 What I'd like to share with you today as the faith-based liaison with the city. We have this amazing event coming up. It's going to be what? Compassion on a national level. The date and time are there. It's at the end of January. And it's going to be held at the Little Carver. And there's the address. You can contact me there about that information. But Ben O'Dell, who's the faith liaison for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will be presenting and facilitating the next Compassion and Action Lab. He's going to be bringing research and models that are working across the country on all the different areas that we are concerned about. It's free and open to the public. I encourage you to bring a team from your congregation. Does that make sense? If you want any of the information there, like this is something I'm interested in, it's there for you to write down and take with you. But then we will also collect these cards. This is the thought at the end. And we have a possible way that that might be filtered out, but that's another full conversation. Am I making this? So the last thing I'm going to say to this, we're going to actually do that in a little bit for 30 minutes. But at the end, when we do our breakouts and networking and things like that, if there are some people who are very... I don't even know if I want to say very much interested in this, but there are people who want to have a conversation about how it went and how we can fine tune that. We'll be meeting over here by the piano. Will that be in front? It'll be at the same time. But we'll just be working out kind of logistical details. How do we think that went? There's another form that we have that we could possibly use. So we're just going to explore that. Okay? Yes, ma'am? I don't know if it's in. So we want to know that. We want to write it down. But if we can't write it down wherever it's in, will it be available to us? We haven't figured that part out yet. But it's now available to you to write down. I have pens. I brought a bag. She's got a great bag. Of pens. Yes. Another question. Maybe you, like our list of applications, can just, you know, put all those in it and then send that out. Again, we're going to have all of these cards. That's a possibility that they will be collected. Is this network organizing? Is this network... That's what it is. Okay. Yes, ma'am? There's a really fast way. Look at that. We're already becoming tech-savvy. Yeah, if you got a phone, take a picture. And then you'll be able to take that back with you real quick. As opposed to what time was that again? Where was that again? I'm lost in the...right? Right. So I'm going to hand this back to Lena to continue with the meeting. I think next we're going to be hearing about the coalition details that are happening. But I have the next cards. And so if anybody is going to be a part of the lineup, I'm going to be...you need to raise your hand and I will bring you a card. Okay? Okay. All right. Here I'm going to hand this to Lena. Keep your hands up. Yes. And I'm going to take that page. It's the most important thing that you want to share. An event, a thought, one thing. Thank you. This is a good idea. And you're going to be able to take a picture. Okay. So what we're going to do today, in addition to what Ann is working on, normally for those of you who are new and also if you are new... Okay. So if you are new... because it's never like you're in a family or anything. If you're just fine with me. Okay. And I'll talk to you afterwards. So what we're going to do today, though, instead of having a speaker, it's the end of the year. And the end of the long coalition has done a lot of work this year and we've grown a lot. And so I thought it would be good to have some of our leadership just talk about what we've done and what they're responsible for. And Jane, you are first up. Aren't you happy about that, Jane? Jane Freight is the coordinator of the backlight industry. And you know, it is a plunge. It's the real... It's actually the first formalized thing, I think the IWCV, I mean, in terms of the thing. We read the bus station, but we weren't organized. The whole thing, this is hard for me. Let me know if you can't hear me. I'll hold it. It's an ice cream cone. Yeah. All right. This year, the important thing with the backpacks is we've grown from making 250 a week to 450 a week. With that, that's because the bus station is very busy and increased. We... With that, the cost or the supplies for backpacks is certainly gone up. Not only because we're buying more supplies, but the cost of some of the things that were in the backpacks is gone up. I do have good news that the World Church Services have given us a huge number of blankets. They are a big expense for us. And the group from Boston that came this summer are continuing to buy the backpacks. So those are two of our most expensive blankets. The... the number of line tiers continues to grow, which is absolutely wonderful. So much so that there is a plan to reel up an ice cream cone every year and probably start out with two days a week. I want to say thank you, not only to my volunteers, but also to the group that take the backpacks down to Travis Park and to the bus station. They deliver 450 backpacks a week. Usually two and at times three times a week. So, I thank them. Questions? At this point I'm going to say yes, but I've got to see if the number like there were 12 new volunteers on Monday, so it was a zoom. I've got to see how many of those are going to be my, you know, like the ones that are going to... Yeah, because I have a wonderful core. So I'm going to say yes. I'm putting off having them come until we know what's going to go on. Questions? It's a little question, but I don't... Are backpacks going to people using airplanes? Yes. They're not the same things. They essentially... Oh, okay. So how many we can announce for the year then? I'm just going to say the number. Okay, well, but what happens is Kimberly talks about the bus station. And for the numbers I give you are the bus station and the airport. So, Barbara, just this is the number I have, okay? As of November of this year, of 2018, the airport has distributed 7,295. The bus station has distributed 12,263. I don't know. Okay, the bus station 12,263. The airport 7,295 for a total of 19,558. So we are pretty sure that what we've already done, I'm sure, by the end of the year, we only have distributed well over 20,000. Yeah, it's from January to November 30th. So, Barbara, we'll talk about the airport. I have a question about youth volunteers, because I have a high school student, but I've been getting a lot of questions from kids about how they can if they can volunteer. We certainly take youth. If they are under 12, I do want a parent to come with them. Okay. This past fall I've had groups come. So, we had a group from Univision. That was their service day. But every day, Saturday Planned Parenthood is going to be there. That's their second time along with the group of teachers. And