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And i just have one quick question for the last speaker regarding internships. What is your name. Vira. And so my question to you is when you started these Internship Programs was there a model that you were going off of . Or in a way did you just kind of from the ground up. Had is the project search model that started 20 years ago out of Childrens Hospital of cincinnati and so supervisor mar mentioned the alameda county, that they have, and it has been about 9 years since they started terry from the arc has the pg e. And as far as it being a model as far as replicating for the city level, you...

Get involved with this . The project search, is an educational tool for the whole site and the interns involved and it educates them on how to work with the individual with disability and give the interns the opportunity to be immersed in a setting while being with their on site job coach and also starts the dialogue about the people with disabilitied being employed. This is mainly through the inner department, dialogue about how this program has been and how they want to participate in this program. A partnership of the city and county of San Francisco to bring the projects for staoet and cou...

Go to your local Senior Center. The Broadband Technology Grant Program has purchased about 40 systems to be distributed throughout the city. Find out if your local Senior Center is part of that program and has a wii. I am going to be doing training with all of the Senior Center a activity directors in the next couple of weeks so that all of them will know how to supervise and manage and use the system. By this summer, there should be wii at a Senior Center near you. We urge you to try out this new activity. It is really fun to play golf, tennis, baseball, even boxing. Challenge someone you do ...

And they allow me to represent San Francisco as the Innovative Center for all the rest of the cities across the country. So we get to compare information and there. What these days i will get to talk to you while i am in washington, d. C. , and you can hear what i am saying across there, so we can enjoy it wherever i go, you know i will be working and not fooling around. Finally, we also are using technology to join our private companies in hiring san franciscans. Hopefully some of your kids, some of your grandkids as well, are going to enjoy some of these great jobs in San Francisco, because ...

I will be going to rosa parks Senior Center. We just spent 2 million of federal monies to redo that whole Senior Center and allow that to be one of the sites that will post the Technology Advances you are experimenting with today. Our own residents at every location of our Senior Centers are going to enjoy the Technology Advances that we have as a society. This is why we work in a great city like San Francisco. We want everybody connected. We want to make sure the San Francisco connected Program Reaches all of our seniors, all of the people with disabilities. There is no reason why people ocea...