and welcome to the victoria's house or beautiful community in san francisco. we will like to welcome our am mayor london bride. supervisors and department of public health. thank you for joining us all. y victoria's house an arc dull residential community is supportive environment for clients that need assistance dealing with mental health and coping scythes.

offer a process that delivers services, life skills and social programming supporting daily living, medication management, moles and housing. >> our all inclusive on site services provide a step down solution from arc cute setting for clients to be self sufficient in this beautiful city of san francisco. when they reenter the outer community or community can be a solution or client's forever home. i'm asked why we name today victoria's house. i met a client victoria transitioning at that time. she identified as a woman most of her life and was unfortunately mistreated by the system. her decision maker did not understand and did not approve of her transsxigz not allow her care to continue. out dated community care licensing regulations housed her with a male roommate.

when i lynched her story i learned how the system failed her, i said there will never be again a tragic situation and we will provide a community where everybody will be welcome and treated with dignity and respect. [applause] >> our team is proud to be providing residential care and supportive services in san francisco residents. we would like to thank mayor london breed for her leadership, thank you. [applause] as well as all the support she provide not only to our project but all of the new mental health services provided for resident in san francisco. also big thank you to governor newsome for recognizing they need to help with mental illness and funding needed now jc my partner in this project. >> i'm sorry i would like it

introduce john. then jc. good morning, thank you for being here. i like to i had a chance to reflect on our journey from the day we saw this property and tour to today with the beautiful facility. we would not be here today if the board did not pass the controls and legislation which protected board and care facilities. the protections made it difficult or impossible for developer to purchase board and care and change the use to something else. this legislation was introduced by supervisor mandelman who is here today and supervisor ronnin. mental health and homeless issues the top of their priorities. without the protections, we would be standing next to 2 single family homes or market rate condos instead of 46 rehab beds for the vulnerable. we would not be here without mayor breed willing to tackle

the big issues. the city's funding of mental health and homeless issues. you got a tough job. and the mir's office was helpful in getting this over the finish line. i spoke to the governor about 10 days ago talked about the 225 bed facility in san pablo in 2021 the 46 facility here and 150 bed facility in southern california. i thanked him for the care courts and the state pundz funding directored to the issues. however, for most of the efforts to be successful, we need more rehab beds like the ones we are opening today in the continuum of care. these beds familiar general beds likely allow sf general and other acute settings to open beds to get more people off the streets and into care. and the [inaudible] we strife to provide would be an excellent

stop for a person headed to but not yet ready for permanent spicht housing. this is where private/public partner ships with make a change we look forward to the continued work with the mayor's office and the state of california to make lives better. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you, john and beny. thank you mayor and supervisor mandelman. a bit of background we are excited provide the frisk beds. the 46 bed facility with service john and betty referred to. we acquire third degree property over 2 years ago in january of 2020 before the pandemic. it was a neglected former boarding care vacant before we bought it. the likely aisle was condos or high end housing. we saw the potential to rehab in a high quality facility for san

francisco's most vulnerable. the challenge was preserved the buildings historical vicktoryian quality and delivering a new facility inside. i want to thank our inhouse team and open scope and mark, danny who are here. our construction partners it u. and [inaudible] financial support as our lendser. they stepped up to support construction loan in the earth months in the pandemic when many banks had with drawn from the market. we have a license in hand and yesterday our final other certificate of occupancy. thank you, everybody. [applause]. thank you we would like to welcome mayor london breed. [applause] >> there are a lot of folk who is know that i was born and

raise in the san francisco and my grand mother raised me. i grew up in the house with my grand mother's daughter who are had a disability and constantly struggle when my grand mother developed dement why and someone needed to care for my aunt it was challenging dealing with the system. fortunately, for my aunt she had family. people this supported her because, trust me, had she not had us looking out for her she would be on the streets. not able to take care of herself. and in fact, what i appreciate most about the w this we are doing now is that provides an opportunity for to yous support a community that may not have relatives or support to help a system with being able to live a productive life. i appreciate so many of the great organizations in san francisco i worked with over the

years. but also we know it takes a village. when i became a member of the board of supervisors, we had a number of the individuals in our community. there was a gentlemen who i was very familiar with his family and than i watched their father decline significant low to the point where they struggled. and i tried assist them in getting a bit of conservership for their family member, it was a long process. a struggle. sadly t did in the help and unfortunately, their father passed away and died on the streets alone. them should in the happen in a place like san francisco. i other than that there are a lot of people who believe in you know just people having the rights to decide what they want to do with their lives but this is complicated. there are people who can't necessarily, i will tell you from experience about my aunt,

can't even decide how to pay her rent. and to figure out the basic things when she needs to buy. i would sends her to the store to pick up things, yes, then she would spends the money on things she was not supposed to. it was a constant struggle trying to take care of her. it is so much more complicated. when i became mayor, it was important to me that we look at mental health and start to talk about it like we do any other challenge. and we look at our portfolio and behavioral health beds. what will happen is someone in the past before the street crisis response team someone get a 911 call. there was someone going in and out of traffic. taking the general and released walking around weapon no help or

support and people wonder. what are we doing wrong. why are we not transitioning them to a place so they can live a product of lifelike everyone else. we added more besd. we reached 2, 200 beds in 2019 and made a commitment to add 400 more in our portfolio a 20% increase we identified the challenges and needs are and how we can provide these opportunity for people who are struggling. we appreciate so much partners like a & arc health service because we can't do this work alone. we need partner and need people who will make this place a home. so that when someone who is may be provide service through our street crisis sponse team they ends up at general, they may end up at hummingbird but what is next. this is next.

