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Much for the question. Wendy spent a lot of time talking about that very issue that you raised in your question, and as we thought through all the transition assistant kind of challenges that a Service Member faces when theyre transitioning out we took all of that into consideration, and im going to ask commissioner Chris Kearney to talk to the specifics of that. Thank you mr. Chairman. Once again, the colleague to my right, when we took into consideration retirement and we did know harm of one ...

That i think the point needs to be made here is if you look at where we are, for example, the president s budget which was just submitted, by 2021, what we are paying in interest will exceed the defense budget. As i look at the work that you have done on the Bipartisan Commission and we look at what the biggest drivers in our debt are overall, looking at the bigbudget, mandatory spending, programs that we need to have similar looks at medicare, Social Security, very important programs to people,...

Forward. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Say to my good friend steve that i used to sit next on on the House Armed Services committee that i agree with you except im more concerned with todays war than i am with the war after next. Right now is when were having the problems that were having and we had a hearing last week. We had schlesinger, george schultz, madeline albright. And they reminisced over what our abilities were, capabilities at that time, what is expected an...

Here that a overwhelming majority are at the High School Level. We also have data by zip code and you could see by neighborhood there is a percentage from mission burnel area but a significant from ingleside and bay view and Visitacion Valley and the southeast sector of the city. Knowing this and these are the new comer pathways. We have 12 of them across the different levels. At the elementary level we have stand alone sites at Chinese Mission center and Mission Education center and middle scho...

Our attention. They would come to our attention if there were any allegations of abuse or neglect or through Mental Health services they were referred to us because there were issues with the families they are with. Any foster care providers that we utilize are required to complete a state licensing process for background checks and a grounds inspection, and most recently this require became a standard for all relatives and non related extended family members so we are now in the process of havi...

This has not be easy because all our programs all of us are used to problem solving within our program when a consumer is dissas dissatisfied or whatever. And frankly, sometimes we can have a better outcome for the family because its usually the family who were working with. I cant anybody whos worked with ria, could you stand up please . Okay so its really an you see that . Okay. Down. Down. I know ria has family here so if her family could stand. [applause] thank you for teaching us a lot, tha...

And commissioner wynns. I am notified that we dont have a quorum today to take actions today but have a quorum from the board of education members. I would like to apologize to the members of the city family that worked so hard to prepare for the meeting today but given everyone has taken the time to come out and present on the issue before us also to speak on this i worked with the clerks and we are going to call the item so that any members of the public that have presentations can still do so...

Boundaries and that we were coordinated and i should say that Health Commission passed an ordinance supporting this effort. We have developed a draft resource guide that allows us to understand all of the Resources Available for the young people and their families. The Behavioral Health has come together, the treatment providers have come together to meet and talk about what best practices are culturally specifically identifying leads who could provide the services and where they could access th...

Of leads. In terms of instructing us making sure that the services are culturally and linguistally appropriate and remember some of the ln languages are not spanish and theyre indigenous to guatemala as well so we have to make sure we have shows services available. As dph has seen are they coming from other countries as well in terms of Behavioral Health . In terms of Behavioral Health lonnie said this is a developing story. Theyre not coming into the clinic at a high point right now. You will h...

Volunteers was different in the islands than here. They train the seniors, theyre able to use them as food service aids helping with the new service. These are just some very few highlights of the visit back in january of last year. On the very top is the chief ali and he met with the seniors at the Samoan Community Development Center to get their insights and also get their feedback of what works for them here in the city and they took a lot of the ideas back. And we visited several new sites, ...