it's a child with a disability, not a disabled child.nd i think that's really important because it does help all of us think about the whole person, and their whole identity not just the piece that might be limiting for that person. very good. and, go ahead, i know, quinn, you've done a lot of research on this, what else have you learned? i was more focused on the societal aspect. and it's like... there is a natural, we've noticed, there's a natural reaction of fear when it comes to people who... just don't really understand people with disabilites. so... what do you guys think would be the most effective way to, i guess, dispatch with the situation to educate because... we wouldn't want people getting defensive. i think that people are afraid because they don't want to do the wrong thing. and instead of doing the wrong they don't do anything. but i would say that rather than not do anything, that's saying very loudly... that you're rejecting the person, or that's very loudly the wrong thing to do. i would say that it's better to do what

so pain is a feature of disability, but pain is not a necessary component of disability. so if i were to say 400,000 people another person might say, well, that's that's 400,000 that only encompasses pain as a significant feature of disability. but many other people are on disability who experience pain but they're not deemed to be disabled because of their pain. do you see what i mean? so the question is really a difficult one to answer specifically. the question of whether people are there because of illegitimate reasons is also difficult because, and this cults to the heart pain is -- this cuts to the heart pain is not something that is ultimately measured. pain is not like blood pressure it's not like temperature. i can't tell -- i can tell if you have a fever i can tell if you have low blood pressure or high blood pressure. they're vital signs that are easily detected. pain is not one of them. the degree of pain you're experiencing is highly subjective, it's very personal. you and i may be experiencing the same pain but you may tolerate it differently than i do. and

working with people with disabilities. an overview of sf homeless outreach teams four services lines. a presentation on services that sf hot provides to people with physical mental health and cognitive disabilities on some of the issues and challenges. presentation by brenda. break. no. 8. information san francisco municipal transportation agency, muni, will give an update on a project called muni forward that includes services charges to limited lines, stops and signage. presentation by sean den key. public comment is welcome. agenda item no. 9. report from the director on the mayor's office of disability. agenda item 106789 public comment. items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. agenda item no. 11. correspondence. agenda item 12. discussion item. council member comments and announcements. agenda item 13. adjourn. thank you, at this time i would like to make a motion to amend the agenda. a break from after item no. 6, after ms. zarda's presentation. >> sec

disabilities. that lawsuit finally concluded with an order to close that institution. the condition in that institution, like many all over the country, was really inadequate. the services were poor the conditions people lived in were poor. it really was not a way to segregate and put people with intellectual and developmental disabilities away from your community. so it finally closed in 1991. people moved spot community, into small homes throughout washington, d.c. unfortunately the quality never met standards in that court order and subsequent sellingment agreements that were crafted, so the case never ended. now it's 39 years old. it is the oldest class action in the united states but we're happy to say that after many years of really hard work that we are approaching the end of the case. we've met 66 out of 70 exit criteria. and the real story about that is that really people's lives we're supporting throughout the city have really improved in a substantial way and there's just been significan

>> mayor's disability council >> please stand by... >> >> >> mayor's disability council >> please stand by... >> >> >> >> good afternoon and welcome, everyone to the mayor's disability council meeting here in city hall in room 400 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.. my name is denise senhaux. i will be begin with opening remarks with council member wong. good afternoon, welcome to the mayor's disability council this friday, april 17, 2015, in room 400 of san francisco city hall. city hall is accessible to persons with wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. wheel chair access is provided at the grove, van ness and mccallister streets and wheelchair entrance is provided via a wheelchair lift. assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. our agendas are also available in large print and braille. please ask staff for any additional assistance. to prevent electronic interferes with this room's sound system and for everyone's ability to focus on the presentation, please silence all mobile phones and pda's. your cooperation is a

