in mental health, mental health services are delivered by many different realms. we have medical homes that deliver services, we have community centers that deliver services. you don't see traditional structures like in the substance abuse world for treatment. dr. greene, what is the magnitude of mental, emotional, and behavioral health problems in our society? if you look at the national averages of mental health disorders, they may vary by regions, but there... if you look at some of the underlying day-to-day anxieties, you can imagine that it can go upwards of 70 percent if you include a number of the less diagnosed or less appreciated disease processes. in our trauma population, we often see upwards of 60 to 70 percent of our patients may have some sort of mental health. we feel that the patient who actually has a traumatic event and has some sort of substance abuse associated with it, be it alcohol or some drugs, because they usually have a polysubstance abuse patient. we often find that they aren't just drugging because they want to, but they are usually dru

how about the mentally ill or the people with mental health problems? is it similar? are we learning to adapt sbirt for that community as well? yes, in particular sbirt now is a billable service under health insurance for screening for depression. and that is a big leap that, combined with parity legislation, that has allowed us now to health insurance, now have to pay for mental health services. both of these may be small steps in some respect are huge steps in our field because it helps take care of that discrimination and helps people become a little bit more accepting. that we are talking about health, major health conditions that they may be mental health, they may be emotional health. and as a matter of fact... language is important, emotional health transcends to all of what we are talking about today under behavioral health. because if you are emotionally healthy you have a strong character, you have confidence in yourself, your family is emotionally healthy. we're looking at lowering risk for behavioral health problems across the board. and of course our audi

events like this dispel the myths that surround mental illness and addiction. so it's really helping people to get a visual-that, indeed, people from all walks of life have suffered from this disease but also recover from this disease. communities need to celebrate recovery because every-, believe it or not, every one of us knows someone that's in recovery, and we don't know it. the reality is that the phenomena of addiction is pervasive, and it crosses generations. it crosses families. august 19th, 1981, i ran away from the meridian home for girls just outside philadelphia to the streets of the fort lauderdale strip. i was 14. june 11th, 2011, 30 years later with 5 years sober, i started walking home. with my walk, walking up the east coast, i would walk about 10 miles in the morning, and then in the afternoons i would visit homeless shelters, treatment centers, battered women shelters. i'd go back into the alleys, under the bridges and tell my story and share hope. i started sandraswalk.org to spread little mustard seeds of hope in places that there were none

we also need to balance out the brain disease part of mental health-mental illness, rather-and see what can we do about that, like, and learn from the substance abuse world of their issues with looking at how the brain interacts with our enzymes, which interacts with the disease itself. as with most chronic illnesses, even though we have come so far with addictions and in mental illness we still are not at the same level of knowledge and expertise that we are with learning about diabetes and cancer and heart disease and even alzheimer's disease. so we have come a long way, but we have a lot longer to go to be able to get this to a level where all physicians, like dr. greene, who understands the behavioral health issues and understands addictions. so it becomes just one of the many physical health issues that we look at. and within the context of samhsa and the strategic initiatives, where is that going to take us to further the science? well, samhsa has eight strategic initiatives. we are focusing on everything from prevention right straight through to several different populations. we

i had everything else, your addiction, your mental health, and your recovery. i had a substance abuse problem. they kept diagnosing me with all these mental health illnesses, so a perfect program, and i was able to keep my baby. and this program was also a program based on how to create and develop a secure attachment with your children, because if you don't know, you don't know. if you don't know how to be nurturing and loving, you come from an abusive household, it takes work sometimes not to be abusive. and i think about what dr. clark said and talking about, i don't think trauma so much as dr. clark would say is not in any other cultures. i just think there were different supports in place for those that had been traumatized and, you know, the caucasians or, you know. it was as important to place, as african american, where something happened to us, we don't go to services. we deal with it the way we deal with it or we go to churches. that's what african americans do, we go to churches for help. and churches don't know anything about trauma. a lot of trauma

mental health, substance abuse, and prevention, for a very high- risk population. supervisor chu: thank you. can you speak more about how the $1.30 million would be spent? >> sure. these funds would be allocated to increase staffing. here we have the opportunity to provide services on the side, the funds will be before providing licensed mental health clinicians. they already have high primary care as well as some other services. this is an opportunity to expand on that effort. they will also be a addressing some of a complicated issues that our clients may be addressing, so it is primarily for staffing and all of those sites for the funds for this initiative. supervisor chu: thank you. and this does not require any matching city funds or staff? >> that is correct. supervisor chu: supervisor kim? supervisor kim: for the tenderloin, where are the service locations? >> city clinic, which is the std clinic that we have. supervisor kim: that is the only one? >> yes. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor kim. this item does not of a budget analyst report with it. why do

