Clerk. No eating or drinking in the chamber, please. Items today will appear on the october 8th agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Can you please call the first item. Clerk hearing to analyze and understand the city progress in meeting the requirements and goals of propsis t. Lessons learned from the citys efforts to achieve treatment on demand and challenges to current efforts to expand access to treatment for Substance Use disorder. Supervisor mandelman i want to thank the providers, advocates and drug policy experts who have pushed the city. The members of the coalition have been on the front lines for many years. I thank them to bring this hearing forward. It was more than two decades ago this board passed the resolution authored by the supervisor adopting drug treatment on demand fo for indigent san franciscans. The average wait was 60 days and the citiesty mated 12,000 of the 45,000 in need of treatment was receiving it. In 2008 voters passed proposit
How do we get to where the open beds are . So, for example, what was happening in the Residential Programs, people would relapse and go out and use drugs or alcohol. One of the options at that point is to say, we might have to discharge you. The olden days, in the past, has been, well have to discharge you and here is a list of shelter, the emergency room and if you have trouble, please call these numbers, thank you very much. Im bringing up hummingbird because this has been a great resource for these types of incidents so that we dont lose people. It is a psychiatric respite where we can help people go, excuse themselves from the residential treatment for a little bit and get some respite and come back in. It doesnt require a new intake or a new system that happens. The hummingbird pe respite provs a soft, quiet space. We talked how people are lost going from p her here to there d this is where hummingbird picks up clients having difficulty navigating the system. Because were connecte
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Afternoon, i am a person and longterm recovery. I hail from the great state of hawaii. [applause] oxford house is alive and well and strong on the island of oahu. Ive been with oxford house since 1990 through 1992 and employed since 1993. We would like to welcome our panelists. From oxfordh dan house, state coordinator from oklahoma. Taylor, oxford house alumni from North Carolina. Michael, oxford house alumni, outreach in florida. Jason wilson, oxford house resident and reentry coordinator, North Carolina. Jesse. What did i say . Jesse. Cleveland, oxford house alumni. [applause] over three quarters of oxford house population has done some jail or prison time. In america today, approximately 60 of those in jail or prisons are addicted to alcohol or drugs. Each year, thousands of those incarcerated reenter society. One year ofhin reentry, about half of those individuals will commit another crime and head to conviction and reentry into the into incarceration. The expense of those who ent
Justice home began in 2013 and as part of the program in cooperation with judges and prosecutors, women who are facing prison or jail for a felony are given a chance to remain at home with their families to be held accountable in the community and to get the help and support that they need to do better, and that is exactly what happens. 88 of justice home graduate remain arrest free after they complete the program. And justice are also realizes massive fiscal savings. Its the total cost of tax payer to incarcerated women in york its just too much of a going to foster care is over 130,000 a year. It costs less than 20,000 a year to support a woman to a Better Future via justice home. And it gets much better results. Again, looking to the states for innovation, we see two new primary care legislation adopted in massachusetts and tennessee. And these new measures require judges in the states to consider, in fact, when theyre in sentencing a person who is aa primary caregiver of minor chil