milos wheels won't make disability -- meals on wheels won't mace disability accommodations to deliver to my home and i don't have a ramp because there's no law that requires my landlord to put one in. and i have asked meals on wheels to leave my groceries outside of the gate and they won't do it. i've had to talk with multiple supervisors and they still refuse, even if i sign a waiver to relin wish them of liability. and community living fund which is set up by the human services agency to support people in my situation and make sure that we stay out of institutions and off the streets are incredibly underfunded and understaffed. we only have one occupational therapist for over 50 clients and i have been waiting over six months to see them just to get wheelchair batteries. independent living resource center and senior disability action, likewise, they share the same deficits of services, very hard to get durable medical equipment. and also it's hard to get housing help from either of those organizations. and not only that but i can't even volunteer from my home to help other disabled

i am director of center for american progress disability justice initiative which is the first disability think tank inside any national progressive organization in washington dc so thrilled to be launching this since last week. at the same time as the americans with disabilities act. when folks talk about this administration and disability, the inevitable thing i get asked about and i get asked this question once a week, is the president making fun of the reporter and how horrific that was and how upset we should be. i'm here to tell you that is nothing new. 57 million people with disabilities get mocked and treated less than human on a regular basis. it has gotten too much attention and because people focus on that they don't focus on the horrible policies implement it by this administration that are decimating people with disabilities. when we talk about people with disabilities i want to be clear we are talking one in 5 americans. in this case one in 5 at least on the stage. i walk into the room is a little person, you can tell i have a disability. we are talking -- 10 of you in this

in terms of seniors and people with disabilities. i think what's important to point out is that it is something that touches almost everybody. as you can see, every single department within our agency is working on access for seniors and people with disabilities, and this just shows you a few pictures of some of the things that are going on. in terms of my department, i'm part of taxi and accessible services, the accessible services division, and we have a number of components. just to start with our paratransit program, we provide door to door services for people with disabilities who are unable to use the muni system. and what i think is interesting there is 77% of those clients or customers that are using paratransit are seniors 65 or older, and in the category the that can't use the fixed route system. you can see there's some of the things that they do, both the contracting, the customer service, the eligibility process. we completed almost 800,000 trips, both in 2017 and again in 2018. many seniors especially really enjoy being

americans who have disabilities. so in this case, one in five on this stage is obviously me. i walk into the room, you can tell i have a disability. that also means at least 10 of you in this room, if not more. we are using the a.b.a. definition, very broad, and purposefully broad. one that includes about 57 million americans in this country. one that includes people with sickle cell anemia, people with depression, learning disabilities, people with crohn's, chronic fatigue, depression, anxiety. this is not just folks using wheelchairs. we are including the autistic community, the blind community, the deaf community. and we have seen repeated policies from this administration and out of this congress that are decimating the rights of these individuals. i would make the argument that the affordable care act, specifically the protections around pre-existing conditions, are the most important civil rights for people with disabilities since the passage of the ada in 1990. it allowed people with disabilities for the first

with disabilities, adult caregivers of parents with disabilities, who have not felt the onslaught of this administration and its policies. judge donald: rebecca, we are a nation of dual sovereigns. we have the federal sovereign and state sovereign. some of the issues that you raised -- are some of those within the responsibility of the state sovereigns? you have talked about the school to prison pipeline. yes, we have federal laws and guidelines that impact education, but there is certainly a role for states and county municipalities. so you are not attributing all these things to the federal government? rebecca: absolutely not. particularly around the issues with attacks on the americans with disabilities act, one of the things we continue to hear, particularly in the legal field, is there is a roving band of disabled people doing drive-by lawsuits, specifically driving by any business they find not acceptable and filing a lawsuit. this is a great opportunity for state engagement on an issue. what we have determined in doing the research is that there are only a small number of lawy

significantly hits families against disabled people. and we see it for what it is. >> i think continuing to fight for the preservation of title iii of the americans with disabilities act is one of the most important things we can be doing right now. we saw last year a bill passed the house which would say that , require that institutes that are found in violation of the law, a law that is 28 years old , have time to make substantial progress because, become accessible for people with disabilities. you had 20 years to make your business successful and substantial progress is not defined anywhere in the statute that was passed by the house.this fundamentally means just about anything and thankfully, senator duckworth and 41 other members of the u.s. senate pulled together a letter saying they would not support that bill coming over to the senate . we are continuing to see on the education front as well, but rollback of the data collection around the disproportionality of discipline procedures and identification discipline. and suspensions

