it would rely heavily on reductions to health and human services programs, so that is the first number year, $2.50 billion in reductions on health and human services -- so that is the first number here. reductions to education. that is k-12 as well as community colleges and u.c.'s, and there are fund balances from the redevelopment agencies, and then the other half of the solutions are related to revenues. the $5.90 billion are primarily the tax measures that the governor is proposing for the ballot this november. he has indicated that if those members -- measures do not pass, he has additional trigger cuts that he will impose, which are almost entirely education cuts. we are currently working on tallying up what the impacts of these proposed reductions would be on san francisco. in the current year, and in recent years, the mayor's budget and the budget that the board has adopted as included a reserve for state reduction, and i would expect that we would include a similar reserve this year, given the uncertainty associated with this. i think the programs that are most likely to be aff

department of health and human services announced the creation of this new federal agency, and that is the administration for community living. and in her words, she said "for too long, too many americans have faced the a possible choice between moving to an institution or living at home without the long-term services and support they need." so this new administration for community living will be to helping people with disabilities, as well as seniors, to live a productive, satisfying lives. now, as you may be aware, the aging and disability population has been recognized actually at the local and state levels for quite some time now. so the mechanisms for providing support that facility community living have been really brought together into local and state agencies such as the san francisco departments the of aging and adult services that serves those populations since the year 2000. yet, at the federal level, policy developments from a community outreach, and program implementation related to aging and disability services across the nation [unintelligible] across the department of h

director, center for substance abuse prevention, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, md; jane callahan, director, national community anti-drug coalition institute, community anti-drug coalitions of america, alexandria, va; jordan burnham, mental health advocate, active minds inc., washington, dc; dr. wendy greene, assistant director of trauma and critical care and program developer, screening, brief interventions and referral to treatment program, howard university hospital, washington, dc. fran, what is the definition of behavioral health, and how do we distinguish between prevention, early intervention, and treatment within that definition? the definition for behavioral health for samhsa is we are taking the substance abuse and mental health prevention, intervention, and treatment programs, and we are encasing it within the disorder realm. so substance abuse, prevention, intervention, and treatment are exactly the same, same levels, and so is mental health. we are finding that mental health properties for prevention, especially, are very similar

protecting our social safety net is more important than ever, and in this budget i've rejected all service reductions in our health department and human service agencies. [applause] s i've included full restorationof federal cuts to programs and services that serve people with h.i.v. and aids. the loss of redevelopment has been a severe blow to our city, especially for this first street corridor. so we will invest in economic initiatives in the heart of bayview to stabilize businesses and attract new ones. [applause] we will also continue our investment in central market and especially sixth street, where the elimination of redevelopment has left a gap in services. with our community partners and including the very spirited arts community that's been so wonderful in helping us lead that effort, we'll support businesses in that sector, attract new ones, and keep the area clean and safe. we will also invest in the youth of sfsk and in their education. i will propose releasing the $6 million in rainy day funds to support our public schools, to offset the state's deep cuts to education. [applause] most importantly in this budget we are pu

they go on to write in this ruling by health and human services, religious hospitals, education institutions and other organization will be required to pay for the full cost of contraceptives including some abortion inducing drugs and sterilizations for their employees regardless of their religious convictions of the employers. the first amendment of the u.s. constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion. this freedom is transgressesed when a religious institution is required to pay for contraceptive services, include ago abortion inducing drugs and directly violate their religious convictions. providing such services should not be regarded as mandated medical care. we, the assembly of canonical orthodox bishops call on hhs, secretary sebelius and the obama administration to rescind this unjust ruling and to respect the religious freedom guaranteed all americans by the first amendment. the orthodox have begun to be confident americans. and the united voice of orthodoxy is being heard in a way that is in the opinion of this speaker to simply be long overdue. the alliance he form today

