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

is the programmatic disability southwest have. heard of the aging. and disability centers before? this is new in the fact that we're working collaboratively. with eight different organizations. providing services. to 12 sights. throughout san francisco. that is information assistance. and referral. in the previous model. there are many staff spread out. the challenge was. we had the spread out resources. we had all of these locations. but really. the staff were. let's say for example. they were at one location. every tuesday from 1 to 5. but that was it. it became challenging for people. that was the closest site to them. but they couldn't make the time. so with this model and site. i will list them soon. they are open five days a week. except for one site. they are closed on wednesday's. and the sites that are working collaboration in the aging and disability resource center. is the richmond senior center. monday. activity center. out of the ocean. merced. and engel wood single center. open house. which is located at the lgbt community center. tool works. senior connections. 30th

susan said more support would protect people with disabilities and their children. >> parents with disabilities aren't going to go away. and people with intellectual disabilities for instance are encouraged now to have real lives and to have real relationships. and that can include intimacy. and they're going to be babies. so what we need to do is to build capacity around the country. >> this is my daughter. >> one month two months? three months? wow she's beautiful. >> these were pictures from our visits. >> does she know who you are when you're visiting her? >> yes she will wait at the door for me. >> really? >> she look through the glass window, she knew i was coming. >> what would you like people to understand about parents with disabilities? >> we're all the same, we just learn differently. we shouldn't get people taking away our child. >> alice knows she won't be getting her child back. but she hopes she will maintain a relationship with the child that she saw by chance on the street. >> we hudz and kissed and it was a happy joyful time. >> did your daughter know who you were? >> no. >> w

there are more than 4 million parents living with disabilities. a staggering 80% with intellectual for developmental disabilities have children removed from their homes. 37 states allow disability to be used as a strike against parents seeking custody, arguing it's in the best interests of the children. >> the fact that a parent has a disability does not in itself result in us seeking custody. the question is does a disability impact the parent's ability to safely parent. >> reporter: sheila of the department of children and families says the answer is not easy. do you thick thing in the current state they can evaluate parent hood. >> i think we can make improvements and the resource issue was real. we have - we have had for a long time individual supports and systems to support parents with disabilities. but they've come and gone depending on the funding. >> she admits resources are limited. and in vermont each social worker handles a workload of 17 families with multiple children. susan and others fighting for defaulty say more support would pro

and younger member have disabilities do you have staff for seniors with disabilities themselves. >> i can speak to my resource on aging. yes we do. all of the staff are reflective of the people we serve. for example. open house. that really caters to the lgbt community. they're located in the lgbt community service. and have people among their staff that identify with that population. >> thank you. >> one more [laughter]. >> just a quick comment. i know this year. when the program of free muni. people with disabilities. rolled out. your centerses. your resource centers. played an important role to getting people to understand the benefit that was out there. and to learn how to sign up for that. so i just want to thank you for that. it's been such a great program. i know the enrollment has far exceeded expectations. thank you for your good work. thank you. >> very well then. we will move onto public comment for this item. you may have -- you can just seat. first i have joy grace-- joey grace. >> good afternoon everybody. i did not hear the first. the beginning of it. but every time i g

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

technology world regardless of disability. we have trainers who specialize in working with people with disabilities. who can provide training for individuals. with visual. hearing. or physical diz abilities. participates become part of the community. and find -- in their talents. and help others. we are hoping to increase the number of people by hearing people to support. technology keeps you connected >> guardless of who you are. where you are in the world. being on the internet is the only time i do not have a disabilitied label. we hope you will join our keep us connected campaign. >> all right. thank you jennifer. so jennifer will stay here to answer questions at the end. i know. let me tell you a few other things. that are a part of this campaign. and we will take some questions. so second thing is to keep computers running. and haec sure program is supplied. on some sites. they never got funding for paper. or ink. or the headsets. so a let bit of money to make sure it's there. otherwise. people can't use the equipment or

by people with disabilities. it took place in enchanted hills camp p. which is part of the height house for the blind camp. in napa the first weekend in may. the committee through the paul lawn institute. screened about 80 films. we watch the about 20 of them. starting late friday evening to early sunday. there was a lot of popcorn. bean bags. and coffee. the longest was 75 minutes. the shortest film was three minutes. they had an interesting process. where. if we watch the film. we would stop five minutes into it. and take a vote about whether we want to go on and watch it. i have to say. for the most part. there were only two films. we said. we're done. we can't watch any more. they're well screened by the committee. and very interesting. that is really all i can tell you. it's a very interesting experience. all the people that were part of the jury were people that had some type of a disability. we chose some awards on the final day. none of which of course i can

