Age and disability resource connection. The federal government created the administration for Community Living. I dont know. Maybe it was five or six years ago. What that did is it brought together the aging world with some of the disability federal offices and put them all into one place called administration for Community Living. Then they really encouraged area agencies on aging to put together age and disability resource connections at the local level. So San Francisco is one of the few cities that has that is theres something that were certified by the state or something thats not the word, but something to that effect where weve said this is our plan for putting together some age and disability work. Here it is. Weve been certified by the state to do that. What that means is our office has a partnership with independent Living Resource Center to really Work Together to make sure people with disabilities and older people know about resources and that those are resources and information referral are available to them. Our way of doing that in San Francisco is to have age and disability im sorry age and Disability Resource Centers across the city, and we have 13 of them. One of them is through tour works its focused on younger people with disabilities. So thats what weve done there. Then i guess lastly, we fund advocacy. It allows you to fund advocacy even with Older Americans act dollars because the federal government knew and continues to know theres not nearly enough money in some of these services. We fund senior and disability action to really do a lot of advocacy at the city and state level to ensure that people with disabilities and older adults have resources. Im going to end with that. There are other programs that we have that serve both populations, but i really wanted to focus in on some of the changes. I hope thats helpful, and im happy to take any questions. Thank you for that informative presentation and being so sensitive around the time. We will jump in councilmember questions. Well go in order of request. So first order is alex madrid. Thank you for coming. I have a lot of questions, but with the time limited, just hopefully a question, one that i noted 92,000 people with disabilities . Uhhuh. In San Francisco . Right. So thats that comes from the 2016 American Community survey fiveyear estimates. Yes, that would be 94,000 people out of the 800 whatever thousand people in San Francisco. All right. So the second thing is that, can you talk a little bit about the inhome support services . I have concerns about funding regarding inhome support services and possibly some people could say it would be reduced because of the federal and state funding issues. Right. Thats a good question. So right now, it looks pretty good. I think when jerry brown was governor, he decided that counties should pay more into Inhome Supportive Services and that the state should pay less. So that caused a lot of concern in San Francisco where we have so many people who are reliant upon inhome support everybody services to live safely at home. But when governor newsome came in, hes professed hes interested in maintaining that service. I dont really under governor newsome, i dont see that changing, but, you know, we have to continually remain vigilant and think about ways to ensure that that system can grow to meet the needs of a Larger Population even than its serving now. So its really important to keep that advocacy up at the state and federal levels. Can you please clarify . Right now, its based on the city and county inclusive, the funding . Right now, theres not i guess what im trying to say, right now, theres not a challenge with funding, and theres no conversation about ours being cut. Thats not a thing right now. But its always important to remain vigilant around that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member madrid. Councilmember orkid sassouni. I have a few things within the deaf community. The number of deaf seniors is really reduced. There are not many deaf seniors in the city anymore. However, there are deaf people who have College Degrees unemployed. They dont have jobs. Is there a way if they can find jobs . Its very difficult to find jobs in the city. It takes a long time to really make that happen. So many deaf people who live within San Francisco, even though they have a college degree, cant afford to live here or stay here. You know, interpreting services is fine, but theyre looking for someone who has asl skills for social events. Also, for young people who are deaf. So how do you address that . Because im not seeing a lot of support in that area. I feel that many deaf people may come here. They may move here and think its a beautiful city, but theres no social opportunities, and they leave. Or, you know, there might be an asl student group, College Students or people who are learning sign, but theyre not really a good match for those deaf individuals who have already grad graduated from cole and have a degree and are looking for a job and social life. Im wondering how youre addressing that in the community. It sounds like two questions. One is about social interaction and one is about jobs. So jobs, thats a really tough one. We actually have an organization that we work with that really is leading conversations in the city around workforce opportunities for people with different disabilities as well as for older adults. But i think its a you know, i think this is an area that we are fairly new in in our department. So there was a hearing