we will make that on Saturday morning. I have a youth group from a church coming on Sunday afternoon. So, if I get the volunteers to help me on these extra days, we will be open. Because youth won't need the service hours or things. I've had clubs that have. The other thing I want to say is San Antonio has been very active, but I have gotten donations filled backpatch from across the country. People from California, people from Seattle, New York, Humane, even a little Rhode Island and told himself to a little Rhode Island. Sort of piggybacking on the youth thing. I don't know what your logistics are in terms of where you get the other supplies, but could this be something that schools could do a supply drive? Yes, they do. Because I have someone delivering a hundred backpacks on Monday that fourth graders at a particular school did for their Christmas process. A year or two ago we were getting weekly lists from the backpack ministry because the lists were changing quite rapidly. I don't know if today we're in the same place, but if we are how would folks who want to donate find out what the list is this week? I have the list that we put in the backpacks a whole bunch of them and I can put them on the table. They're on the website too, but if you want to carry something I'll put them out on the table. It is consistent. Well, that's the issue. That was in like 2015, early 16. Is there any issue with the old website versus the new website? I think not people have had it but it's now. I am going to say we do pack the backpacks at El Divino, Salvador Methodist Church from the corner of Sao San Mora and Miss Woodlawn. They have been absolutely wonderful as far as giving us space and we can expand in our space. Since the beginning. I actually started in the Casita but I remember being out in the hallway with several Methodists and they said let's see if we can. El Divino was wonderful. So a couple of things I just want to clarify. Jane does several things. Someone asked about collecting items. You can do that and just deliver the items to El Divino or to D.C. wherever. You can do pack packs to a group like she was just talking about and those kids will collect items and then make the backpacks. So she has several ways that people can help. The other thing I want you to hear is Jane is Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. I mean it has become a seven day a week job and that is too much. So we're hoping I keep encouraging her to find and take some of these things. Okay, so the next person will be a sister of Denise LaRocque and that is a good question. We've been busy. It's the first thing. Just in November, in November we served 1,595 families. So multiply that by 1,5. So it's a lot. Already the 721 for December. So a lot of families. We've also gotten a lot of volunteers in the last couple months. We have a very strong poor every week. Same time, same day and I think that's what really keeps us going. We're working on trying to get some of these other volunteers more integrated and be more consistent. Like this morning there are two people at the bus station despite all the new volunteers. So we have an appointment this afternoon. So we're working on getting that integrated. I don't know how many of you know her. She's taken the overall volunteer piece which has been amazing. So all those initial contacts through our email and stuff like that. All the paperwork. She's the one processing that and working in a stage and doing background checks. And then she contacts myself or you Barbara? Is that what she's contacting now? Welcome. And then we do the orientation and get them going and so on. So she's been fantastic. She's in Mexico for what she's still doing. I'm still getting messages like so-and-so must have been an orientation commitment. So she's just been incredible. So thank you for very much. One of the big things we've been working on is the network, the Greyhound network. There are, as you know, groups in McAllen and other places who are helping at the bus station is awesome. The Greynees Respond have a number of locations mostly on the east coast like three cities in Tennessee, Atlanta. They're trying to get set up in Houston and Dallas. Some of these people have been kicked out by Greyhound simply because they're like, who are you? Why are you here? We don't know what you're up to. And so Jan and I have been in contact with them. We met with some of the people from Texas this past Saturday to see how we can, you know, set up some best practices and all those things and procedures and policies that have worked so well for us that they can take on also. We have a very good relationship with Greyhound where in San Antonio. And Robert Crentana who's the manager there is just amazing. And it turns out that he let us go ahead with all this without any corporate commissioner or whatever. So we've been with the road pilot project. But very effective because now I had a conference call with Robert and one of the VPs two weeks ago and they were saying could I be seen take over the coordination of all the bus stations? That's what I said. That's exactly what I said. They were like, kind of red trots. And I said, no. I said we're all volunteers. We have no paid staff. We can do what we can to help. Jan and I worked for the last two weeks to really try and put all our stuff in writing. How to work with Greyhound how to act like their friends and respect them like they would with the families. But sometimes we get that advocacy fire and we just like fight, fight, fight. And it doesn't work when you're trying to collaborate. So the VIP asked us to work on that. We met with some of the people from Texas. We're sending back our paperwork with our revisions to the VP for Greyhound to see what we can do. There you are. Tino came for a little while to help us at the meeting also. And what he's helping us with is we're really trying to come up with a template for an agreement for each of these places. And we don't want to be like one connected, one organization network because if someone messes up in Knoxville, we don't want to get kicked out too. And I made that very clear to the VP also. Connected us with some more to these little background work with us to see what kind of agreement we can come up with that we can use to make our thing official. But it's really more so for these other places to get them started and get the permission to be in there. And Greyhound had a great concern. They had a situation in California where a group came in and they were helping, they were taking information from the families and then referring them to their own legal places and charging the families. So we were like oh gosh, aren't we naive? We've never done this to us that people are trying to break them off by or would think that because everyone does. So some protections for the families and all that. So that's what we've been working on. We're working on a medical project too. Jenny will talk to me about that. Any questions for me before I hand over the