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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 and were hoping that by keeping chi...

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 ...

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 childr...

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 ...

Edgewood center as an evaluation and Treatment Facility pursuant to the institutions code for youth ages 5 to 17 and authorizing the director to enter into a designation agreement with said facility. Thank you and i know we have a presentation from the department of Public Health staff. Thank you good afternoon i have documents id like to pass out. I have copies of our powerpoint and also edgewood has some letters of support from their neighbors. And i have dr. Young and dr. Anderson here from edgewood. I dont know if you need more. Okay. Here you go. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much f...