in mental health we see a lot of diagnoses that are actually trauma related.he posttraumatic stress disorder is one, but a lot of affective disorders are oftentimes really trauma based. a lot of the issues with people with the axis ii or the personality disorders, the people that are labeled borderline personality, we oftentimes see a untreated early experience of physical, sexual abuse, abandonment, neglect, or the witnessing of violence. ms. cain, you're working now as a peer-to-peer counselor in our center. talk to us about, what was your initial experience with trauma? well, all of my life i've been traumatized. i grew up in a household where i was sexually abused by men in the community that used to visit my mother. and i think i really vivid, a lot of the flashbacks at age 9, i'm pretty sure, probably happened earlier, but a lot of that comes from age 9 is when i realized that, oh my goodness this is not how it's supposed to be, and i started drinking as a result because i couldn't cope with it. at that early age? at age 9, i drank every day. at age 9 be

between 9 and 13 our increase is 39% in mental health. if you include the 14 advanced approach, that goes 45%. >> that's because of the soldiers coming home from war which is dramatically increasing. >> true. we are trying to determine even if we don't have clarity. we want to see a larger survey as i indicated and then see what the outcomes are. >> the veterans affairs secretary testifying on capitol hill with patty murray. on the hill, leon panetta saying the pentagon would be planning for the potential of automatic spending cuts. you heard from senator murray. the spending cuts that come with sequestration. as a way of background if congress fails to raise a certain amount of money part of the budget control act put in place last year the automatic cuts would take place beginning in january of 2013. that would include $500 billion in cuts from the department of defense. you heard from patty murray the impact it would have on veterans affairs and the veterans returning from the wars in iraq, afghanistan and elsewhere in sur ves outside

health has about medical and mental health issues and there are unique mental health issues that our community faces. those of us that live -- lived through the devastation of the 1980's are experiencing ptsd- like symptoms as we grow into older age. many of us have been forced to leave san francisco and increased isolation. many are talking about who will hear our stories? as many people have shown, many of our peers are gone and we do not have children. i facilitate a support group for men over 50 which frequently was full. with the change in funding i have had to limit my services to the hiv negative men although we have committed to provide services to everyone. they're more comfortable -- if you do not qualify for medi-cal and cannot afford private pay, there are virtually no services available to you. i would like to encourage the board to fund mental health services for the full range of people in the community. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the director of the aids legal referral panel. i also served on the mayor's long-term clear coordinating council. -- ca

it's the mod that's designated for chronically mentally ill people for the most part. >> mental healthstone is an integral member of the echo mod staff. >> you have people that are pretty disturbed. and people that are normal or next to normal. as a way of mixing it up, we find that the prisoners can help each other that way. >> i like it here because it's way quieter. i have an anxiety problem. there's less of that in here. there's really no threats in here. >> ernest rogers has bipolar disorder. he's serve an 85-year sentence for robbery and attempted murder. >> i just lost it. i wasn't on my meds or nothing. the judge said due to my mental illness, you know, he said although i didn't kill anybody, i -- it wasn't from the lack of effort. >> despite the violence of their crimes, stone insists on treating all of the inmates in echo mod with respect. >> i've worked with mentally ill people for the last 35 years and i've never been injured, never been attacked. so i'm just comfortable with it. >> but even the most vigilant staff cannot prevent violence from erupting. >> there's only been

lar quong, appointed to that role by pamela hyde, the administrator of the substance abuse and mental health services administration, with the focus on working not only with issues of domestic violence but also working with the issues of the criminal justice system because, indeed, as i mentioned, it's not the abuse excuse, it is trying to break the cycle. we spend a lot of money reincarcerating individuals who have primary issues that have never dealt with, so especially in nonviolent situations. we wanted to break that cycle and, as dr. harris pointed out, we also want to create a workforce that has a stable appreciation of traumatic phenomenon so that, again, we don't blame the child, we don't blame the wife, we don't blame the spouse who is the victim of trauma. and the gains center also has some training programs as well as other initiatives, correct? yes, we have a number of programs that address trauma, and one can access that from our web site at wwww.samhsa.gov gains center. we have a national center on traumatic stress. we've got the activity that dr. gillece is engaged in,