and one of which are children with disabilities. and so our vision in establishing the request for proposal is to achieve these four big goals. number one, children and youth are supported by nurturing families and communities. number two, children and youth are physically and emotionally healthy. number three, children and youth are ready to learn and to succeed in school. and, number four, children and youth are ready for college, work and productive adulthood. through the request for proposal we ended up funding 300 -- yeah, 300 applications for the total amount of $76 million per year for up to five years. it is a significant amount of money and we believe that through these allocations and through this funding that we will be able to meet those needs and achieve those goals that i had previously mentioned. i want to take the next couple of slides to drill a little bit deeper into our c.b.o.s that we believe are serving our children with dis disabilities. this is not an inclusive list. this was gathered by our data team that wen

or disability service providers in a particular area. and all of these are considered when determining which neighborhood to look at first. and we would then do a process of data collection analysis. so combining the collision data that we have shared in the previous presentation but also collecting additional information. to nearby and approximate to these locations what are the speeds and the volumes looking like to capture a complete picture of what is going on in this neighborhood. and going into the community and working in direct communication with certain groups using workshops, using stakeholder interviews to really discuss with people as i have mentioned previously what they to see in the neighborhood. so maybe there's some things that we have missed and intersections that people avoid all together that are nonetheless important to look at. and we then have a draft proposal to bring back to the community and including the larger broader community bringing together open houses and just continuing to reach out to a lot of the same

we have parking permits for people with disabilities.russia, he found a lot of people did not respect those permits and proceeded to park anyway. the list goes on and on. amy: i want to go to your film that you make him a clip from your short film "don't look down on me" about living as a little person in new york city. it is featured in "all for one." >> it deals with a thoughtless way that s some people treat me. even taking pictures like i am some tourist attraction. >> how is the weather down there? >> hey, shortstop, smiled for the camera. >> you see e somee whwho is differerent, think about what pt of their day do you want to be. amy: that is john novak in his film "don't look down on me." it is very painful as you are there in a subway people are mocking you. is that typical? >> it varies over day today. over time when i first moved to the city, i was very new and this is something that was very concentrated was focusing -- it happened basically on a d daily basis. i ththink as time goes on, i've got a little more used to it. a li

prio pritoriza tirn tool. >> -- disability prioritization tool. turning over to mark. >> good morning, i'm happy to be here this morning to discuss with you the natural extension of what megan just presented which is an infrastructure program that is largely the result of the transit analysis that was conducted to date and looking at collisions involving seniors and those with disabilities. so san francisco, we have several initiatives and we discussed a lot today about our vision zero program which is largely focused on this high injury network and has had tremendous success in recent years. it's a data driven process and it focuses on arterial and collector streets, the larger streets in san francisco. we have a very different program which is our residential traffic calming program. and you submit an application and you say that there's a feeding problem on your street and we take a look. if we find that there is indeed a speeding program we recommend a speed hump, but for many years we have looked to bridge the gap between vision zero and our

specifically seniors and people with disabilities. together with the vision zero coalition, we brought this accessibility issue to the livable streets division and we really appreciate their openness into working with us to find solutions to these issues. we organized a three hour charrette to explore new ways to design protective bike lanes that are safe and accessible for all pedestrians. we made it clear the issue was not about pedestrians versus cyclists. we were confident that safe bike lanes could work for people walking. we talked about universal design and how making a bike design that accommodate seniors and disabilities isn't about designing for a special interest group. is about building streets that work for everyone. it was a success. we had 50 attendees including oakland dot staff. some of the next steps that we will be working on is putting together a toolkit that outlines the design recommendations that came out of this charrette to provide any feedback to anyone interested all over the world. walk san francisco and th

what you have here is a picture from the crippled and disabled -- the institute for crippled and disableden in new york. this was actually -- for psychological injuries. so you're talking about a large number of men who come away from the war if not as amputees, people who end up with permanent disabilities as a result, whether it be a limp or, you know, some persistent pain in a part of their body as a result. you have here images from these soldiers who are rehabilitating after the war. the american government does make efforts, through acts in 1917 and 1918, to address veterans. this is the first time that the american government really does that on this level. there were fears that veterans might, one, be a permanent drag economically on the u.s. government. two, would they be able to reintegrate into an economy. there was a severe recession after the war. roughly in april of 1919, 40% of veterans are unemployed. so, you know, there is also worries about them bringing back european decadence. i won't go into what that meant but you can kind of imagine. and that there were fears that t

