one they don't this people who live in this community or neighborhood which is important to me too because i just want to see people everything being it that's all i  i have learned so many things about why did this community look like before what does it look like right now and what will it look like for the future or redevelopment of twenty years project so i am  staff in the neighborhood and they've been involved as volunteers went through their courses and working at schools working at the youth to learn program i just learned terrorists or in the computer lab some of our students have worked neighborhood and connect it back to their learning so through that involvement it's led us to be to partner with the housing authority and other organizations to try to think how we might provide more support for residents both now and also during the redevelopment into the future yesterday well i guess i would respond in a couple different ways it kind of pans on who kind of who within the c l a oversee community i think there are some of our students our faculty like professor gro and staff from here at the center who know quite a bit about yes there are terrorists that are there yes they are on a daily weekly basis many of our students are working at some of the different sites and then there are probably a lot of people on campus you know very little  me explain a little bit of the background of how the youth in issues of evolved and kind of and where it's at now so then the amount of activity that the university had been involved in the neighborhood with students serving and shelters  schools and with senior programs and meal programs and many different things had been growing and so we started to ask the question if we were to focus on one topic or one neighborhood or one issue could we make more of a difference  in terms of the impact it has on the community and on residents and on families and children and through a planning process of a couple of years we decided to focus on the guts of neighborhood which is the process then into more of a kind of pursuing new things we have a staff person who works in the guts or building who's helping to put together an expanded afterschool program like cats or we have a another person who's working with more family and ajman efforts to print try to provide literacy assistance for adults and trying to support efforts like the one that you're involved in the summer terms of youth you have new and creative and different types of opportunities so i don't know if that fully answers your question but i we're now about a year and a half into the what we call the were so youth an initiative it is really a partnership between the campus and many different organizations and resident leaders harvey hospital or others and i've sat on that committee for four years and that one of the guiding principles of that couple guiding principles one is one for one replacement of the housing and the other is that people will have the right of return  think that and i think you're right in terms of the knowledge of what's occurred in other redevelopments and seattle my sense from the housing project how does the authorities perspective as they learn from some of those experiences the creation of the systems review committee was a direct result of some of those experiences and try and create a group that would provide some additional accountability to the housing authority in any major redevelopment i there's any kind of change there's a lot of potential anxiety that occurs in terms of what will happen and where what will happen with residents what will the future of the neighborhood look like what will be the livability of the neighborhood and i think the most important thing is dialogue and direct dialogue and engagement between really residents and the housing authority from the vanes point of the university and the question that you asked i think sailing versity and our staff our faculty our students and our staff here well we don't have the direct responsibility of housing and the responsibility of what will happen  terms of the potential people being displaced for a period of time and coming back our commitment to neighborhood is long term we've we don't look at it as a two year commitment or four year commitment we look at it as a as a forever commitment and our commitment in particular to provide support to young people and so they can pursue their dreams is very present so as a partner to the housing authority as a part of the resident it's just been consistent and present and trying to surveys asking residents you think you'll come back and i think the majority indicate they would like to there's always the question of if someone leaves for six months or a year and they're in a different location they have they can choose to stay there that might be a better place for the family or for the individual i don't know if there's an expectation that they won't come back i think there's just a lot of unknown from the prior experiences of the redevelopment there are many people who do end up returning i certainly hope for the fabric of the community and the connections that different families have with each other that that there's a way that things can stay a connected because it's really a resources into connect to support what residents in the housing authority others want we are we have different students who have been involved in fact we have been involved in some of the different garden efforts in the neighborhood and the fact we have the university now not in the us or neighborhood but in another location is operating a farm and so there are faculty and staff and students who are really interested in supporting urban agriculture and  and i so this is where some of the questions i'm i don't have all the details because it's not in my early focus of my work from sitting on the few committee and from conversations with residents and also the housing authority i understand there is an agreement one of the questions is around the future structures and the need for residents who are running child care business to have a first floor access so the kids can go outside i know there was an agreement that came about a couple years ago when insurance assurance that that will occur the details of how how a business that's currently in operation and in a home that might be demolished and the person might be in another place for a period of time and then move back i don't i don't really have the all the information and that i would certainly hope that those that are in a decision making role would do the best possible to be aware of well that's when i when i haven't fully thought about the particulars of the community center i guess i would hope a couple different thoughts one the city makes funding decisions around how much taft they have in the community center based upon how many people come to the building so if there were more people coming from the neighborhood whether they're low income residents or middle income or upper income ideally that would lead to more resources which would mean the hours could be extended right now it's on a it's limited hours because of budget cuts so perhaps there would be opportunity for extended hours i think one of the real questions though also is how to provide for those who have the greatest need for recreation and for activities will there still be programs that are focused on the low income population i'm thinking of afterschool programs and other programs that are present in the building and some ways if if if some of that is figured out organizations like rec tech and nature consortium and that you through doing program in the head start at neighbor's house if they continue to have their space then that  provides kind of a foundation for some things to continue i know the new there's a new steam plant renovation and they'll be a number of different services moving into there so in some ways they'll be almost two different community centers that so there's yeah maybe yeah we have lots of ideas and lots of additional plans as a part of the so the first part of the redevelopment which is going to be at the corner of bora and twelfth we were there because a lot is and where the transitional housing is right now there there's funding from the federal government the provides for the rebuilding of the structures there's also funds that for five years provide support for educational activities so there's additional opportunities for young children for kids who are one and two years old to have what's called the parent child home visit program that w run by neighborhood house where someone and individual who is from the same culture as the family will come and visit with them on and or dad and the child and talk about developmental milestones for a one year old and two year old read three year old now so i think of things like what how do i encourage my child to continue to develop their speaking skills and what types of when she introduced books and what types of health things should i be aware of and so that's a new program that will be working with seventy five different families and it comes from the funds from the federal government that are connected also to the redevelopment there's also some funds that are already leading to some new activities this summer at really gets at school they're used to doing program was operating a summer academic and enrichment activities for elementary aged children for think fifty or sixty elementary age kids and that's a new program that's funded through the effort in that we're as a university with all these we're trying to figure out how our students and our staff can be volunteers or assist in the classrooms and other activities and there's also some efforts to work with older students who are looking to go to college and providing college guidance and other things so that's that's through the federal funds and then in addition to that as a university we are trying to think as creatively as possible about how to  support programs like the one that you're in the summer that a professor from the university is partnering with with rect ek but there's other ideas of thinking about whether through the university and through other partners we can provide additional assistance with literacy particularly for adults who want to learn english and who want to then pursue jobs there's also some beginning efforts and thinking about institutions like  university and the local hospitals being more clear about job opportunities for us the residents and how to apply for them and then once they apply for them offering coaching and guidance so one can grow into a position that then leads to another position and can lead to a more livable wage so trying to address issues of employment as well and then there are there are other elements around health and safety that the university could play a role on role in although our main focus is really been on supporting children and youth and some of the activities we had a couple the things we have a lot of activity at the elementary school we had about two hundred students who did work either in classrooms or after school during spring quarter this last spring we have other students who are working as tutors and mentors at the middle and high school level we have some of our faculty who are engaging the school high school about i think the father steve recent editorial i think the main the main point there is that there is a there is an effort to think more strategically and trying to bring multiple organizations together to try to add further support residence so it kind of goes outside of the actual building of structures but i think my final thought would be the really important role that you and other young people play in telling the story of yes or terrorists from multiple different vantage points in raising tough questions some of what you've raised today and then sharing that with others  both within their community and outside of the community and the role that young people can play in being leaders not just tomorrow but today