treatment plan, but that's always the last. we may have placed them on a 5150. we sent them to a new program. i mean, we've done everything and we're well worried about their safety, we'll bring them back to stabilize. please stand by.

and are now helping other people get through the collaborative course. they are an integral part of our team. it's amazing. each court has its own personality but all the treatment courts are set up to meet them to be as successful as they want to be at that time. i just have a follow-up question. is the primary or preferred treatment modality to force someone to take medication? to deal with the psychiatric symptoms? >> the judge will never force someone to take medication.

the judge and treatment team want no part of that. it feels very messy and not at all client focused. the judge does require that people stick to their treatment plan. that individual creates with their provider. so no, there will never be, you take meds or you are going to jail, or you take meds or you are out of this court. no. but there will be a discussion, this is a treatment court. what does treatment look like. this is what your doctor is proposing. i see you don't want to take that medication, what can we look at, let's try it your way. okay, it hasn't worked for three months and you have actually come back to jail. it's a discussion. not everyone in the court is on medication and no one is court-ordered to be. >> thank you. >> great. thanks, joana. anyone else on staff? okay. we want to thank you for your

presentation. this is good, this takes me back to some of my time that i have volunteered in the community a number of years ago and you do outstanding work. we want to stay in touch with you and continue to collaborate and know what you are doing. so thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. so now we will open this up to the public for comments. and i understand there's two cards. who is the first one? >> hi, i want to thank tanya for an exhaustive fantastic presentation. that was incredible. i know only half the councilmembers are present, i hope those not present will be able to view the video from today because there are some great presentations taking place. i think the most important question i had, concerning the

presentation, i was really interested to know how many of the people treated with mental health illness returned to prison after they leave the program? my primary concern for people with mental health issues and disabilities is the issue of housing. there are three regular homeless people in my neighborhood and all three have severe disabilities. two have severe mental disabilities and one is in a wheelchair. i talk to them regularly, try to give change when i can, some food. one likes to draw and i give him drawing supplies. but there's very little i can do as an individual. so i'm very concerned about, if you don't have that stability, of housing, of basic needs met, you are just going to end up in prison again because i think people, you know, end up doing what they have to do to survive. so i just wanted to share that. i also want to share a personal story. i have a friend of mine who is

a trans person, woman of color. and she has some severe mental disabilities due to some severe child abuse in her home. her parents kicked her out because she was transgender, identified as a female, not a male. she was kicked out. she checked into a center, but after that she was homeless. living in a hotel. she stayed on my couch for a little bit. she didn't have any stability in her life and she is in san francisco because of the amazing services here for people in the lgbt community and wants to stay in san francisco. and i just wanted to share that story as one example i know in my life of people who are trying very hard to get their basic needs met and have mental health issues but are faced with homelessness and possible high risk for criminal activity to try to make ends meet.

you know, providing for themselves. so yeah, again i just want to thank the presenters. it's a great presentation. i would be really interested to know how many people return to the program after they have left. thank you. >> thank you very much. who is our second? >> winship hillier. >> thank you, madam co-chair. my name is phil winship hillier. i want to comment on the last two presentations. i didn't think of things to say about the number 6 presentation until some minutes after public comments had closed. i'm very interested at the number of mental health calls that s.f.p.d. receives. if we believe these numbers, there's one call every year for every 40 citizens in the city.

by and large something like 75 or 80% of the calls that s.f.p.d. gets are for mental health issues. that's astounding to me. but putting that together with the other presentation, i would just like to comment, there were a lot of graphs put up with a lot of numbers that i don't think are really very valid. psychiatric diagnoses are unreliable. you could have one doctor that says yes, this patient has serious mental illness. another doctor, no this patient doesn't have a serious mental illness. another doctor you get another answer and another, it just changes. it's very much in the eye of the beholder. so, i just want to make clear that i have been told i have a mental illness when i have been complaining about the involuntary outpatient treatment.

i have been drugged involuntarily with power and debilitating anti psychotic medication. i have had it so, so strongly i could barely walk. it's not very much fun when you have a plan for your day and all of the sudden you have been hit with anti-psychotic medication, you can't read, you can't work, you can't sleep, you can't do anything, you are reduce today staring at the walls for the next 4-5 hours. it's like your whole central nervous system is being hijacked out from under you. and this is being done here in this city. and then, if you complain about it, if you have anything to say, i mean, no explanation is given. no treating identity is given. and that is to basically create trauma and terror in the patient. and then if a patient complains, the patient says hey, you drugged me, what the heck are you doing?

