Peertopeer interventions. Can you talk to us a little bit, and how does that work . There are a variety of ways that we can utilize the information, the expertise of peers to help each other. Theres peer mentoring, theres peer mediation, therere a variety of Different Things that we can do. With peer mediation, we work with youth to help each other resolve conflict, which is a tremendously useful thing in this day and age because there are so many opportunities for youth to be in conflict, not just in person now, but digitally. We want to give them as many ways to resolve those conflicts as possible. What kind of things go on digitally today . Oh, my gosh. Intimidate each other . We are only just beginning to even get a handle on everything, its exploding so quickly. The common ways that they interact in a negative way, well say, that everyone kind of knows about, are things like facebook and twitter and texting and things like that. But there are a variety of other platforms online wh
Oh, my gosh. Intimidate each other . We are only just beginning to even get a handle on everything, its exploding so quickly. The common ways that they interact in a negative way, well say, that everyone kind of knows about, are things like facebook and twitter and texting and things like that. But there are a variety of other platforms online where youth are interacting that adults are only just becoming really aware of. Such as . Even things like instagram. You know, they can even have negative interactions with instagram. So, the key thing for parents to know with all of that, well really, there are two main things i would tell parents. One is to document things. The thing that teens dont often realize with digital harassment or bullying is that a lot of it can be documented. You can screen capture a mean text, or a harassing text. You can screen capture things that happen on facebook. The other thing that i would advise parents to work with their teens on is to limit how theyre int
Done. I know to my friends and colleague i have been a pain and to one guy i need to say a special thanks and step up here for a minute and this is important. I spent 18 hours on a plan and bugging him about the grants and were in the middle seats and six and a half ride from dc and all he did was smile so i want to say thank you for believing in us and going after the two grants and everyone thank you very much. Its our absolute pleasure. Yay giants. Yay 49ers, the commissioner is here as well and thank you for being here. I really appreciate it. roll call . Commissioner harrison. Commissioner arata. Here. Commissioner low. Here. Commissioner martin. And commissioner levitan has an excuse, absent. Well start i have a couple of announcements as part of my report and then well move on with the regular agenda. This is the recreation and Park Commission meeting of september 20, we welcome everyone here today and we ask that you turn off Electronic Devices that may sound off during these p
Well as Public Comments received at those meetings and subsequent ly our Public Comment meeting on the draft. Well close by giving you a sense of where weve been in this process and where were going to begin with the overview but before i do i want to point out the pictures that you see here to the left of the slide Community Participation in the 4 meetings we held throughout the city we wanted it to be a quantitative and qualitative process and we really appreciate the Community Members who gave life to the numbers we presented throughout the plan. Ordinance 310 outlaid a 2 fold purpose to identify the current and projected need for Healthcare Services in San Francisco and secondly set forths forth a series of recommendations and appropriate distribution and the primary use of this plan will be for the Planning Department and they will be reviews project applications against the plan to determine consist see and as supervisor campos mentioned it goes far beyond what was written in the
Its a continuous process through your whole lifespan, so its important to continue working on recovery. What i do to help people that are still in the program i support the newcomers and show how ive become sober, then explain what ive gone through. Im always inspired and proud to see when that happens. You know, comparing them to when they first came in, ill, they come in thin, and now, you know, they leave strong and full of hope. And their life is full of color. It works. It really works, but its not because just the staff or the place, it works because the person comes here and really tries hard, you know, to make it through. And when that happens, thats the best. We talked a little bit about families. Barbara, what is the proper role of a Family Member when dealing with a disability issue of an individual with a Substance Use or a Mental Illness . Well, i think its important for the families to be involved and to help the provider, the care providers, understand the background of