for information and treatment referral for you or someone you love, call 1-800-662-help. brought to department of health and human services. so kristen, do you want to continue telling us exactly how you helped those parents try and seek help? yeah, one of the things that we've been doing over about the last year is a community education program. i had the opportunity to go and speak to all of the about 500 counselors in our public school system (we have one of the largest public school systems in the country) and give them information on helping youth not only to access the services that are available but some information about self-care. so, we do a lot of community education around the importance of sleep and nutrition and exercise and things like that, so that youth who don't have access or who aren't ready to access treatment have some strategies that they can pursue on their own. but i've also done that program for parent groups, for ptas, and we're actually going to be having a tv show coming up in the next couple of months on our local government channel where we'll be talki

to help you get free. for drug or alcohol treatment referral for you or someone you know, call 1-800-662-help. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. [music] a little over 7 years ago i was sleeping underneath of a bridge on the streets for 19 years eating out of a trash can, going in and out of correctional and mental health systems. i racked up 83 arrest and 66 convictions all due to my substance abuse because i was trying to cope with the trauma that had happened in my life. and i would go in and out of prison, and they would say, "this is how you're going to spend the rest of your life, or you're going to die in the streets." once i was able to go to a program where my trauma was addressed, the tamar children program, my trauma was identified, addressed, and treated. i was able to change my belief system from "i am nothing" to "i am somebody," and i can be anything i want in this world. see, when my belief system changed, my thought process changed. and i started to make the best decisions based on me believing that i was worth a better life. dr. harris, let's f

to someone else. so, they're court referrals? so, they're court-referraled. right. yep, so, we get our referrals from the treatmentprograms in which that they're sent to. do you find that mandated treatment is equally as effective as if the family brought in the youth? mandated treatment is important, and we're also talking about individual's level of motivation and readiness, so they may not want to be in treatment, but they're there, so it gives them a time for sobriety to begin to look at any issues or problems related to their substance use, and maybe begin to move their level of motivation if they weren't ready. so, that is an important part. yeah. and alison, talk to us about active minds. how do you-you're one of the founders-it is an incredibly important program for young people, correct, i mean? yes, so, active minds is a national organization that's dedicated to empowering students to speak openly about mental health issues in order to educate others and encourage help seeking. and so, what we do is we do most of our work primarily through an on-campus, college-based model, led by students, student volun

for information, treatment referral, and most importantly, help call 1-800-662-help. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. >> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of its september the 24th 2013 madam clerk can you please call the roll. >> supervisor avalos avalos present and supervisor breed, breed present and chu precedent and supervisor cowen, cowen present and supervisor farrell, farrell present and kim, kim present and mary present and tanking tank present and yee absent mr. president, you have a quorum. ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the allegiance. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. madam clerk, do we have any communications there are none >> items 1 through 6 those items are countered routine unless a member objects it be severed. >> roll call vote. >> supervisor farrell. >> i can farrell i. kim i. supervisor mar >> marie arrest supervisor tang. >> supervisor wiener. weaning i arrest supervisor yee. yee absent and avalos i

information on mental and substance use disorders, including prevention and treatment referral, call 1-800-662-help. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. [music] westfield high school is located on the western part of the county by the dulles airport area in chantilly, virginia. we have approximately 2,750 students here. we do have a student services department here at westfield. it comprises of these school counselors. we have a school psychologist and school social worker. i kind of look at the counselors as always being the first line of defense. they want to make sure that kids in this school succeed, and they want to make sure you do your best at all things, even if they have to push you a little bit. what we try to do is be proactive, rather than reactionary. we sit down and talk every year about our programs and what we do here, to try to see how can we sort of more get ahead of the issues, rather than just reacting to 'em. some common issues that students face is peer pressure, especially with drugs and alcohol and all those things. and i think for mental health, it's mor

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for information, treatment referral, and most importantly, help call 1-800-662-help. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. >> san francisco parks, golden gate park transforms into one of the greatest music festivals of all time, let's journey, inside, outside land. ♪ >> to this, our 6th year doing the outside lands and our relationship with san francisco, rec and park. and we work very closely with them in the planning and working very closely with the neighborhood organizations and with the city supervisors and with the city organizations and with the local police department, and i think that the outside lands is one of the unique festivals in the world and we have san francisco and we have golden gate park and we have the greatest oasis, in the world. and it has the people hiking up hills and down hills and a lot of people between stages. >> i love that it is all outside, the fresh air is great. >> they have the providers out here that are 72 local restaurants out here. >> celebrating, and that is really hot. >> 36 local winerries in northern cali