that is considered a mental health issue. i heard the bell, thank you. then you are accused of hallucinating. i'm going to become homeless in a few years when my money runs out because i have brain damage and i can't work and i can't get a doctor to recognize it, because i can't get a doctor to recognize it, it's considered a delusion. madam chair. >> thank you. so do we have any comments on the bridge line? not at this time. and we have had comments from the audience. i think we have completed this item. number 7. and we are going to move on.

again, like number 6, it's a fantastic subject matter, so i'm sure we will return to it at some point. now we will have our third presenter. this is someone we know a little bit. his name is jorge mestayer. peer counselor, mental health association of san francisco. welcome, jorge. >> thank you. i am pretty nervous, i will read something i wrote and i will get into my story. >> you will do just fine. >> my name is jorge mestayer, i'm a peer counselor. i work for the mental health association of san francisco and mental alliance. both jobs because of my experience and that's exactly what makes me a peer. a peer is someone who has lived experience with a mental health challenge or a family member. now i want to talk about jails. i have spent quite a bit of

time in jail, county jail in san francisco. an estimated one in five inmates have a mental health challenge. a serious mental health challenge, i consider this number to be low based on my experience and the fact jails are depressing and traumatizing. there was a study done i believe is closer to the actual numbers. this study of 62 surveys from 12 countries included 22,790 prisoners, it said 65% had personality disorder, including 47% with anti-social personality disorder. it's also stated that 4% had a psychotic illness and 10% had major depression. this is somewhat closer to what i have seen in the county jails. but the real statistics, we may never know. next i would like to talk about medication in jail, or the lack

thereof. when you come to jail, you will be denied medication unless you were previously prescribed and you haven't used drugs or alcohol in the last 30 days. if you have used drug or alcohol, there will be a 30-day hold on your medication. some medication is prohibited. i was prescribed wellbutrin, an antidepressant and then i got arrested. i was cut off cold turkey because it's not allowed in the facility i was in, sf county jail. things like this are quite common. a lot of medication isn't allowed in the county jail. so next, if you get past these 30 days of no medication and having a mental health challenge and if you complain enough you might see a psychiatrist. the psychiatrist may sit with you for ten minutes and make a

diagnosis. you may have severe anxiety and then being put back in your cell. i believe the jails are the mental health facilities we lost during the reagan administration. jail is such a traumatic experience and one that could affect a person's mental health for the rest of their life. the violence there. the freedom taken away. a lot of that affects a person's mental health once they are released. yeah, that's what i wrote about my time in jail. and now i could get to my story. i was born and raised here in san francisco. traumatic childhood, a lot of different things happened to me and stuff like that.

my first incident with the police was maybe 15 years old. i was caught in a stolen vehicle. i remember being put in a cell and having severe anxiety and wanting to run out of the cell and i couldn't and just being stuck there. no one -- mental health wasn't even a subject brought up at that time. over the years i went to jail quite a few times. it was always the same. i do not have the opportunity now to c.i.t. i was part of that. i work for the mental health association. i'm also a speaker who goes and does trainings. i want to talk about behavioral health court too, as an alternate court. it is a collaborative court.

what i have heard from people in the court is that they will get into the court and they will be stuck in jail for 12-13 months while they wait for a program. all that time they spent, they could have already done their time and got out. but instead they will spend more and more time in jail and on probation, due to the fact there's not enough beds, not enough space for people to get the help they need. from what i've noticed it's been an average of 9 month's wait to just get a bed in behavioral health court from the people i've been asking. i would like to share a story about a young man i met in jail. he was 20 years old at the time. his hair was disheveled and he looked tired. we started to become friends and he shared with me why he was there and he also shared he

had been 5150'd multiple times yet he didn't have psychiatric services in jail. he didn't know what behavioral court was and that he could be part of it due to the 5150's. they drop your charges down to lesser charges. he didn't even have any awareness. so that's most of the people. they aren't aware there is behavior health court. drug court, everyone knows about drug court but people don't know about behavioral health court, or p.a.c. court or other courts in the system. now i would like to talk about stigma a little bit. so the three types of stigma we face are public, structural and self. the public stigma being things like someone putting a blanket statement and saying someone with mental health was the person that shot up this place and it was because of mental health challenges.