mic? Yes. What's your sense of how many points of connection throughout this network? At the moment? At the moment let's see Dallas, Houston Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville they said they have someone in Richmond we've got in contact on someone in Sacramento we know El Paso has people but they're still a little overwhelmed with their own people. Those are the main places but I just got we got an email from people in Charlotte, North Carolina actually I'm going to talk to her today who's also interested. So the I don't know, you heard they did the caravan down to the board and all that. Well they've been trying to organize and this is one thing they're working on. Their coordinator is actually in New York. Once we have this template and these guidelines things that can be handed to people and say here's your infrastructure and then because each bus station is different I think it's Memphis that focuses food and coats and stuff so that takes the heat off of us to provide those things because in our bus station you know you say do you need a hat? Everybody needs a hat. Do you need a coat? They're going to Miami so they don't get those different states. So that'll kind of take that off as far as some of the those colder weather needs being back for the more. Also in Dallas they have a huge problem with major bus delays buses being delayed and then people being there more than 12 hours. And so those delays and then the other thing they said was shoes that people are coming without shoes like everybody comes to our place has shoes we know we get the details so we're figuring it's people coming from the more western areas that have those so it'll be kind of unique what are the needs in different places. Any other questions? Okay briefly I think as most of you know we hand out basic medicines at the bus station everybody has an upper respiratory infection all the volunteers have an upper respiratory infection and so what we provide are simple over-the-counter medicines for symptom relief I mean our guidelines are do no harm, provide comfort and ease suffering and 99 and 90 percent of the time that's all that's required I would say in the last couple years the number of adults and children who have actually required medical care I mean we can count on one hand but we don't have anything formal in place I mean sister JT has been wonderful trying to facilitate that but you know we decided that it's time for us to actually have a protocol so if you're encountering someone at the bus station or the airport who needs medical care you don't want to have to scramble at that point so with sister JT's guidance and assistance we've been reaching out to the health science center they have the Robert B. Green campus downtown which is very proximal to the bus station sister JT has a contact and sister Sharon and I reached out to Dr. Andrew Muck who we encountered at Tino's immigration and healthcare seminar he just happens to be the head of refugee healthcare and the and the head of emergency medicine so Sharon and I were on him like a dirty shirt after the seminar was over and he's just a lovely man and he said that he would do everything to help us so I followed up with an email to him I heard back from him and he said I'm connecting with people and I'm very very interested in making this happen for you so the Brady Green campus has both pediatric and adult urgent care services so that if we have a formalized agreement with them to provide services to our families that would be great so that is a work in progress and I'm very optimistic that between sister JT's contacts and Dr. Muck that we'll be able to make that happen oh yes sister of course downtown Christa Santa Rosa Children's Hospital and again with sister JT's contact with with sister Michelle they have had an understanding that with IWC that when we have sick children that's the agreement that we've had in place so far so thank you for pointing that out to me we're very grateful to them for that anything else sister? someone who really likes organization and spent most of my career it just makes me so excited that this is the work that's being done I mean it's like individual it's just stepping I'm talking about all of you stepping up and making things better okay so the next ministry is the airport ministry we've got the backpacks, the bus station airport so oh this is Barbara Eden Eden sorry this is your first time? not here but but anyway Barbara has taken is helping us at least for the moment in terms of the airport ministry because our coordinator and we're trying to work that out so Barbara can you I'm the team leader for Tuesday this morning at the airport and Paula Henderson talk to the mic hi Paula Henderson really got this airport ministry going I guess over a year ago but she's kind of tired out doing so many things so she's stepped back on her activities but so right now we're kind of reorganizing the leadership and so I was asked to present this to you today I've been there about a year at the airport and I love it because I'm only 10 minutes away I lived there and I was a retired Spanish teacher and it's just like hey Barbara you better get over there for a minute and my husband drops me off and picks me up so it's a nice situation but just the past month just from December 1st until the 11th we had 379 families coming through the airport now we had in the past I think late October Carn City was not sending for a while of the men and that was right after those family separations but now Carn City is stepping back up and they usually come in the afternoons and I know just this Tuesday there was 19 families from Carn City but that is included in my total number now our number of volunteers are growing but it's kind of like the backpack they'll kind of come and we let them shadow to see what it's like because there's a lot of steps at the airport they arrive, we greet them we are always very nice to the trail boss and bus drivers I think they're guards or security guards they've got all the stuff and we're real nice to them and they really are not supposed to leave until they know everyone has a plane ticket because there's been mixups where they go okay here they are, bye and then they get back to Dilly and we have to call and say there's someone here that doesn't even have a ticket to Antonio and you need to come back and get them so it goes up and down with that but just basically there are a lot of steps because we have to we give them their backpacks we greet them and tell them who we are and why we're there and so that they can relax we have nothing to do with the government and so they're very happy when we say they're a religious group and then we have to look at their itineraries and we give them a backpack now in the backpack we have a levy and we've been going through all sorts of toys over the years of dolls for the girls teddy bears for the boys and then sometimes we couldn't get the dolls and then so now we're all teddy bears because they're you know gender