Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

You heard what we have gone through so we would really hope to have your support. We worked really hard. Thank you. Now i would like to have my two minutes. I work at chinatown cdc and formally and sro, until i was 20. Luckily my family got a voucher, from another city, so we were able to move out. Because of that i was able to go to college. I was able to find a good job and land a job. You can actually see what a voucher and housing can do to our next generation. I really hope the supervisors can help our families. Weve all heard their stories, it is true. I have gone through that. Thank you for your time today. Thank you. Good afternoon, i am the policy director for st. James infirmary. I would like to start out by thanking everyone who has given testimony today. I really appreciate it. I would like to thank hilary roman for working with st. James infirmary as a safe house, young Womens Freedom Center to develop this proposal. I would like to think budget chair fewer for proposed funding to curtail the violence. It will allow for st. James to engage in weekend outreach all night weekend friday night and saturday night. This is critical to improved outcome. As i believe we all know by now, or at least all public professionals will tell you its incredibly difficult to provide services to workers without peerbased support. As such, we provided invaluable asset to our City Government addressing health and safety concerns we can only address. All we asked for today is the ability to do what we do best improve health and safety outcomes for sex workers. I want to lift up the obligation of actresses that have proven effective. This budget item provides emergency housing vouchers to affect workers who believe they are at risk of harm interrupting the violence before it starts. For those workers who participate in the voucher program, will link them to the full spectrum of care provided by the city and service workers. St. James infirmary has been proud to partner with San Francisco to implement best practices for sex workers for the rest of the country in the world. Let us continue that partnership with this proposal that centers the need and is supported by all parties who came to the table in search of a solution. Thank you. I fell, i am okay. I am tony newman. The executive director for st. James infirmary. I am here to ask you to support the mayors budget of 2 million with the q foundation and the yerba buena gardens initiative, mayor reed put in, 1 million for this year and a million for next year for trans housing that would give a coordinators or to 75 vouchers. We do know that transgender are 18 times higher than anybody else including in the lgbt queue. Im also advocating today for the violence against women. We are also a member of that coalition, and im also advocating for the budget justice coalition. We have 500,000 in their for legal referral resources counseling, and Case Management for transgender. Thank you very much. Have a good day. Good afternoon board of supervisors. My name is lance, i am the ceo of San Francisco Community Health center. We have been providing hiv services in the tenderloin for over 30 years. Most recently in 2015 we achieved federally qualified Health Center status. We are the newest fqhc in our city and over 30 years. This enables us to bring in significant federal dollars to provide medical reimbursed and the Behavioral Health services to serve the most vulnerable in our city. After three years of being a federally qualified Health Center, we are becoming the safety net of the safety net. Our clients are those individuals who are diagnosed with Substance Use disorders, mental illness, struggling with homelessness and Pain Management. Many of whom who fall out of the care and find themselves at our doorstep. We have identified the need for dental services for our patients. Specifically target the lgbt individuals and homeless individuals. We know for the communities we are serving, oral Health Services are a critical date gateway to accessing primary medical and Health Services. An treated dental issues deteriorate once quality of life and complicate every other health condition. We are asking for a onetime request of three and 50,000 to establish ongoing and enduring Health Services at our main clinic in the tenderloin. Once set up we are able to get to bill and reimburse by medical for the services so they are self sustaining. We ask that you consider this request as you balance the many critical needs of our city. The Community Health center is committed to providing the highest quality care for the most vulnerable and stigmatized in our city. Thank you so much. Good afternoon, i am on the Leadership Team at San Francisco Community Health center. As San Franciscos newest federally qualified Health Center opening in 2015, our mandate is to provide the highest quality medical and Behavioral Healthcare to homeless individuals. Our commitment is to ensuring that those who are struggling with Substance Use disorder, and mental illness, and Pain Management cs in the tenderloin as their health home. Where they can find acceptance and a safe place to access care and support. Low income San Francisco adults are more than twice as likely to report fair or poor dental health. 74 of those have not been to a dentist in the last six months. 