starting with the san francisco homeless outreach team. this is connecting unsheltered san franciscans with medication, services and shelter. it's a multidisciplinary approach. we have a hot dispatch that both hsoc and 311 access? they work in every district in san francisco? they work directly in the b.a.r.t. stations and muni stations with b.a.r.t. representatives. they're really excited about the new movie, the public about library support services for homeless services. we also have the encampment response team going out and working with people in larger encampments and now also working with people who are staying in vehicles who are unsheltered. a couple of collaboration points with hud, and hud, i would say collaborates with every system in san francisco. they are sort of famously mobile, and they are extremely well educated on resources and good at finding them kind of with whatever presents. a collaboration point, they're deployed in partnership with street medicine? our hot dispatch and supervisor worked directly with dr. zephen t

the san francisco homeless outreach team and other outreach efforts by our department take on extra effortsrelated to checking in on unsheltered persons in our city. they expand their outreach. they target areas where they know people are most vulnerable, largest groups, where they've encountered people in the past who are extremely concerned about doing wellness checks and so fourth. they do expand their staffing particularly into the evening hours as much as possible. the notice time being critical to being able to do that. plus they add to their responses an increased effort on providing items such as gloves, emergency blankets, socks and so fourth offering those to clients as well as providing transport to available placements. those available placements aren't just the 75 mats who are expanding but also any vacant bed in our shelter system. the emergency beds that we have in our navigation center system and so fourth so the homeless outreach team is trying to offer these services to clients but in the case of these extreme weather conditions, focusing trying to transport people as poss

san francisco. the health department received $3 million grant from the state to improve outreach to people suffering from mental health and substance abuse particularly homeless on the streets. that program is going to help expand direct medical care, case management and navigation services to that population. in conjunction with that i am pleased to say we opened 14 new behavioral health beds at hummingbird place and are on track to meet the goal of 100 new behavioral health beds in san francisco for the people most in need by the end of the year. one of the key things we are doing is analyzing in addition to the 2000 behavioral health beds how many beds do we need in total to meet demand? we will have that number soon. >> finally, i asked the doctor to give you a brief update on breaking news with regard to a measles case that has just been reported in the city. he will give you the details here. >> good afternoon. i am the health officer of san francisco. to give you context. you may have heard there are measles outbreaks in new york city, new york state and new jersey and in washington state there are 71 casings in clark county. san francisco several days