we met with the mayor's office on disability and the mayor's disability on council were in attendance as well and members of the public. these were some of the highlights from that meeting. we had a presentation by brenda mass skin and dr. nerven from the homeless outreach team which we usually abbreviate as the hot team. the hot team is a program with the department of public health. the hot teams role is to assist people with disabilities during a disaster. brenda and dr. neville started to address the hot teams mission and by reconstructing service. the hot team is a group who would address everything about the homeless including medical intervention, when someone was ill on the streets. intervention case management and transportation to shelters and health care and transition to supportive housing to stabilization rooms. under the new reconstruction, the hot team now focuses on the highest users of emergency services. and the people who are the most vulnerable. this is only a subset of the homeless population as a whole. important to keep on training shelters workers to help them

and left the work force, frequently accessing their private disability benefits. for many of these people they did not necessarily think that they were going to make it, given the lack of effective treatment and they remained on private disability policies. , out of the work force for many years. starting the mid-1990's we began to see more and more effective treatments, not to cure hiv but to allow people to stabilize their health and to live long and healthy lives. and so we are now seeing a growing population of long-term hiv survivors who are approaching or in their senior years. this is a good thing that we're seeing a growing population of hiv positive people living into their senior years, we want that to happen, we want people to live long, healthy, happy lives, but it does create this issue and it is a discrete issue of a discrete population of largely gay men who went on on to private disability in the 1980's and 1990's that did not re-enter the work force and are now approaching age 65, an age they didn't necessarily think they were ever going to reach,

. >> hi, this is jessica layman from senior and disability action. can you hear me? >> yes. >> wonderful. i'm sorry i couldn't be here with you but thank you for this important discussion on this important issue. i'm sorry. the issues that i wanted to raise was about training and on going assistance with using the data portal. i think making sure things are fully accessible is a really important step but even when they are as accessible as they can be we are going to have a lot of people who aren't familiar with computers and going online and people who don't speak the language at all and are going to need some assistance. i'm trying to figure out where people can go and get assistance from either existing service providers and how will those service providers tv capacity to provide that one on one service needed and a conventions of possibilities and different places all over town where people go and get some of this assistance. part of that is having some conversation starting now about what does that look like and how to get it in place so people are ready to go t

to retain their private long-term disability insurance. while many of these individuals have lived with hiv/aids for decades they access private disability policies through their employers or individually during a time when, as many will recall, we were advised that surviving aids was not possible. it was not an option. fortunately the introduction of new hiv/aids medications in the late 1990's has in many cases improved and extended the lives of people living with hiv, people who thought that planning for a longer life was not necessary. although there seems to be no clear answer as to the life expectancy of us long-term survivors, it is clear that as my clients grow older they face loss of their private ltd policy, ltd standing for long-term disability, at age 65 and increased scrutiny which i'm seeing more often by the social security administration just prior to the ssa's set retirement ages at age 62, 66 and age 70. s a individuals living with hiv/aids lich longer lives, there will be more clients coming to hrp for representation in n

people with disabilities. i don't have that number off the top of my head, but, maybe i will find it in my phone and make an announcement later in the meeting. >> congratulations and thank you, cochair, supanich. okay. i'm sorry, it's me again. we are back now with that contact information. i guess there is going to be a march rally and meeting with legislators on wednesday may 20, 2015. it will be the 12th annual disability capitol action day at the state capitol in sacramento. rides from san francisco to sacramento from the san francisco library in the asian art museum. returning about 5:00 p.m.. call 415-546-1333. or e-mail ligia @sv action.org. once again the phone number is 415-546-1333. you need to sign up as soon as possible for a spot in a bus or wheelchair accessible van and lunch. the whole day is free. thank you, carla. through the chair, i handed you that flyer, cochair because you mentioned the issue about ssi and increases because that is one of the items that some of the disability advocates are

the disability rights advocates. the california foundation for independent living centers, the independent living resource center of san francisco, community resources for independent living and enrollment bart accessibility task force. there are other accessible features that the conversation has been dominated by the discussion of the pole. but there are other new features for this new fleet that is beneficial as well. for persons with hearing impairment, if there is a gap between cars and you are using a cane to detect an opening that you think is a doorway, but there is not a floor, there is the figures that protrude from the cars that prevent people from walking through. so if you are feeling up above for whether or not to enter that you think is a door, you will find that it is an inner car barrier. unfortunately we have had people not check the floor and have gone off our platform. to address that, we have on our platform we have tactile different tactile tiles to convey different information. at the four cent