neutral so they all get teddy bears and the snack inside the backpacks are important for them they come with all of their belongings and these kind of bags all different colors and number one they have no place to secure their valuables there's no purse they don't have purses they often don't have wallets and so we like it's good that they can take when we give them their tickets they have a zipper in the pouch and so that they don't lose them also they can we tell them when we explain security what they can and cannot take then they have time to move some of the things from the back to a backpack that they can wear on their shoulders and even if they've got two bags sometimes they have three they've at least got an extra hand to hold their little one's hand and take care of the kid because they've got the backpack on their back and we tell the kids I usually wait until we get to the gate I tell them you're going to learn English, you're going to get to go to school and you're going to take this backpack to school and so we finally figured out we have to be careful to have boy colors and girl color backpacks boys do not want pink no way now the girls will take any color not the boys also they look like other passengers they have backpacks they already kind of stand out looking at them so it makes them feel hey look I'm like others now as far as province TSA staff has been very helpful we're always very nice to the TSA very nice and to the ticket agents and a lot of them speak Spanish but we have had some problems with the mother's last name on their ideas not necessarily like the child's and so they're going who, how much, who is this and whose name is this and then the tickets they run out of room to write all the last, the two last names so then it cuts off and they go well how do I know so anyway we've had some things like that happen but overall they're very helpful especially with the moms that are wearing ankle monitors so we do ask them ahead of time are you wearing a monitor so that when we line up for security we tell them ahead of time you cannot, your child cannot go through the X-ray machine with you they're going to go through a machine right next to you you will see them, they're not far away they're right there so prepare them, explain to them that this is what's going to happen and so the security will let me or someone go through with them with the child well like Tuesday we had like nine children and as they came through they let me the TSA let me stay on the other side and so I would just go come to me come to me we're going to watch for mommy and so they could see mommy through the glass but we've had some babies before they were very upset they don't understand now the only other thing is problems that come up or we've had several gotten better, we've had families show up dropped off that are leaving out of Houston for New York or something and so they're not from San Antonio so there are two anonymous ticket agents have saved their of my life because I said well what are we going to do and they fixed it magically and they are to remain anonymous but one of my co-workers found wasn't as lucky and they were going to charge $700 for a mom and her son to change the flight from San Antonio to their destination from then Houston that member of my team drove them to Houston he drove them to Houston and took them to the airport and on the way they were very they looked stressed, the Spanish look very stressed and we didn't know why they weren't smiling because I said he's going to explain Spanish and he's going to take you all to the airport it's a miracle and they're just like you know well on the way they talked with them and they had just been reunited and so they were just shell shocked so we have to be very aware of that and read the body language and of course we've had the bad weather delays and things like that lately with bad weather and but we have CASA now can take some of that and we have we have people to call all the team leaders know what to do if someone this is their flight it's very comforting to know we have a hierarchy of numbers to call and that we can reassure them the other problem is well we have they get up at four in the morning at Dilly to come to our airport and they get there about 10.30 before until 11 because they stop at the bus station sometimes and so some of them don't have a flight until 6 o'clock or 6 o'clock they have no money so that's hard because sometimes I'll try to buy them food but it's very expensive in the airport it's a rip off now we do have an anonymous little food store there if the right employees are there they'll give us free food that's only in terminal A but anyway so I just and the six children doesn't seem to be as bad lately would you say Jo? oh okay I haven't seen chicken pox yet but we love getting them we have a little medicine bag that was supplied to us by through UPC or I'm sure from y'all and it's really nice to have a little baby's aspirin liquid aspirin to give them a lot of go through and then it was just kind of funny because I bought this little children's cough medicine and it's really dark honey a little packed up little honeybee on it and so I'll hear them coughing but the first time I did that I asked a little boy do you have a cough? yeah and so then I got it out and then all the other little children were like okay so now I waited until we get to the gate one on one and I'll give them now lots of people have been helping I'm telling us thank you and like last week the fathers from corn city oh and by the way the kids are a lot better behaved with the fathers I'm almost done I'm sorry I'm saying too much but anyway he was getting ready to leave and he organized all these extra bags and folded them for him he cleaned up all the litter around there and did all that because he wants to help and you know it's just so rewarding okay thank you sorry if you could help me with the tickets that would be a big help to give out the backpack yeah yes ma'am okay the next part of our thing is our overnight stays and Joe can make us kind of breathe in the water kind of running out of time here yeah I couldn't do this without without Jeffrey, St. Jeffrey here so let me introduce him first Jeffrey is the Catholic Charities person who drives the van and he has become our most important, most frequent transporter of families to and from the bus station to and from the the airport and so he'll tell you about Casanacho, the Catholic Charities place for overnight but first let me mention let me just tell you what we're doing with overnight because this is new well new since late last spring I think we when a family at the airport is stranded overnight or over two nights or so we want to find them shelter we don't want them to have to spend the night in the bus station or the airport and so we began we began looking for host families which was marginally successful at this point we have a list of about 30 it is successful we have a list of about 30 families who have said that they would