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Faces voices of recovery, washington, dc; michael d. Little, forensic advanced certified peer specialist coordinator, Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and intellectual disability services, philadelphia, pa; monica scott, outreach Substance Abuse counselor, baltimore Substance Abuse systems, inc. , baltimore, md. Tom, peertoPeer Services is an increasingly unique and an important part of a recoveryoriented system of care, of systems whether municipal or state systems, that are looking...

Thank you for the practical steps and again, we have folks that are tweeting or posting theres so many ways to engage and its easy and effective. It also means meeting people. Well be taking another small group of ceos from Small Business by also start ups. In washington d. C. They only hate you when your successful. Then were going to open it up to the audience. As we work with people all over the United States. We have an intelligent to do that were suppliers there and we get to them and expla...

Hello. Im ivette torres, and welcome to another edition of the road to recovery. Today, well be talking about peertopeer support services for mental and Substance Use disorders. Joining us in our panel today are leah harris, communications and development coordinator, National Empowerment center, washington, dc; tom hill, director of programs, faces voices of recovery, washington, dc; michael d. Little, forensic advanced certified peer specialist coordinator, Philadelphia Department of Behaviora...

Hello. Im ivette torres, and welcome to another edition of the road to recovery. Today, well be talking about peertopeer support services for mental and Substance Use disorders. Joining us in our panel today are leah harris, communications and development coordinator, National Empowerment center, washington, dc; tom hill, director of programs, faces voices of recovery, washington, dc; michael d. Little, forensic advanced certified peer specialist coordinator, Philadelphia Department of Behaviora...

Clifford hoosier has been coming to my center for two years now and a immigrant from sierra leon. If he returns to his home he will be killed. He is requesting asylum here in San Francisco. He hasnt gotten s he is not here illegal. Hes a harvard graduate as well. Next year january 31 and i just been coming to city hall to try to get support for him as well, and thats pretty much all i have to sai. I would like him to speak for himself. I want to thank the commission for its work. This is my seco...

I would like you to take a moment and reflect on what would be a good life. What are the critical elements for you, of a good life . This is a question of philosophers have explored over the ages. Time after time, this is what we like to explore with people facing disabilities and life challenges. I am curious, when you thought about what would be critical for a good life, how many of you listed family and friends . How about making a contribution or participating . Being engaged . How about goo...

Network of Service Providers in San Francisco, of course, elizabeth from aws, we hear these stories everyday in terms of there is a need for emergency shelter, but certainly the funds to supplement the legal issues, the legal support, that many of our clients face as an obstacle to leaving an abusive relationship are appreciated and at women, inc. We have a 24hour crisis line we can see in the comprehensive report that president chiu referenced, its increasing drastically. You want to know that ...

Take a minute to encourage you to please approve all the supplemental programming. We are a web of services ranging from the District Attorneys efforts down through the civil courts or up through the civil courts depending how you rate your civil courts. With the Legal Services specifically, i just wanted to legality you know that the funding that would come to us to volunteer Legal Services program would fund legal representation for mono lingual women who are victims of [tkroeufpls ]. Domestic...

Takes exception with that and we did go back to the Police Department and clarify that those are the actual cases being referred to the District Attorneys office, if you look at table 11 on the bottom, that is information provided by the District Attorney. Which actually shows the same trend. Although not as large. They showed the actual number of cases being referred to the District Attorney going down. As well as the number of cases being charged by the District Attorney going down by the orde...

Theyre amazing so thanks to them and our customers the other thing is our customers are incredible at all of our restaurants and they trust us, and they allow us to do what we do and its both communities that keep the places going so anyway thank you. Thank you. [applause] our next presentation will be our district one colleague, supervisor mar. Thank you president chiu. Its hard to follow the great restaurants from my colleagues and the ten districts but i think we saved the best for last for t...