this is a gentrification and disability issue. sf mta is favoring a highly and illegal fashion the.com community at mission bay over -- seniors and low income who use the health services and general. to add insult to injury, san francisco health department staff have gone on record that there is a parking crisis at general cutting the 33 lean to general will exacerbate general's parking crisis. all of this at a time when san francisco general hospital is under going an unprecedented expansion. why not support that expansion by keeping the service lines including for all city san franciscans. thank you. >> thank you, next we have jerry grace. >> good afternoon, everyone. we talk about the buses. there is a question and i really don't understand this. it really surprises me san francisco is changing and i wasn't surprised by this. i wonder about the 26 bus, he didn't say anything about 26 bus or 18 bus. he never said anything about 74 bus or towards the bart station on 29 bus. he never said none of those bus. he never said nothing a

people with disabilities. women, others, not willing to be out in the street in the middle of the neat -- night to get a shelter bed reservation. however many people call that day, that is lottery and you indicate which one you want to stay on. we didn't know how many people wanted beds and didn't know how many people would stay and this is a problem for us that have problems. speaking rapidly we don't have bunks. there is never an issue with someone getting assigned a top bunk k which they are not able to access. many of the clients have told me that they have been treated very well by the staff and very respectfully and it's been a big help. one of the things they did by identifying how many women wanted shelter not accessed through a live system and we opened for the first time an emergency winter shelter for women. for 25 years, the loma prieta the san francisco winter council has had a shelter that moved during the winter months. i was going to say the wet months but cold. what we are table do is the gold

and other disabilities have the latest on this website for access. if you have any questions or concerns about what you are doing please contact these ladies here. they know their stuff. they know about what's going on technologically for people with disabilities and we would like to see various features on the website. >> okay. joanna? >> thank you, it was really important to hear that people with disability and those of higher income are considered. one comment that i would hike to offer is it's great to have a portal that makes the information more centralized and great that we follow disability standards but you have to think of it in terms of language and content. you know the government speak is not a language that many of us folks are familiar with or the government processes. so i would nurnl -- encourage to you think very systematically, step one, step 2, step 3, bullet points, large font third grade reading level language. not to describe your household income in dollars, but how much money do you bringen a month before taxes. very simple t

you spoke about inclusion for students with disabilities. can you speak a little bit about screening for students that might not have a parent -- a learning disability and how can you distinction between the effects of poverty and what is a neurological cause? ms. o'halleran: one of the things we are doing with our federal preschool grant is assessments for the kids in this program. our teachers will be able to go in and take a look and see how these kids are performing on a whole host of issues, social emotional, literacy skills, and what we are hoping to learn from some of the things you just talked about, what are factors of poverty, true learning disabilities, and then how are those students improving over the year and as they enter kindergarten. ms. martin: other questions for the panel? >> hi, i am coming from the university of oklahoma. thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us on this topic. governor mcauliffe talked a lot about -- and the national conversation is folks around that -- early childhood education being

the purpose of this grant is to provide housing subsidy for seniors and adults with disabilities. this grant will be funded entirely through the county general funds. mike zaugg will do the presentation. >> good morning commissioners, executive director hinton. i am mike zaugg and a program analyst with daas. the contract is a new program and housing related program. i am sure you're away this is one of the big challenges in san francisco that we face. census data shows us that the housing challenge affects seniors those with disabilities disproportionately and this program hopes to alleviate the situation through a subsidy payment and identify seniors and younger adults with disabilities that had a recent decrease in income and but for the assistance from the program would be evicted and the rental subsidy the eviction would be avoided and stabilized and could remain in home. the range of residents in san francisco that will benefit from the program varies but in particular it is to focus on the aging disabled. these are residents currently on long-term disability policies and ar