68 do not have access to any dental insurance. We, at San Francisco Community Health center, can be part of a longterm solution. A onetime budget request of three and a 50,000 we are able to establish oral Health Services at our tenderloin clinic. Once set up through our fq a e status they can be built and we will bring in more federal medicare dollars into our city to take care of our homeless and marginally housed residents. San Francisco Community Health Center can become a referral source for other programs in the tenderloin. We are colocated with the chante and st. James infirmary. All clients communities being served at these organizations will find an extensive array of direct care and support at 730 pulte. Thank you very much. Good afternoon paradigm the director of operations at San Francisco Community Health center. We have a partnership with the school of dentistry. This has helped us reduce some of the barriers by creating more access to their dental services. What we know is that our clients needs continue to prevent them from being able to access care offsite. We have been able to work with one of their volunteer dentists to actually pilot a program in which he comes on site and sees who in the waiting room is in need of dental services. The first day we did this, we did no outreach. We just had him come on site to see what was possible. What we saw was in our waiting room alone, over 20 people had seen a dentist on these are homeless folks. We had one gentleman who actually used would to create dentures for himself, because he had such fear of accessing dentistry from negative experience as in the past. If our clients are able to access the services on site while accessing their other services, that support them they are more likely to attend. We know we are asking for your help in doing this. Thank you so much. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is sandra, im a leader from st. James Episcopal Church in district 1. Our reverence sits on the Richmond District senior roundtable to provide testimony today. She has asked me to represent her, john correctly in all of the seniors in our congregation. We wanted to know, we are concerned about the needs of our seniors in the event of a disaster in an emergency. We support the 50,000 budget request by communitybased organizations serving seniors in d1. The funds requested are aimed at a increasing the culturally competent Emergency Preparedness response and coordination capacity of our local cbos. As part of this effort, faith and action will help coordinate the faithbased response in our district. On a personal note, i have lived in the Richmond District for 35 years and reside in district 2. I have spent my career in public health. We have chosen to age in place. The threat of earthquake or the likely occurrence of more bad air days or disasters yet unknown israel. We are aware of other neighborhoods receiving funding for Community Planning efforts to meet the needs of those most vulnerable populations. We know there is that money within the 2019 budget that could be allocated. All we need now is the political will and your support to make it happen. A 50,000 allocation to this effort would be greatly appreciated, thank you for your consideration of our request. Claims to employ more than 300 individuals in the care of 528 young children. An average of perhaps 200,000 per child per month. To paraphrase, general statements, caretakers do not require money and high cost while she slept in the house, i would have to be in the car, i would have to like, make sure that she was happy. It was just an abusive relationship. Definitely what we need is more housing, that is only really know. If you could like keep your organization like focused on Market Street and all of that, i dont know, you know, thank you. Good afternoon supervisors, i work for larkin street services, im here to discuss gary house, which is a transitional house. Getting the fiscal year, we are going to have to cut that program down to 23, losing 12 beds. Gary house is not just the house, it is a safe haven for those clients coming in off the street from being homeless. It is a place where they come in their community. My staff and i work very diligently to assist these clients with all of the barriers. Employment, housing, wellness, and education. When you think about it, some people may say 12 beds, thats not a lot. Tell that to those who are living on the streets. Those who are about to lose the shelter because they are running out of beds, or those that are coming out of incarceration. I am here to plead with you to give us the additional funds to run gary house, because what we have been funding, we cannot hold capacity of 35 youth. I am asking today, if you would definitely please consider giving those additional funds to keep our Program Running at its capacity. Thank you. Good afternoon. I am also with larkin street Youth Services. I am the case manager at diamond youth shelter. Which is one of two youth shelters in San Francisco and one of just four in the bay area. We play an essential role in our battle against homelessness. To allow us to reach those at the Tipping Point before they actually fall over the edge. A role to change courses of action to build strength in youth whose minds are still multiple who have not yet settled into patterns of behavior. While the goal, of course, is for all of under 18 youth to be in homes and living situations that are permanent. There always will be a need for a safety net. For the situations that dont quite fit the mold that the system has created for them and a fall back when the system doesnt work like it is supposed to. Our shelter provides support and safety for those who have fallen through the crack. With a proposed budget cut, our shelter will have half of the numbers available cutting the total number