>> having spent -- >> health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius and her agency are labeled in the lawsuit. she was just heckled at georgetown's graduation last week. we called the department of health and human services. and it declined to comment. >>> residents and visitors of d.c.'s petworth neighborhood now have a mural honoring the late chuck brown to see. an artist painted an image of the godfathers of go-go on the side of the sweet mango cafe. that's at new hampshire and georgia avenues in northwest. there is one problem, though. washington city paper photographer darrell montgomery says it is a copyright violation because the mural is based on his 1992 photograph. brown died last week after battling pneumonia. funeral services are expected to happen next week, but details have not yet been finalized. >>> d.c. council member marion barry recovering in a las vegas hospital. these are pictures of him with nurses. barry told tom sherwood he developed a blood clot in his leg while waiting on a flight to nevada. the 76-year-old tweeted that he's doing better and isn't sure

department of health and human services. [music] universal counseling services as an outpatient, mental health and substance abuse treatment program. we are at all the local department of social service sites where we do mental health screenings and referral. we're at the various courthouse sites in the city where we do substance abuse assessments and referrals into the community. we're in about 13 different baltimore city public schools, where we provide substance abuse and mental health screening, as well as provide treatment, referral, crisis intervention, and mental health supports for the school system. it get better, you know? right. get better if you work on it, try to keep yourself focused. it is very important that we find out what the individual is requesting, what they're in need of, so that we can better address both other organizations' problems, such as homelessness, hiv, substance abuse co-occurring, and, a lot of times, legal issues are also in need of. i want to thank you for letting me see this second half o

and nutrition service on nutrition education, $1 billion. our flagship effort in that regard are the dietary guidelines for all americans. we issue those jointly with the department of health and human services and we alternate every five years, which federal agency takes the lead. we took the lead in 2010. now it shifts over to our colleagues at hhs, but we work very, very closely with them and i do want to mention that dr. howard coe, who is the assistant secretary for health, he oversees that ultimately at the upper level of the hhs with his colleagues at cdc and nih, but we are -- we have a gap in the dietary guidelines in that they currently provide advice to americans for people from age 2 through the life span, and we are both committed, both federal agencies, to in the 2015 versions, to have available shortly thereafter recommendations for infants from birth through age 2, to address a gap that currently exists. so those dietary guidelines, we address obesity in very, very different ways. i've mentioned some of the advice that are characterized by that -- by the my plate. we also have a super-tracker. we have almost 700,000 americans who are registered with our super-tracker

and this is not about contraception but freedom of religion and this is imbedded in the health and human services mandate is a radically new definition of what good this ministry is. we never had this before. >> reporter: a spokeswoman for the department of health and human services said the department won't comment on pending litigation and that there have been discussions between church leaders and the white house but the church said that the lawsuits are a last resort. >> and. >>> a man wrongfully convicted of killing a d.c. cab driver. it's -- about that on deal. he maintained his innocence and had an alibi. he heard about a hair found at the scene of the crime. paul wagner joins us with this exclusive story. paul? >> reporter: he was convicted of murder after an fbi agent testified his hair almost certainly matched the hair found at the scene of the crime. all of the characteristics were the same, he told the jury, but the agent and the science were wrong. dna has proven the hair found at the scene could not have come from tribble. in his first introduce, he talks about his case and the toll

. >> reporter: the dispute stems from an interpretation by health and human services that only catholic institutions like churches are exempted from providing wide range contraceptive coverage which violates catholic teaching. that leaves out dozens of other catholic organizations such as catholic schools, universities, hospitals and charities. >> even the work of mother teresa in caring for the poorest and most needy people would not qualify as religious enough. >> reporter: catholic institutions note hhs only defines organizations as religious if they hire and serve people of the same faith. >> that definition is so narrow and so unprecedented that virtually all catholic institutions would be excluded. >> reporter: because they serve anyone who needs help. the archdiocese of washington, for instance, serves 100,000 people through schools and charities and the very mission of such catholic institutions is to serve everyone. >> when as many wiser people have said, it changes the church from saying are you hungry to are you catholic? >> reporter: when it first issued the ruling, the obam

