i urge you to do all you can to support lyon-martin. >> i am victoria grace, a concerned member of the trans gender community, and a very happy patient of the tamo delaware -- tom modell help center and a client of the trans thrive center. competent health care is of utmost importance. transgendered people have a lot of trouble getting culturally competent health care. i am fortunate to get the good health care i get. tom modell is at capacity and will be utterly swamped. we have heard about the backlog that pastoral mission -- that castro-mission already has. first new leaf, and then lyon- martin. what else? we must keep lyon-martin open. it is of the utmost importance. social safety net services are being cut across the board. it is not a matter of there is not money. it is like the top 1% have collected everything all to themselves. it is not so much the fault of the former board. i just want to ask you to do everything you can to keep lyon- martin open. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i am a patient at lyon- martin. i am fortunate to have health insurance,

. >> before the next speaker comes up, and want to invite laura collins, and victoria grace, may toolin, sonya lively. >> my name is jackson bowman. i am part of the coalition of community members. i want to speak about -- as a service provider. for the last four years, i have worked with the transitional dutch age use -- with transitional-age youth population. a do not think people familiar with this population would be surprised to know that usually when homelessness, hiv, or mental health needs, or substance used problems are at play in someone's life, that is not the only problem they are faced with.

. >> before the next speaker comes up, and want to invite laura collins, and victoria grace, may toolin, sonya lively. >> my name is jackson bowman. i am part of the coalition of community members. i want to speak about -- as a service provider. for the last four years, i have worked with the transitional dutch age use -- with transitional-age youth population. a do not think people familiar with this population would be surprised to know that usually when homelessness, hiv, or mental health needs, or substance used problems are at play in someone's life, that is not the only problem they are faced with. most people who are experiencing one kind of mental illness may be experiencing more than one. people who are experiencing mental-health problems are also often having problems with substance abuse, having problems with access to education, employment, housing. san francisco does a good job of providing services for young people. however, i think it does less of a good job providing services for adults. because of organizations like mission-castro, i have places to refer young people fo