CCSF Enrollment Material to Clement

I continue to take CCSF Enrollment Campaign material--this week Encore Learning--to the Y and put it in the stacks with the magazines.  But I also found a place (finally) at Green Apple, where I put the CCSF WHY flyer along with the Women's Studies one.  

 I also found a place at the very popular Genki on Clement, where young clients were very accommodating and helpful (getting up and holding the poster while I put masking tape around it).  One person told me she's a student at CCSF, and a guy told me his aunt worked at the Phelan campus.

 The people at Toy Boat told me they could put up the CCSF poster in the corner but only after the customers were gone, so I just left it.  I also took material to the Richmond District Public Library, where there are cubicles for flyers from the community.

The 3CPE Central City Coalition for Public Education & The Civic Center for the Tenderloin

Yesterday I went to the gathering sponsored by the Central City Coalition for Public Education, which was at Sergeant John Macaulay Park on the corner of Larkin and Powell.

Among the people I saw there was Kate Robinson, the Program Director of Safe Passage, whose advice I asked about where to take the material I had in my bag.  She was interested in the Trauma Prevention & Recovery certificate program and said that maybe there was a way that could be linked with the Safe Passage program.



http://hoodline.com/2015/03/safe-passage-guides-kids-through-the-tenderloin

http://www.ccsf.edu/en/educational-programs/school-and-departments/school-of-behavioral-and-social-sciences/InterdisciplinaryStudies/TraumaCertificate.html

I had made a list of the flyers I was taking around, and she was amazed at how many offerings there are at CCSF.  (My list, of course, didn't have them all!)

  As for the rest of the material, she suggested the safe haven place across the street--a community housing partnership--as well as similar places at 211 Jones and 201 Turk, so after talking to a few people and hearing the speeches, I took more material around.  At 835 O'Farrell I was able to put things up myself (and the nice person-in-charge, who was leaving the 3CPE gathering when I was, also gave me a tour of the building, where the north side looks out at the park. But at 201 Turk, I was told to just leave the flyers so they could put them up when there was room, and at 111 Jones I was told that the social worker had to approve everything before it went up.

CCSF's Civic Center Campus at 1170 Market: Getting the Word Out about the New Location

Yesterday I delivered a lot of flyers and brochures to the West Portal Library, where I also removed the ones from summer that were still there.

I'd made a list of all the material, but it was only yesterday that I noticed the wrong address for the Civic Center, no longer at 750 Eddy,  was still on three of the brochures.  (I didn't leave them.)

I sent out a message about this to the ESL Department early this morning, relating the incident with the Asian woman who hadn't gotten the message that the school had a new site at 1170 Market Street.

At  the Sunday Streets in the Tenderloin, an Asian woman passing by our CCSF Enrollment table said, "School closed!" and pointed towards Eddy.  When we told her that 750 was closed but another school was open, she said, "Too far!"  So we understood that she was thinking of the Chinatown/Northbeach campus.  We told her about the new site at 1170 Market,  showed her how to get there and gave her a Civic Center flyer. 

She served as a reminder that we need to be sure that everyone knows about the 1170 Market Street site for the Fall semester.

I noticed that three of the flyers I was about to take around needed to be updated: 

The red, white, and pink  "CCSF Find Your Community" pamphlet (Metro Academy, Puente, Project Survive,  Yo, Accelerated Math Gateway, Bridge to Bioscience)   still has 750 Eddy on the back.   

The green, white and black "Build Your Future" brochure has 750 Eddy on the back.

The 2013 (still being given out because so much of it applies to 2015) has 750 Eddy given as the address on the inside of the back cover.

Then I called the number given on the "CCSF Find Your Community" brochure, which has 750 Eddy for its address.  The recorded message identified the number (415 561-1878)  as that of the Counseling Department, and I was asked to leave my name and telephone number, but I didn't hear anything about the new Civic Center address at 1170 Market Street.

I wrote to Carl Jew, head of Counseling for the Civic Center Campus and John Adams, to ask whether the new address could be added to the recorded message.  I also asked who was in charge of printing new brochures. 

 I called two other numbers--the one for the Career & Technical Education Program Guide from 2013 (used in 2015) and "Build Your Future/Study English, both of which gave 750 Eddy as the address.  

It's not difficult to cross through the 750 Eddy address and write in 1170 Market, but people need to know that the wrong address is on the brochures so they can make the change before taking around the material.