support for families. just on a side note we're going to get the phone number. (415) 920-5040. >> if you look at up at that screen it will tell you what you're saying and you'll see if we got it. so one thing about the families we're celebrating our 31st anniversary it was actually, two moms professionals in the field getting together in a garage and we've grown about 50 employees at our agency. we're going to go ahead and go over the services.

we started 17 different support groups. but i want to go over next is our resource library. we have a resource library you can go into the lobby. we have outline volumes on disability. you can go to the section on behavior issues and academics and different books in spanish and chinese and traditional academically. we have several shelves filled about developly trios. and they can test the toys out with their child or son or daughter and make sure it's

appropriate to invest in a toy that's effective. we have several people checking out our facilities the books are there on a little night stand table there are is a night stand table you can write our name it in. you night get a call in thirty days if you haven't returned the book people see thing in the lobby and it's a free resource. we encourage folks to check out a book. i also offer information packets were very specific on

disabilities specific to languages. you can download them too. we have one on behavior and autism and we have in 3 different categories. english, spanish and traditional chooingz. we have currently 17 support groups some are disability specific some meet weekly and quarterly. we offer one in particular we're excited about is we're going to start a father support group in english and spanish and we're actually going to have focus groups.

i'll let joe go into the following mentor program. our education department offers a volunteer mentor program we have a mentor on our counsel. we have an initiative training on special ed. they're given homework ahead of time and dive deeply into a program. one month that might be a program on leadership. there's a panel where we bring in john an who came in and spoke on civil rights. we we give them a breech

training on a special ed law they've been focusing on for 8 more so months. we have basically support without influencing and how to keep up confidentially private. we start matching families if you have a child who has is special disability we can plug it into our database and match the families on that criteria. we have a hundred and 20 active he mentors and there's about thirty or 38 spanish speaking members. we're actively seeking out

fundraiser. and last year we had one hundred and thirty something matches. we have educational workshops >> so my second position is a coordinator. this does community base organizations behavior of the parents and giving the folks an overview on rights. we over our clinics at 6363 admission the first thursday ♪ again, we offers those workshops

throughout the community it's very actually in spreading the word of information. we also offer p p ws. their our parents professional workshops again, we try to get our information to parents and professionals and we have the second saturday of each month. we try to get our next upcoming one on may 11th. we're going to have is a special speaker and she is going to screen her documentary on 3 generations and how effective it's envoy is a q and a and give a little bit of experience and information on several taught and a situation. but that's a quick example of

the type workshops we have monthly. >> sorry the next one is short term case management. fully staffed sorry we have a staff of 3 social workers one in to 5 in english and then another bilingual in spanish. we can get immediate support as well as connect them would long term he services. so they are on a waiting list waiting two or three weeks they're getting immediate

support so you families with disabilities can't go to a movie theatre that would maybe the light would encounter a seizure so we basically provided throughout the year. it happens tonight we'll be having a movie night and it will be a great activity we take our conference room and convert it into is a that is right and the other small conference room becomes a fun activity room. if the child gets overwhelmed by the a movie they can go to a play room. nobody's really bothered it's

normal behavior nobody's looking at the a you like our not normal. like this gentleman i was at workshop and i will be going to set up the projector. we do one a month and we're in our movie season. we do some ice skating party you'll ever see wheel chairs on the ice there are great skaters but i'd like to highlight anothers one coming up. may fourth with the parks and recreation area we're holding a recreation resource fair where

families go out the abandon shell and they register and the child gets a passport and they'll be able to go from station-to-station. the exhibiters each have an active for the child to do. and just to highlight a couple of the folks but 70 recreation and parks will have rock climbing. there will be a person who will allow boards to be there. you'll see what it's like to have a obstacle courses u course and they can't recall basically exposing the kids to every

activity with disabilities. the movie we're screening tonight it the moffitt. we also have a newsletter it's put out in english spanish and traditionally chinese and due to the budget cuts we don't do a paper mailing. we have federal reduced free lunches but other than that it's on pdf format on our website and periodically made available throughout our system. and that's pretty sure a quick overview. one other quick thing. we use our support with asthma

cancer, autism anything and siblings and sometimes when theirs not a diagnosis to let people know. professionals and community members anybody who wants to build their skill center. we can open it up you to questions >> yes, thank you. we're going to open it up to the council first. i see we have a question. >> hi thank you for coming out. >> thank you for having us. i think you mentioned there are not can'tness program.