be willing to shelter a family overnight if they're stranded and their shelter involves also going to pick them up at the bus station or the airport and then returning them to the bus station or the airport at the time of their departure but in the meantime late in the summer early in September the La Casa de Maria Imarita formerly known as Casa Raíces reopened totally different basis it's just four bedrooms downstairs and the focus is not just on shelter but it's on trauma informed healing and so that's the first the first place for shelter would be La Casa if the family is a father and child then we are now trying to send them to Casa Nacho which Jeffrey will tell you about and just have mother families at La Casa and once both of these houses are full then we call families to shelter so I'm going to have Jeffrey tell you about his and his numbers good morning one of the things that kind of the gap that was seen was the transportation and so since we have our nice after school vans and buses and stuff like that we started being able to use those especially when there's a larger number of people stranded at the bus or the airport they can fit in Joe's car and so in November we provide about 54 rides either to Casa Nacho Casa Madi hotels or other families and we transport about 50 families and 117 individuals but like she said we also have Casa Nacho where we provide overnight stay to men Casa Nacho is not named after the chips and cheese and the place where they are is run by Jesuits and the founder of the judges was Sonny Nassili Loyola and Nacho short for Nassio so in case you're wondering why it's called Casa Nacho we have 41 individuals stay there in November and also in November we have the charities if there's more overflow we help provide paper Casa Nacho we provide almost the same amount of stays to families in November as we did October but hotels was a lot less and I think in October there's a lot more concentrated number of nights and families needed shelter and so whereas in November it was more spread out and so we didn't need to use hotels as much as we did in October and I think we didn't have any of those families or people staying in Airbnb I think there is a few families that have offered use of Airbnb that they have when they're not using them for customers but we didn't need to use any of those in November and I'm curious where the families that we have are from the majority then we're from Honduras Guatemala and then we have one family from Angola both Casa Marimata and Casa Nacho have had Congolese families as well and then the top states that families are going to from Casa Nacho it's Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, North Carolina and Texas just in case you're curious again with this stuff there's no very little planning you can do so some of those numbers are just out of curiosity rather than being helpful to prepare your planning but like you said it is interesting information to know and most of the families that stay Casa Nacho are single parent with one child with Casa Nacho we have three places we can hold two bedrooms living room we did have two families that were made of three people some of those a husband and wife with a child but most of them are usually one married with two kids also to let you know I will be leaving at the end of the month and I saw families that that I have to work that will require me to not be working at the charities full time still be involved as much as I can but I will be leaving in a few weeks and so if you know anyone any volunteers especially that are involved in this and they want a job they can visit the Catholic Charities website and apply there it's helpful if you don't have a life to apply obviously as we all know this is very rewarding work and this is very important work we need to be welcoming these people we need to be providing them this hope and so it is definitely a great place to work at the Catholic Charities and the short time that I've been here I have definitely worked a lot and it's been an amazing experience I love all of you even if I don't know you Catholic Charities website we should have the job posting soon thank you I want to just mention that over night but we have been blessed with a mother from the Congo from Angola who gave birth shortly after she was supposed to be boarding the bus at the Great House Station and so she and her newborn baby were with us for several weeks until the baby was able to travel and we're getting ready to have another baby any day now at La Casa which is real but I want to mention Shelley and Peggy I don't want to be mentioned but they sheltered for how long? three weeks? a long time more than overnight a little boy who was from who had heart surgery here in San Antonio so he was fully recovered and able to travel they needed a place to stay and so they just had a delightful time with Shelley and Peggy and it was mutual and there is still time so all of you are volunteering which makes this thing overnight we're going to try at the Times 11 of Moon Moon Outland is our sanctuary network it's just quickly for those of you that are newbies we organize volunteers to accompany the rents to your report angle check monitoring and ice check and so something new that we've just started is also helping parents with dental care and in fact I just found out from Tino that what we just did was like the test run but no Vicado Salinas clinic off of General McMellan they were very wonderful and like oh the boy has pain bring him in they took him that day took care of that initial pain pro bono and then now we're in the process of doing the paperwork with more medical care this is just for the children we're still working on figuring out the adult dental care for people here in San Antonio we are also expanding our reach we are very much connected to the people in Austin and so now we are working on people in the brothels and Seguin and if any of you want to be part of this company because we have immigrants all around Texas that need our support and love we have to come here to San Antonio for their appointments and so it's best that we have and show the community that is behind them so talk to me I've got contact cards even if you have individuals here in San Antonio that are meeting support we are here for them we have meetings that have come forth we had a meeting on November 13th that just bulked us up a little bit more and a lot of people were interested in what was going on with IWC and I hope that both the IWC too and also contacts for just resources that's what this is all about this connecting this word of mouth passing out these cards my card some woman from other states have called me for information just because someone took a picture of it and sent it out so feel free to do that too Covenant Baptist Church the church that we've been having just that temporary long stay Reverend Adderley has taken a position in Massachusetts so she was our contact person but I have made wonderful connection with their elders we've