of beds for under 18 youth by nearly 40 . It is not a question that this change will have sweeping the detrimental effects and im already seeing them in action. For the past month our shelter has had to act according to the proposed new budget meaning a reduction in beds and staff on site. For the first time, we have had to turn youth away. We have had to say no. We have had two short length of stay for youth who were not ready to go home or for homes we had not yet identified a safe place for them to go. We cannot extend lengths of stay for youth who had particularly complicated situations. We can no longer provide the same extent of support that we once could and our capacity is limited. When we make decisions and consider impact we need to look beyond the moment, look at the whole web and effect that one strand has on the rest. Diamond youth center is one tie of the Youth Services we have in San Francisco. I urge you to reconsider the budget cut. Enke. Thank you. Hello, my name is kyle, i am 21. Im with larkin Youth Services as a member of the youth advisory board. I am here to advocate for my Homeless Youth peers. I have noticed that we are requesting for more money, in the budget. As for Homeless Youth, i also notice in the budget a lot of the money was placed towards just homeless themselves. I feel that is grouping everyone into like 1 specific pl. In reality, there needs to be a lot more help. One in five Homeless People on the street are under 25 in San Francisco. That is kind of an issue, because us as the youth are the ones that are going to bring a change into this place. When you cut funding for us, and you lower the budget for us, and you make it harder for us to get off the streets and you make it harder for us to get out of being homeless, it really makes it seem like you are really supporting that issue. On top of that, the biggest thing i see a problem of, a lot of these people that are basically about to get booted out of the shelters are people under the age of 18. They are minors. Theyre about to be put out on the streets. The same streets that have artie had those issues. I know there is a lot of people requesting a lot of different funds and things. But, i feel as though this is something that is imperative and incredibly important. We are the people that are going to bring a change. On top of that, having more people that are minors, having more people that are younger ages on the streets creates more trauma. When you create more trauma like that, that makes it harder for the mental parts, too. That will bring it back up into that. You will see more people having Mental Health issues are more people seeing trauma from the streets. Thats all it got. Good afternoon. I am a district 9 residents and im also a parent to this dutiful child. Im here to talk about childcare slots now. As you can see, its a very important issue. Ive heard that there is no add back money for childcare slots. I would like you to consider the childcare slots that you have right now. There are over 3000 families on the weight rest right now who are waiting just like me, who are waiting just like other families who cannot work, their lives on hold because they do not have access to childcare. This is an issue that is important to all of us. Please consider childcare spots now part i want to add, i dont know if the funding got caught but i used to be a house list youth. If i didnt have the housing that they currently have now, i would have still been left on the street and i would never have been able to leave the city. Market street is one reason i am able to still live here in the city. I just want to tell you all please think about housing for young people. Childcare spots now. Add that. We are waiting. Families are waiting. Thank you. [speaking native language] good afternoon, my name is margaret and i am period motor. A promoter. I have been trained to do outreach for parents who are not citizens. [speaking native language] i am here to address the funds that are available, so that we can continue informing the community. I hope that the budget is reestablished for the collaborative. So that we can keep counting on this money. Thank you for the funds that you provide, representatives and supervisors. To the Different Community organizations. We believe in you, and thank you. Good afternoon. My name is sidney holler, im a juvenile defense attorney. I have been a member of the superior court conflict now for the past four years. It is a an honor and privilege to represent our most Vulnerable People in the criminal justice system, children accused of crime. The youngest client that ive ever had is 11 years old. I spent the weekend talking to a 13yearold who is most likely not competent to stand trial. Also working with an 18yearold for his upcoming trial, tomorrow. I really enjoy representing these young people. The vetting process to get on this panel is very rigorous and strenuous. It took me over a year to even be accepted onto this panel. I spend hours meeting with my clients explaining the criminal justice system, what the charges are, going through the evidence, the video surveillance, explaining the Juvenile Court system. Sometimes our biggest victory as when they get released from Juvenile Hall where they get that ankle monitor off. I am here to today to support full funding for the indigent complex counsel. We are asking for our counterpart the public defender and District Attorney offices. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is casey lee and i am here also to ask for full funding for the superior court indigent conflict counsel program. I