started with the programs back in 1998 when samhsa- -was able to put together the first grand proposals that went out on the street for these services. well, that was called the recovery community support program, which changed to the recovery community services program in 2001. and so between 1998, there were advocacy grants that switched over to peer services, and the advocacy is still an important part of that, but, you know, samhsa had the foresight that if they harness the energy that was happening in the recovery community, they could sort of seize these organizations. so, 15 years later, if you look across the country and you see recovery community leaders, many of them came out of that 1998 cohort that samhsa provided the funding and the resources for. and so, in that 15-year span, amazing things have happened. so, rcsp-that's the name of what we call that grant-some are direct descendants of that, but that's filtered out to lots and lots of communities that haven't had those grants but have started that kind of organizing and those kinds of peer services all across the country, so it's been very, very exciting. very good. leah, i want to hear from the mental health com

services in your offer 15 community sites. we have a wonderful office space o pet treatment program that brings recovery right into the preliminary care setting pr we are ahead of the curtain with community based primary care hepatitis care treatment and ahead of the hiv care and we co- run a center of the obsolesce in the tenderloin. through josh about 12 years ago we started or josh started the first medication adherence program for people who are homeless or mentally ill and many people were written off because they were thought two disorganized to manage it and we said no, we, take care of those people and help them and that program continues (clapping) we've had integrated prim care and behavioral health before president obama thought about that. we have our psychiatry services. and our transgenders tuesday's. wee which is about to celebrate 20 years of service this january (clapping) and tom o'dell urban health remains at the forefront as itself services for the transgender community are ignoring both to be another service and we can do it all in the state of the arc facility that's a shining example to all of this city's u