing Up While Everything Is Shutting Down: A Story of Cooperation in San Francisco. The study explores the City’s Community Hubs Initiative, particularly the local context that made this unconventional, cross-sector partnership possible. Additionally, the study examines the barriers the Initiative had to overcome including public health restrictions, political resistance, and structural limitations, and highlights lessons learned and main drivers of success, such as: catalytic leadership; true collaboration; and youth development professionals: essential workers of the Hubs.