stop. i mean, let's look at what we're doing to people. they don't have housing for many folks or they're thrown out and they don't have access to care, they're basically left on the streets have everything fall apart to them and go into crisis again and again and our response is a police response. our response is a situation where you are either locked up and brought to pes and spit backout to the streets or you are locked up and brought into jail. you know what, from our experience, folks, when they get to that point have already been locked out of treatment when they're trying to get care. there are more choices than being locked out or locked up in fact, there's a whole ocean in between those and this notion that we so-called let people disintegrate on the streets and it's not compassionate, we're not letting anyone, we're forcing them there. we're forcing them there through

neglect and our policies, that's what is actually happening. so, we need to turn this around. we need to rebuild our system. mental health sf is going to give it a good, hard shake. and really make sure that people have the care that we need. i also want to mention that them being arrested was not ok. that was stupid. no warning about know chance and they arrested them and i've been here in a lot of protests and i've never seen that. >> good afternoon, supervisors. the reality is clear that when you see on the street and they're screaming and they need health treatment you get arrested and that is the response and if you are in city

hall and you are treatmenting and chanting we need healthcare, you get arrested. that's why it's so important because we don't need changes because if the system is broken and you are telling the people who are effected by the system the most, that we just need a little tweak here and a little change there, then that is a slap in the face. and the only way that we can fix this system is through a vision where the system functioned for the people that it serves. and so i really just want to thank supervisor haney and supervisor ronen for having that vision and having the guts to use the power that they have to empower the people in their communities and then san francisco as a city so we can be, again, on the cutting edge

of the country and show people a better system and a better future is not only possible it's on the horizon. thank you, very much. >> good afternoon and thank you very much for your leadership and we're a member of treatment on demand. i know it took over 100 drafts and maybe we need a few more and we need to move to legislation as this has been heard. we hope that can be true. because you get better accountability that way and we can go beyond reports and hearings and structural accountability and across sigh . it's a structural problem the way we govern. i wanted to mention that. and i really want to appreciate

the deepest part of our being as a community that you have included the incarcerated population where it is the largest homeless shelter facility and it's the largest mental ill facility in our community and the largest substance use disorder in our city. that has tob to be eliminated. you have included more than one phrase in the legislation and i truly appreciate it the other specific thing is the office of private insurance and it's a creative way to include universally and we need that clearly and i hope that you can legislate. thank you, very much.

>> public heath justice collective. we're very glad to see a program of universal and particularly multi level meant healthcare being proposed and that's a cause for celebration. i want to talk about a gathering danger of a law and order approach to both homelessness and methal health. one is the mayor's urgent care mental health plan and it includes enforcement of drug laws on homeless people. and if you read the legislation, it talks about foot and bicycle

patrols of homeless areas for aggressive enforcement of drug laws that cannot be. the second example is that the mayor's jail plan which includes a justice center with new jail cells and the mental health jail plus this is supposed to happen in 2028. in the meantime it brings up the responsibility of transfer centers to jail which has so many deaths. mental health san francisco has to go through the board of supervisors right now to prevent it from going onto the ballot because if it goes on the ballot, the mayor has a plan with all its drug wars and all its emphasis on just a few

people will go on. so, all supervisors need to pass this right now. >> hello my name is hyas. i am someone who is born right here in san francisco. i am a homeowner and i am a mental health services consumer. unlike a lot of the people who will be served by mental health sf, i have an incredible support system. i have a wonderful family and i don't want for material things. i have kaiser and i have been waiting for three months to access mental healthcare that i need. and i'd like to address the concerns i believe are held by the mayor's office and proponents of urgent care sf.

it may be hard to draw the line between holding public insurance accountable and what that means for the city.

>> we are the answer that we seek today. you are creating something amazing putting structure to action. hope for people being a voice for those who don't have as voice. i work in with a lot of tenants and we see a lot of fear and now we're seeing tenants maybe lost their homes or they're going through construction as a form of harassment and we're seeing people, for the first time in san francisco saying we're going to make san francisco great again. we're going to make san francisco great because we're taking radical changes and a radical approach for both our

mental health issues and our homeless issues. so thank you so much. >> hi, i'm a volunteer organizer at housing rights committee and like i said earlier in the ral rally, i have developed some anxiety panic attacksment i'm having a little one right now. and i never had that before until the largest landlord bought my building. it's also that i don't have health insurance and it's really hard to find the right one for me. for anyone and thank you for everything that you guys are doing. i appreciate it. let's get this bill passed. thank you.