last year, and nicole and i were both involved in it where supervisor yee i dont think he was president then, but he brought people together to say, what are we doing about people with disabilities and older people in the workforce . What are the opportunities . Where can we make headway . We had a lot of recommendations, and then, you know, some i think he was able to get some money into the community through Community Living campaign, which is one of the programs that is trying to find employment for people with various disabilities and older adults. But thats still really small. Its still really were still at the beginning of these conversations. I think, you know, one of the things that we need to continue to do is push on that front as well. The tech council, which is staffed by the department of aging Adult Services but has a lot of different participants from the corporate sector, from the city, and from Community Providers has taken workforce issues on as it its big focus r the next four years. What theyre really hoping is theyre going to get some corporate interest, that theyre going to get one or two Big Companies that will say yes, we realize that we need to do this better. We want to partner with you. We havent quite found that yet. Weve had some partnership from microsoft, but its been, you know, still small. Were going and visiting programs like the arc because they have done a good job of partnering with local both local businesses but some of the really good Big Tech Companies in San Francisco and we want to learn how theyve done that to see if we can do that with other populations from the ones they serve. So its a challenge. Im not going to say that weve gotten there, but its certainly something were talking about a lot and are thinking about. In terms of social, i think, you know, really what i would love to do is maybe have a more in depth conversation about what those kinds of things would look like because funding things that really connect people and really get people out of isolation are really very much in our mission as a department. So i would love to do that. I can reach out reach through nicole and maybe we can have a further conversation about how we design Something Like that together. Thank you very much. Thank you, councilmember. Last but not least, Councilmember Helen smolinski. Thank you for being here and for your words. Point of clarification. Your department serves adults 18 and older. Right. Bottom line. Okay. Disabled, elderly or not across the spectrum, 18 and up. Disabled or older but not i wouldnt get im not older and i dont identify as having a disability, i would not be able to get services through my department. Okay. So disabled or over 60. Over 60. All right. Thank you for speaking and giving us a little bit of the history. I found it galling that after the departments were merged in 2000 that funding didnt follow the disabled community. Right. Me, too. I also find it galling that the name change you know, it is such a big deal or so seemingly difficult to fix because i think that seems crucial. Im glad were proceeding accordingly it sounds like. Again, its been 19 years. Yes. And this is news to me that this department helps the disabled community. So im glad youre here. Im glad youve been at the top position for threeplus years. So i want to encourage the changes youre making and say thank you and encourage them even more because similarly to my colleagues up here, you know, i understand the need and the desire for a cultural center. My question would be, has that is that more attractive to fund than some other areas like Employment Services, housing services, advocacy, Legal Services . Ive been hearing a lot about the cultural center, but i know for a lot of our population, you know, help me find a job first. Help me stay in the city first. Right. I think you know, i think its all of those things. I mean, the things that we do fund now are all of those things for older adults. So now we have Legal Services for people with disabilities, and we have legal experts. We have, you know, food programs. We have employment programs. Theyre just not very well funded yesterday, not well enough funded yet, but we have those. I think at the same time, you know, what weve heard from the communities when we did the Community Needs assessment is that people need a place to go to be together. But thats also a place to center some of the activities, a place to have Employment Services. It gives us a place to put those. When weve tried to do stuff in other ways, it hasnt been quite as successful. Having one place where we start to just brand it as this is someplace where people with disabilities can go for all of those things, to me, makes a lot of sense. No. Thats not more attractive than the other things at all. But it is a place for people to receive those. Its also a place where people can come together and start to say what else do we need and how do we advocate for that. Things that maybe i wouldnt have heard of because of there are people in desperate corners saying things like we need this but i dont know about it, our community of listeners doesnt know about it when were out there asking people, its just much more likely to have it centered where, you know, we can start really imagining what new things we can do and how we can be more helpful to the community. So no. All of those things are super important and getting a job and being able to stay in San Francisco, thats what we hear from everyone. I mean, technically, were