workshop is continuing to make progress on the assessment of the angling and disability friendliness of san francisco like housing and communication information rfps that went out to bid we met the consumer advocacy and the home care the big news we're starting to work on the citywide assessment it is done every 4 years in advance of the area plan to it identified where the c a money will be i'm going to turn it over to cherlyn >> good morning, commissioners sherry deputy director of dos i mean, i'll try to be admirable in my brevity basically i'll show you a number of goals we basically give update on our we have goals that are set we give updates on the oifbdz when we do the area plan and go through and talk about things that are interesting and movement in the last year so if you have questions about any of the other objectives you've seen feel free but i'll highlight a few things goal number one is improved quality of life and first objective under that one organization is about our health pro tem's and risk prospective services i'll highlight the fact we're funding two evidence

. >>> disability showdown. this man, suing more than 100 small business owners for alleged violations of the disabilities act. but is he getting rich off being disabled? tonight, the business owners fighting back. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. we begin with breaking news from texas, a deadly brawl between rival gangs, escalating to a fierce gun battle. at least nine people of dead. it ended in this parking lot. you can see the motorcycles still parked there. you can see the police tape criss-crossing the area. aditi roy has the late-breaking details. >> reporter: tonight, gunfire erupts in broad daylight at a waco, texas, restaurant, killing nine people and injuring several others. 15 others. >> i just got a call from a passer bye, they were going to twin peaks they shot they heard a gunshot. >> reporter: police say the shots rang out shortly after noon. when rival motorcycle gangs got into an argument inside the restaurant that quickly spilled into the parking lot and

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

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

or a lot of disabled people cannot read. will you please explain to us a little bit more about this program on the bridge main library please? >> we don't respond to public comments. i encourage you to speak with mrs. lay during the break. is there any other public comment on this item? then >> is the captioning going? great. thank you. all right. the next item on our agenda is innovation and communication. for people who need asl interpreters. where ever they need. interpreting. i would like to welcome susan morgan. hi. >> so my name is susan morgan. we work with language communication. we're a provider of american sign language. so today. we're here to talk about our video remote interpreting product. so i have got a slide show presentation. perfect. it's up on the screen now. just to kind of go through. what is video remote interpreting. we call it on demand service. when you need it. it will be available to you. there may be a hold time. when speaking through an interpreter. but it's connected to a sign language. they ar

stephanie a shop speed up and work wore conner house incorporated they serve formally homeless and disabled population i myself anal a recipient of the safety net and tremendously grateful to the sfifblg i presently reside in a hotel and work in a support services hotel i'm here speaking no support of the automatic cola increase and as employer employee one of the nonprofits the income is very tight and i also train individuals in coming out to a job they're looking to get promoted and i'm training individual that formally homelessness it is hard decision for them to make whether to leave disabled getting subsidized into the working light so they can afford to live here in san francisco it is you know i'm just speaking in support of the cola every bit helps individuals that i'm representing at the conner house and training thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm elizabeth alexander an nonprofit working and here with the local 10 to one as nonprofit workers we what i was seeing in the presentation i couldn't help thinking why are not not talking about the workers delivering those services they fit

id to talk about the need for eviction protection a 73-year-old being evicted with disabilities she'd 12k5b8gd but i'm sense this is we're seeing more people with disabilities and seniors pushed into homelessness that's why i'm asking about seniors no poverty during the daytime process. >> uh-huh. >> thank you. >> schooe. >> thank you chair hi my question around family housing - homeless families and it is great you were able to get funding from the state and service to the homeless families and some additional hours i'm occurs i guess i'm not getting a since of what is the magnitude of the issue here of families in terms of homeless families. >> what would be some - what do we need to fix it h s a approach we look at data that is different from the school district for example we've seen reports over 3 thousand kids in the school district are homeless the definition that they use is much different from what we and hud uses the federal housing development many kids are under housed and sro's and conditions that are unstable we're that looking at lacking a night time addresses that's wh