a mentally ill man suspected of killing a berkeley hills homeowner heads to court today to face murder charges. the crime is raising questions about how the man's illness was handled by the system and how police responded to the homeowner's call for help. "today in the bay's" christie smith joins us live in oakland where the young man will appear in court. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, laura. daniel dewitt is expected in court here in oakland this afternoon as berkeley police are starting to clarify the timeline of how they responded to the initial calls for help and what ended up being a horrible homicide in berkeley. we're also starting to hear from people who knew the suspect, a 23-year-old former alameda high school football player. one man tells us it was no secret that he had documented mental health problems and that his parents said that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and had been neglected by what they saw as a broken health care system. that man is accused of killing a 67-year-old man over the weekend in his driveway in berkeley. >> he would come and see t

i come from the committee behavioral health services side, which includes mental health. i want to talk briefly in broadly about the services of the department of public health. it is basically over a billion dollars worth of services located between 3 service delivery centers, one is the san francisco general hospital, the other is a good hospital, and the other is a wide variety of community programs -- the other is laguna hospital, and the other is a wide variety of community programs. in the department of public health, which is now under the leadership of garcia, we have really embraced integrated care. the care needs to be duly coordinated so that the mind and body and other needs are the best for the clients. and the service delivery and public health. this also includes collaboration with other city departments. in all of our efforts, we have collaborated with the adult probation office, we have cooperated with the adult aging services, human services agencies, and a whole variety of initiatives. within in particular behavioral health, mental health and services,

they blame a broken mental health care system for his accused action. we show you berkeley police may have been to busy to answer the victim's call for help. >> reporter: it's the kind of crime that just doesn't happen in this sheltered north berkeley neighborhood. a man beaten to death outside his own home. >> it's out of character for the neighborhood. obviously tragic. >> reporter: the man arrested for the crime, daniel dewitt a former football stand out and the son of the city's first african american city councilman. his parents say he suffered from mental illness. >> if people were to describe him they would say what a kind, gentle person he is. he has always been that way. this isn't senior an illness. it has nothing to do with him. >> reporter: this was a failure of a flawed mental halitosis them they say that never gave him a chance. >> they get shoved in a hospital for a couple days and shoved back out, thrown medication on them, massive doses and then just put back out. >> it's a battle just to keep them in the hospital. he has been in and ou

i will not lose my mental stability.s morning, since you mentioned that, this morning, one of your officers, captain dufolk, dashed a bucket of ice water in here on me because i won't eat. >> billy -- >> trying to force me into eating. he also would not put a -- >> you and i both know that's not true. >> also would not put a tray of food on the tray. your restriction is too severe for me, being 63 years old. >> you will be held here until you can get through the program and conduct yourself -- >> i will die without any food. >> and conduct yourself according to the program. >> i am conducting myself. i will die first. i have been without food for seven days now. >> billy mccoy claims he's been on a hunger strike for seven days. we've documented he's been on a hunger strike for almost three days. he'll eat soon. he's done this before. he never stays on very long. he'll eat then a meal and then he can probably go on a hunger strike again right after that meal. >> for those who refuse to cooperate, even the most meager amen

esta clinica de salud mental sobre la calle mision en el area de bernal heights en san francisco,estaer cerrada... 10:26 esto va ser un trauma o sea hemos estado aqui en esta clinica mas de 25 anos 10:32 segun dijeron atienden a cerca de 500 pacientes, la gran mayoria latinos. son ancianos.... ninos y adolescentes. lucia hammond/psicoter apeuta de ninos 6:20 lo quieren mandar por la silver y san bruno a donde han habido muchisimas luchas pandilleriles y uno de nuestros clientes de la mision han sido atacados y han dejado de ir a terapia 6:30 la propuesta de cierre es a raiz de que el departamento de salud tiene que reducir en 5 por ciento sus gastos para el presupuesto del 2012-2013 pilar nino 1:38 segun el departamento de salud lo que quieren es ahorrar los costos de mantener edificios y estructuras fisicas, para asi evitar reducciones en los servicios y despido de personal 1:48 explicaron que mantendran los servicios, y que los ancianos tendrian que ir a otra clinica sobre la calle mision cerca a la 24... 10:42 unas cuantas cuadras para las personas que estan de buena salud no hay p

they put me in ccu because i have a background of mental behaviors. they diagnosed me with schizophrenia, multiple personalities. a few hours after our cameras left ccu, etter got into a verbal fight with a female correctional officer that quickly escalated. c.e.r.t., the correctional emergency response team is called in. >> he's been banging his head on the door. spitting at the glass. refusing to follow any orders. have permission for use of force to extract him from his cell, place him into issp. >> for security reasons isp videotapes all extractions. >> you ready to move? >> hands up. >> open b-11. >> a mask is placed over etter's head to prevent him from spitting. >> let's go. >> but as they pass through a door, he bangs his head against the glass. >> oh, hey, hey, hey. >> i swear to god break my neck. bring it, mother -- break my neck! yeah, i love pain! yeah! yeah! >> etter, stop, stop. stop fighting. stop. >> yeah, hurt me more! >> secure. >> no more banging your head. you understand? >> i'll kill you all, you [ muted ]. i'll kill you all. i'l