for information, treatment referral, and most importantly, help call 1-800-662-help. brought toou by the u.s. department of health and human services. >> we are approving as many parks as we can, you have a value garden and not too many can claim that and you have an historic building that has been redone in a beautiful fashion and you have that beautiful outdoor ping-pong table and you have got the art commission involved and if you look at them, and we can particularly the gate as you came in, and that is extraordinary. and so these tiles, i am going to recommend that every park come and look at this park, because i think that the way that you have acknowledged donor iss really first class. >> it is nice to come and play and we have been driving by for literally a year. >> it is kind of nice. >> all of the people that are here. ♪ >> san francisco parks, golden gate park transforms into one of the greatest music festivals of all time, let's journey, inside, outside land. ♪ >> to this, our 6th year doing the outside lands and our relationship with san francisco, rec and park. an

for information, treatment referral, and most importantly, help call 1-800-662-help. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. >> good morning. today is tuesday, september 10, 2013. welcome to the the san francisco county transportation authority. my name is john avalos, the chair of the authority. our clerk today is erika change and we'd like to thank sfgtv staff, greg best of and josh alexander for your work today. roll cal. >> avalos present, breed present, campos absent, commissioner chiu present, cohen present, farrell present, kim present, mar present, tang present, wiener present, yee present. we have quorum. >> very good. thank you. we have two main i at tems here today. the approval of the ei r for the van ness bus rapid transit. we have our board meeting at 2 o'clock today and we may go into close to the board meeting and if that looks like the case, i'd like to recess this meeting at 1:30 and then continue on after our board of supervisor's meeting with transportation authority deliberations on these items if we need to. okay? just want to ma

referrals for medical care. i insure that they are able to undergo treatment here there at the time of our interview, we questioned how that could be physically possible that one man could essentially care for 2,000 people. slaenks county had been wondering the same thing in the past, especially when his name or more specifically his 60 kept coming up again and again on blank medical forms. a practice a foreman state official found opens the door to fraudulent billing practices. >> it shows care in los angeles. >>ism maclat care, yes. >> that owner convicted of fraud. during the investigation, a counsellor says you seend off on stacks of medical records without reading them is there that's not true. >> it's not true? >> no. >> that was a lie? >> yes. >> you don't sign off on stacks of medical records? zpli sign off on stacks of medical records but i review them. >> you do review them? >> oliver says his signatures were forgeries. oliver's signature is worth a lot of money. he is needed for clinics like these, to submit bills to the county and state for reimbursement 789ment. for that signature, oliver is paid well

quality medical assurance that our referrals are for -- i give referrals for medical care, i ensure that they're able to undergo treatment here. >> reporter: at the time of our interview we questioned just how that could be physically possible. that one man could essentially care for nearly 2,000 people at 19 clinics. in fact, los angeles county had been wondering the same thing about dr. howard oliver in the past. especially when his name or more specifically his signature kept coming up again and again on blank medical forms. a practice a former state official found opens the door to potential fraudulent billing practices. >> records show you're medical director for immaculate care in los angeles. >> immaculate care, yes. >> that owner convicted of fraud. during the investigation a counselor says you signed off on stacks of medical records without reading them. >> that's not true. >> it's not true? >> no. >> that was a lie? >> yes. >> you don't sign off on stacks of medical records? >> i sign off on stacks of medical records. but i review them. >> you do review them? >> yes. >> reporter: oliver says his signature on th

to receive treatment. trust grows slowly. >> how are they treating you this officer asks, "good". >> this is a referral stained with blood. any patients will need years of treatment. doctors saved this girl's leg. she'll need more surgeries. they don't know if she'll get them when she leaves. >> there's no talk of allowing her to stay. this hospital has spent $1.5 million from its own budget so far. staff donate everything from toothbrushes to clothes. when their syrian patients are well enough, the israeli army takes them. they won't tell us where. a brief stay when all that mattered was making them better, and an uncertain future begins. >> and, dale, the big question is where do they go - straight back across the border into syria, do they go to refugee camps in jordan - that's something the doctors who treated the people, brought them back to life if you will, don't know. their big concern is having spent so much time and effort lavishing the extraordinary expertise on the people, the little girl in the bed with the shattered leg - she'll need years of surgery to get her leg back to fully functioning order. they don't

for information and treatment referral for you or someone you love, call 1-800-662-help. brought toou by the u.s. department of health and human services. [music] the mission of the josh anderson foundation is to provide adolescents with mental health education resources and support, so they never turn to suicide. and we do this by implementing programs in high schools in the community that raise awareness on mental health issues, reduce the stigma surrounding mental health issues. josh was the youngest of our four kids. he was a fun-loving, you know, happy kid, great athlete: he was all-star football player for his high school. he left us over four years ago. his girlfriend was over the night before. she had no indication he was seeing a counselor. he had no indication that there was significant issues, so obviously it was a huge shock for us and our family. we felt we had to do something to turn our tragedy into something positive. and i mean, the ultimate goal is that no other family goes through what we went through, and that no kid gets to a point where they feel like the only