no cuts for seniors and adults with disabilities and a 5% increase in the cost of doing business for nonprofits. as anne mentioned earlier through the scan grant there will be a constituency event probably in april, the one she was referring to. the long-term care coordinating council just put forth three names to the mayor for appointments to the council and therefore now we have three other openings on the council so any of you know anybody that is interested in being on the council please let us know and we're happy to send the application. we have a nominating committee that goes through the process of interviewing people. we did have a presentation on current legislation and we're sending support letters for several pieces of that legislation, so i have a relatively short report today. thank you. any questions? >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next we have the tacc report. is cathy here? no report. okay. case report. >> good morning commissioners, director hinton. i am linda and from the richmond district and i will give the report today. in march dave came and spoke about contrac

that might be better for people who are disabled or even become disabled for those that are delayed and kept on the street. i think that's important. >> thank you for your response and for being here today. we are going to move on to ceremonial item no. 6. in honor of former mayor's disability council cochair mdc derek zarda, we have kathy zarda, derek's mother will provide information on the memorial for saturday april 18, 2015 at the, at the independent living resource center. thank you ms. zarda for being here today in addressing the council and the public. thank you. first i would like to say good afternoon to members of the council. let's see if that works. i don't usually talk loud. so we'll see. anyway, good afternoon, and it feels that i know you all. i have heard so much about all of you. it's nice to see faces with the people that he's known and cared for for such a period of time. i know that when he made the decision to finally realize his goals of moving to taipei to marry his sweetheart, sydney. it was with mixed emotions of leaving this council and leaving his work at ind

or mental health or cognitive disability. we have clients who have had traumatic brain injury due to violence on the street or due to extreme alcohol abuse. a lot of clients with dementia a lot of seniors, a lot of clients with service animals. or there are pets and we make them become service animals so they can stay in the hotels and get permanently housed and go to the clinics. >> i think that's about it. >> thank you for presenting in council and informing us about the most vulnerable population. cochair supanich has questions. >> thank you for your presentation. i have sooner or -- some questions about the needs are inaccessible. where does someone what mobility impairness go with that physical disability? >> we would partner with transitions. they do have a, they have one hotel, it could be two hotels with elevators. so if they have a room we can ask them. >> okay. you also mentioned that you have a doctor and psych nurse practitioner and nurse that travel around. do you have a van that you use to go around? >> we have

. >>> new developments on the philadelphia mom accused of abandoning her severely disabled son in the woods. today police say nyia parler will face an attempted murder charge once she gets out of a maryland hospital. investigators believe she left her adult quadriplegic son in the woods in philly so she could hang out with her boyfriend in silver springs. the 21-year-old survived nearly a week in the rain and 30- degree temps with nothing but a bible and a blanket. tonight he's still recovering. >>> there is still no sign of the hanover man suspected of killing his wife at a dunkin' donuts. anne arundel police say patel should be considered armed and dangerous. >>> a mom going to spend 20 years behind bars after a frederick judge ruled she did not do enough to keep her husband from killing her daughter. she suspected a plea deal of first degree child abuse resulting in death. the judge recommended she spend her years in a mental health focused prison. her husband pleaded not guilty. their 21-month-old daughter anayah died last year after spending several weeks in foster care for earli

it was filed by an individual who had a learning disability who requested they be granted additional time to speak during public comment at a public meeting inform this case they reported they direct connection between their disability and that need and due to the learning disability it takes a while to communicate what they are trying to say t board did grant this accommodation. they reasonably modified their policy to grant them some additional time. we also received 77 inquiries which involved information and referral and request for ada technical assistance. out of these 99% we received from the public and 1 percent from city departments. most of these inquiries involved questions about reasonable accommodations specifically related to housing and service animals. we also received a lot of inquiries about reasonable accommodation related to employment. and for those who don't understand what a reasonable accommodation is. what it is is a change or an exception to the way we usually do something in order to afford a person with a disability an equal opportunity. if you are interes