met we've gone through the procedure we were possibly going to have someone house there so we've already had our drive run we're like ready to go if they're needed so that's still an option for us oh yes and we're also something new there's always there's always a more going on here there's always a need to grow whatever needs a rise one of the mothers I found out that she's been trying to get her son registered for school since August November he still wasn't registered it was just one thing after another and so after one of her I said let's just go let's just go to the school and sadly it wasn't until I got there and they're also giving me a hard time and I had to say well I guess I have to call them all deaf and how do you know how do you know you know they're like oh no man oh no let's get the cash though like yes please do but it was sad that I had to take it to that point because here's this mother from Honduras went through this is a horrific experience had to do this heavy traveling and she was doing everything right got all the paperwork and everything and then it was until the gringa had to go in there you know and be there to make it happen and the child could start to the next day that's ridiculous that shouldn't be happening and we need to let our districts know no sir and this and this wasn't a his I was shocked and yes that's why I was like no man I need to talk something out and then you know I did that crazy main drawing but it worked and then after that days later I thought oh my spirit oh could you could we talk what could happen I just let out the help this shouldn't be happening and so hopefully that won't happen again and there's some districts that are wonderful and she is wonderful you know of course you ought to stand and tell your ISD South Santa's ISD is wonderful more at least we're working with them but something that I'm working on is connecting to the teachers associations in those areas to develop a relationship to make it easier so that mothers you just go fill out the paperwork and there you go that's it so that we don't have to step in they need to have that empowerment questions? no? thank you he took these photos of his own part of the satellite but it's like everybody is developing their own thing can you talk back to the operation? very briefly you can see the the deed for the liberation and at the same time for being very brief in our our announcements I kept what I was going to say I'm not going to say it what we would like to shoot for is reports just like we're asking from the the partners that we can put online so that important things can be posted later on so we know the dates we're looking forward to hearing from our partners and our normal speakers that we have it's very important but I sure appreciate collaboration that is going on and advocacy is that yes right history history don't mention that don't mention that that's on collaboration but thanks to your model it's going to put me under pressure I was looking at this Jen and I thought to myself collaboration advocacy actually go together because of the work of our collaborators we have come in even greater contact with people that have the same heart and the same passion with regard to others and sisters I was just telling somebody I was coming home from some place and there was a sign that said I have to put this this way they have to put this this way and I said that doesn't work anymore I'm right expressed differently in some ways but not really when it comes to the part of the work so I'm ever so grateful that we did this we ought to modify that sign do you know what I get away with there what we're doing today we're meeting at 11.30 we're meeting in the center of the room so we don't take positions if you believe that I can tell you something else and then on the table over there I put again a long information sheet that we got from the work in her group and also this is much better than what JT does she has these wonderful old cards but I'm asking you if you can today or send us in later looking at your at the Capitol Texas website to put down the information about which district you're in who your newest rep is et cetera the information you need to make out and as you know the Texas legislature starts in January and we're already getting information we collaborate with the legislation that they're looking at and so we're making them more and more available to you who we have had the re-agreed we talked about the trust the senior triple P each one brings perspectives and different relationships to what we do now I know Denise we like each other because advocacy, fire, fight, fight well we do but it's more about relationships one of the best answers we've had for our community says she's like me she doesn't play but she would say be curious rather than furious then you get the conversation going God knows and we know our country needed it and how to have this conversation bus equal to in Austin, here in Austin to model, to live what we say not that Jesus had any easy but that Jesus had no real purpose and easy life doing that but if you could fill this out with help enormously and then we would be putting information out of our site in different places available to all of us so when there are meetings coming up many of these groups organize an action in Austin and we'll publish as we know what's coming up and what they're talking about and what the process is and going to Austin is quite an experience in many ways so we will do that and be very curious you can be furious inside and we'll take our crypto-visual afterwards but we'll say it's way hard and our faith will assist you and those of you that are in a meeting this week. Thank you. This is Samantha who has for years provided us with a lot of information every month. I hope everyone got the two handouts that we had on the site table there, if not please take them we just keep expanding them just because there's so much news all the time and immediately they're out of date so we have the immigration immigrant family detention update and we participate in the twice a month on the second and the fourth Tuesdays in those calls to try to get the numbers so you see in here we say as of December the 10th 486 individuals in Carnes and then estimated 1,900 individuals in Dilley so that's where we get that information from that call there's people on that call from really all over including other states and other other than just us here in Texas but this focuses on those too and then we just keep expanding remember we had the font so small you could hardly read it but now we have like two pages of the court filings where we try to just keep documenting what's going on there and then the other two pages of that particular handout are some of the things where you can take action or volunteer or some of the things that are coming up and so we use the cities update as well as any of the things that we get from on that particular call that I'm talking about are others that send us information so if you