as a background on the homeless outreach team also known as the hot team, it is the department of public health's main outreach program consisting of city civil service employees, nonprofit contractors. people from outreach bring homeless persons with health, mental health, and substance abuse issues into dph's emergency stabilization rooms and other temporary settings and case management to link them with the appropriate treatment and housing opportunities. an expanded homeless outreach team will be better poised to address the most difficult and chronically homeless individuals who are in a need of complex care management and will be able to better respond to neighborhood needs for short-term localized interventions. the hot team focuses their efforts on areas of the city which have the highest need and the largest concentration of individuals living on the streets. many of the hot team members have clinical and case management experience. some are formerly homeless and all have shown a great com pence it to compel individuals living on the streets to accept treatment, services and hou

. >> reporter: hot stands for homeless outreach team. the workers are the men and women on the front lines 24-7 getting homeless off the street and in permanent housing with health care. for the outreach team the struggles of life on the streets are familiar. many were once homeless themselves. >> when we have people on the team that can realty to that. i have been through this. i know what it's like. >> reporter: he helped launch the program in 2004. under san francisco's 10-year plan to abolish homelessness. over the years, hot has seen tremendous accomplishments, such as getting 1700 homeless a place of their own and helping more than 700 access social security benefits and medical. >> from a safety perspective, we have to work hard at having everyone of our citizens into safe and dignified settings. >> reporter: there is more work ahead. in 2013, more than 6,000 homeless in the city. mark farrell says san francisco must in the next decade do even more. we have done a ton but it is a stubborn and persistent issue. we need to continue t

senior departments on the street, police, fire, health human services, we had a homeless outreach team with the police department that also got to know people on the street, ems -- you are the ems service, it isn't our progress in 2000 years. it's a prodowries in 2006, [speaker not understood], that was a year and a half of implementation. i think that that vision around homeless outreach has really eroded over time for a myriad reasons. funding, prioritization of case management, in-housing rather than on the street. there are a lot of reasons. we need to refocus and bevan said this. on getting back to that model that was very successful for a number of years -- >> mr. rohr, so, we talk about thing -- >> we haven't followed that bath the last number of years. mr. dufty talked about the education of the workforce. you were talking about the training and education of the peaedv l going to do the outreach. he talked about the people having the coordination, the immediacy of having something to offer someone which make imminent common sense because you want to be able to get -- [speaker n

. >> hot stants for homeless outreach team. sents the people and getting the homeless off the streets into housing with health care. for the team, the struggles of life on the streets are familiar. many were once homeless themselves. >> when we have people on the team who can relate to that and say i have been through this. i know what it is like. >> and the one doctor helped to launch the program to apolish homelessness. and he has seen accomplishments like getting more than 1700 homeless a place of their own and helping more than 700 access social security benefits and medcal. >> i think we have to work hard at having every one of our citizens into safe housing. >> there is more work ahead n 2013, 6000 homeless in the city. and the supervisor says that san francisco must in the next decade do more. >> woo very done a ton as a city. it is a persistent issue. >> we need to address it. >> and legislation was introduced to double the team to 30 members. >> 3000 individuals on the streets and we have 2 to 3 people trying to reach t

needed us to respond to areas of need for homeless individuals -- >> quick question because we talked about this earlier. the mobile outreach versus the hot time. ~ team. >> yes. let me talk a little bit how we're looking at the mobile crisis team. many of these services, this is part of our affordable care act and health care reform. we to look at including a

needed us to respond to areas of need for homeless individuals -- >> quick question because we talked about this earlier. the mobile outreach versus the hot time. ~ team. >> yes. let me talk a little bit how we're looking at the mobile crisis team. many of these services, this is part of our affordable care act and health care reform. we to look at including a lot of our clinical services under one area. we're calling that the san francisco health network and we have another division called public health difficult have i. mobile crisis was set up many, many years ago under the single aspect of new york. we reorganized that area to become a behavioral health system. we have 24-hour teams. one of the directions i've given to our teams, we have a children's crisis team, mobile crisis, a community response team that goes out to violent issues, and two of those teams are 24 hours. so, we were hoping to do is merge mobile crisis -- see, we have a 24-hour team with expert in different areas. and try to leverage our 24 services are very expensive. for every person you have on the team, you have to think about the 24-hour position, and that equals to about 5 p

intelligence, the 100,000 homes campaign encourages teams of volunteers and outreach workers to spend three nights looking for and interviewing the homelesseams in nashville as they headed out at 3:00 in the morning, searching in small patches of woods, under highway overpasses, and in caves where the homeless camp. >> will: hey, sorry to wake you. my name's will. >> cooper: those who agreed to answer a series of survey questions would get a free bus pass in return. >> will: how many times have you been to the emergency room in the past three months? >> about five times. >> cooper: the questions are mainly about their health. >> hiv or aids? >> liver disease, cirrhosis? >> history of stroke or heat exhaustion? >> cooper: the information is used to decide who gets apartments first by giving priority to those at greatest risk of dying on the streets. and the risk is very real. >> ♪ rocky top you will always be ♪ home to me... >> cooper: on the steps of this church, a man froze to death last year, one of 52 homeless people who died in the city. not everything the homeless told the survey teams was accurate. we checked and found some discrepa

homelessness. the sf pot team has gone 24/7. there have been positive things that have resulted from it. there are 15 outreach staff and i think 30 plus case managers that are there. but when you look at this very difficult population that's on our street, people that are dual and triplely diagnosed, we have people that are oftentimes at a peer level responding to this person that's in real crisis. and i think that there is agreement with trent and barbara and myself that for s.f. pot that if we wanted to be successful, we need to up lift the clinical component. we probably need more psychiatric social workers leading the peer based teams to be able to deal with these situations and then i think that, you know, i met with mobile crisis last week. i think at the high a few years back they were up to 15. i think they're down to 9 right now, but i think that, you know, that notion of what's the interface between mobile crisis and hot would be a good area for discussion because that's what people are looking for. they're looking to be able to reach out. and the difficulty is just today i ran the numbers on our sh

homeless. the other teams in the league pay a fee to play against this team and against the other teams an the proceeds from those teams go towards the outreachgram. >> let me switch gears on you because i was getting e-mails and facebook posts from friends out in seattle. a very big day there? >> they are a huge soccer town there but the seahawks rule that town and after winning the super bowl, they got a heroes' welcome back. 70,000 fans they estimate came out in the streets or in the stadium when the team welcomed there today. get this. i saw this. >> this doesn't -- it doesn't always rain in seattle? >> that's right. 51,000 students in seattle. 25% of them called in sick today, but 596 teachers also called in sick today. i think they are out there in the crowd somewhere. >> i bet it's okay? >> it's okay. congratulations to the seahawks. >> coming up, our picture of the day, plus what a feeling, the new bionic hand that actually restores the sense of touch. >>> things are looking better along the eastern snee board. >>> great lakes, that's moving toward the northeast. we will keep you informed on this. >> that's a look at the national weat