through the thai chi program and as we know [inaudible] other leading causes for injuries and disabilities and that affect our seniors to live independently and the quality of life in their life, and so daas is very pleased to introduce this thai chi for arthritis and prevention program to our community and this program is an evaluation based program developed dr. paul lim of thai chi institute and which adopt a very -- well, they use simplified thai chi forms and slow motion to focus on prevention of arthritis clients as well as to improve the participants' physical activity level, and in this program we're happy to have the grantee self-help for the elderly to implement this project, and in this project self-help for the elderly will focus on two aspects. the first aspect will be implementing this thai chi program in the community and self help be collaborating with community partners and implement at least 10 sites in our community and to offer this thai chi program to 200 unduplicated clients and these classes will be one hour each and last about six weeks and meet a couple of times a

some people that are on social security disability cannot work. our sun has asberger's syndrome and he is 24, but he can never hold a job. governor christie: that is what it is for. what this gentleman is talking about and what i am saying is social security disability should be there for the people who need it. medicare should be there for everyone who wants to participate. my point is for those who are gaming the system, it is bankrupting the system. and we do not have enough money to pay for all of this. we agree. someone like your son, it needs to be there. that is what the program was set up for, to deal with issues like that, not to have more people going on disability then you have getting a job in this country. >> i wanted make sure that you understood. a lot of people don't understand that. my real question was on immigration. what do you think -- what would you do about all these illegal immigrants that we have in this country taking jobs away from americans who need the jobs, and were would you do about securing our borders? governor ch

prior to the individuals with disabilities education act, or the i.d.e.a., students with disabilitieseducation. ms. romo: you would not give are you down syndrome or disability like that. ms. runfola: the doctors told us he should be institutionalized which is what they did in those days, and she, being a nurse said no, that is not going to happen. mr. wendorf: students with disabilities are protected class and deserve a level of support both in instruction and another ways that go beyond the needs of their nondisabled peers. >> when it was time to go to schools, the schools were by law supposed to take the children in, but they resisted. they do not have a special ed classes. but he learned how to read and write. >> the i.d.e.a. is a federal law that ensures students with disabilities are provided a free, appropriate, public education, achieved through services catered to their specific needs. >> i.d.e.a. helps the state work with schools across arizona to make sure that we do everything we can to deliver special services to students who need them. in arizona, we serve about 129,000

many uses it to operate bart chooses not to and instead for disability initiatives. this is to address the latest codes or make some improvements. for example recently we up grated our fire alarms which is just a sounding fire alarm to a flashing fire alarm so if you are deaf or hard of hearing you are alerted that something is going wrong also. we are also working to try out a video relay system for deaf passengers so it's basically skype with an asl interpreter so if a passenger needs to communicate with a station agent and needs assistance, this is something we are trying to do. we are also making some improvements to closing the timing of the elevator closing and opening. we are also, i'm going to be replacing the floors of all the elevators. right now unfortunately they are used for other purposes besides transportation. it's an isolated, an area where people can be by themselves and people have used it for unfortunately for restroom purposes. the smell, we can't clean it out. unfortunately it's people's only access to bart. so what we are doing now is we are ma

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different typeoffs disabilities. the san francisco walk begins at 8:30 clck a.m. and follows by bands and a number of the young people speaking, but it is great way to support in a community that needs a lot of more allies like myself and community based groups like the richmond district democratic club. go to best buddies california.org. thank you the, are rest i submit >> supervisor tang >> thank you. today i'm introducing a piece of legislation that addresses a way that the puc is able to ledge receive funding thmpt seat of california we have a clean water state resolving loan fund and basically it offer as low interest finance option for waet water improvement. last year changes were made to the program where by the loan term is extended from 20 to 30 wreers and also no longer requires a loan det to senior to all other debt. some of the changes made to the program makeatize a very attractive frathe sfpuc and it will help the rate payers. the interest rates are set half of the rate of the general rate which is pre