not the we do have some dollars for helping older adults and people with disabilities find jobs, but were not really that department. What we really need to do is link more successfully with our other departments and work through the tech council to make that happened because i think thats going to be more successful. We just dont have that many dollars for that particular thing, but we want to be part of that conversation and part of the solution. I dont know if that completely answers your question. It does, but the so then the primary mission to your of your department is, you just said housing and employment really isnt housing or employment. I dont mean to im not trying to pin you down. Yes. Its more like for my own understanding. I think for this councils understanding because as a mother of a disabled child, my experience is often going to one department that sounds like its where i need to go. Right. And then everybody is always very nice, but then its oh, its not quite. I need to go to this department. Well, we do a piece of that, but you need to go there. Maybe thats the nature of the beast. Maybe thats City Government. But right here right now, if im making referrals to folks out in the community and i say go to the department of aging and adult serves because they can help you with what . Right. So primarily its changing. So thats its not an easy answer because primarily, it has been nutrition, transportation, case management, Community Services which has basically meant senior centers. Its exercise classes. Its those kinds of things. But more recently because weve seen more and more of a need for things like housing and employment, you know, and those requests have bubbled up more and more, we have gotten a little bit into that role. So we do have a small housing Subsidy Program, but were not the primary Housing Provider for San Francisco. Thats really Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and the homeless department, which serves homeless people, obviously, and does supportive housing. We have a small Subsidy Program to help people prevent homelessness. We have gotten into Employment Services a little bit because people came up and said people with disabilities and seniors have nowhere to go. Where do we go . If we go to the regular workforce programs, we dont feel like people really understand that we need to work and we want to work and we want to be engaged in community. So weve kind of ventured into that a little bit. I see a role with those things. Hopefully this will answer i yor question about City Government i see our role as being able to give people the right information about exactly and help be part of the solution of, you know, kind of explaining the spectrum of Services Within the city. If people come and say i dont have this, we should be able to tell them where it is. In the city, were not there yet. Truthfully, were not. Were still trying to convince people that older people should work and people with disabilities should work and have a right to work. I mean, thats its still really hard. I think thank you very much. Im going to step in just because i know were running over time and theres Public Comment. So i want to get to that and say thank you. Then i think it sounds to me like it would be a good idea to bring the commission and this Council Together again to really talk about some of these things in a public way. That would be great. If the council would like to do that, i would be happy to help arrange that. Great. Okay. Thank you very much. I would ask that council i know we have two other Council Members who would like to speak, but because of time constraints, if that would be okay, we can talk offline. I would like to go to Public Comment, if we have any. I believe we do. So thank you Council Members for your indulgence. Were going to move on to Public Comment. Theres one speaker card for this agenda item. Its from joe ramirez from prc. Hi. Im joe ramirez. Im the managing director for Employment Services at prc. Were an agency that does work forces recovery and Mental Health services. We see about 5,000 people a year in my workforce program. Many were with the Workforce Division of San Francisco county. We see about 600 people. Were a partner with the California Department of rehabilitation. So it sounds like they need to be brought to the table. Thank you. Its a very complicated system. We dont actually know what each other are doing, but what i didnt see in the data is the immune system functioning issues. We are one of the largest cities with hiv and aids, over 17,000, with 9,000 people with aids. Thats not represented in the data. There was a working group with sharines agency for 50 plus because the majority of people are aging. For diverse sake, i want to make sure that doesnt get lost in the conversation. What happens when we talk about lgbtqi, if i dont see myself there, i become invisible. Another reminder of the stigma for living with hiv and integrating people with other populations. I think the other points i have to make is a reminder of Mental Health and homelessness of the population. Its on an uptick. Make sure these doorways are open without stigma with trauma informed understanding of the Life Experience of the individuals that we see on the streets and cant get in the door of these things because a lot of Homeless Individuals are seniors that we think broad and wide to create more inclusivity so that people can live with dignity and respect. Thanks. Thank you. Is there anyone on the bridge line