>> good afternoon. my name is vivian. i'm president of the mental health association of san francisco. first, i'd like to draw everyone's attention, i hope you look up an article that the examiner ran. mental health sf is a full spectrum of services, interventions that can prevent the need for expensive and traumatic urgent care. the premise is simple. appropriate care at the appropriate time. the mayor's competing plan urgent care sf has an extremely limited focus that lacks in sight and sensitivity people

don't present with overwhelming systems and early battle of depression or psychotic foot can be treated for staal the needs for urgent care. and it was incumbent on this city to provide the proper level of care at the proper time. >> hi, i'm a community organizer with community housing partnership. our mission at community housing partnership is to provide affordable housing and help formally homeless people achieve self-sufficient see. in order to do that, we have to help people heal from the homeless trauma that starts from the very moment that people's housing is unstable.

most of the people that we work with including myself who is experienced homelessness, and poverty, survived through homeless travel on a daily basis and it's crucial we recognize workers helping people achieve stability from coming indoors and recognizing the labor of the non-profit workers that are in support of housing that are really doing some of the front line work around mental health and bringing people back some times from the brink on an hourly basis. sorry, i lost my train of thought here. we appreciate also that housing is a crucial component to comprehensive solutions. if we're going to address member health, it starts with people having a home. lastly, i also want to say that it's important to understand the race cultural and linguistic and

people have to understand the therapy and care they're getting. when has real systemic change happened without exercising community power through civil disobedience. >> my name is sarah larson and i worked in san francisco dhp for 40 years and almost 25 now. i was very encouraged by the fact that the current head of human resources has resigned. i'm thinking we would have a fresh start. someone new from someone outside. instead the job was less than like a week later it was handed to someone who had been the head of hr and has been the head of other things and is kind of just another permanent ride on the san francisco merry go ground of bureaucracy. i would like to see some fresh

blood. i mean, every time i hear someone say oh it takes two years to hire someone, that's just ridiculous. i mean, that really needs to change. there's no reason it should take that long. there's no reason that management should be lying about hiring people when dph is 20% understaffed and we need some fresh blood up there at the top. i think the city missed a really great opportunity to bring something like that in. because, as i said earlier, we need a lot of new clinicians and that being said, i would like to say also that laguna honda hospital, 1600 beds or 1200 beds whatever, is still empty and it's a fabulous asset to be ignored. i don't know why it's there deteriorating except for a few

redecorated offices whoa need a facility where people can stay until they're stabilized and i would like to see option there. it would be really great. >> my name is june bug and i'm with the health justice academy and the san francisco heath plan advisory and aim a poor magazine and a former san francisco commissioner and because i'm someone that cares and i experienced trauma in my life and i have mental health issues. all my issues have a lot of issues that go down to my basic needs being met. and so, i'm someone who needs wrap-around services in my life. i'm at the mercy of the handout to survive and it's still not enough. we have a crisis in my city.

this is my city and my home. what i see daily disturbed my heart and what i go through disturbs my mind. it's a challenge to stay focused and not give up because i live a hard life. mental health sf offers wrap-around services. and that is something that we need. we need wrap around services because the issues in our life are intersected with the needs that we need to be met. instead of that in place, what we have right now is incarcerating, criminalizing and killing us. my friend was killed by san francisco police at the theater who suffered from mental health issues.

if wrap around services and mental health sf was in place my friend making alive today. so i just want to say we are suffering and we are waiting so we need mental health sf now. thank you. >> hi. i'm colleen rebeca and i am managed a community organizing department at tenderloin neighborhood corporation. we want to say that san francisco needs to reform its mental health and substance use treatment service delivery because too many vulnerable people are falling through the cracks and not getting the help they need. and this is an issue that's urgent and we need to address it now. what we need to do is we need to address it in a way that treats people who have mental health

issues and who treatment people who use drugs with dignity and respect and is our members of our community. and i say that as a concern who has had issues with mental health for more than 35 years. i'm part of this community. and other people like me who have mental health issues are part of this community and people who use drugs are part of this community and we deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. san francisco must respond to our community's behavioral health needs without stigmatizing people who use drugs and people who need care. let's move hefford holding that basic tenant of dignity and

