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Interacting with homeless folks on the street and so out reach teams, like our hot team, and the police, and ems, and the Emergency Medical Services and ambulances and it allowed them a Central Place to bring folks, rather than looking for where there might be space and the idea of the Central Service center and the Central Access point was a low level, assessment and then a look across it is spectrum of philadelphia options and since the shelter and been transportation to one of those. And i ha...

I am proud of is focusing in on the Economic Opportunity and insisting that the lgbtq center offer an array of programs from transgender employment and the workforce and the housing programs and the services for Financial Planning and recognizing that as was stated that being lgbtq does not mean that you are afluent and i do believe that some of the projects that i have had the individual of working on now at hope and working with brian and tommy and supervisor campos to close the bed for the sh...

Of the specific youth count, 914 youth were identified. 134 youth, under 18, and 780 youth ages 18 to 24. Let me talk a little bit about that youth count it was conducted by youth. In addition, the youth who conducted the count they were paid 11 per hour for their time. For every completed survey, they were paid an additional 5. And our provider who conducted it with our help is applied for the survey research, and they made all of the payments to the youth. So the majority of the homeless pay y...

Welcome to the board of supervisors San Francisco Budget Finance Committee for wednesday, may 21, 2014. My name is mark farrell ill be chairing this committee im joined by the supervisors. I want to thank sfgovtv jonathan and the clerk madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Phones, devices are prohibited at this meeting. May order the removal from the meeting room of any person s responsible for the ringing or use of a. Items acted upon will be acted upon otherwise stated item one the hearing for...

Kind of whether that may or may not work . Or plus or minus from your perspective . Sure. So the notion of a single sort of intake center, came from a visit that we made to philadelphia probably, a decade ago. And really was targeted to folks who are on the street. And in philadelphia a lot of it was triggered by weather and hot weather protocol and cold weather protocols and will allow public entities who are interacting with homeless folks on the street and so out reach teams, like our hot tea...

Percent were sheltered. This number increases for unaccompanied Homeless Youth undered age of 18, 93 percent live unsheltered and i think that we should note that the demographics were overwhelmingly male. And white male. In this particular count. 72 percent were male, and 41 percent of that 72 were white, and 20 percent, or 26 percent identified as lgbtq. But, what we found astonishing in this particular count was that 71 reported that they were unemployed. 57 percent received some type of a ja...

On a particular day, and in january. I think that it was the 31st because it was my wedding anniversary. And the youth count was from one to five during the day. The general Homeless Count was that particular day, that it began at 7 00 p. M. And so, there were 854 youth, who were the ages of 18 to 24, that was identified in the general count. 3 percent of the total population said that they were transgender, and 29 percent of that population was lgbtq. Of the specific youth count, 914 youth were...

Pay youth lived outside or 80 percent were unsheltered and 14 percent were sheltered. This number increases for unaccompanied Homeless Youth undered age of 18, 93 percent live unsheltered and i think that we should note that the demographics were overwhelmingly male. And white male. In this particular count. 72 percent were male, and 41 percent of that 72 were white, and 20 percent, or 26 percent identified as lgbtq. But, what we found astonishing in this particular count was that 71 reported th...

Working with the department of building inspection to open this as soon as possible and this will happen soon, and even when that opens we are talking about a limited number of beds and it is not the answer, it is part of a solution. We have to do more than just build an lgbtq shelter, we have to address the root causes of homelessness, and that is why this hearing today is so important. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor campos. Supervisor weiner . Thank you. And mr. Chairman and thank you very m...

Fourth in our series even if hearings i called a while ago around our Homeless Population thank you to all who participated in the hearings. This will be their second hearing focusing on the sub populations to analyze hopefully is programs and policies in place and into the future can be put in place to have a large effect. 0 todays hearing for the veterans and citizens that are experiencing homelessness weve talked to Community Leaders and others including the va well be hearing from them short...