Staff especially our director of Environmental Health but also other staff on a vision that looks at reducing speed limits as improving the Public Health and our department of Public Health continues along with the mta to lead on making our city safer especially with our vision zero processes but San Francisco i fear is falling behind new york portland and other cities in america according to the report and in places like bristol and london and paris that are taking boulder and faster actions than we are in our city and we can really learn from these practices from other cities and apply them to our unique conditions here in San Francisco id like to acknowledge with us today are fred ro u. S. Seo and from the mta we have a director of sustainable streets mr. Tom maguire from the department of transportation in new york where he worked for years improving safer streets in new york and our sustainable Streets Division and from the department of Public Health we have our cochair of our Sa
Marys but that only takes children 12 and older we have no facilities for children in the city for children 12 and under so they have to go to Contra Costa County john muir thats the closest one. So you can imagine how difficult that is for families. Including traumatized children families trying to keep their children safe and we have so far served approximately 200 individuals. Why were asking for the facility to become a 5151 designated facility is because and children are often sent to psyche Emergency Services or to hospital Emergency Rooms you can imagine how difficult this is for children and their families to be sitting there while already in a crisis situation and often not equipped to deal with crisis where that is a great facility its really hard for children and families to be in an adult setting. Were hoping to relief the San Francisco Police Department by being a facility that will accept children efficiently and safely and hoping to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations an
And saved many lives and thanks for your considerable effort there. The dedicated u. S. Team that joined the response effort deserves our gratitude and as you already mentioned mr. Chairman and Ranking Member mentioned, six of our marines paid the ultimate price to help the nepal ease people and they will be forever missed. And as soon as i heard, i remember this, the ambassador voicing his concern to us as we drove through there about the stone buildings and brick buildings and vull vull vulnerability. You but longterm maybe preventing more people from losing their lives down the road and how we can assist. Thank you for what you have done and i yield back. The chair ms. Meng would you like to make an opening statement. Ms. Meng new york city is home to thousands of citizens from nepal and we have districts throughout the burrough of queens. I want to thank all of your departments for the Immediate Response to the crisis and your ongoing efforts. A tragedy like this one every minute a
To request the board of supervisor to designate a facility for children and youth in San Francisco who are in psychiatric crisis. At 5151 designation for the crisis unit will allow youth in psychiatric crisis to be taken to a specialized youth oriented facility. You are probably wondering what this unit does. It provides care in a family setting and Psychiatric Care providing linkage and Case Management for follow up services and behavioral stabilization to avoid psyche Emergency Services. This is a 23hour facility and most of our psychiatric hospitals for children and youth are out of county we have one facility in San Francisco thats saint marys but that only takes children 12 and older we have no facilities for children in the city for children 12 and under so they have to go to Contra Costa County john muir thats the closest one. So you can imagine how difficult that is for families. Including traumatized children families trying to keep their children safe and we have so far serve
Designation for the crisis unit will allow youth in psychiatric crisis to be taken to a specialized youth oriented facility. You are probably wondering what this unit does. It provides care in a family setting and Psychiatric Care providing linkage and Case Management for follow up services and behavioral stabilization to avoid psyche Emergency Services. This is a 23hour facility and most of our psychiatric hospitals for children and youth are out of county we have one facility in San Francisco thats saint marys but that only takes children 12 and older we have no facilities for children in the city for children 12 and under so they have to go to Contra Costa County john muir thats the closest one. So you can imagine how difficult that is for families. Including traumatized children families trying to keep their children safe and we have so far served approximately 200 individuals. Why were asking for the facility to become a 5151 designated facility is because and children are often s