Find. Fine. So sorry we put you through this. This is very good conversation for us and as a city, were struggling with this retained element. And well have a lot of projects coming before us. So this is going to help us to get better at it. Thank you. Are we all set . Are we done . Were adjourned. This noting will come to order. I will call the roll. roll call . President james loyce before we get started i would like to read a statement from the commission. Thank you for attending todays meeting. There have been several articles about the property of Public Health adult residence facility. There is frustration and confusion about the past year. In response to the changes made in areas of homelessness and Behavioral Health issues in San Francisco we request the next three meeting including the following relevant items. Today we will discuss the presentation. Next meeting whole Person Care Initiative to address the needs of the highest utilizers of Public Health services. On the fifth
Reallocate beds for Navigation Center purposes leaves a psychiatric medical need unmet. There will be a percentage of patients that need this level of care. Rather than further reducing we need to provide a comprehensive system of Behavioral Healthcare. We needed this yesterday. We need it more today. Thank you for your consideration. Is there any more Public Comment . I just want to say the arf is anything but unsafe. The staff deserve consideration for their jobs. Thank you. I am a gay man that i hate. I will put this in the hands of the commission. Mr. Pickens will you come back up, before we get into the commissions questions and comments i would like to give doctor colfax an opportunity to respond to the things he has heard. We will come back to you during the course of the dialogue up here. Thank you. I want to thank everybody for coming out today and expressing your opinion. It is incredibly important. I apologize on the part of the department for not getting input earlier and h
I dont think they should close it down. That is my place of living. I have been there for five years along with my other clients there. I feel that the arf shouldnt be closed down. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Allen. Good afternoon. I am a Mental Health worker at the facility also known as arf. I want to thank you. Thank you so much. I dont have anything to say because supervisor ronen said everything i will agree with what he is saying. I is agree with her. I came to the arf to the Mental Health and living en independeny in the community. It is in the hopes of enabling them to get back into the community. Some clients are able to move to lesser care. Unfortunately, a majority of clients are in need of Constant Care and attention. The ones that need the most care received eviction on august 19. We have an established program serving the needs of San Francisco adult Mental Health population for the last 14 years. Instead of building on the program and increasing beds, the program has been
Accommodation within the third meeting. We might be able to look at a solution. It would seem to me at least that it would be very appropriate that the commission hear an overall broad plan as to the types of services felt to be needed in the city and how we cant reach all of them. Clearly the original intent of the building has sort of been changed by urgent needs otherwise in which we were supposed to be bringing back those who were housed outside on a chronic basis to San Francisco. The needs of the city that has been expressed hearsay if those people at the moment are there still, wherever they are, we cant bring them back because we cant solve our more immediate problems right now. That is the reason for the changes, i believe, at the Behavioral Health center to try to meet the immediate contingencies not forgetting that we have people outside. I think as an overall comprehensive look at the whole situation, we might want to see what happened to those people, too, and if anything
We could move forward to operate all 55 of the arf beds. In addition to these factors, the redevelopment of empty unused beds in the arf could be repurposed to provide additional beds for homeless clients in need of Behavioral Services by expanding the humming bird psychiatric respite program. I would like to talk about hummingbird and why its expansion is important. A background. Hummingbird first opened in 2017 with 15 beds, which as i said before were always full. Then it expanded by 14 beds in february over 2019. Those beds were the result of the beds we asked to go to suspension to use the beds for hummingbird h bird. To date it serves 500 clients. It is a primary discharge for those discharged from zucker bird San Francisco. 30 are from the psychiatric services. This is a safe place to be other than is on the streets where they are the opportunity to engage with staff and be offered services and hopefully willing to accept the services at some point. Next i will review the commun