respect for all of our community members, especially those suffering and in need of help at the forefront. thank you. >> i'm a resident of d8. i applaud your vision and your plan to put together a new system for a services including people who are on the front lines of this crisis my colleagues serve families on the front line of the homelessness crisis and we operate the central city access point and we're seeing in our programs across our programs residential childcare, more families with more and greater needs and greater acuity levels and we

need a system that is capable of providing them with access to low barrier services that meet their needs. for families, it's not just about meeting the needs of the individuals it's meeting the needs of the individuals so the little people in their lives can get what they need. if parents don't get the service that's they need, then the entire family suffers. and that perpetuates long-term cycles of sickness and poverty and homelessness. it's very important from our perspective that we put forward this bold solution so that people can get access to what they need so we can act now but also take the long-term view towards breaking these cycles so thank you for your vision and your boldness. thank you. >> good afternoon. jordan davis district 6 resident. thank you to supervisor ronen and haney for spearheading this and thank you for the community health that will help meth health sf a reality. except for the deputy sheriff,

fuck them for arresting my comrades. i'm sick and tired of seeing walking by the crisis on the streets and i'm tired of the false solutions such as conservatives and in jails. i was that person on the streets but i stabilized. now as you know all know, i am nuts. i swear on board chambers, i got so depressed i got so drunk at a event i was honored at i puked in the toilet and i've had more suicide that you can count and i don't think i will see services and may be compensating further but i want to make sure everyone in this city that i've adopted and i know and love has voluntary services on demand. i want to say to room 200, stop being the bullshit mayor, stop

opposing and continue the conversations but we have standards and we all go to the ballot if this thing is legislative process. so fuck urgent car their actualg this at another meeting. this is really historic moment and i just had to say my peace. let me get out of here because the sheriffs try to arrest me for bashing them. >> my name is john mccormick. i'm honored to share the mic with people like jordan person is that has spoken her.i'm tiret europe. i'm tired about hearing how good services are in europe. someone got on the mic and talked about how great the services are in spain. i wanted to talk about how good the services in san francisco.

i want for our city and hear about what happened in san francisco. did you hear about what they're doing in san francisco? we can do that. that can be us. that can be this proposal. i want to get behind david elliott louis and curtis bradford person is else today bradford and everyone who spoke. not let it to go to the ballot. i don't want for the rest of the country did you hear about that dogfight about meth healthcare in san francisco. i want this to pass. i want this to go through and i want to stop seeing people suffer. it's not something that just happens in the tenderloin or just happens in bay view it happens all over. it happens in the sunset and it happens all over the city and we can fix it. so, thank you to the people who worked on this. everyone in this room has not worked on this who is not here anymore. thank you to the supervisors.

thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is annabell. and i'm the political united representing behalf of 6400 teachers and staff stand in support of mental health sf. it is san francisco's not only experiencing inaffordability crisis that sim pacting all of us but we're also experiencing a moment health crisis. it's clear that it needs a overhaul change that's why mental health sf is the answer. thank you supervisor ronen, supervisor haney, and all the other supervisors that are supporting this. we need a change and we need it

now. thank you. >> kim, san francisco labor council. if i could rely on the 200 thref you to pass jobs i wouldn't need my job. to all your colleagues who labor council, is there for mental health sf and we know san francisco needs to do better. we know what san francisco needs, san francisco needs mental health sf and if any of your colleagues have this is

repaired. thank you. i am the chair for sciu local 10/1 and i'm proud that we are working together and what i wanted to speak with you about is to say that i work at san francisco general hospital and this is not just a matter of a fame because zuckerberg facebook and experiments to see if they could spread emotions like a disease and that has worked so well that now we have genocide that is occurring because of that and it's worked so well that zuckerberg is taking in millions of dollars

from trump and saying that you can lie as much as you want to and we are facing that and our leadership is blaming the people that work there for the problems that take place and blaming the clientele. i received a message when during the rainy season that there was a fire that broke out on campus and no one was hurt and they wept out of their way to say they knew it was caused by homeless female and the and it'e