this gives stability. gives support to people who need support. and it helps to map out hat next stage s. is it programs like golden gate regional. like the art. is it programs that help them to sustain their lives with dignity sne i appreciate being here and in fact, this is one of the most beautiful behavioral health homes i have seen in san francisco. so, i know that the people here are going to appreciate that. and they will appreciate also not only where they live and how beautiful it is but that they are treated with respectful you know this they are able to maintain their dignity so we can help get them to the next level this long with the other great things we are trying to do in san francisco, are going to be a game changer. again, we thank you for being here and thank a & a health

services and the department of public health and behavioral health team for all the w they have done and will continue to do to make sure that we are not leaving people out on the street in crisis and giving them the care and support they need. thank you so much. [applause]. next we would like to welcome doctor colfax from department of public health, please. >> good morning and thank you, everybody i say when i was driving here and parkoth street i thought, well, not sure where the bodiesing is it looks like the realtors have an open house. this is just a beautiful spot in an incredible environment. we know from the science that the requirement the physical environment in which people live during their journey of heeling really makes a difference.

realliment to thank our partner who is helped spearhead this project. mayor breed thank you for your leadership and supervisor mandelman thank you for being here with us today. i wanted to thank a & arc health services. this was something differents for the health department to do this partnership really is promising for more working together with you and others on a private partnerships in the future. i thank the dth behavioral health team in the back. lewis, thank you for your leadership and work in this and our behavioral healing director comings is here today. these new beds will increase our capacity to provide on going medical treatment for people throughout the city. and as the mayor mentioned, we are making progress in the commitment to adding 400 new

beds. and with this newarkdition, we are 2 thirds of the way there. and in fact, we obviously, got delayed a bit bite pandemic but in 2021, we added 89 new beds alone. and we anticipate adding additionaling 90 new bedos line soon with 70 new bed this is month alone in august of 2022. great progress there this issan a model of care not only a way of figuring out how to get this done on the ground but [inaudible] and it it is this type of state of the art facility allows us to meet people where they are and new way and addressing the challenges that so many people have on their journey to recovery. this is a part of the system that we are building the system of behavioral health care. from the acute needs of people

to stabilizing them to the journey of independent living and having the resources available for people thshg is a chronic relapsing cannot resources available to meet people where they are treatment on demand and ensuring people get when they need when they need it and the appropriate level but it is also the appropriate environment. and this environment here today is so exciting for us to see 46 more beds. i'm thrilled. thank you again for having us here today. thank you for the partnership and with that i will turn it over to supervisor mandelman. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, doctor colfax. and to all the folkos your team the department of public healing thank you for your work every day. thank you mir for your commitment getting folks indoors with behavioral health needs and

addictions. she struggled with mental illness and electric therapy and every treatment known and never really stabilized she needed to be in place like this for this time. i fear that if she had been in san francisco in 2022, she might not have been in a place and have been out on the sidewalk. it is person for a lot of us. i know like once you have the conversations with people this is in the an unusual experience. and i then and there some folks involved with a & a have personal experience this drives them. and you know i think that it is a critical need in san francisco's critical need today. you know the backgrounds we lost 500 board and care beds the last dvenlgdz 50 facilities the market has not been helping us. and the same time, we have

tremendous human needs and really fundsamentally we need better responses on the street and appropriate for accomplices for people to land you know when we engage with them on the street. we want more of those to lead to coming off of the sidewalk and insdpoors can't do that without facilities like this. i'm optimist thick is a great morning i'm optimistic about san francisco and want to thank jc and john and betty for having the vision and for you know i love our nonprofit partners they are critical to us. we need all hand's on deck. having a player that is interested and figuring out whether they can move from the elevator care space to this space and take care of the nonelderly adult who is need help is exciting and it was a joy to which tour the facility and a joy to help in the little legislative ways we can. i hope this works limp i hope

you are down for doing more. thanks, everybody. [applause] sdwroo okay. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! okay. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! >> 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. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪]

>> you know, i remember when i was a teenager, they did i think it was on the grammys, boss scags narrated the san francisco scene and they did a spot on it and how it's evolved and convergence of multi culture and the emergence of gay community, lgbtq, it was not even calleat