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did not reject the czarist mentality. for them it was simply a matter of an obligation to spread socialism instead of -- russian orthodoxy. they shared the urge to combine theory and practice. and to treat political authority as the ultimate source of authority. the point of reference around which all considerations of based. the extent to which a higher sphere, is fear of transcendent ethics capable of bequeathing some sort, or lending standards were imposing its standards, actually, on political life had been abandoned in russia became clear when czarism fell because the new regime, which was imposed, was, if anything, more vicious, more repressive, and a touch areas and then there's team it replaced. the attitude of the new regime was well expressed by martin flounces who was the assistant to the head of the secret police , the first said he said that in trying to understand, and his advice to interrogators he said that and don't be concerned about questions of individual guilt or innocence, what matters is a social or

esta clinica de salud mental sobre la calle mision en el area de bernal heights en san francisco,estaro de ser cerrada... 10:26 esto va ser un trauma o sea hemos estado aqui en esta clinica mas de 25 anos 10:32 segun dijeron atienden a cerca de 500 pacientes, la gran mayoria latinos. son ancianos.... ninos y adolescentes. lucia hammond/psicoter apeuta de ninos 6:20 lo quieren mandar por la silver y san bruno a donde han habido muchisimas luchas pandilleriles y uno de nuestros clientes de la mision han sido atacados y han dejado de ir a terapia 6:30 la propuesta de cierre es a raiz de que el departamento de salud tiene que reducir en 5 por ciento sus gastos para el presupuesto del 2012-2013 pilar nino 1:38 segun el departamento de salud lo que quieren es ahorrar los costos de mantener edificios y estructuras fisicas, para asi evitar reducciones en los servicios y despido de personal 1:48 explicaron que mantendran los servicios, y que los ancianos tendrian que ir a otra clinica sobre la calle mision cerca a la 24... 10:42 unas cuantas cuadras para las personas que estan de buena salud n

and psychiatrists so that we can get the mental health treatment., cops don't know what to do when they run into crazy but they don't know what to do. and we've got a lot of really sick, insane people in our prisons and they ended coming out even more insane. criminogenic. we are creating more and more incentive. so the realignment come if we were to tell the county supervisors to get a clue and that's difficult to do even though most of them are my friends, if the county supervisors and the sheriff and the da could get together because they have are sticking it here in l.a. county, they have $24 billion of our money. let me say that again. the county of los angeles has $24 billion of our money. and we cannot seem to get coherent effective programs for rehabilitation. so we are going to have to give them the decide that will have to design the center. will have to arm the mental health people and will have to demand, no, you cannot go to jail. what you can do is a rehabilitation center, and a mental health center for the criminally convicted. and we

they can arrest you or take you to a mental hospital be evaluated. it is determined -- they have 28 day to make the determination that you need to be held there and treated or released. >> wow! here in the bay area, it is 72 hours. we don't have a lot of time. you have 28 days. >> that is right! >> so, for you, is this part of a very long and rich career. and in preparing for the interview with you, i went back and looked at some of your films and television performances, and night john popped up. i hadn't seen that in years. i have to say it is one of my favorite performance. it is so warm, moving and gripping. i had to stop the play back and take some deep breaths because the tension was building and building. for you, i know everybody must ask you this question, but for you, what role has meant the most to new i think i did a role in a film called men of honor, a very small role at the beginning of the film playing cuba goodings' father. but because of the man that was about, karl brasheer, another karl, i think thai is the man i am -- i think tha