they go on to write," in this ruling by health and human services, religious hospitals, educational institutions, and other organizations will be required to pay for the full cost of contraceptives including some abortion- inducing drugs and sterilization for their employees regardless of their religious convictions of the employers." the first amendment of the u.s. constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion. this freedom is transgressed when a religious institution is required to pay for contraceptive services including abortion-inducing drugs that directly violate their religious convictions. providing such services should not be regarded as mandated medical care. we, the assembly call upon the hhs secretary kathleen sibelius and the obama administration to rescind this unjust ruling and respect the religious freedom guaranteed all americans by the first amendment. the orthodox have begun to be confident americans. the united voice of orthodoxy is being heard in a way that is, in the opinion of this baker, simply long overdue. the lines we formed today does much to give body into ou

we called the h.s.s., health and human services and the response is "we decline to comment on pendings are filed about the decision that only catholic institutions such as churches are exempted from providing wide range contraceptive coverage an not schools, universities, hospitals, charities. therein lies the problem. they say it's about religious freedom. back with the panel. how big of a deal they've filed lawsuits? >> big deal with public relations. you have another attempt to delegitimize what the administration has done. this is a long time coming. they worked hand in hand with the administration to avoid this outcome. there were a series of meetings that took place in fall and early winter before this decision announced on january 20 where the leaders of the church said we don't want this to come to a head this way. then you had the president make his announcement and then from that point on, you saw things deteriorate. archdiocese dolan sent out a letter march 1 saying he was shocked this was the outcome because president obama personally assured me he would do nothing to impe

health advocates posting on our age reality check pointed out the department hallway of health and human services has quietly included an abstinence only based sex ed program among its evidence based programs for pregnancy prevention program which is based in south carolina has called heritage keepers abstinence education and the law described it as fear based and homophobic a congressional report into the program concluded that it had little or no impact on sexual abstinence or activity yet they decided to promote it anyway causing the obama administration to flip flop on a campaign promise and go at a sketch on the american people and the best part is that they did it as quietly as possible no announcement just a little mention on the web site but the real reason of his says age as wins tonight isn't for the broken promise per se although that would be enough it's sort of promoting a fundamentalist religious program as being evidence based and they're going to promote abstinence only sex education which reports concluded of having no impact as being evidence based then why stop there why not ju

tool time award and this evening the honor goes to the obama administration's department of health and human services for reviving a relic of the bush administration abstinence only sex education programs now let's start out tonight by taking a little trip down memory lane when then senator obama professed to hate the bush administration's promotion of abstinence only sex ed programs in schools and response to a two thousand and seven questionnaire from r.h. reality check which is an online sexual reproductive health magazine obama's presidential campaign staff said the following they said senator obama believes that we should not continue to fund abstinence only programs over the last decade the federal government spent one point five billion dollars in taxpayer dollars on abstinence only programs that have not been successful well abstinence is one approach to reducing unintended pregnancies and as t.d.'s obama believes that we should also support comprehensive an age appropriate sex education and then i repeat about message on the campaign trail take a look at this clip from a speech in pennsylvan

health and used taxpayer dollars to improve the walking and biking environment. that's what this is. we're giving a slush fund to the secretary of health and human services to distribute it around to political cronies, to different ideas, with borrowed money in the name of prevention. and this is all borrowed money. let's not forget that. let's forget that by this time thursday, we have already borrowed more than this even saves. with that, i yield. gentle lady, i yield back. >> mr. chairman, i yield back my time. >> ms. schwartz is recognized for five minutes to close. >> thank you. i want to start by answering some of the -- i guess the charges that were raised as to reason for opposition, and then get to why this is so important and why we shouldn't do it this way and what the choices are. so first let me say that it is correct that the president agree -- suggested, and then we as democrats agreed to cut this fund, because, in fact, we

they support, in a very large part, our health and human services agency and our department of public health, but they also support our public safety and other components. finally, we also get revenue from you all in another form, when you make a payment for a service or a payment for a class or if you go to pay a permit or planning fee because you have renovations on your home. that money also comes back to the city. those are that the components of where we get our money. the problem is -- and i think you understand this -- is that we are not getting as much money as we are spending. we have a growing revenue this year, which is great. our city economy is seeing a bit of a recovery. and that of an uptick in revenues. we're definitely not in the dire situation we have experienced in the past. the problem is we have more expenditure pressures that we do revenue. expenditures are growing faster than revenues. i think some of you can relate to this, too. it is as if we made it out of the hard times and you got home and you got a small boost in your paycheck only to go home and find out