a lot of times that is a blanket statement, that blankets everyone with mental health challenges that they are capable of shooting up a place or something like that. the structural stigma is stuff like hospitals, institutions, like the medical model being imposed on people and we are going to fix you. the person not being an expert, just something i believe, that everyone is an expert on stuff especially about mental health challenges. and stigma surrounding being incarcerated. it's so stigmatizing to come out and try to look for a job or the way you feel about looking for a job. you get turned down quite a bit. i became depressed. i became hopeless. it took a lot for me to bounce

out of that. i think services like citywide, like a wraparound service that has therapy and help with jobs and also has psychiatrists, the wraparound service helped me and harm reduction helped me quite a bit. i have been diagnosed with quite a few different things throughout the years. right now my diagnosis is severe anxiety and depression. but in the past i have been diagnosed with schizoeffective disorder and bipolar disorder due to exposed drug use. i know what it is to hear voices in the cell while you are all alone. i've been through that myself. i wish there was more help we could give people that are incarcerated. so that's pretty much all i have to say today. thank you guys for having me share. thanks. >> yeah, thank you, jorge for

sharing your personal story. that's excellent. let's open this up to the council. do my colleagues want to ask you any questions? alex? >> hi jorge. >> hi. >> thank you for coming up and speaking to us. you didn't seem nervous at all. good job on speaking. >> thank you. >> so my question is, i think you touched upon this a little bit but, can you educate us and share with us thoughts on the issue of what's going on in the

contraband now -- shooting incident and "diagnosed" i say quote, unquote, because i don't know much about individual, but he said he shoot up, or he or she has mental illness issue. so can you -- >> expound on that? >> share your thoughts, and what we should think about

before judging people. >> yeah, i guess my thoughts are that mental health challenges, it's a big spectrum, you know. and to just like put that blanket statement over one incident. a person may or may not have mental health challenges. i read something that many involved in the shootings didn't have mental health issues. my thought is yeah maybe they do, but there's no reason to put a blanket statement out there for a person who might have depression. it's a big spectrum of things to put that blanket statement, it causes a lot more stigma for people. like myself, a lot of my life, i believed i'm a violent man because people with mental health challenges are violent and that adds fuel to that type

of fire for people's self-stigma. >> thank you. >> thanks, alex. kate? >> bravo. you have such courage. that was such an authentic presentation. it gave me a glimpse into what you have gone through and so many who don't understand that stigma is there, so we don't understand what people are going through. and thank you for making it real and authentic and speaking from your heart. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> okay, sally? >> yeah, i second what kate said and it's also very interesting to hear all the statistics and the professionals and then hear from a person who has been there and they don't necessarily jive. but i would point out, to alex's question, when the stigma, someone with mental health shooting a place up, as you said, from the previous speaker, we learned, i think it

was 66% of the crimes may not have anything to do with their mental illness anyway. it's not only do they have a mental illness but did their mental illness contribute to what happened? i think it's a two-step process and all the public needs to be better educated about that. >> absolutely. >> yes. and i would third these comments. yeah, i think we have to look at statistics. they are essential. how does that play into the role of making things better. it's both mental health issues and other issues that contribute to people being in difficult situations like prison. tell me, briefly here, when you came out of prison, how long did it take you to really get back into mainstream and to begin working? >> it took me close to two years to actually get a job, yeah.

and i had even been volunteering for a while and i got let go from the volunteer position because of my history. >> you had a lot of support though, right? >> yeah, i've had a lot of support. especially citywide has been such abegg support for me. -- big support for me. now recovery looks like to me, going to my groups and weekly check-ins with people, using my phone when i need to. and also meditation. a bunch of different things that kind of contributed to my recovery. and especially my jobs have been so essential in me progressing. the warm line and the mental health association, you know, trains us so well. it's just a job of giving back all the time. so it's great. >> great. keep up the great work. >> thank you. >> staff, are there any comments or questions? >> yeah. through the chair.

jorge, hello. you shared with me at the break how nervous you are and you have nothing to be nervous about. everybody really felt your story. so i have a couple questions for you. were you, in your experience in the jail population, did you run into people that you thought had an undiagnosed mental illness? >> yeah. >> and how long -- you shared that you were basically 15 when you had your first contact? >> yeah. >> how long did it take to get from the age of 15 to a mental health diagnosis? >> wow, that's a good question. probably in my mid 20's when i first got diagnosed. i feel like that first question, i think there's so many people that are undiagnosed.