because there's no money to be made in mental healthcare but, we are not in the business and the public-health of making money. >> hello, since i worked on all your campaigns and i love the work, thank you for doing what you do and my name is. >> catherine: ' and i'm a member of asp2121 but i'm here as someone who was very close to someone who lives with unrecognized middle health issues and we are all on this spectrum. i fluctuate hour by hour myself

and i'm usually the one that helps her to do it. because she refuses to recognize that she has a problem and she was beaten in foster care and she didn't chose to be the way she is and so she also doesn't chose to think that anything is wrong and i would like to have a special meeting tonight and pass this and roll it out really big and really loud so it dough stigmatizing meth health that it doesn't make people assume mental health people are criminals so there is so much to be done in this campaign and she doesn't live in the city and she was in rural communities that is really port so i'm a huge part of the financial support so we can't have meth health without it and you can't have much

mental health when thinking differently or whatever chemical disturbs are going on and it's being stigma there's one in four people that seek mental health services if they're lucky enough to get them so, thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors haney and ronen and supervisors mar and rules committee. i would sure like to see better mental health that is everywhere. looking for words and solutions. searching but not finding understanding anywhere. i think -- by the way, happy halloween tomorrow. i think you lost in a massacres

aid. i think you're lost in a meth health masquerade. >> i know you can do this because -- there's a spark of magic in your eyes. >> by the way, happy halloween tomorrow too. candy land and. >> you know what you got, you got all the rain bows in your favorite shades. make it come through because you are a mental health genie in the skies make it a big wonder, make it a big surprise, i bet you by

golly wow and you are what i've been waiting for forever. and every will my dreams come true today. make it happen, make it happen, make it come our way. thank you, bye. [applause] >> that is a difficult one to follow. my name is ruby and i work at the san francisco community health center which is formally asian pacific islander wellness center. i want to thank you for doing what you are doing. and share a few things. i want let everyone know i've submitted 28 names to the homeless this year and all of which are waiting for mental heath services every single one of them. ex i want to make sure you include more people with lived experience and lift them up. we do not need more people

coming out of schools. we don't need new teams. there are plenty of us doing this work. we need the funding and we've been derogatory that we do it and we don't need to add new people to this pool. [please stand by]

>> interest issues such as millimeter and housing. i want to tell you my story. 15 years ago, i was a family caregiver for two people in my family and i was working full time at the time with good health insurance the two places

i went to look for coping with my mental health, caregiver stress, it was a lot of bureaucracy and would have loved it if there was an office of private insurance with accountability at that time to help me navigate this. moving on, supervisor hainey, i liked what you said about a housing component in this, because you might have read the story in the sunday examiner about james johnson who has been living in a sobering centre for 16 months because there's no placement for him. there's no supportive housing placement for him.

i have been on the board of organization providing the housing and another thing i would love to see is for the people or case managers who work with some of society's hardest clientelle who makes $45,000 a year and that is simply not enough. thank you. >> good afternoon and thank you for all that you do. i think it demonstrates meeting individuals in need, when in need and at the level in which it's needed. i think the individuals need to feel safe with available and qualified first response teaches.

teams the individuals on the response teams are adequate to make assessments that are client-centered and not dictated. the blueprint also asks for wages that are adequate for case management and healthy providers to live and substain themselves in san francisco. it's time to stop giving this money to nonprofits that are putting them into sros, that are turning into containment zones of death. it's time to put it where the first responders are. we need people peer piers to pi. we need people with experience. i have 15 years' experience. this system is taking down me. that is not acceptable. i won't call out the mayor's office. i'll do that another time but i'm asking you stand independently based on the response i received from dr. kolfax on the 23rd of september.

we have time to take san francisco back, put us back on the map and in public view as a place to visit and not to be afraid of and we need to encourage trainings to promote qualitied staff to handle the ones that are already currently being housed. thank you. i look forward to seeing you at the convention. >> my name is vlad. i live in san francisco and i just want to say thank you all for getting together and thank you to everybody for speaking. mental health affect sals all os equally and i'm tired of seeing my local brothers and sisters on the streets, not having a place to live or anything to eat or any way of getting help outside of begging on the streets and turned away, so thank you all. i hope this pans out and i really hope this is in isn't anr

