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Singapore and go to the u. S. To work and they never have a problem and they can stay here for long. For long. Why is there an exception to hello, im ivette torres, and welcome to another edition of the road to recovery. Today, well be talking about young adults in recovery, meeting the needs of the millennial generation. Joining us in our panel today are. Ben chin, cofounder, ptr associates, washington, dc; alison malmon, founder, active minds, inc. , washington, dc; vannasang souksavath, Ladde...

Alison malmon, founder, active minds, inc. , washington, dc; vannasang souksavath, Ladder Project coordinator, the institute for health and recovery, cambridge, massachusetts; jim williams, executive director, the association of Recovery Schools, houston, texas. Ben, the millennial generation goes 18 to 25yearolds, more or less. Talk to me about what are the major characteristics of this cohort . I really think our ability to connect using social media and all the other Technology Resources are ...

[applause] [inaudible] [cheers and applause] good afternoon supervisors. My name is dave canner and the acting director for seiu 1021 San Francisco. I want to start by saying its really unacceptable that the community has to be out here begging every year and yet private for profit contractors never have to do this. That is absolutely unacceptable and i think thats a struggle were going to need your support in fixing in the coming years. Its just unacceptable. I want to speak about the where we ...

Cost of living and food and everyday costs and were talking about wages that are pretty low and these are workers that with the poorest of the poor and frankly their work is hard and they deserve to be compensated fairly. They deserve to have Family Health care where a lot of folks dont have. Its so expensive that some of them use public assistance. Its unacceptable. White the nonprofit funding has been flat in the last five years which is basically a cut and the private contractors have increas...

Hello, im ivette torres, and welcome to another edition of the road to recovery. Today, well be talking about young adults in recovery, meeting the needs of the millennial generation. Joining us in our panel today are. Ben chin, cofounder, ptr associates, washington, dc; alison malmon, founder, active minds, inc. , washington, dc; vannasang souksavath, Ladder Project coordinator, the institute for health and recovery, cambridge, massachusetts; jim williams, executive director, the association of...

Demorizing and our jobs are point scpls cant do the work and not to mention we have small salaries and for these reasons and more were asking for the 4 so its imperative these services are funded and we get these and we dont need the americas cup. Nonprofits dont care about americas cup and the kaiser increase and taking money out of the general fund also we dont care about that and please give us the 4 . [applause] hi my name is kaitlyn and a researcher at seiu 10 to one representing nonprofits...

Some of the key changes that are expected to be coming. And with that, id like to close my presentation and turn it over to carmel a frank. Thank you. Thank you. ~ thank you, supervisors. Did you have any other questions . Thank you very much. Colleagues, do we have any other questions on this item . No oh, supervisor i just want to make the point this can be very dry stuff, but its actually one of the most important functions that this committee performs. Youre making sure that there is an inde...

Over private contracts. Thank you. [applause] my name is matt feltstein. I work for Progress Foundation for a house for the mentally ill and the drug addicted. In the years i have been doing this job i had all kinds of jobs. I came from a privileged family and dont know what its like to struggle. What i can say about my coworkers is theyre brave, compassionate understanding people ever going to meet in my life so i am in awe. Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. [a...

N hello, im ivette torres, and welcome to another edition of the road to recovery. Today, well be talking about young adults in recovery, meeting the needs of the millennial generation. Joining us in our panel today are. Ben chin, cofounder, ptr associates, washington, dc; alison malmon, founder, active minds, inc. , washington, dc; vannasang souksavath, Ladder Project coordinator, the institute for health and recovery, cambridge, massachusetts; jim williams, executive director, the association ...

They lost staff. They lost continuity, okay. Thats one thing i see. The other thing and i guess they cant answer it is regarding some of the deficiencies that were found in terms of mta, in terms of the new pension standards. I believe they were given being given about two years to resolve that problem, not three quarters to one year, okay. So, theres a time element involved in terms of in terms of correcting the deficiencies. Finally, mta has some compliance problems that i heard the item speci...