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center, the lgbt committee partnership, a critical thing for housing and service providers to discuss how better to serve these populations. we are building that infrastructure that is critically important for this growing population. in these very challenging economic times, it seems timely and appropriate to focus on the need of this particularly vulnerable population and how we can work together to meet the needs being raised here today. lgbt seniors are adaptive, resilient, some of the strongest people i have ever met, but our community faces. and take challenges and obstacles, a...

of the programs about city funded programs, what is the city require in terms of cultural competency? is that part of the requirement of getting a contract? and to the extent that is the case, what kind of oversight does the department provide to make sure that it is appropriate? >> yes, but that is part of the requirement of our providers. we also have business office compliance that monitors the procedures that require it that to be implemented. we do have a monitoring unit that does that. specific to the goals of cultural competency for the lgbt population, we have had those kinds...

in conjunction with the city- funded singer care facility, san francisco and implemented a program to stop the unlawful fiscal restraint and drugging of residents. -- physical restraining and drugging of residents. lgbt elders also face complete disregard for their powers of attorney in advance directives. in my own work, i seen this firsthand. in one case, state officials separated the gay couple, stole their belongings, and cut the help the partner from visiting his sick partner. this went on for weeks, and the man died without his partner getting a chance to say goodbye. we assist...

the board should also focus on employment discrimination. in national survey found over a quarter of lgbt people plan to wait until the 70's to retire. lgbt others are more likely to be in poverty than their st. pierre's, and these numbers will rise. for lgbt elders who are recent immigrants and undocumented, the city has a role to ensure their culture reed caught the tend to work with them and their resources and our rich material are culturally sensitive and translations are always available. it is incumbent to ensure that all lgbt seniors are included. lgbt elders also suffered fr...