don't see something on there you could talk to me afterwards and we'll get it on there usually like next week then we finalize these put them in a PDF and then send them to Sister Denise and many others that post them and the second handout is just articles we started doing this because there's just so much in the news to try to keep track of and it's one way I think to constantly document what is happening you see in there just a number of articles on about the public charge proposal there was one that this one was very good so we my helper Reuben who's not here with me today, his dad is in the hospital so we hold him up in prayer but also just many of the other asylum claims, asylum denials the whole thing on the federal appeals court and there's one article on page three here he built an empire with detained migrant children as the bricks and that's on that southwest key that we've heard so much about so again just trying to document some of the things there his salary and what all the different grants that he's taking to make that possible and then Texas suing us here in San Antonio over the sanctuary city violation and we'll add in here there wasn't a long what do you call it on the editorial page supporting our city over this lawsuit that the state is filing against us and then just other things here and at the bottom of that page Texas ruling may allow sentencing of migrant family detention a number of you in the room Austin whenever that was in 2015 at the end in December right around this time when we all testified and so again we'll have to be you know keeping on top of that and seeing you know if they're going to try to license cars and dilly so you know we just constantly and then this the whole thing of just trying to keep track of the detention centers you know the migrant kids in Torneo and what was a temporary shelter and is now more permanent and then the very last thing that we have on here for today is the record 14,000 unaccompanied immigrant children in US custody as confirmed by Health and Human Services you know we were saying all summer why are they just talking about the unaccompanied minors when we knew they had 11,000 in custody over the summer so now finally some of those figures are being consolidated and coming out and on that first page here too we try to look at the budget our US budget and document what's being paid out and so we only have the things here for 2017 and then 2018 we were looking into this current budget which is being whatever you want to say you know debated and bandied around and it's you know the budget is over I don't know it's over a thousand pages we try to download it we have to be specific almost because it like crashes our computer so anyway so we're still working on that piece of it to get it more updated but you can see that it's a process and you know they have in the in the budget the actual figures of what they want to pay out like in the ones that we had here they actually had the ones for the different detention centers now there's so many and these other you know like Torneo and some of this other we will try to see like are they actually putting those in the budget too or exactly how that's going to work so stay tuned but anyway so next week we'll put these into PDFs and then make them available but in the meantime please take the you know the handouts and use them with your committees and you know in any way that you can and we feel like this is our part you know the Benedictine sisters for those that are new in our monasteries in Burney and this is our piece of the interfaith welcome coalition works this is for those of you who are new this is an unusual thing in that we had everybody give their reports and that's not something I'll have every night and you know do your best so we now have 19 minutes for this portion of it always a good thing in terms of meetings to use the golden rule recognizing that we want to respect others the way we wish to be respected ourselves respect time most valuable assets we want our time respected as well to ask of others that which we're willing to ask of ourselves that's what we're trying to do so bill has taken them in and we've had some that have already been announced I've moved this over so you have full access to the screen in case you want to take a photograph I've also set a timer on my phone for 90 seconds bill let's see show us the first one you've got and we're going to review a couple really quick so this one I already did as the example we're not going to linger here because you already had it next bill and those who are a part of the lineup you need to be lining up so Tino etc etc but we're going to take them in the order that they're on the screen well give it a little time we can turn down some lights if that will help there's no reason to build this he's trying that's exactly what he's trying to do are you embarrassed Bill I feel for you I'm offering a little empathy and compassion that was said but compassion okay still believe here we go so this was done earlier the new town foundation I'm not familiar with but the national vigils and events do end up in violence there's an event tonight at 7 p.m. the chapel in the part of word there's a contact location during one of hundreds of vigils and events nationwide the 6th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting touch date to help slash if you want to take a picture now's the time to take it so Tino you're up first comment the deadline for the comments on this regulation were up last Monday we spoke about it at the convening two Mondays ago on the 3rd we had a presentation about it on the center of public policy priorities we had some Q&A with some attorneys the really one I wanted to just to let you know number one the city did submit a comment I helped prepare it 31 pages long I had a way to share that with you so we're going to run it through the appropriate channels and see how we can do that the second part of this that I wanted to share with you just personally 210,000 comments were received on the regulations many many people had something to say most of them were very critical of the proposal and so at this point the governments in the regulation process they have to consider those comments and then you know address them and alter what they're doing and the regulation I'm proposing change it or justify why they're still going to do what they're going to do so that's now also the Homeland Securities Court with their regulations so what I wanted to talk to you about a little bit was an active item we have for this which is that we are looking to kind of get the word out there it's hard to use a lot of confusion about what this rule said, what it didn't say what it affected, what it didn't affect I wanted to bring lawyers into the convening on December 3 was just to come up with a strategy for how to talk to the community about it so we are really working on that and trying to find a message that is appropriate to just address everyone's here next slide I've heard this