merry-go round and let's get this passed. >> good afternoon. i'm a patient navigator at the community health center known asasasapi wellness and people le myself that are hiv positive need mental health care and a system of care for all. it is because of this didn't because i am one of those people that need it and because i work with so many others that need it that i want to thank you for taking the time to acknowledge that and for being the voice in which it is needed so that this bill can pass. so i want to thank you. thank you so much. (applause). >> good afternoon. my name is andy stone. i'm a san francisco resident of d9 and i'm here with the san

francisco aids foundation and advocacy network. i wanted to talk briefly about the city's commitment to getting to zero. zero hiv transmissions, zero hiv related deaths and stigma. this is an issue that impacts all of us. i particularly wanted to lift up people living with hiv and mental health care needs. people who are here and around in sanfrancisco when the epidemic first hit experienced a lot of trauma and lost a lot of their social support networks and to this day, they have a lot of really complex pyschosocial needs, including access to mental health services. they fought for future generations to be able to survive. and now, it's our turn to fight and to support them. we can't get to zero unless we address this crisis. part of that is acknowledging there are dozens people who die

every year by suicide and that's unacceptable. i wanted to talk briefly about people who use drugs and how they deserve nonjudgmental services. many experience a lot of trauma on the street and oftentimes use substances to survive. every year we see hundreds of folks who die from overdose. it's in our state, city in psychiatry wandwe have to addre. with harm reduction services, they respect dignity and i'm super excited and in full support of mental health to support universal access to mental health services and also substance use services, right? we need more of both of these and they have to be harm-reduction based. i stand here strongly in support of this initiative and i am excited to see this.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm ken tray, retired high school teacher and today i'm representing the us united educators of san francisco. you've heard from other uesf voices but we can't say how important mental health usf is. san francisco has at least 2500 students who are living -- who are homeless or in housing duress. we know those families are under economic pressure, obviously housing pressure, and teachers and paraeducators see that and feel that in their classrooms. and just like we need wrap-around services to bring our schools up to the place they need to be all of our students, our kids also need the kind of wrap-around services for their families and often themselves

that will give them a fighting chance to succeed in life. on a personal note, there's a guy named bob who lives on the corner of my block and he has sought services from the city and he got into an sro and he said it was such a hell hole of fear and just an out-of-control atmosphere he prefers living in the street. this is a guy who sits around and reads dashel hamet and he needs help and allows bob to be living on our sidewalks. >> hello and good evening. i'm michael blake-moore and i'm here with tara. you haven't heard her yet. i'm here on behalf of road dogs.

we tried very much to try to help the homeless artists, but i would like to put forth putting up housing for the workers here, stop having them come from far away just to come here to work. the homeless, they need housing. we're piling up everywhere, as far as -- i don't know if i should, but i had a situation with st. anthonys not too long ago and rather than look at the camera and pay attention to what was on the camera, were they cake and piled up on me.

and there still hasn't been anything about that, because they made sure to state that they -- i mean as far as workers helping the homeless, that made sure to state that they were doing better than the homeless. and that's no way for st. anthony or christians to present themselves. look into it. >> while changing healthcare, not handcuffs are part of the public policy and community organizing and the president of american federation of teacher 12121 were arrested outside of this hall and could not speak here today.

i urge you to support mental health sfc so all can access care they need when they need it without the care of income. treating the mental health crisis without income is cruel and costly. we must support our frontline workers and delivering healthcare to all who needs it. th,and our students in support f making mental health sf real for our city now. now sarah short says, and i quote, healthcare, not handcuffs. >> thank you, any a member of the public who has spoken that wishes to speak. seeing none, public comment is closed. i just want to tell you from the bottom of my heart, thank you, thank you for your beautiful inspiring words. thank you for having been in

this fight a lot longer than i have and for sticking with it and thank you for teaching us so much about what we need to do right and how to be a model, not only for our region but our state and for our country. we are 100% committed to seeing this through. hopefully, we -- like if any of you had asked, we can reach agreement with the mayor's office and get it implemented sooner rather than later. i think that's something we would all love to see. but like others have said, it has to be the big bold vision, the universal system that we allallall need and want. hopefully we will get there and one way or another, we'll be passing this or put it in the hand of the voters with this

