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Of government and i joined board president chiu and supervisor kim and Councilmember Avalos will be here they have a late night meeting debating important issues i know each of the that have a very strong filipino and other asian the minority and latin populations in their district and certainly right here in this district a extremely strong presence and with the city comes to the clear obligation we must be able to make sure our Vital Services are ones that reach all our citizens when they have...

Shelters, st. Josephs, United Council and compass received no complaints for the fiscal year. St. Josephs received no complaints and every time the committee went out they felt it was to the standards of care and the others were generated from the committee and its important to point out lark kin and Mission Neighborhood resources center, hamilton had a very low number of complaints and mission and larkin had one complaint for the whole fiscal year. Supervisor. In the report supervisor campos. I...

The outreach it wont be just to the spanish and to going we need to work with our south American Communities that are growing so when we do big captions we want to reach attest to folks in competent ways this is the thrust of our city and ill proud of this we reach everyone we can to make sure that language is not a barrier or culture. I want to thank naomi for your leadership i know the city leads this effort and over the next 18 months n reflected in our budget well have the resources to make ...

Safe places for people to live. And once we are able to showcase that to a lot of folks on the street, a lot more people are going to be willing to accept the services and help that were offering. But frankly, some of the things that weve been offering in the past are just not places that i think any of us would want to spend a night in. So, thats one thing. The second issue with the medical Respite Center that weve had kind of longer discussionses with dph about is how do you create welcoming s...

Medical Respite Center that weve had kind of longer discussionses with dph about is how do you create welcoming spaces for people . A lot of concerns that people have who are struggling with Mental Health is that they actually know that theyre struggling with Mental Health and they actually want support and services, but the way that we provide the support and services are often in these very cold mandatory like were forcing you to do this, this, and this. And none of us in this room want to be ...

The committee and we are changing the names and circulating that out. Going forward whether a site provides i mean puts up that signage something you will report on . We do report on it and check on it but because its not part of the standards of care its not a complaint driven process so what we did with the information this year is see how some sites where it was posted and get the information and when we send it out and if we dont see it on a site visit we hand it to the provider and so there...

It wont fully correct all the problems in those areas but i think its a start to true it up and allow managers to get a better sense of what theyre managing around. Ill use 2 million of savings for that and apply 3 million of salary savings to offset [inaudible]. I apologize, i neglected to include initiatives b1 which is on your summaries, but i forgot to include this as part of my presentation, but there is one Regulatory Initiative thats on your summary and its not insignificant. It is relate...

Important to know that treld that we as a city will then make sure we give the serviced to be transmitted properly and people what make did access. Gone are the days i used to translate for my mom and dad whether a hospital or benefits. I know virtual everyone standing with me today at sometime did the same things you were nerve because they didnt have the transmission and you were nerve whether a medical term was accurate or access Public Safety whether effectively or not to you the filipinoame...

Mirrors the numbers from the acs Population Estimates again 87 percent of the client served by tier one departments are chinese and Spanish Speaking with the majority 48 percent chinese and point 02 percent speak tagalo theres a slight difference in the numbers reported by tier one departments having russian slightly higher at point 03 percent but that could be because of the Services Provided or the requests that are made. And as you know our leo is a very robust ordinance with tier 1, 26 main ...

Things that we believe that the best way to provide Language Access is actually having staff in staff to provide it and we make every effort that in every clinic whether San Francisco general or Community Based clinics we have that capability. If we dont have the capability we have an Interpreter Service thats actually run by the San Francisco general automatic transfer seem less transfer the patient themselves probably wont know that and then the dmi i dont know if you have seen the vmi the vid...