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Our country and every municipality is looking at issues of aging and the ways in which the values of the country, state, local, exercise those into services and understandings of the way people age and the kinds of services they need. I am wondering if you can give a short history of what department of aging and Adult Services here is in San Francisco. Certainly. San francisco has a long history of providing services for older adults and adults with disabilities. We are a leader in that. The department has been around for a long time but came together with services in 2000. Our Biggest Program...

Hanging in the balance on what we do here on capitol hill and with white house. Three weeks from now i hope to be joining you in the passage with you and your families in your communitys of a major which will strengthen america and give you an opportunity to be part of our future. President , i yield. First, let me tell you how pleased i am to the people of maryland that we are now in the process of ending this government shutdown. Government shutdown does not benefit any and certainly does not benefit the federal workers who live in maryland and workers around the nation. The uncertainty that...

Collaborations. I wanted to talk about a few things were doing in addition to our regular programming. We have implemented a number of the recommendations of the lgbt aging policy task force that came out, that is spearheaded by tom nolan, and its just really exciting to see these recommendations turn into programs. Weve talked about some of those at commission, but i wanted to mention that one of the things that weve done more recently is to start Training Staff and also training our cbo partners to collect Sexual Orientation and gender identity data in keeping with then senator weiners local...

We also we use this information also to think about how we allocate funding. One of the things weve been able to do i guess in the last year with the nutrition request for proposal, we were able to look at the impact we had on people and start thinking about allocating those dollars a little bit differently and you probably remember we talked about that when linda lou came and presented on the nutrition contracts we had. And then in longterm care operations, we launched the support home pilot to serve older adults who have functional needs tore home care. Those unable to buy home care on the p...

Some faith providers from kenya on the subject of Family Planning. So i think it is true what the first panel really emphasizes, that things are evolving and developing and this is an important moment to be exploring this further. And with this panel were eager to talk about it from the focus of the u. S. Policy perspective. And i think to begin with well turn to sandy thurman. Given your long involvement with hiv policy from the u. S. Government can you describe to us more about how pep far began partners with faithbased organizations and how that has evolved. Sure. Thank you. And thank you a...