Hello and welcome to Visitacion Valley’s Community Conveners page. We hope this website serves as an informational tool to help guide you to direct services provided by your community leaders, and to help keep you up to date on events, and activities happening in your community and city wide. If you have any information or events that you would like to post on the Community page, please send it to abazile@vvcdc.org a week prior to your event.

CBO Highlight

"Jumpstart is an early literacy organization working toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. Jumpstart's program model places highly motivated college students and community members in preschool classrooms twice a week to focus on language and literacy skills that help children better prepare for school. Jumpstart's Early Literacy Initiative launched here in San Francisco allows for a deeper engagement with families and communities around the importance of early education. We believe all children have the potential to succeed. In Jumpstart we hope to give children and families the tools they need to achieve success."

for more info contact:

Mary Zhu
San Francisco Early Literacy Associate
Jumpstart for Young Children
965 Mission, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94103
P: (415) 536.5867 ext. 104
F: (415) 536.5869
mary.zhu@jstart.org

New from the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families

Strengthening Ties in All SF Neighborhoods

A common cry at the 23 community meetings dcyf held last year was a desire to “know what’s going on in my neighborhood.” Interestingly, we heard this same plea from both members of the general public and neighborhood service providers. Everyone wanted improved communication; few neighborhood groups had the means to do it. dcyf listened.

For the first time, dcyf is now funding Community Conveners to improve the coordination and efficiency of children, youth, and family services throughout the city. This exciting effort will employ trusted community organizations to:

* Improve the coordination of services to meet community needs and challenges
* Plan and promote community-wide events
* Promote resource sharing and referrals among agencies
* Enhance communication between CBOs and public agencies
* Facilitate cross-organization problem solving

Each Convener will develop, strengthen and maintain a coordinated network of children, youth and family service providers. These neighborhood networks will include private and nonprofit service providers as well as public agencies including schools, libraries, recreation centers and health centers.

The 20 Community Conveners will communicate regularly, building bridges between service providers and finding creative methods to serve the needs of all San Francisco children, youth and families.