between civil rights and disability rights as we look forward to the ada 20th anniversary celebration of our own. look to your newspapers. we hope they will take the bait that we are dangling and this is a great story of our collaboration and coalition of our communities. the last thing i would like to say is i want to put a save the date note on your calendar, saturday the 26, will be the festival. for many of you that attended the disability pride celebrations in the past, the ones that have taken place down in san jose. this is a collaborative effort involving the local independent living centers whether it's silicon valley, or marin or berkeley and the california

state organizing agency. everybody is coming together to throw a really big parade and party. the plan is to kickoff the celebration on the steps of 50 plaza of the federal building with the 504 demonstration and occupation took place back in 1977. along with that parade and celebration there is also going to be a conference held throughout that weekend. you will be hearing more about it. it will be taking place at hastings college and will be able to provide some material as well to participate. that concludes my directors report and i look forward to seeing everybody again wednesday july 1, 1130, to 1:30 in san francisco for our 8825

celebration. thank you. >> thank you, i wanted to check in. is our presenter here? jennifer frieden bach. thank you. >> thank you very much. i apologize for being late. >> that's okay. thank you for being here today. >> i had a little issue getting through security, but i'm here. i'm jennifer frieden bach and the executive director on coalition on homelessness. it feels non-sequitur now. i'm scooting this back a bit when we were talking about the crisis intervention team. i have been working on this for a long time, over 15 years. we originally started with a bunch of other community organizations after a young man by the name of adrian stalley was

shot by the police and he had a little pen knife in his hand and working with his mother and others in the community about moving this situation away from command and control situation. we were talking about folks in psychiatric disabilities but this also applies to folks who are hearing impaired or deaf or folks who don't speak the language of the officers. you can put it in a number of different situations, but we are really focused on people in psychiatric crisis. the idea moving when a person doesn't understand a command. the police are trained to increase their level of force and to go from level to level to force and to flip that script and have them instead use verbal deescalation techniques. while we were working on this and trying to figure

out what to do, we realized that in memphis tennessee there was a model that at that point was very freshly developed and very similar to what we were talking about. we got lewd of ideas from them. the initial training which supervisor tom yamano was in crisis intervention and was funded partially. really focused on training and didn't move beyond training to all the other stuff that needed to happen. eventually gaskin was chief and funded it. the new one is called crisis intervention team. the training

back in place and a lot of work done to have the training and have a lot more solid skill development among the officers. the training is run by volunteers however. it's not paid trainers. it's a 40-hour class. it is a work in progress really. i don't think it's reached all the way it needs to go. we have the founder of the program in memphis came out and did an analysis of the program and felt we needed to increase the number of hours spent in practicing verbal deescalation for the officers. it's a 40-hour training, he recommends at least ten. we are not anywhere near that. the training covers a variety of mental health issues from a variety of different perspectives used, elderly, trauma, homeless, a whole bunch of different, va, this kind of stuff. it's much more around getting this broad understanding of

mental health for police and trying to develop empathy and it's not all the way there with regards to skill. the numbers on training are looking pretty good. the original resolution called for every officer in the san francisco police department to get a shorter training. that has not happened at all. the original resolution also called for the dispatch criteria at 911 and that's taken a number of years and this last january it was finally up and running and district had specific codes for officers. the other piece we wanted to see in place was having a

supervising cit and when we talk about the way the police are structured, it's very laid out. it self described para military. it's very laid out in terms of general orders and instruction to police and how you respond and what situation and what's the proper protocol and everything is very intensive and general orders. it's also very complicated to change and there are the number of steps to do that. we haven't changed the general order when they are in command and how to deal with psychiatric crisis. so that's not happened yet and it's something

we are working on and speaking to the community advisory body and this is one of the things we are going to be taking on. another piece of it that's been successful is boosting up the kind of the specialness of being cit trained and having the officers beingel elevated in different ways. we have been working on that. we had our first award ceremony to try to outline different situations andersen -- certain situations where the police officers had different techniques and successful outcomes by not using force. the other big picture, the idea besides moving away from using force is system wide to stop our reliance on police as a response and as a response to people in psychiatric crisis. in

someways in our system it's the only way to respond. for most people their first touch with mental health system in san francisco is through psych emergency services. they brought in in handcuffs and put in restraints. they are in a locked facility. while it's not jail, there is not a lot of fundamental differences from the perception of the mental health consumer. it's very traumatizing. part of what has to happen is this whole systemic shift from reliance on institutional care of the hospitals or if they are not taken to the hospital, they are taken to jail. and into another place. so, that other place doesn't really exist, right? so we have door alley which was opened up which was a huge step in the right direction for san francisco but they are always at capacity. they are

not able to, you know, there is, if you look at the 911 calls, there are several thousand a year. i think it's 4,000 psychiatric calls in crisis with the police and doer does not have the capacity to serve that whole population. so, we have a system problem that is forcing the police to the front lines. so that's a piece of the pie as well is having a system in place that can address these issues in a -- humane way. there is going to be a system of care and people can get care when their symptoms are first appearing and not so far down the road. the police don't have control over that, but the broader city does. part of the idea is bringing all of these

