Addressing Whole Child Support

By Mark Murphy

Our children deserve and demand support greater than the six hour school day.

Insuring our children come to school ready to learn having had a good night's sleep, are fed, immunized, mentored, and cared for is a particular 'whole child' focus Mark looks to bring to the School Board.

Within its 49 square miles, San Francisco is a City and County with world renowned resources, from physical and natural beauty, to an arts community rivaling the world's best, to myriad options of higher academic opportunity, to envied LGBT leadership, to passionate civil rights leadership, to ethnic diversity and over 100 languages, to groundbreaking preventative and illness curing healthcare systems, and so much more.

As a School Board member, Mark will remember the nearly one thousand voices he heard during the 2013 "Our Children, Our City" (http://ourchildren-ourcity.wikispaces.com/) community meetings:

1.) Children are asking for help to reduce the barriers for their success
2.) Parents are asking for improved communications
3.) CBOs are asking for better program coordination

Mark's expertise in the areas of community facilitation and coalition-based problem solving will continue the good work already underway bringing together the entire City and County of San Francisco's resources for our children, their future, their success.