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Care Delivery System. We are looking to ready our system to be the provider of choice for our patients, our uninsured parents have not had a wide choice of Health Care Providers but Health Insurance provides them with that choice, we want them to choose us. A recent survey indicated that 60 of lowincome individuals who are uninsured would change their provider if they were given the choice to do so so we are responding to that challenge and integrating the service we offer throughout our Deliver...

Im telling this story primarily to get the idea axraus to other parents and kids that they really need to look past just a reputation, but need to look at their character. If any of those boys had just pressed delete, we wouldnt be having this conversation. Other parents should be aware that this is happening and its not its all over the world, its not just in our neighborhood. And talk with your children and teens about the subject and get educated on the subject yourself so you can learn how i...

Uninsured who need the most outreach. San francisco applied for an Education Grant and was not awarded the grant due to our significant process in reaching out to our uninsured, it identified those special populations that are most likely to be uninsured and may require special outreach, young adults are critical to Health Reforms success, younger healthier people are critical to balance out the older who are often sicker and help keep costs down for the whole system and will eventually lower pr...

Children do not pass before their parents. We began to see that the school, the high school in los gatos, led by a very strong, great principled people, brought in an organization to help and after all i should preface in 2009 was a brutal year for los gatos high school, they lost two other students shortly before jill died. The school and principal brought in a Counseling Group called cassie, counseling and support services for youth, embedded counseling. And their job was to change the culture...

I fit in this thing called family. And i started using drugs. I ended up homeless. I did that on and off for about 3 years. I finally ended up at my local va, where i went into their Substance Abuse program. I abused, anything that was amphetamine like cocaine, methamphetamines. You name it, i pretty much did itanything to get rid of kinda what i was feeling. I was also a selfmutilator. It allowed me to feel some kind of emotion, some kind of pain, i guess, it was the inward pain that i couldnt ...

Anyone else on the bridge line . No. Okay. Before we move on, i want to encourage those who have joined us since the beginning of the meeting to fill out a card, if they miss to speak at the public hearing coming up. You can find cards at the front of the room here. Thank you. Agenda im item no. 5, report from the director of the Mayors Office on disability. Carla. Thank you. Im carla johnson, the interim director of the Mayors Office on disability. The first announcement that i would like to ma...

Im carla johnson, the interim director of the Mayors Office on disability. The first announcement that i would like to make is that as we were listening to the reading of the agenda a little earlier and the discussion about the accessible meeting information here at city hall, i just wanted to provide a quick update for people who are using mobility devices to let you know that right now the lift at the Carlton Goodlett street entrance formerly known as the polk street entrance is not operationa...

Taught for a number of years. Were hoping seths law is the first of many. In addition to their reporting you also have to document, we feel like this is the science of it which, you know, sounds a little sterile when you consider the emotional loss, but that you document each incident as it happens so you have a record and you also look at the climate, the culture, and also the perpetrator. We have a second piece of legislation that calls for the restoretive justice element that people were talk...

Largely what will happen. The can time sheet processing facility is much more sensitive than our staff are in terms of things that it doesnt like. For example, you cant write in any other kind of pen besides black ink. And you cant stick a sticky note onto the time sheet. And you cant fold the time sheet. Various, little persnickety things that are bad design in my opinion. [ laughter ] a lot of those rejected time sheets will all come to us, but they come back to us quickly and electronically. ...

Demographics, ethnicity, lgbt or not, do you have a sense . We do, and i will 19 thousand 500 of them are largely going to be undocumented residents we anticipate. They may be other people who are not subject to the mandate because of hardship or other reasons but largely undocumented. The 15 thousand 500 will likely be those that are at the highly end of the healthy San Francisco limit, it cares for people up to 500 of poverty and those who are medi cal eligible will be able to apply to medi ca...