measure that's officially placed on the ballot. we can always take it off but before november 27th, but as of today, this hearing has been heard and we're about to file it, but i wanted to see if my colleagues have any other comments before we close this hearing and, really, in order to put this measure on the plot, matt and i needed two other supervisors to sign on with us and supervisors marr and walton stepped up to the plate and didn't hesitate or waiver. they said we know what this needs and we trust the community and labor and we trust our colleagues who have been working nonstop on this. so please just express your extreme appreciation to them. i certainly wanted to express it publically. thank you, supervisor marr, for being there every step of the way and thank you so much. any other comments? seeing none, i will make a

motion to file this hearing and without objection, that motion passes. [cheers and applause] >> madam clerk, any other items. >> that completes the agenda for today? >> then the meeting is adjourned.

>> it did take a village. i was really lucky when i was 14 years old to get an internship. the difference that it made for me is i had a job, but there were other people who didn't have a job, who, unfortunately, needed money. and they were shown to commit illegal acts to get money. that is what i want to prevent. [♪] today we are here to officially kick off the first class of opportunities for all. [applause].

>> opportunities for all is a program that mayor breed launched in october of 2018. it really was a vision of mayor breed to get to all of the young people in san francisco, but with an intention to focus on young people that have typically not being able to access opportunities such as internships or work-based learning opportunities. >> money should never be a barrier to your ability to succeed in life and that is what this program is about. >> there's always these conversations about young people not being prepared and not having experience for work and if they don't get an opportunity to work, then they cannot gain the experience that they need. this is really about investing in the future talent pool and getting them the experience that they need. >> it is good for everyone because down the road we will need future mechanics, future pilots, future bankers, future whatever they may be in any industry. this is the pipe on we need to work with. we need to start developing

talent, getting people excited about careers, opening up those pathways and frankly giving opportunities out there that would normally not be presented. [♪] >> the way that it is organized is there are different points of entry and different ways of engagement for the young person and potential employers. young people can work in cohorts or in groups and that's really for people that have maybe never had job experience or who are still trying to figure out what they want to do and they can explore. and in the same way, it is open for employers to say, you know what, i don't think we are ready to host an intern year-round are all summer, but that they can open up their doors and do site visits or tours or panels or conversations. and then it runs all the way up to the opportunity for young people to have long-term employment, and work on a project and be part of the employee base. >> something new, to get new experience and meet people and then you are getting paid for it

you are getting paid for doing that. it is really cool. >> i starting next week, i will be a freshman. [cheers and applause] two of the things i appreciate about this program was the amazing mentorship in the job experience that i had. i am grateful for this opportunity. thank you. >> something i learned at airbnb is how to network and how important it is to network because it is not only what you know, but also who you know to get far in life. >> during this program, i learned basic coding languages, had a had to identify the main components and how to network on a corporate level. it is also helping me accumulate my skills all be going towards my college tuition where i will pursue a major in computer science. >> for myself, being that i am an actual residential realtor, it was great. if anybody wants to buy a house, let me know.

whenever. [applause] it is good. i got you. it was really cool to see the commercial side and think about the process of developing property and different things that i can explore. opportunities for all was a great opportunity for all. >> we were aiming to have 1,000 young people register and we had over 2,000 people register and we were able to place about between 50 and did. we are still getting the final numbers of that. >> over several weeks, we were able to have students participate in investment banking they were able to work with our team, or technology team, our engineering 20 we also gave them lessons around the industry, around financial literacy. >> there are 32,000 young people ages 16 and 24 living in san francisco. and imagine if we can create an opera skin it just opportunity for all program for every young

person that lives in public housing, affordable housing, low income communities. it is all up to you to make that happen. >> we have had really great response from employers and they have been talking about it with other employers, so we have had a lot of interest for next year to have people sign on. we are starting to figure out how to stay connected to those young people and to get prepared to make sure we can get all 2400 or so that registered. we want to give them placement and what it looks like if they get more. >> let's be honest, there is always a shortage of good talent in any industry, and so this is a real great career path. >> for potential sponsors who might be interested in supporting opportunities for all , there is an opportunity to make a difference in our city. this is a really thriving, booming economy, but not for everyone. this is a way to make sure that everyone gets to benefit from the great place that san francisco is and that we are building pathways for folks to

be able to stay here and that they feel like they will belong. >> just do it. sign up for it. [♪] [♪]