[telephone ringing] - adult protective services. good evening. michael speaking. - if you are worried about your next-door neighbor, worried about your aunt or your mother, you can call adult protective services regardless of where you are in the nation and say, "i am worried for these reasons." - have people tried to help her with this before? - we can't be afraid to make that phone call to social services or to law enforcement to report alleged abuse, because better to err on the side of caution and make that report and protect somebody and allow them to live a life of dignity than to bury our head in the sand and pretend that nothing is happening. - 10-4. - joining us now is marie-therese connolly, an advocate for elders and a leading scholar in elder abuse issues. she's the director of lifelong justice, and in 2011, she received an award from the macarthur foundation, an award commonly called a genius grant. welcome and congratulations. - thank you so much. - i should point out that you are commonly called "m.t.," so that's what we're gonna ca

that right now typical goes through the department of aging and human services and adult and protective services and other stakeholders, to identify, so if my case manager is working with me on that, what is the one place i could call to make it simpler? right now, i think that tends to be us and we can do our best to triage that out. but that is one focal area that we're working on and also working more closely with the department of building inspection and other city agencies around collaboration. in addition, to the task force, gillian is going to talk about the specific peer-based services that we offer, but we really ramped up in last two years on looking at different approaches. so while we don't provide direct clinical services and by that i mean, one-on-one visit with a counselor or therapist or what not. we have really moved in field of peer-based services and as gillan will talk about, we have a peer response team through the community behavioral service and that we have five peer responders who work as part of that, who have also experienced hoarding challenges themselves. an

i have gone to the active adult protective services. to no avail. nothing happened. i went to san francisco women against rape. to no avail. nothing has happened. i've got to legal help for the elder and they said they don't take cat cases like mine. there am i to go to stop the harassment, to stop the abuse, to stop being my rights being taken away, and i am here asking you for help. >> thank you. next >> this bill sci you. yesterday outside of our negotiations and one president roxanne sanchez broke it down like this: our chief negotiator tom harkin intentionally created the conditions for strike by surface bargaining a technique designed not to make progress. use the strikes create a backlash against the workers. this negotiation style is not welcome in the bay area and to hold that ransom the public commuters, and workers without pay is unconscionable. as you well know on july 5 bar unions return to work to spend 30 days mediated negotiations and to avoid further disruptions of park service but now more than halfway into this contract extension it has become clea

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