maybe there are two large organizations and call called association for chinese families of disabled and there's also friends with special needs and those are mostly the child speaking parents with disabilities. what's interesting is you, you may consider doing like a joint event with a association for chinese fair statements of disabled. once you year the lions club helps them with an event it's a picnic in bentwood. i took my daughter they having had like carnival booths and had

a rides but that's something some think about. it's really hot out there. there was also an area with singing. >> also a chinese new come center we'll asked another community to make sure not only are we having people come to us but also in neighborhoods where people are most comfortable. >> my daughter has a delay so they have their events library chinese new years eve parties by

you might consider doing something joint. >> absolutely thank you. >> any more councilmembers. i would like to say i'm a fan of child with disabilities. it's been a awesome place and you tell john avenue i say hello and a she's my boss >> okay. any of the staff questions? >> if i can make a comments through the chair. i am john an i've been doing your mental panel for years in a row and it's also a pleasure to both meet the parents and being, you know, asked a lot of questions about being an adult

with an sdilt. i'm happy about the transition services and you can tell that to people and they get so excited about transition and start to stress out because their child is only 6. i also wanted to mention for the members of public that the previous mayor had sent a proclamation a couple of years ago and we appreciate all the work he do with the recreation department. so thank you. again and a thank you guys. thank you and a anymore staff. seeing there is no one we're

going to open it up for public comment. i have jerry grace. >> hello everybody i'm jerry grace and i have a few questions to ask you. have you ever heard g g r.c. golden east bay. do they work with you? with our child and their parents understand some of the stuff going on? and are they have to do different things with you or do other stuff that's number one. number two. on this wednesday there were 4 or 5 big there. i don't know if you heard about the 405 i have

people but 405 is across the bay and in another county and with that people first use your building on wednesday at the 1155 mission and now i've been in that building it will be the first time that we will be at the building and i'll be happy to be at your new first time at the building. but to get back to my point will you please explain to people how you get there how to get into the golden gate into our - in your how do you say that word?

in the building to help you guys out >> so, yes we do work with the golden gate center but our organization is funded to work with the golden gate center which does the san francisco area and parts of lower marina we have meetings with them but don't work with the east bay. and as far as the meeting on wednesday - at the east bay regional center? >> no more. >> i'm done i think they asked me the question. i want to say my friend sarah

and 405 people first and most people but 405 board members will be at your building and it will be the first time that's what i'm trying to point out. this wednesday evening we'll be having a meeting i think it's in the afternoon 6 to - and our address a 1663 mission and we are the cross streets our south and plum we're dirge next to the discount building supply and the ground floor will have a name d s and kitchen supply. there should be somebody stations downstairs to let you

guys inside >> next comment walter p and a won thing i can tell is you have got to be free. come together right now. with good family disabilities. you're a good hoster you're a good really moster you care. once and while disability in our arms and you can feel the disease come together right now. with good family disabilities. and we are family. i got to disability with me and hey. we're disability family. get up everybody make it happen

and take the chance and dance. come everybody make it happen with family freely. thank you >> thank you is there any more public comment? seeing there's no more public comment. thank you guys so much for all that you guys do and right now we're going to take a 10 minute break and we'll be back atmuch. >> as soon as we come up we're going to be on. thank you everybody for hanging in. here we go to the second part of the meeting. okay. we're up on item 8

information team. everybody plays at san francisco rec and park in overview of the rp d. hello. >> hi. >> if you guys could say our name. >> we could go ahead and project the power point. so i'm lucas tobin. we're going to wait for the power point to come up. mob we're here to talk to you about what the recreation and park offers and how people can assess what we at recreation and parks. i'm luke's telephone number o

tobin and inclusion services >> i'm vicky. >> now i can see our slides. so what we offer are both specialize programs that's through our project insight program and inclusion services. we offer both and we feel that our job is to make sure that everybody has access to our recreation in san francisco. and we also believe that people need a choice. >> and the way we do our inclusion we use best practices important inclusion of recreation and that includes the c ct r s when which is a.

so we work together and what the responsibility is i'll do an assessment with the children on disabilities and that is how they communicate what citizenry issues they may have any kind of issues in terms of behavior management and i'll develop a support plan with working with the parents and develop the strategy and work with the other professionals and in developing the support plans. develop goals and objectives in terms of how they're doing and track them throughout the programs whether it's a camp or general program. i do less sewer programs with

the parents we try to find a small neighborhood camp if they enjoy sports skills we'll look for a skills camp weeping we'll look for where they can help the child get involved in the decision. not just for childcare by help parents without children of disabilities and help them choose camps microbe anything to help the meant make the decisions so the child is happy in the camps >> so a big part of our job is to make sure we have an inclusion this is the photo of a bunch of people there in the

camp. the mold we're trying to get is that we do and it says open the screen we do whatever it takes to help children with disabilities in all aspects of recreation and parks. >> so how the process workings in how inclusion works we do the assessments and such but the parents will reasonable for a register their child or an adult we work with dulls but looking at the children program they'll reasonable for the program and we'll do an assessment and we really promote and our materials are user friendly terms in other words, for our child to have a

successful experience they'll contact the coordinator and have an assessment. sometimes i'll call the parents and parents have referrals. we recently did a presentation and we had 3 referrals from the presentation. we get a lot of new families from presentations from different agencies. we do the statement and the program begins and we'll start to develop a support plan, of course, and once the program begins the supports are in place i'll follow the child throughout their training. and he we'll do the follow-up throughout the summer. we'll do the statement every 3 years as the child matures

they'll develop their skills. we do the minute amount of supports they need. we don't also do a one-on-one training. sometimes the program needs to be adopted. and then with - after the program ends we'll get a feedback and do on evaluation and make the changes we need. >> so in trying to think of a mother for 44 for how we provided our services we came up with the base camp met for. we presented it in the family workshop. but this image is of a mountain range and it's showing