us join together in making our health care to be continued and to stop elimination. can we say that, everybody? [cheers and applause] ok, thank you. >> thank you very much. ok, now we're going to hear from ramida. she dusted jewish children's family services center. she has her translator with her. >> [speaking foreign language]

[cheers and applause] >> hi, i am 86. i am -- i came to the united states in 1993 from ukraine. [unintelligible] i have been attending the jewish center for more than five years. a significant health problem. now i want to address, dear mr.

mayor, dear board of supervisors, look at tasks, look tasks218 sick, elderly people, and see your parents and your grandparents. we're sick. we are isolated. do not commit this crime. do not leave us without the center. and if you ask me what it means to me, i will answer. it gives life. do not leave us without life. do not take life away from your parents and grandparents. do not leave us without this sort of life, and do not leave me with out the center. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> all right, now sue is going

to assist the less talked about stepping stone presentation adult day health. -- is going to talk to you about stepping stone presentation adult day health. [applause] >> [speaking foreign language] >> i think everyone for giving me this opportunity to share my experience. and from china, i came for 20 years. i used to work for a health care center. i was in a severe car accident. i had a head trauma and had several fractures. 911 send me to the emergency room.

i was in a coma for three days. three surgeries, six hours. i still have many metal pieces in my body. 40 days in the hospital. they wanted to send me to the nursing home. there was a long waiting list for the nursing home. i had to go to a hotel. a health-care worker came to visit me daily. once there was an opening in the beltway house, i went to the presentation community.

very helpful. nursing care, therapy, exercise, activities. i have been living in a presentation for three years. 80 seniors, and we have been there for 10 years. hearing the news about adult day health being closed, we felt very, very sad. after listening to the mayor and several supervisors supporting adult day health coming as a very happy and thankful.

if the adult day health is saved, we have a home and we have help. if i need any help, i can always count on telling my adult day health staff peter i am very thankful. thank you, everyone. [cheers and applause] >> of henne. on behalf of what you just said, what do we say? we will not go in a nursing- home. >> [all chanting] we won't go in the nursing home we won't go in a nursing home we want go in a nursing home

newlin >> she did not go in nursing home because she had adult day health care britta that is what we need to continue to have. we're going to hear from a family member who has been a participant at the bayview adult day health care center who relies on the center to help her to take care of her mother. here she is. [applause] >> thank you. my mother promised not to talk, and i get to do all the talking for a change. let's see how that goes. here is my story. monday through friday i leave my house at 5:45 a.m. to begin my work day. once i arrived at work, i call my mother. here she is. good morning, mom. it is your daughter. how are you? well, yes i guess it's all right -- that is mom. but what am i supposed to do

today? mom, it is school. that is what she calls adult day health center. she calls it school. it is school today, and your helper will be here soon to help you get your back, get dressed, breakfast, and make sure you get on the bus safely for school. what time does the bus come? that is mom. 9:00. again, now what am i supposed to do today? my mother has alzheimer's, among other things. if i did not have -- if we did not have adult day health care center, can you imagine what her day would be like? being at home possibly by herself all day. or in a nursing home away from her friends and the care providers that do all the things that i cannot do, all the things i do not know how to do. i am here standing strong with

my mother, because i realize i made times she stood strong with me. please, please, state of california, do not close adult day health care centers unless you want folks like my mom to be at home, either by themselves, without friends, or in a nursing center. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. good job. thank you could i am sure you spoke for a lot of families right there who are counting on adult day health care to be there. we are about ready to wrap up, but i am going to get the crowd fired up and ready to go. you know how the president always talks about getting fired up and ready to go? are you fired up, ready to go? [cheers and applause]

ok, i have somebody who is really going to fire you up and get you ready to go. that is penny kelly from the california association of retired adults. >> well, let me introduce myself one more time. my name is henny kelly, and i am here from the california alliance for retired americans. i want you to know how lucky we are to live in san francisco, because we see that san francisco cares about all its citizens. i will tell you, other cities in this state are not going to pick up the adult day health program. we are different in san francisco. we care about each other. we care about the children. we care about the parents.

we care about the grandparents and the great grandparents. we care about all of you. [the cheers and applause] but we cannot let the state government, especially governor jerry brown, off the hook. he is the one person who single- handedly cut adac from the budget, and he is the one person who can turn this around. as a reminder, the governor proposed elimination of the program in his budget plans early this year, after countless hearings, alleges that of visits, rallies, and more. the legislative developed a compromised decision to cut the funding by about half but would leave the medicaid waiver in place and allow us to have some funds from which to build back

up. this proposal as both houses of the less it should -- legislature and was sent to governor jerry brown, and he vetoed it. >> [crowd boos] >> and then, our governor promised to come up with a transitional plan that would provide needed services to those currently using adac's. to date, there is no plan. funding for the centers will terminate on december 1 of this year. the governor should be ashamed of himself. say it with me -- shame on you. shame on you. >> [crowd chanting] shame on you shame on you

a shame on you >> whoo! now the ball is in his court and the responsibility to find appropriate medical, psychological, social, and recreational services for the 37,000 people who might be locked out of adult day health care centers across the state. so a group of us, us, the people in a san francisco, constituents who vote, people who live in this state are going to go over to governor brown's office right now. hey, it is right across the street over there. we are in his hood right now. or maybe he is in our hood. and we're going to demand that his staff get him on the phone so he can tell us what his

promised transition plan is. we have to make plans come december 1. so far we have heard nothing from his office. i want to ask you, are you with me? the city of san francisco should supplement this program. it should not pay the whole fare. you know that. we need more in adult day health care. we do not need less. so you need to really be with us. i would like you to start with a little chant that i usually do. and then, we will talk about the logistics. ok? you just repeat after me. we're going to get in the happy mood. ♪ everywhere i go --

