Coleman gets concrete results.

Listed below are some of the outstanding results of Coleman's work:

• Stable Funding for Children's Services - The creation of the Children's Fund, now reauthorized until 2016, serving 80,000 children in 180 programs each year – a first in the nation.
  
  
• Comprehensive Policies and Investments in Childcare – The creation of the nation's most extensive local child care agenda, that includes SF CARES (compensation incentives for child care workers), a $4.1 Million Child Care Compensation Fund, High Quality Child Care Fund, Facilities Fund, locally-funded subsidies for working parents, and the nation's first fully-funded universal pre-school program.
  
  
• Protection for Vulnerable Children and their Families – The removal of abused and neglected children from the juvenile justice system, and the creation of community-based family support and shelter services.
  
  
• Improved Management and Community Support for Public Schools - The passage of an amendment to the city charter mandating funding for arts, sports, librarians, music, and nurses in the public schools, and a school administration and School Board with a solid track record of accountability to the public.
  
  
• A More Rehabilitative Juvenile Justice System – The creation of a community based service system for status offenders, shelters for homeless youth, the reduction of the number of youth in the Juvenile Hall, and the development of programs that are alternatives to incarceration.
  
  
• Expanded Opportunities for Youth Development – The enhancement of a continuum of positive youth programs, including Beacon Schools, youth employment programs, youth-organizing agencies and the San Francisco Youth Line.
  
  
• Child-friendly Parks and Museums – Increased funding, improved safety and expanded programming for the children's programming in the Recreation and Park system, and keeping the city's two major museums in Golden Gate Park, where they are accessible to families.
  
  
• Increased Access to Health Care – The creation of Wellness Centers in all major high schools, and one of the nation's few universal health care programs for children up to 300% of poverty, called Healthy Kids.
  
  
• Local Policies to Provide Income Support - The commitment from the Mayor to initiate one of the nation's only local earned income tax credits, and a local scholarship program for welfare recipients so that they can stay in school.
  
  
• Oversight, coordination and public involvement in city services for children – The creation of one of the country's strongest Youth Commissions, the state's only Juvenile Probation Commission, a Parent Advisory Committee to the School Board, and the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, a model of coordination and planning for the country.
  
  
• A More Democratic City Budget Process - Major changes in the city budget process to increase citizen input, the involvement of the city's legislative body, and scrutiny of city department budgets.