i am rabbi eric weiss and honored to be your host this morning. across our country, faith communities have a different way of responding to life with all the things that happen in the world currently, things that happen in a school shooting, ou we want to invite into a conversation about how the the way the things are going these ways. here is julie sacks taller who is a senior organizer with the religious action center of reformed judaism and karen stiller for the jewish community relations council based here in san francisco. >>> why don't we jump in and talk a little about rale le what is your organizations do and then we can funnel that conversation into the ways in which you expressed your leadership in responding to these kinds of events that are happening interworld around us. >> well, the religious action center is the social justice, you could say, department or man niv this station of the reformed movement and it is a national organization, religious center or the raak has been around for a long time and many are familiar with it, hopefu

i'm rabbi eric weiss and honored to to be your host this morning. our dear mayor of the city and county of san francisco has died. we would like to concerned our condolences to his family and dear ones and to the city and county of san francisco. we would like to talk with sher rein mcstat ten, the director and ramona davies of the committee with the city and county of san francisco. welcome. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> our country and every municipality is looking at aging and all the ways of which the values of the country and a state and a local exercise those values into services and understandings of the way that people age and the kinds of services they need. i am wondering if you can give us a short history of what the department of aging and adult services is here. >> certainly. thank you. so san francisco has a long history of providing services for older adults and adults with disabilities and i thank we're a leader in that. the department has been around for a long time, but really came together with a lot of services in 2000. our bigg