this used to be the state's mental hospital? >> it did. >> reporter: its founder is fully aware of the irony. he is a pioneer in treating the mental health of animals. from circling shepherds. to shad low-chasing terriers. to dachshunds that chase like frisb frisbee. on the day we visited, a parade of troubled pets came through doddman's office. >> thanks for coming in today. a little anxious. >> a little. >> that's 200 grams of zoloft every day. >> reporter: a german shepherd named summer, suffering from anxiety. prescription? a combination of three psychiatric meds. a springer spaniel, dakota. >> the problem i here in a one-liner is owner-directed aggression. >> turns into a different dog. >> reporter: he got a new leash, a low-protein diet and some prozac. >> you'd be better to have the prozac in the background because it decreases aggression. >> reporter: and a cat that relieves itself all over the house. he recommended a change in the cat's litter box. >> some people say, i really want medicine. i'll say, your animal, your

in the last 18 months because of rate cuts we've had eight mental health provide thaers have goev out of business early or laid off the majority of their staff or shut down programs. >>> the jury in the george huguely murder trial got an unexpected day off today the trial postponed until tomorrow because one of his defense attorneys is sick. when the testimony resumes the defense will be back at work challenging the charges against huguely who was accused in the death of his ex-girlfriend yardley love. julie carey is in charlottesville with details and new reaction. >> reporter: defense attorney graham lawrence leaving court alone his cocounsel's illness forcing a day's delay in testimony. huguely's attorneys brought one of their most crucial expert witnesses to the stand late yesterday, a chicago neuro pathologist dr. jan listma seen on the left. list ma strongly disputes the conclusions of prosecution experts who say yardley love died of blunt force injury to her head and was left with brain bruises and hemorrhages. listma testified the brain injuries weren't severe enough to kill t

we need to hire mental health counselors because we lock up the boor and the drug addicts and the mentallth patients because we don't take care of them. half the jail doesn't even need to be filled. now, the folks who are doing drive-by shootings and murders, they need to be put away. i'm not talking about violent criminals. i'm talking about the 70% of people who are in our mass incarceration jails draining our coffers, by the way, and chief justice -- not justice kennedy, but in our prison overcrowding case, this is how he described our crime enterprise, our crime-fighting enterprise in california. he said, california's state prison system is crimeogenic. i love that word. because what it means we are so stuck on stupid with our punishment that we're actually creating more crime. that's what crimeogenic means. i want a criminal justice system that actually makes us safer, doesn't create more violent people, doesn't brutalize people because they're going to prison. rape inside of prison is outrageous. you know, we should not be brutalizing people. we should be making them safer. we shou

not just physical, but a mentally unyou stable. >> yeah, i think that is why we have to raise revenues to insure that those who need the safety net that is a promise of america are actually on that safety net. >> you need tax increases to save it. >> i mean tax increases and we are only receiving 14 percent of the revenues which traditionally is 18 percent. we need catch up there. it is ironic that we have the whole debate of entitlement, ironically with conservative politicians from red states and constitients that are most on the go and we are debating the entitlements. it is a promise of america to have a safety net. >> first of the all. >> david, we are not talking about a safety net. we are talking about abuse of the system. >> there is no. that is not the promise of america. a of dole to be on. is not a product of the founding fathers it is a product of the 1930s and 60s . david forget the politics and not focus on the red or blue. well, let's talk about the actual economy. it is bankrupt. entitlement that is you cherish whether it is a disability fund that is bankrupt in 6 years

quinn wants to shut down to institutions tom dart says about 15 percent of his jail inmates have mental health problems he argues that funding reductions at the city and state levels will mean more people with mental problems will end up in his jail. >>tom dart is threatening a lawsuit over this matter ... >>coming up next at noon: president obama prepares to go on the offensive over soaring gas prices. the gop candidates for president square off in their final debate ... before those contests in arizona and michigan and super tuesday and illinois based sears could be spinning off more stores after posting a more than $2 billion loss we will be right back service was very moving, wasn't it? yes, it was. i'm so glad we could be here for larry. at a time like this, friends and family matter most. even preparing this lunch is a help emotionally and financially. mm, it's true. i was surprised to hear there was no life insurance. funerals are so expensive. i hope larry can afford it. i know. that's why i'm glad i got a policy through the colonial penn program. it gives me peace of mind to kn

i feel like mentally, like i have the mentality to go out there and do my best and serve my community. >> at the end of the day, the police department still has to do their job. and protect the city. keeping the city safe. keeping the peace. and whether they like it or not, that is something that we will always stand over, over the city itself. >>> a celebration of life fit for a pop diva. ♪ >> how friends, family, and celebrities said goodbye to whitney houston. >>> and espn apologizing tonight for a racist post regarding the hottest star in the nba, and how the network is responding to a post about jeremy lin. >>> after a drizzly start, we saw plenty of sunshine by later on this afternoon. we will cool things down for tonight. and of course, with the big bay bridge construction project, all eyes are on our chances of rain. our seven-day forecast is coming up. her funeral was held at the same . >>> close friends and family members celebrated whitney houston's life and music today. her funeral was held at the same baptist church where she was discovered as a powerhouse singer. manuel