so first, i'll start with the senior and disability work group. so this group forms in -- formed in 2016, and ad vocates from several departments came together and decided we needed to do something. it wasn't okay that two was killed. we knew that market was a high injury corridor. so we quickly formed this group, and we actually rallied together and made some changes. we were able to get leading pedestrian intervals on market street after we joined together. we got better turn restriction signage because we know on the safer market street project there are a lot of turn restrictions, and is it ae confusing -- and it's confusing, and we were also involved in the city driver training, so we've been getting a lot of good things accomplished together. the city has been putting in a lot of protected bike lanes, which is really good, but there are a lot of consequences, and so we got a group together to talk about this. basically, when you have protected bike lanes against the curb, you lose access to the curb, so folks who used to pull up to the curb

and then, the addition of that additional clause about the business and disability community. you're welcome. public comment. >> yes. we have one request for public comment, at this point, from lawrence carter long, disability rights education and defense fund. >> good evening. >> good evening. >> how are you? thank you for taking my comment. i hadn't actually planned to speak, but these issues seemed to be rising, so i appreciate the opportunity to give some insights. a month ago, i didn't think about straws. i don't use straws. i send them back every time they're offered to me, but as the communications director of a national disability rights organization, i started getting phone calls, both from consumers, from businesses, from news organizations about these proposed bans that are rolling out across the kroo and indeed internationally, and i think there's a lot that san francisco can learn from the mistakes that have been made in other cities. for example, seattle. first, it proposed the ban a year ago. they found that it was unworkable -- ten years ago. i'm sorry. ten yea

they have different disabilities ranging from hearing loss to others.sals before the proms where they will be performing this composition. everything has to be spot on. one man keeping an eye on rehearsal is alexander campkin. he has used his experience of living with multiple sclerosis to composer this piece. when i was sitting on the addition panel, all of my preconceptions were smashed to the ground when i realise we have a wealth of talent and i could write music as virtuosic and difficult as i wanted. but one consideration he had to make was to incorporate an electronic instrument. you can do and i'll optic with very little movement. this instrument has helped charter to reconnect with music after she lost the ability to play piano when she was 12. can i have a go? of course. let's hope that people with disabilities are normal part of an orchestra and people who run them are just happy to adapt. this will be the group ‘s first major performance and will be held in a less formal setting with a relaxed attitude to movement and noise. it is hoped it w

people with disabilities, the group that's probably the largest are people with developmental disabilities. they're seven times more likely to be harassed because, in a way, they're people that have gotten tssage,be gperson, wt ot you to do," and they're not given sexual education because people don't think of them as sexual or it's too -- people are too uncomfortable for that. >> how do we make a change in the workplace? there are so many women and men that this happens every single day, and we don't feel that our employer has our back and we don't feel protected, and we feel that when we do speak up, we need all this evidence. something has to give because what we have is just not - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. visit right now or call during business hours. and accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. - ( phone ringing ) - get details on this state program visit right now or call during business hours. >> now let's get back to our town-hall discussion with a deeper lo

senior and disability action. and we also want to recognize commissioner andrea shorter also with us today. so -- [cheering] [applause] with that, we're going to be closing with carmen and we're going to get the big picture together. >> thank you, everybody, for coming. please sign up for the w challenge. you don't haves to be a woman to sign up for the w challenge. all you have to do is pledge to vote. get one more woman to register to vote and come with you to the polls. thank you so much. >> president serina: good afternoon and welcome to the matinee addition on aging and adult services. will they please take the call of both? [roll call] >> at this time we ask that you silence all electronics. >> president serina: made a -- may i have a motion to approve the agenda? >> moved. >> president serina: thank you. all in favour? thank you. motion carried. may i have a motion to approve the june 20th, 2018 meeting minutes? >> so moved. >> second. >> prent

you see i have a disability and might disability is in my interfaith world. other kids could ride bicycles. they said i should have the talent to my challenge was to learn english but more and more i was always thinking i need to find it. an icebound interfaith and i found the similarities between the koran and the bible maybe that's the focus of my life. because of that i have the chance to read the torah and the bible. i started posting about the torah and the bible and one time when you do this on my new start feeling like i need to do something in daily work. i really need to make an impact and when i decided you know christians who live in yemen i was having dialogue with them and i could do some work with them but i couldn't really find jewish. they exist in yemen. >> host: but there are very few. >> guest: very few but they are afraid of other lies part of the extreme lives all the people attack them. so yemeni in their culture they are working a lot but extreme groups are allowed a voice and unfortunately the jews needed to hide their faces and not to