. >>> next, disabled by the government. how our laws keep people with disabilities from saving for their own futures. why is there a penalty on earning? >>> later, an ivy league education without the ivy covered laws. >> i felt it was ridiculous how much money you had to pay to live in d.c. and study there. so minerva was also much cheap person. >> can a radical experiment in higher ed be the uncampus of the future? and hot on "america tonight's" website they defended u.s. forces in afghanistan but how are they being repaid in america? that's at aljazeera.com/americatonight. >> on hard earned, what would you do? >> the army is the last resort but i will do anything necessary for my family... >> when you're running out of choices... >> maybe i should become a nun... do nuns smoke? >> and your back's against the wall... >> i have a problem... i don't speak english... >> hard earned pride... hard earned respect... hard earned future... a real look at the american dream hard earned only on al jazeera america >> part of our mont

training individual that formally homelessness it is hard decision for them to make whether to leave disabled getting subsidized into the working light so they can afford to live here in san francisco it is you know i'm just speaking in support of the cola every bit helps individuals that i'm representing at the conner house and training thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm elizabeth alexander an nonprofit working and here with the local 10 to one as nonprofit workers we what i was seeing in the presentation i couldn't help thinking why are not not talking about the workers delivering those services they fit into the low wage workers if your making 13 or 1250 an hour is not a different experience in an a nonprofit or anything else in the economy it is difficult to get but we have to make that commitment you could take 10 thousand people from the lowest rages and move them into the middle just by property line funding a cola people will have those increases year by year and so the most of my coworkers earner between telephone 25 and $25 an hour on the high ends so when we're looking at the 2 hund

. >>> next, disabled by the government. how our laws keep people with disabilities from saving for their own futures. why is there a penalty on earning? >>> later, an ivy league education without the ivy covered laws. >> i felt it was ridiculous how much money you had to pay to live in d.c. and study there. so minerva was also much cheap person. >> can a radical experiment in higher ed be the uncampus of the future? and hot on "america tonight's" website they defended u.s. forces in afghanistan but how are they being repaid in america? that's at aljazeera.com/americatonight. >> in our fast forward segment closing the pay gap for a special group of workers, not women as you mites expect but disabled workers. whether they're able to earn what they're worth, as one woman explains. to sheila macvicar. >> from an early age sarah wolf has been defying expectations. sarah was born with down syndrome. >> what do you want people to know about you? >> i'm a fit person, i like to know that people have a good heart. >> sarah has colleg

i know some guys that are on disability that do not need disability.hey have a lot of money their income is good. you know, there needs to be some fairness, is what i am saying. host: thank you for calling from texas. a look at the v.a. headquarters just around the corner from the white house here in washington d.c. john in north carolina has the stre this tweet -- a medical program run by bureaucrats is inefficient and broken -- astonishing. officer acquitted in fatal shooting -- more than 120 shots were fired when they gunned down that couple in 2012. next to that, a lengthy piece from "washington post" on those who they call those whose work is never done -- the capital shadow army. we have divided our lines a little differently. andrew is joining us on our line for veterans. caller: hello, steve. i'm a veteran -- a combat veteran from vietnam, and i am 100% disabled. i have been in the v.a. system since 1960 eight. i lived in florida, and right now i live in messages. i would like to give a heads up to the v.a. health care system in boston. i belon

of it maybe the income respect insurance that one can take out from their job when so if i were disabled and to supplement my income with the others pissy think there's probably changes let me look into that and report next month. >> thank you very much any questions or comments for diane from the public thank you very much. next i am the long term care coordinating council. >> well good morning directors i'm from dos to the coordinating council our last meeting was april 9th just a couple workshop things one they're continuing to talk about the constituent events held in late fall and the focus on acknowledging and disability friendly san francisco so one the goals of the group to have action items come out of the the event they've been break out cigarettes with a group identifying action items to act on moving forward and details will follow as their developed the finance and policy committee is continuing work on a study to identify the upper important they're looking at income perimeters and have those needs met that population also the council has decided this body will be the group

when we know many of the deaths are young teens and young kids, but also people with disabilities and seniors? >>well, i think comparing the new york experience, the safe routes for seniors and senior safety zones down by new york city d.o.t. is a terrific program and shown to reduce crashes, but that program was put in place several years before new york made the commitment to vision zero. so we made that vision zero commitment and mapped our high-injury network first. so we kind of have -- i don't mean this to be a pun, but we have a roadmap where we need to make our investment and that collision data encompasses all the vulnerable users of the road. it's very clear from the crash statistics that people with disabilities and elderly and younger populations are especially at-risk for traffic deaths and injuries and it's an important fact to remember as john comes up with presenting the education strategy is so important. >> i just want to add to that, the san francisco department of health were in communication with mta when we were developing a grant application around safe streets