before Seattle Peace Chorus they need housing for singers they're here January 3 through the 26 where would that be at your house if you have room at the end you contact Mary Grace if you're not taking a photo now you should be can you house a singer or two we're good, we're good, next slide still the Seattle Peace Chorus but these are performances there's the one on January 24th there's some other stuff coming up Mary Grace would know that information as well take your photo now so next time when IWC comes they need to fill out these cards as well with announcements F-Y-I ready? they're still there it's not happening because they're still taking pictures you should be taking your pictures earlier not at the end of the announcement next slide Domesticus onides my topic is suggesting our mindset first of all we cannot cover all bases I don't want everybody to be tired out you don't have to do it all you can hire a domestic worker and pay her a decent wage that's another adjustment on our mindset some people hire somebody and then they get back to me and say I've never paid so much until I'm because you're paying poverty wages locally so change the mindset we went to the World Social Forum on Migration in Mexico City and we took a message about how immigrant women and children are being separated from their families and also I took this report thank you it was very useful letting them know what the community is doing about it so the world knows what is happening here and also what our community is doing about it and I was so proud to be able to take that report we were interviewed by Italian press people from France, Germany because this was a world social forum and it was amazing yes we talked about the wretched situation for our immigrant community and since we are domestic asunidas our women are those women that are here not only traveling through but actually live here I need to support their families and I appreciate very much what the community is doing by the way the timer is set for 90 seconds everybody is giving 60 seconds and a little compassion there ok next slide, Raiises thank you my name is mate roeder I'm with Raiises we're not going to take 90 seconds we just have one thing I want to spend some time just doubling that message that if you're wondering why you're paying so much it's because fair wages come at a price and immigrant rights are workers rights they are one and the same but thank you domestic asunidas for putting that forth so the big thing we've got coming up toy and book drive details forthcoming you can keep checking our website for that but this is part of our effort to kind of engage young people in San Antonio this comes from the idea of one of our volunteers at the bus station who wants to have a toy and book drive in their high school so this is coming up we don't have that set yet so check our website next slide metro health had to leave and it really is in partnership with what Tino talked about but some are rather getting some messaging out the action portion of this meeting if you have not been before comes pretty much during this and right after a real networking time so if you're somebody who's interested in messaging them around the public charge there's Houdit's contact information and you can also talk to Tino who's still with us alright next slide oh I forget to ask for more cards are we good? alright we'll get to it we'll put the cards in after we'll get better my name is Rebekah Houdis and I'm with a point of good publishing I'm not gonna go to the gym San Antonio stands as a collaborative they're also the interfaith local coalition also with sister Sharon and other Terry we are now lobbying the city council to vote for an ordinance rather than only a regulation to change the rules on citation and release these are to provide to people who have minor crimes and those are driving without a valid license less than four ounces of marijuana theft of services less than $750 or theft of property less than $750 graffiti I think is up in the air still and criminal trespass mischief less than $750 in damage and so we initially wanted a raid but now because of this issue with the chief McManus we wanted an ordinance because an ordinance will be there after if anybody, if they try to oust McManus from my position he's been supportive but you know how things work in the city so anyway we're going to ask you maybe through the internet here to contact your city council members to push for a vote on the ordinance for citation and release thank you by the way Rebecca is going to be one of our San Antonio piece lorries next year so and sister Denise you know I'm the migrant center for human rights it's like a quarter inch thick I don't think it's too long so they're intern King Light left early anyway so the migrant center for human rights they're looking for cash Christmas gifts to provide pro bono care but the announcement is they're creating a volunteer position for human rights learning project they're going to be doing workshops in the high schools so they're looking for volunteer teachers he's so fast but anyway I have sheets with more information if you want more information just see me and I'll give to you so look at that right so we had 19 minutes and we did that and 12 do you have another card for it 90 seconds come on up I'd like to ask regarding work issues you think that slavery was totally out of the question here in San Antonio I would like to ask Gloria please stand up Gloria for the vote they're going to be she is a human trafficking rescue in the north side town and a data community so just to let you know we all need to step it up thank you so much I'm being nervous Gloria so I'm going to hand this back to Lena I think this is when we are able to do networking you've seen people's faces anyone is interested in this kind of part of it but the action team or the faith based initiative we're meeting by the piano I just wanted to thank Ann Helge and her office the faith based initiative because they have made IWC the recipient of their donation drive for December and we are going to have from what I understand from Patrick thank you the donation of multiple donations of diapers and medicines we increased our store by about 100% so thank you I realized we have one minute and I had two more things Mary Grace left me a list a whole list of all I'm supposed to do while she's gone and one thing was to tell you to consider housing one of these Peace Corps Forest thing think about that and let you know is that we are looking for a space that is close to the airport where we can store our backpack supplies so it will be more convenient for our volunteers so if you have a church or some space that you think would be great let me know because we are looking for that space thank you and thank you all for being here I'm so proud of our leadership team and all the work they're doing and I think you probably are too after hearing them thank you for being here see you in January and God's blessings to all of you thank you