people want to know -- do we are -- so we tell them -- we are the seniors -- mighty mighty seniors -- fighting for our health -- fighting for respect -- we are the seniors -- mighty mighty seniors -- hey [unintelligible] we're going to win we will get health care --

our dog they health care -- the adult day health care -- is our right -- get out of our way -- give it back to us -- everywhere i go -- people want to know -- who we are -- so i tell them -- we are the seniors -- mighty mighty seniors -- and we will win -- and dold de health care -- an adult day health care ♪ [cheers and applause] all right, james is going to

tell us exactly what we are going to do. we're going to walk over there. we're going to meet in the room. he will tell you which one. and then we are going to see the governor's people. are you with me? i cannot hear you. are you with me? >> [crowd] yes. >> all right. >> all right. you see that building over there? that would be the governor's building. the governor has an office over there. so everybody who can make it over there, and if you're in a van, then we'll take you up over there, let's follow henny right across the street to let the governors know that we needed to stop the elimination of adult day health care, right? so follow henny.

after school at 3. . 30 i hop on the bus and go to work with kids. i didn't realize i was going to get up that early for the rest of my life. >> it's hard to get good jobs. you can get well paid working at restaurants i was making good money that's not my 50 year goal working as a waitress. it would be better to have something to fall back on i wanted something where i would

in 10 years accumulate properties. >> 3 months is a long time to be busy all day. i'm putting myself further in debt with the understanding it's worth the sacrifice. eating raman for 3 months. it's not fun but i think it will be worth it. >> we all want to graduate we are all tired of this class. been 11 weeks. one more week to go. >> i need to get these mraps out. >> my purpose is to get the recruits prepared for the construction training. >> what you do is get a 2 by 6 sitting on the saw horses. we will cut 10 feet. everybody going to get one and

you measure up 6 inches. you sure you got 8 feet. >> as a carpenter you have to let them know what's expected and they need to know the stuff to get going on the trades. >> the main thing they need to know is how to carry the stuff on the job and the hussle. >> you can't work with the gloves. >> my part is a small part. my part is the best part. the part that really teaches them how to go out and fish rather than go to the fish market. my job is how to teach them to fish when the fish market is closed. >> this requires i thinking. when you go on the job site they will pay you 20-15, dollars an hour you have to think and figure stuff out and get the jobs done in a record time. >> one of the things we try to

teach with the construction trades is your attitude going to work. how employers look on new workers and it's about profitability and productivity. it's not how much swings it takes to drive, you know, ita about do you have the right attitude? can you show up on time? can you make the company money? >> 12.5 times 15. >> i don't want you to use the calculator. >> the students go through approximately 420 some hours of training. we operate at the campus of the community college a 12 week, full time program, 7-3:30. >> if you were going to figure

out how much [inaudible] you need you rounding up. >> average age of individuals in the trades is in the 40's from what we are told. in the 50's quite frankly those folks are getting ready to retire. we see a void. >> the average is making 60-80 thousand dollar a year more with benefits much it's hard work i will not lie. >> if you like working with your hands and creative and you look at a building and say, i did that finish and that building is there for a hundred years. come to my program you will work for anyone in the country. >> we send people to the dry waller the carpenters and the plummers. >> we are conscious who we give a job referral to.

>> we look at the skills part as far as hayou do with a hammer and nail there are other components to be able to be a team player. be able to take directs and be precise and punctual things like this you need to help you keep your jobs. >> we will looking at the interviews today and doing the critiquing from the papers. >> i was thinking last week we were talking ask that was so much thinking going on about the interview and how i was going to do it. >> i feel like, me, as an african-american woman and older

woman with children i feel i have to set an example. a lot of people don't know how to deal with anger and conflicts. the kids here look up to me. if i do something and don't set an example then they are going to follow. since i've been a positive roll model, coming to school everyday. some of those kids pick up on that and i see the improvement in them. >> one thing that i knew but the class helped reinstate is that you have to check yourself. we are all grown adults. >> i try to be motivated in everything i do in my life. if you don't encourage yourself to do something or do things for yourself you can't expect somebody else will do it for you. some people didn't make it to class because they have a bad

attitude and decided it wasn't worth it. >> when you do something you have to understand why you are doing it and you can't say and come in and say, i will make good money. construction's not like that you have to want to do it because it's not aedz work. you have to want to get up and go to work and do physical labor for 8 hourses. >> i lived next to biotechnology companies and was a recruiter. i was getting tired and felt sluggish. >> i knew from the first day we were outside being outside having fun, climboth ladder and hammer and the physical labor i knew it was something i would enjoy. to say i put 15 years into this and not retire a multimillionaire but retire healthy and feel good about the

work i have done. >> the greatest accomplishment is you drive by a building or bridge and say, i helped build that bridge or helped build the building on market street. the most greatest reward for me is i taught that student to work on the bay bridge. taught the student operating the crane that student was in my class. >> our goal is to have a core group of people, we are hoping it's over 50 percent of your grads complete and become journey people andup standing good roll models and citizens.

the largest public works our city has season in many years going on now the private project that 1 rincon hill. huge project. we had 5 or 6 people work on that project thus far. the rebuilding of the academy of science in golden gate park. the rebuilding of our public hospital laguna honda this is on going work with the same contract ors that move successful apprentices from one project to another and keep them working for several years. the construction workers of the future to be the superintendents the construction owners. that's the perfect thing there. that's success.