the health and human services secretary played a key role in the new birth control mandate that employers including most religious ones provide employees with contraception coverage. on monday, the president of georgetown said the archdiocese was upset with sebelius over the birth control controversy. the archdiocese says that the president is missing the point. the real concern here is violating religious freedom and issued a statement saying, "the selection of a featured speaker whose actions as a public official present the most direct challenge to religious liberty in recent history, the fundamental issue with health and human services secretary mandate is not about contraception." >>> a small catholic college in ohio says it's dropping health insurance coverage for students. the franciscan university of stubenville says it does not want to comply with the federal mandate that the plan provide free birth control. the school issued a statement saying the rule violates the consistent teachings of the catholic church. university officials also cited rising insurance costs for their decis

used to put on this all the time, you could import the drugs as long as the secretary of health and human services secretary of health and human services that's been willing to sign that drugs imported from anywhere, even canada, are safe. f.d.a.'s web site advises consumers that imported drugs, including drugs imported from canada, may not have been manufactured under quality assurance procedures designed to produce a safe and effective product. that's the f.d.a. web site. the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act represents over one 100 years of lawmaking to protect public health. it gives the food and drug administration authority to make sure drugs are properly approved, manufactured, labeled, shipped, handled and scored, that factories are inspected and numerous other protections in place for american patients. adopting this amendment would endanger american patients and by therefore urge my colleagues to oppose it. there is a lot more that could be said on this. i've been studying this for years, trying to find a way that it could be done. but at the present time the safety of it makes me opp

. >> taking a look at the day ahead, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius delivers a speech to georgetown's class of 2012 amid a firestorm of criticism. the archdiocese of washington and other religious groups objected to the selection by the catholic university because of her work in support of president obama's health care overhaul and employer coverage of contraception. >> still ahead, catching up with new redskins quarterback robert griffin and his special gift to tonight show host jay leno. >> and a preview of this weekend's annual air show at joint base andrews. >> is another perfect day, a beautiful friday. i will be back to talk >> d.c. schools, after-school programs, we are thrilled to present the 2012 d.c. schools jamboree. >> good morning, washington. >> good morning, d.c. schools. is 6:11, traffic and weather every ten minutes. >> they have greater energy in the morning. it's check in with adam caskey. >> they came to the weather center about a week ago today. a great group of kids. a live look from arlington on top of washington-lee high school, a beautif

director, center for substance abuse treatment, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, maryland; dr. thomas mclellan, director, center for substance abuse solutions, philadelphia, pennsylvania; dr. alexandre laudet, director, center for the study of addictions and recovery, national development and research institutes, incorporated, new york, new york; dr. candace peterson, associate scientist, evaluation shared service, university of wisconsin population health institute, madison, wisconsin. dr. clark, what does research to practice mean and what does it mean for a methodology or a practice to be evidence-based? research to practice is a concept that captures the evolvement in the research community with regard to various aspects of, in this case, substance abuse or mental health care in an effort to increase the ability to positively affect the individual who's affected by it. so, evidence-based, then, is mobilizing administrative, clinical, and research information to enhance the quality of care and the effectiveness of care in order to produce t

>> having -- >> health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius and her agency are named as defendantsthe lawsuit. she was just heckled at georgetown university's graduation last week. we called the department of health and human services, and it declined to comment. >>> a new health recommendation for men causing controversy within the medical community. a federal advisory panel says men should avoid a common screening test for prostate cancer. it found the psa test does significantly more harm than good. researchers say the majority of cancers picked up by the test grow so slowly that most men never need treatment. the treatment can lead to incontinence, sexual dysfunction, heart problems, and even death. urologists and prostate cancer survivors are upset over the recommendation. >>> the government wants all baby-boomers to be tested for hepatitis c. the centers for disease control says those born between 1945 and 1965 account for two out of three cases in the u.s. doctors say recent data shows there was a 50% increase in the number of americans dying from the blood-borne virus. hepa