for example that person i was talking about, just his appearance and the way he was feeling and him telling me i have been 5150'd twice already in my life and he had no mental health diagnosis and no reason to reach out to try to get one. >> well, you know, there are so many different intersections between race, family situation and mental health. the way we identify folks. there were recent studies that said for kids of color, versus mainstream kids, if they exhibit certain behaviors, the white kids tend to get steered toward special education services, whereas the kids of color go into the criminal justice system, or being expelled or considered violent. >> yeah. >> so we do have a very long way to go.

>> absolutely. >> and i think one of the issues are really around early diagnosis and early intervention. you mentioned a lot of things started because of your own home situation and when we start thinking about, it's unfortunate. a product of the system. >> ab22, went to sacramento to try to get a mental health -- to try to make it a law. or ab 2222. >> absolutely. so what would you say was a turning point in your recovery. and if that was one person, what did they do that was actually most effective for you to kind of resonate with the commitment to recovery? >> i think the turning point

for me was when i was introduced to harm reduction. that was a big turning point for me. because before then i was caught in the aa model. alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous and relapse meant the end of the world in that world. so it was always really shameful and hard to bounce back from a relapse. once i learned about harm reduction it was really quite simple to get back on the wagon every time and not feel so much shame. i think the person who most helped me was my therapist. she just stood by me and supported me through things but she also gave me ultimatums, had to be there, so yeah. i would say she was the most influential person. >> thank you so much.

>> you are doing some good work. we want to keep in touch with you, that's for sure. and keep the collaboration going. so thank you for your presentation. and that will conclude your part. we've got one public comment from zach. >> i want to thank jorge for that incredible presentation. i think it's been the best presentation today so far. the courage and bravery to speak about personal experiences like that is just astounding. and the honesty, as well. i think jorge touched upon some really vital issues for people that experience mental health disabilities. the access to medication in the prison system i think is a very

crucial one. and also, he made a note, the helpfulness of therapy, it's very helpful. i have had a very difficult time finding wheelchair-accessible therapists in san francisco. it's kind of at a crisis situation. it's very, very difficult. if m.o.d. staff has a list of wheelchair-accessible therapists that take medi-cal, i would like to have that. and i would like to speak to the stigma of mental illness is very real. i'm blown away by jorge's presentation. i think people often don't make it to this microphone and to these meetings. the day-to-day functionality could be extremely trying and extremely difficult. and the stigma, when you have been diagnosed with a mental illness, i think part of the reason, maybe part of the

reason it's hard for people to get diagnosed, there's a fear there. and the fear is that if you do get diagnosed you will be stigmatized. your words will be immediately suspect because any person could point towards the mental illness as a reason to discredit what you have to say. and i think that's a social problem that won't be solved soon, but it's an important one to take note of. and that's one of the reasons i mentioned earlier of the importance of a liaison, someone who is a support person for a person experiencing mental health crisis. having a support person that is not affiliated with the police department, or with prosecution, it's very important for people with mental disabilities to advocate for themselves and not experience that stigmatization and discrediting that could happen so often with a mental health diagnosis. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> thanks, zach.

and for all of your comments. and we hope to stay in contact with as many of you who have made public contact with us as possible. this will be an ongoing process. [please stand by...]

>> how are people involuntary medicated in san francisco. there is a corporation called alexa pharmaceuticals, based in mountain view just 30 miles south. 2010 they filed their method of volumpsychiatric medication andr kinds of medication. what they do is they mix the medication with a propellent and then they ignite the propellent and the medicine goes into the air and then a patient can breathe it and it's as powerful and as fast-acting, this is one of their advertisements, as an injection. there's no need to force people to take medication. there's no need to test them to

make sure they're voluntarily taking it. you only need a roommate who is watching them who when they see the person, the target come down the hall, wave it in the air. they've gotten an f.t.a. approval for one of the kinds of medication but it's been tested. their patent has been tested on 50 different kinds of psychiatric medication including antipsychotic medication. these are very powerful and debilitating drugs. all the person has to do is wave it in the air. the f.d.a. approved version is to be applied to the patient's mouth. the patient is supposed to take it voluntarily. they breathe in and they're medicated. it doesn't have to be that way. it can be waved in the air. when the patient comes down the hall and they breathe that they have gotten a full dose. it is powerful. it's like being hit over the head, let me tell you, with a baseball bat. i've never been hit over the