and so -- and the third part of that is mental health. so let me give you that you've talked about jobs. not to my satisfaction maybe but -- so if you could extrapolate a little on that. also add, what about the immediate need for basic needs like housing and mental health? >> okay. so i didn't talk about jobs intentionally. i wanted to talk about the issues that we have to move forward with in the 2012 february session. did talk quite a bit about jobs last month at the oregon business summit. your point's very well taken. that there are services that are absolutely essential for children and families and housing is one of them. hunger is obviously another one. what we're attempting to do with the early learning council, if you actually want to go on the website and take a look at at least we envision it is organized around elementary school and catchment areas. where a family resource manager would work to try to connect those families with whatever those services happen to be. whether that be a housing challenge, mental health issues. t

he certainly has his issues mentally and psychiatrically, but he is not seriously, seriously mentally ill. in fact, if he were seriously mentally ill, for example, such as an untreated schizophrenic, hearing voices, he probably would not have been successful in getting anyone to follow him anywhere. >> this, though, is a particularly dangerous kind of condition. >> oh, yes. >> because of his ability to play it as if he is crazy but really isn't. >> you can't blame someone for nine mayhem murders unless you want to say i have laid, plotted and designed to destroy you and i'm working to save my air, my water, my trees and my wildlife and i'm trying to do away with society. i tried to stop nixon and i stopped him dead in his tracks. i tried to stop the vietnam war and i did it. >> what do you think of that? >> rather omnipotent, isn't he? but it's also not uncharacteristic of people that are successful in getting other people to go with them. >> and all the things i did, i did without breaking the law, because your law of 1776, you got jet airplanes going 6,000 miles an hour and you're r

it's designed to break you mentally and physically. it's hell. to put it bluntly, it's hell. >> 240 men are housed in ad seg. the cells are small, measuring just 8 x 6 feet and there are no windows, only a narrow skylight. >> as you can see in here, this new cell is completely all concrete which will eliminate the inmates breaking the mattresses down, taking the wire, taking any kind of contraband. if you're inside and you're looking through the glass window, you're really only looking at a concrete wall. and it's for isolation purposes. it will prevent them from communicating with other inmates, and therefore it's more of a secure unit. they cannot have tvs, no radios. also when these inmates do leave their cell, at all times they will be cuffed from behind. >> these guys are in here for murder. they're in more heinous crimes and whatnot. you just can't turn your back on any of them. >> we're in the administrative segregation unit for threatening a public official. we got in an argument with an officer because we thought that -- we felt that he

it continues to be a pressing problem. >> where do you think the attics and mentally ill will go?ervisor kim: first of all, a ton of families live in the tenderloin. people do not realize this, but the tenderloin is a family neighborhood. it in not a proponent for cleaning up the tenderloin. i love the tenderloin. i love what it is right now. you know, i recognize that we have a diversity of folks who want to live there. i do not have a problem with people being out on the streets and socializing. it is part of the character of the neighborhood. i do not think the party is something we should criminalize. that being said, we cannot have open drug dealing. i do support a foot patrol. we are currently working with several organizations or have safe passages where we have high school students and adults in the neighborhood. but shockingly, one of the top issues is being hit by cars, more than getting harassed by neighbors. that is something we are working on as well, traffic issues, can turn some of those streets to be two-way. another thing that we are trying to push is actually get

you get on the priority list because of physical and mental health issues. we are seeing sicker and sicker families on both sides. we have to -- we listen to the stories and they are really, really compelling. newborns. kids with immune problems. kids in wheelchairs, sometimes. parents in wheelchairs. people who are postoperative period high-risk pregnancies. and they go through the list and at the end of the session, we say -- how many rooms are available? sometimes it is zero. usually it is one or two. on a good day, we will have four. it is a difficult task. the other thing that i wanted to mention was that we only have two homerooms in the entire city for medical respite. if there is an outbreak of influenza in the shelter -- [tone] we have no where to put people. it is a very different picture for homeless adults. we do not have the resources. thank you. supervisor avalos: has that changed, over the years? has there been a reduced number? >> it is a larger number of people. people are sicker. it is the numbers. with the same resources. so, the resources