Hope we can all do. Not only improving that helped but also educating the country to know that there is treatment for that and they can be great contributors to society and the workplace. We thank you very much for those thoughts. We leave it up to you to connect those dots and help others as well. [applause] friday he attends ceremonies in normandy, marking the 70th anniversary of the dday invasion of world war ii. Russian president Vladimir Putin is also scheduled to be at the ceremonies. House hearing on programs to help veterans returned to civilian life. Then, former president george h. W. Bush is honored. After that, q and a with author brett the behr. The soviet system in Eastern Europe contained the seeds of its own destruction. Many of the problems that we saw at the end again at the very beginning. I spoke about the attempt to control all institutions and control all parts of the economy and political and social life. One of the problems when you do that, when you try to cont
Children, and for the families of the adults who were lost. Our hearts are broken for the parents of the survivors as well. For as blessed as they are to have their Children Home tonight, they know that their childrens innocence has been torn away from them too early. And there are no words that will ease their pain. As a country we have been through this too many times. Whether its in Elementary School in newton or a Shopping Mall in oregon or a temp el in wisconsin, or a movie these never aurora or a Street Corner in chicago, these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods. And these children are our children. And were going have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this regardless of the politics. This evening michelle and i will do what i know every parent in america will do, which is have our hold our children a little tighter and well tell them that we love them. And well remind each other how deeply we love one another but there are families in co
Reason has to do with toxic stress. And for those who dont know, toxic stress shows in people who are exposed to trauma, violence, much like what were dealing with in the city, the number of shootings that weve had in this entire city. So, its not a surprise that the numbers would be very high when we think about how many shootings weve had in the bayview and Visitacion Valley neighborhood alone. It is of epidemic proportion. So, i want to give some voice to what supervisor kim has raised. I think shes nailed it, which is interesting, because ive come to the conclusion to support lauras law because of that, because we need to provide support for people who are hurting. I appreciate the efforts of the colleague bringing this issue forward to the forefront where hundreds of individuals are suffering from Mental Illness. Many who i see encounter my district and quite frankly who i have in my own family. Many of the people that i seek to help are unable to recognize their own diagnosis and
Debate and i was ultimately persuaded at that time because the leadership of the department of Public Health, dr. Mitch katz, for those of you who remember that time, he was opposed to moving forward because he didnt think that laura alps ~ lauras law could be effectively implemented. Today we have department of Public Health leadership that think differently, that are ready to implement assistive treatment. And we should give our Mental Health experts time to do t. That being said, we should put together the best program we can. I do want to thank supervisor farrell for his leadership and advocates who who are moving forward because, as supervisor cohen said, we do have to do things differently. And i do support that. I just want to make sure we do it with the strongest program possible. Thank you. Supervisor kim. Thank you. I just wanted to clarify my earlier comments. My point was not that there are more Mental Health illnesses documented in the africanamerican and latino community.
Within the guidelines and its a small number of people that may be impacted, but i feel like its going down a road of further stigmatizing already stigmatized population of people. I wanted to also add that i think voluntary treatment thats culturally com p e he tent with Strong Community based but also San Francisco department of Public Health services is the answer. ~ competent i think healing of families and strengthening of our Mental Health is critical, and this policy doesnt go anywhere near enough to do that, and i do feel that it may lead to further the danger of violating civil rights of many mentally ill people in our neighborhoods as well. Lastly, i wanted to say that the advocates from nami and others have really helped me understand how the system functions for families and the grieving and high emotions among people, but i do feel again that this is a critical issue that without Adequate Funding and i think more time to think through how our systems could work in San Fran