head with a baseball bat, but i imagine it to be only a little bit worse. that's how it works, people. back to you. who is their second presenter. that's it. no more. ok. all right. i'm going to try to address a couple other things in the time remaining. one thing i want to point out about, the lack of access to therapy for people with disabilities, sometimes the rely i get is there's therapy through institute on aging program. student therapy is not therapy. someone who is not fully licensed with field experience is not therapy and i've had some very unfortunate experiences and a bad one recently with the institute on aging home therapy program because i dealt with a student that was not familiar with some symptoms i was having.

and so, i just want to point out it's a human right that people have access to experience therapists with wheelchair access. i have issues with perry, he has denied me access to mentor ship services which are very important for hiring someone in the home to help me with my basic needs. he even insinuating my ability to come to a public meeting like this was reason to deny me the services. so far he has only been willing to give me a -- someone is supposed to call me once a week to help me and those phone calls haven't been coming in. i have been trying to get access to deputy director eileen norman and executive director kelly deerman has refused me access to eileen norman and canceled our appointment we had. i tried to speak at the governing board meeting at their last one, over the phone, they

would not let me make a call over the phone without intervention from other city officials. because they do not apparently want much public comment. and when i tried to make comment over the phone, they changed the agenda on the fly so when i was in the bathroom they ended the call and before the meeting was even actually over, so that i could not make public comment, it took intervention from city staff to get them to create an e-mail so i could submit a public comment. but this is an on going serious issue. one of the reasons i'm having an addition to this with iihs i do have a caretaker right now. it's very hard to get. it took 40 interviews to get this person. and this person i found out is under investigation for beating an elderly woman. i.h.s. did not inform me of this. that's hugely unsafe and problematic and in line with what i've been bringing up at their meetings which is we do not have proper safety.

there's not proper screening being done for providers. i had a provider go through my trash looking for bottles. i had a provider tell me that she would not work for me unless i signed a time sheet for her sister and they told me they would not work for me unless i put double the hours they worked and defraud the government. these are four recent interviews. thank you for your time. >> thank you, zack. that's very good. do we have anymore public comments? is there anyone on the bridge line who would like to make a comment? my goodness, we haven't heard from the bridge line today. all right. well, we're getting towards the end of our program. information item number 10, correspondence. is there any correspondence?

>> there's no correspondence at this time. >> all right. then let's move to number 11 which is -- are there any council member comments and or announcements? no? and i don't think there's any -- i know we had tech week this last month. there's not any special meetings coming up that i know of. of course we're moving into the summer season so people tend to be on vacation. i don't have any right now either. all right, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your time and availability. appreciate you being here. i think this concludes the meeting. and my co-chair, denise would

have been sharing this meeting but she had another commitment that came up almost last minute and couldn't be here. she wanted to send her best to all of her council members. i'm taking this opportunity to extend to you, all of you sitting here with me today and staff that she would like to be here. she gives us her best. she'll be back in july. with that, i think our meeting is adjourned.

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prone to failure in an earthquake we need to stabilize those they don't lean over and plywood is effective as long as you nail along every edge of the plywood for the framing we'll nail along the sides and top and on the bottom 0 immediately you'll see a problem in a typical san francisco construction because nothing to nail the bottom of the plywood we've got to wind block between the studs and we'll secure this to the mud sill with nails or surface screws something to nail the bottom of the plywood. >> i notice we have not bolted the foundation in the previous episode thorough goes through options with different products so, now we have the blocking we'll a xoich attach the

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forces. >> so you now see the space is totally available to dots blocking that he bottom and bolted the foundation in corneas what the code in the next episode you'll see you apply. >> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san

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wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6

years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack

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of if you want to get a job at affordable housing done nasal you need a good attitude and the jobs on the bottom you take care of all the produce and the fish and computer ferry terminal and work your way up employing people with a passion for this and empowering them to learn - >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49

san francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city. >> if we could a afford the lot by these we'll not to have the kind of store in the future the kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of san francisco. >> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that's the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional

thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you

have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i

never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in sa

good evening and welcome to the june 13th, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. board president frank fung will be the presiding officer tonight. he is