you're going to pass the primary care person for your treatment list to insist upon it so one of the things i hope comes out of this conversation today is patients insist on getting referral to a psychologist psychiatrist not the primary care person because there's experts that can help you when you go for help. a lot of afterwards i did i mean why not before i don't know the shame you know and me being so young probably i didn't really understand what was going on i just knew that. you know i was depressed and and in a lot of pain failure i just feel like a failure. so you will go to now you are going to see i'm very passionate about mike so i hold on to the failure you know and i feel. rejected by god and i blame god and i blame me and i blame the whole world i went into a really passionate and are moment in my life understand we have a map. was to go into the mother duck today and why is suicide higher in some parts of the country than others what do we look at the map here shows that particularly the states in red mountain midwest states that's where suicide rates are higher worse more rural where there's less access to medical care as we just heard where there's less

referrals for medical care. i ensure that they are able to undergo treatment here. >> reporter: we question how that could physically be possible, that one man could essentially care for 2,000 people at 19 clinics. in fact, los angeles county had been wondering the same thing about dr. howard oliver in the past, especially when his name, or more specifically his signature, kept coming up again and again on blank medical forms. a practice a former state official found opens the door to potential fraudulent billing practices. >> reporter: records show your medical director for immaculate care in los angeles. >> immaculate care, yes. >> reporter: that owner convicted of fraud. during the investigation, a counselor says you signed off on stacks of medical records without reading them. >> that's not true. >> reporter: it's not true? >> no. >> reporter: that was a lie? >> yes. >> reporter: you don't sign off on stacks of medical records? >> i sign off on stacks of medical records but i review them. >> reporter: you do review them? >> yes. >> reporter: oliver says his signature on the blank forms were forgeries. oliver's s

to the israeli colleague he will probably never meet. it's a referral stained with blood. many patients will need years of treatments have saved this girl's leg but she will need more surgeries. they don't know if she'll get them when she leaves. there is no talk of allowing her to stay. this hospital has spent $1.5 million from its own budget so far, staff donate everything from toothbrushes to clothes. and when their syrian patients well enough, the israeli army takes them, they won't tell us where. a brief stay, when all that mattered was making them better end. and an uncertain future begins. >> indeed, an uncertain future beinsimon. uncertain future for the peace takes to regarding israel and palestine. mr. kerry, is he likely to raise possibility of progress or lack of it in the peace talks while he's there? >> reporter: yes, that's what the state department says in its sort of previsit announcement. that this is a two-track visit, syria and the peace process. don't forget, john kerry has set a lot of personal polight store by getting this peace process up and running, six visits so far, i guess this will be

increasing dog -- drug-related referrals to high school students, more than one poising reaching children as young as five, and the fact that three quarters of kids in treatment in colorado today report that their marijuana in from a medical marijuana dispensary. this is often -- a recent paper conducted by rand researchers that found that two distinct features and marijuana policy increases use. those two features our own cultivation and legal dispensers. these are found in states that have legalized, some states that have legalized this type of medicine. it should matter because despite popular myth, scientist on the american medical association, the american academy of pediatrics, the american psychological association, and we can go on and on, are universally stating that marijuana is harmful to young people to marijuana use especially the young monk people is an associated with reduction in iq, mental illness, or learning outcome's, lung damage and addiction. addiction. according to nih one out of every six kids have tried marijuana would become addicted and last year 400,000 emergency room admissions were applicable for marijuana. in colorado those traf

to receive the treatment, and trust grows slowly. good, nothing could be better. >> this is from an unknown syrian doctor he will probably never meet. it is a referraltained with blood. many patients will need years of treatment, doctors have saved this girl's leg, but she will need more surgeries. they don't know if she will get them when she leaved. the staff donate everything from toothbrushes to clothes. and when their patients are well enough, the israeli army takes them, they won't tell us where. >> a brief stay, when all that matters was making them better ends. is an uncertain future begins. >> director of the islam institute for public policy. first, why do you think israel is doing this? helping injured syrians in their hospitals? >> well, there a esa history of this kind of situation all around israel and the borders of lebanon, and syria. perhaps the israelis have several reasons why they would do this, one is just propaganda purposes. they would like to show the world that they are humanitarians and they will treat anybody who needs treatment to make them look good. second reason is they would like to send a gesture to the syrians sayin