We want to thank folks here and we will have a photo at the end with the mayors. We wouldnt be here if it werent for the California Coastal commission. Lets hear it for them. The battle for the 35th anniversary of California Coastal cleanup day. It is the largest volunteer day in california. On this day tens of thousands of volunteers remove litter from waterways and shorelines and a thousand locations across california. How fitting on september 21st to do this coming together. California stands as one if not the largest contributor that takes place in the bay area. Thank you to the coastal commission. We have folks behind me. Thanks to the mayors, oakland parks and recreational foundation. Jason mitchell, they are ready they are pumped. Joe ginsburg is here. Elaine thorn, tommy from california train, Golden Gate National park. California state parks as well. Give them a big hand. I might have mentioned there are more players involved in this effort. Right now we will hear from Community Folks to start with the oakland side. We have a leader with faith in action. Representing the east Oakland Congress of neighborhoods. Put your hands together. applause . All right. I am excited to be here. It feels awesome to be here. It is such a an on honor to represent our mayor. Good morning, everyone. I am lydia. This wonderful guy says i am a leader with action east bay. I am proud to be here representing the east Oakland Congress of neighborhoods. [applause. ] i would like to thank everyone who made this event possible, and a special thanks to the work group for all of their hard wo work. [applause. ] so as representative of the east Oakland Congress of neighborhoods including fadein action and the residents we are excited about this campaign and to clean our cities. Of course, oakland will fill up our streets, why not, right . This is going to happen on september 21st. We are going to fill up our streets. Sorry, San Francisco. Sorry. Residents who are part of the congress have been organizing for years to bring resources to increase capacity for the Public Works Department in oakland. We are proud of this work and what we have accomplished so far. Thanks to this effort oakland has new street cleaning cruise and equipment to address the illinois leg gal dumping issue. We need each one of us in the city. It is not only oaklands responsibility. It is also our responsibility, right . Our city and our families and our streets they are affected with this garbage. We must all come together as a community and show our love to our city and our community. So i am here today to challenge one of our City Residents to come out on saturday, september 21st. Invite family members, friends, neighborhoods, students, educators and Community Members to clean our streets, parks, Community Centers and sewers in every corner of our city. [applause. ] so we deserve to live in a clean city. Our children and seniors deserve to stay healthy and walk along a safe street. Lets put our action in oakland and our community. We love our city. We must be part of the city. Thank you. God bless all of you. Lets hear it for lydia leone. I love it. Our other community side. This is a Community Organizer who has been involved with more than 100 neighborhood cleanups in San Francisco. He has worked extensively with young people to clean up neighborhoods. He believes a Clean Community is healthy and it takes all of us to make that happen. Please happen for the San Francisco side the reverend. Please come on up. San francisco, are you ready . Lets do this. We want oakland to know we won it all right. A men. Dont forget i am a preacher. I need folks to talk back to me. Are you ready, San Francisco . Clean it up . Thank you, thank you. It is a great day to be in the midst of two great women doing a wonderful job in San Francisco and in oakland. Lets give them a hand. First time, first time. I am part of the trash trackers in San Francisco. What i do. I track down trash. Somebody auto say yeah. I track it down. I locate it, find it and clean it up. I have been doing that for 30 years. We have been doing this a long time. We are glad to have oakland come to be a part of this. Guess what . We are going to win we already won it. Mayor breed, we got this. We accept the challenge and we are going to do it. I am reminded of a homeless friend of mine. He has been sleeping in tents three years. He is a sad looking guy but a happy looking guy. Every morning at 8 30 a. M. He gets up and cleans up around his tent. Then he goes to the other block and cleans other homeless men and womens tents. That is a good example of a community. We are going to have the homeless folks get out and cleanup, too. Understand this. Our homeless folks arent the only ones that are making the city dirty. That is not the truth. It is construction workers, churches, ymca, it is all of us. It takes the whole community to clean up the community. Wouldnt you agree with me . That is what we come to do today. I am proud to tell mr. Smith on september 21st right here in San Francisco you can come out and help us cleanup the city. applause . You should be happy about that. I want to say that our lovely mayor. We really appreciate you. laughter . You are our friend and oakland is our friend. We love you also much. What we are going to do. Once we win, we are going to come back over to oakland and help you all. We will help you out. We might go with you to all get together and cleanup. Am i right . This is our city, this is our california. Lets do it, San Francisco and oakland, lets do it. I have a new thing to look at. I wish i had music. We pick it up and bag it up. You have to get rhythm. Anybody have rhythm. Here we go. Pick it up, bag it up. Pick it up, bag it up. Pick it up, bag it up lets go San Francisco that is catchy. Bag it up, pick it up lets hear it for the communities in San Francisco and oakland everybody. This is fun. In conclusion before the photos, give a big thanks to our community sponsors, ricology. They are bringing out hundreds of volunteers to serve lunch. Thank you. A round of applause. Waste management of Alameda County and the Solid Waste Service providers, give them a big hand. Argent materials hosting the cleanup. Alaska airlines for the round trip tickets. There will be four lucky winners, two on each side of the bay. Go to the battle for the bay 2019. Org. Sign up. We are still signing up for september 21st. We want to thank andys construction in oakland. A round of applause as well. [applause. ] clear channel, emerald fund, warriors and black and veatch and for hosting us here today. Treasure Island Development authority. Yes, thank you so much. What a beautiful sight to see the bridge, the bay, both mayors here. The city is coming together. Battle for the bay for this friendly competition. I will close with this. Encourage everyone to go on the website. Battle for the bay 2019. Org let the competition begin. [ ] homelessness in San Francisco is considered the number 1 issue by most people who live here, and it doesnt just affect Neighbors Without a home, it affects all of us. Is real way to combat that is to Work Together. It will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and Community Members all coming together. [ ] the product homeless connect Community Day of Service Began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. What we do is we host and expostyle event, and we were the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. Theres over 120 Service Providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5 to prescription glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting, showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal Service Providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that Service Today here it is an actual, tangible Service People can leave with it. I am with the hearing and Speech Center of northern california, and we provide a variety of Services Including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. To follow updates when they come into the Speech Center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their year, deciding on which hearing aid will work best for them. If they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use it for any other services that they need. San francisco has phenomenal social services to support people at risk of becoming homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of waste. Bringing everyone into the same space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to sign up for medical, what you need identification, you dont have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a d. M. V. , you go across the hall to the d. M. V. To get your i. D. Today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming to cs for followup service. For a participant to qualify for services, all they need to do is come to the event. We have a lot of people who are at risk of homelessness but not yet experiencing it, that todays event can ensure they stay house. Many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for medical or learning about d. M. V. Services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. I am the representative for the volunteer central. We are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. On a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get tshirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. Our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the Different Service areas and help them find the Different Services that they needs. One of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing is by working with Homeless Outreach teams. They come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into shortterm shelter, and talk about housing1st policies. We also work very closely with the department of Public Health to provide a lot of our services. We have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service. We have folks that help give out lunches in the cafe, we have folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. Volunteers, i think of them as the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. Participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets. We do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their pets with them. They can bring them into the event as well. We also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. We also have a bag check. You dont have to worry about your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. We get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss, but they didnt know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. Our next event will be in march, we dont yet have a date set. We typically sap set it six weeks out. The way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. We always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. A lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they dont know how they can help, and defence like this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. [ ] they are joining us today because we know this work is not easy. Im joined here today by the director of Mental Health reform, grant colfax who is our director of the department of Public Health as well as yolanda who has been a client here for some time and she will be speaking to you later today. Thank you for being here and all the folks who are doing the hard work. We know that Mental Health there is a Mental Health crisis here in San Francisco and i know that we often times hear that were being thrown around loosely. But the fact is that as someone who grew up in San Francisco and know that we have had challenges in this city, including issues around homelessness, what i see is something that ive never seen in my lifetime of growing up in the city and that is people who are in serious, serious crisis. Serious need. And the fact is, in San Francisco, the frustration is that we have a lot of resources. We have a lot we have a lot of dedicated revenues to help spousht support people, but we have discovered that the coordination has to be better and more efficient to really help people that we know are struggling. So we have people who have, as we unfortunately know, theyre homeless. They have challenges with addiction. They have a number of other ailments, including Mental Illness, and unfortunately have nowhere to go but the streets. We need to make sure were prepared to meet people where they are. We know that people are cycling in and out of our Emergency Rooms and only to be released, to be back right on the streets where they came from. Our jails and theyre having trouble staying stable in our Shelter Systems and trouble maintaining housing. When i was on the board of supervisors, i had a number of clients that i was specifically dedicated to, to have a better understanding of how the system was working and whether or not it could help to reach them and, sadly, those three clients who im still connected with, are still struggle on our streets. We have to end the cycle. We have to do more and we have to be prepared to make the hardest decisions that weve ever made before. Residents like yolanda are amazing Success Stories and she has been a client here since 2009 and has really turned her life around and im really happy to have her here today. The good news is that, you know, when the city focuses and works together to address these issues, we can actually accomplish great things. Back in march, i announced that we were hiring a director of Mental Health reform because that is exactly what we need to do with this system. Dr. Anton will be speaking a little bit later about what hes been doing suns he has taken over this role back in march to get us on track. Today, we are launching an initiative to help those who are the most in need. At those Cross Sections of homelessness, Mental Illness and Substance Use disorder. And our plan is to better coordinate the care. Now i know youve all heard about the numbers. But the fact is the data with the numbers and the information wasnt necessarily clear. And that is a big part of what we want to talk about today. What is actually we see it. We know it is happening. We heard that there was data, but the fact is there wasnt really data in really clear, coordinated efforts. And so the ability to address this issue comes with understanding what is going on with the people and that includes the data. And analyzing the folks who are in and out of our system, understanding if they were offered services or why they refused services and where theyre located after their refused services. Through this analysis done by the health department, through dr. S nagusaplan and the department of Public Health, we have been able to identify 4,000 people with the characteristics of the population who are really in need through these various diagnosis. And of the 4,000 individuals that weve identified who struggle with these particular challenges, 41 are in crisis, which is demonstrated by their high use of the Emerge