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To see some effort on part of the commission and the Mental Health department in trying to bring about more sensitivity on the part of some of the social workers that work in clinics so theres less of us versus them mentality. I would like to first say that the mission act which i attend i recommend the highest possible accommodation for my psychiatric social worker, nancy a baro. I have been working with her for years and shes excellent. Also i recommend the highest accommodation for the director galileo and in my dealings with him he makes me feel at ease and equal to him. Theres no superior...

Activities. Good evening, commissioners and public and my report is going to be relatively brief tonight. And we have had unfortunately, two homicides since our last meeting. We had one on nicoles way out in the bay view, at 20 of 10 and last week, homicides actually were working that case. And very sadly, we had a second homicide just last night, at 24th and cap street. And that brings the total for the year, to 26 again, you know, we actively worked this case, our clearances are up and we are hopeful to make these cases as well. And but again, very unfortunate and the vigil that has been hel...

Had the pleasure of serving on the task force and i want to thank supervisors weiner and campos and former supervisor olague for your vision in putting this together because it would not have happened unless you would have done that, i also want to thank bill in particular on the task force and i very much appreciated my colleagues but bill put this together and pulled it together in an effective way and we would not have had the report that we had without his guidance. And so, one of the things that we quickly realizes is that there are many issues facing our community and we tried to do thin...

Be living with some other form of dementia. Using the citys 12 percent estimate of the lgbt senior population it can be extrapolated that by 2020 over 4,000 lgbt older adults over the age of 65 will be challenged by some form of als hiemer dementia. Heterosexual rely on family members to secure medical information and Access Service and to provide support, but research has shown that elder adults that are twice as likely to be single and live along as heterosexual and less likely to have Adult Children that support them. They rely on family of choice for support but the families of choice are ...

Support. I want to talk to you this morning about a crisis. That the city and the Lgbt Community is facing together. And it is in demencika, do not let your response to this crisis be lost in the urgent and important recommendations for housing security and affordability and other much needed services. By 2020, the total population of older adults in San Francisco living with alzheimers disease will be 26,774 older adults. And another ten,000 people will be living with some other form of dementia. Using the citys 12 percent estimate of the lgbt senior population it can be extrapolated that by ...