Health Insurance Programs for providing therapeutic Mentalhealth Services and licensed facilities which is something we cant do for people with Mental Health image appeared in the jill, taxpayers are paying the full cost of their Health Care Services in residential treatment clinically, run programs we can be getting the kind of reimbursement that will offset those cockpit judges agreed up for recommendations will let you run through three and four children only three. Only three. The last one is on the San Francisco Police Department. Its asking to expand the Crisis Intervention Team to enter deescalate mentalhealth crises on the street before people end up getting arrested and put in jail. We can do a better job of diffusing the crises. Ask San Francisco to implement a model currently in seattle which gives Police Officers tools and the ability to refer people directly into services instead of being booked into jail. It would have an Immediate Impact on the number of people adding bo
Until we have confidence of job training, Youth Development programs, Mental Health, longterm mental, not just the shortterm things we have in place, and longterm housing that is truly affordable and community driven, we are not going to have the kind of success we are looking for. So, i think what we need are these programs need to be investing all of our money into these programs while i agree, again, cjfour ncjthree are deplorable, i dont think again expensive new jail is going to be the answer. Thank you again for taking this so seriously. I know its actually rare for this conversation to even be happening at this level being taken seriously by public officials. So, i appreciate the consideration you are getting. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Long. Hi. My name is [inaudible] i work with cgi Justice Project a member of the coalition. I am here to advocate for no vote option on the jill and as an alternative. The United States the course duration for a black woman is one into trans woman
Are there presentence because they cannot afford bail. If you or i or our children were in a situation in jail we wouldnt be. We would get out due to the bail process, etc. Only to step up the number programs that are of able to address is very small number. The years that i spent running a jill health service, we spent battling jails overcrowded we are now completely under the she very proud of our efforts and build on those success. Thank you very much. Should you thank you for your work. Thank you. Thank you for your work my name is [inaudible] ive been working in around jails and prisons in the state. Worked initially in the mid70s with sheriff [inaudible] working to reduce the number of women image appeared to a Work Furlough Program and mothers tell ship it at that time were about 2400 people in the jill system. I am very pleased that i also served on the jail Overcrowding Committee in the late 1970s, which propose a lot of the alternatives that help to reduce the population now
Then the report came out and the inbetween that the cjc and whatever reporting out. People come to the board of supervisors, different supervisors, different terms is still the same problem. In the Burns Institute report im holding up a copy of it out of 1000 adults in the population for blacks, two of the six at any time of africanamericans were locked up. That means 20. 6 of africanamericans were in county jail at any given time in San Francisco compared to whites who were 1. 9 . We can talk about this panic and brown people because the numbers are not accurately reflected, but what we do know we can come by people at 20 presented by this board of supervisors what will history say about you . In any event talk is cheap. Action is priceless. We know we got the numbers right now. At this point, how may more black and brown lives do if the pile of here . How many reports do we have depth before something is done . Enough is enough. Action is priceless. Thank you so much. We appreciate a
Hi. Im [inaudible]. Im here again in the capacity as the jill groups coordinator. We work with a number of people who are directly the target audience of new jail i guess you could call it. I have a background in Mental Health and general Public Health education. So, i wanted to really commend a lot of the programming that we are he heard about today. The aurora project, a lot of the diversion programs. I think is a really good start, but its important to also point out San Francisco, with gentrification that is undeniable is increasingly hostile to poor people low income people, of all kinds. Until we have confidence of job training, Youth Development programs, Mental Health, longterm mental, not just the shortterm things we have in place, and longterm housing that is truly affordable and community driven, we are not going to have the kind of success we are looking for. So, i think what we need are these programs need to be investing all of our money into these programs while i agree,