issues to light so we can buildup a much more humane system. a much more effective system that moved away from institutional care and towards community care and a healthier community all around. so that concludes my comments. if you have any questions, i will be happy to address them. >> any public comment? >> councilman at that -- kostanian? >> i have been hearing on the internet a lot of people use that phrase . let me look at my notes here. para military response and force. did that come from the police department or the public? >> that's how the police

department describe themselves as para military organization. it's a structure the police department matches in a very simplistic way, a top down structure. >> is that across the nation or just in some >> it is across the nation. that's not meant to be a criticizing term. >> right. there are a lot of people that do use it in a criticizing form. >> yeah, there is a lot of people with the perspective that police officers shouldn't have guns and there is an association with military. if you are, then it would be seen that way if you have that perspective. absolutely. >> thank you. council member kostanian. cochair supanich? >> i just want to take a moment to thank you for coming. and thank

you for going so far in your advocacy. it's taken years to get this far. i don't have a question. i'm just impressed. >> yeah, i think most important message is we have a long way to go. even looking at the police shootings and the fatal police shootings over the past 7 years. the half of the people involved were people with psychiatric disabilities. we have a long way to go and we oftentimes like to sugar coat stuff and think that san francisco is better than everywhere else. we are not that different. i did a similar analysis to the bart police and it was the same thing. actually very paralleled. african americans and people in psychiatric situations. in both of those areas we need a

lot of work. >> thank you. >> questions to the staff? through the chair? >> jennifer, thanks for being here. i have a question. we heard a couple speakers talk about during the training, the police officers actually do scenarios and practice and i'm just wondering how much of the training actually has some background information. for example, if you are interacting with someone who has a developmental disability or cognitive disability and you say where is your drivers license, you might just get someone who is not sure what you are talking about. what if you say, where is your id? does that sort of information get passed so if someone comes into contact with a cognitive disability and they are being uncooperative giving their drivers license, that maybe i should

get their id. does that information come across? >> that is one of the sides we need to work on because there is a lot of theoretical information in the training and there is some scenarios, but it's not integrated into every course. so there is many courses where we have scenarios and other courses where we don't. so, i think that's really one of our big next challenges is to make sure that that exact thing being replicated in all of these other areas that we are able to talk that through and if the officers get a chance to practice that and that there is a collective feedback given. part of that is not having paid staff for this. one big shift that did happen is we got administrative staff from the police department and that has helped hugely because it's a lot to coordinate and put all of this

stuff together. so we have the administrative staff. we don't have paid training staff. we don't have paid community side staff either. so there is, yeah. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. i would like to check in on the bridge line. >> no one there. >> thank you, with that i'm going to close public comment and go on to information item no. 12 which is myself. i will be reading the disaster preparedness report. >> the disaster preparedness committee met friday may 1, 2015. representative from community based organizations, city and county departments, the mayor's office on disability mod and members of the council were present as well as members of the public. the meeting was well attended and these were some of the topics

discussed by the committee. the department of public health invited seven key contacts from agencies serving seniors and people with disabilities. the discussion focused on how information and resources would be communicated and distributed to their clients after an emergency or disaster. the framework and focus of the meeting centered around the following: no. 1, creating an effective communication plan that would identify primary and secondary partners with the agency and discussing whom will be reaching out to them. no. 2, determineing the best venue for primary partners to disseminate information to clients who are seniors or people with disabilities. >> no. 3, identifying when secondary partners would be contacted and by whom. no. 4. addressing issues and

concerns and limitations regarding the method selected to communicate to seniors and people with disabilities around disaster preparedness. no. 5, deciding how this will be put into place and under what circumstances would it be rolled out. the meeting was very productive. based on the feedback, terry and tara will put together a draft document outlining the committees recommendation to identify community based organizations, and agencies and selecting primary and secondary partners and the best possible method for maximum outreach effort. the next item will be to review the document and provide input in order to provided the phase for the plan. this concludes my report. the next meeting is

friday july 10th in city hall in san francisco. please neat -- note this meeting will occur on the second friday due to the holiday. we hope to see you there. thank you. >> i'm back. >> now we are going to focus on item no. 13. public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. do we have any speaker cards? okay. staff. council? okay. we are going to close public comment. information item 14. is there any correspondence? >> no correspondence. >> thank you, moving right along. we are going to item 15, discussion item, any council member comments or announcements at this time?

cochair supanich has an announcement and it's ada? >> no. it's something different. i just want to encourage our viewers and listeners to attend our next meeting july 17th. council members are working hard on their own personal stories with respect to members of the disability act. we want to welcome the general public to come and share their stories with respect to the ada. it should be a very touching and poignant meeting. i just want to make an invitation to the community to attend. >> thank you very much. >> at this point we are going to item no. 16. adjourn. thank you everyone for being here and the public. have a nice weekend. [ meeting is adjourned ] >>

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