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Hello. Im ivette torres, and welcome to another edition of the road to recovery. Today, well be talking about peertopeer support services for mental and Substance Use disorders. Joining us in our panel today are leah harris, communications and development coordinator, National Empowerment center, washington, dc; tom hill, director of programs, faces voices of recovery, washington, dc; michael d. Little, forensic advanced certified peer specialist coordinator, Philadelphia Department of Behaviora...

And thats ok, and ill be there for you. And in turn, they do the same for me. When im going through tough times, the clients know that, and theyll call me, how you doin . You know, you teach them that its ok to feel. Its ok. And the only way that you can do that is to show them that you feel, too. Now that im in school, to get my ged, i eventually want to go to school and be in some kind of peer support like you do. Ok. Now that ive come through the pain and the anguish on the other side, ive gr...

Know their anticipating it and hoping its not necessary. Thats actually all i have to say today. Thank you thank you for being here. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment . On item seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary item 9 is the consent calendar and we only have one item improve modification and increasing the contract by 2 million plus with thirty consequence calendar days and its been moved and seconded any any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is ...

Objection. Item 8. The Strategic Plan recommendation and an information item. Good morning, i will do a very brief introduction. In part i want to acknowledge the great staff work in this great effort and collaboration of great sponsors we have had. As you may recall this prop vehicle Registration Fee is probably the only new in a decade made possible by senate bill 83. In november 2010 San Francisco voters approved a 10 increase in the San Francisco vehicle Registration Fee and in expenditure p...

Situation and all those things like that are important as well as preparing the community for the reductions if they have to do that taking those drought managed plans and dusting them off so theyve taken all the actions as well as increasing the message to the community about reducing the water use. And to do that its been actually, the response is almost immediate in my office. Shortly after the announcement from the puc we got several calls from local schools or a water agencies to increase t...

Just a few things i want to talk about in particular the mountain tunnel and the drought response. But youve had a lot of chances to talk about the water tunnel and ive been reporting on that to both my leadership and my board chair and the board and our policy committee. Pleased to be able to let them know i got the response from mr. Richie well get a positive affirm active answers if question one from a Public Policy prospective this is the one thats has the most immediate need from my Board M...

An emergency situation. What weve got is clearly not an emergency we can clearly save 7, 8, 9 million gasolines a day if we much more aggressively produce watersheds restoration and come posting toilets. You know, we havent begun to do those things and for us to assume the big problem is not that were loort deacceleration but thats not on equal but we need to look at this as a last resort the question is using the technology as opposed to to the technicalities. I dont think that this commission ...

Actions as well as increasing the message to the community about reducing the water use. And to do that its been actually, the response is almost immediate in my office. Shortly after the announcement from the puc we got several calls from local schools or a water agencies to increase the messages out to Community Fire departments that level of activity has increased and were anticipating to see that in all the activities around the region. Weve been having discussions with our Public Informatio...

The call for 10 percent reduction by the puc were seeing actions that happened immediately a couple of things were not quite intuitive the last drought predated some of the current regulations for the water sites and theyre thinking about how to deal with with what you do with your process if we go into a mandatory drought situation and all those things like that are important as well as preparing the community for the reductions if they have to do that taking those drought managed plans and dus...

Project director and principle trainer, samhsa National Center for traumainformed care, rockville, md; tonier cain, team leader and director of peer consumer involvement, samhsa promoting alternatives to seclusion and restraint through traumainformed practice, rockville, md; dr. H. Westley clark, director, center for Substance Abuse treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health services administration, u. S. Department of health and human serviceses, rockville, m; dr. Maxine harris, ceo and cofou...