The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 12, 2019 meeting of the Public Safety and neighborhood services. I am supervisor mandelman and our clerk is john carroll. I want to thank the Community Engagement and immigrant affairs and sf government tv. Thank you, agnes. Then we also do have overflow seating in the chamber. Is that where we are doing it . It is being arranged presently. Folks can watch from there. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements. Please silence cell phones. Your completed speaker calls should be submitted to the clerk. Supervisor mandelman please call the first item. Clerk clerFood Insecurity ag lowincome pregnant people in San Francisco. Supervisor stefani thank you everybody for coming out this morning. I called this hearing because Food Insecurity in San Francisco particularly among lowincome pregnant women and families is a growing problem. Access to food should be a basic human right because it is a fundamental human need. It is limited or uncer
I am a little nervous. They helped me through both ofpregnancies. When it comes to food, it is difficult to, you know, to survive in the city with my husband is the only one that works. I take care of my kids. We cannot apply for any help like they were showing on the slide. It is true over 20 we cannot for the eligibility we dont qualify. I try to get whatever i can with the program for food bags every week. Thank god there is emergency food bags in other places. Sometimes it is hard for me because i have both of my children and i cannot get on the bus as well with that. I have lost some opportunities of getting food boxes because i cannot get on the bus with both of them and my food. I have lost that. Sorry about that. With rent, too, hopefully you guys can help us out. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you both. Next speaker. Good morning. I lead policy an and advocacy fr the San Francisco Marin Food Bank. Thank you for calling this hearing today. This is deer to our house for 3
Engagement and immigrant affairs and sf government tv. Thank you, agnes. Then we also do have overflow seating in the chamber. Is that where we are doing it . It is being arranged presently. Folks can watch from there. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements. Please silence cell phones. Your completed speaker calls should be submitted to the clerk. Supervisor mandelman please call the first item. Clerk clerFood Insecurity ag lowincome pregnant people in San Francisco. Supervisor stefani thank you everybody for coming out this morning. I called this hearing because Food Insecurity in San Francisco particularly among lowincome pregnant women and families is a growing problem. Access to food should be a basic human right because it is a fundamental human need. It is limited or uncertain access t to add what food adequate food. People who are hungry or starving is something that affects every neighborhood in every community in this city. Economic insecurity is the primary cause for Food I
Like they were showing on the slide. It is true over 20 we cannot for the eligibility we dont qualify. I try to get whatever i can with the program for food bags every week. Thank god there is emergency food bags in other places. Sometimes it is hard for me because i have both of my children and i cannot get on the bus as well with that. I have lost some opportunities of getting food boxes because i cannot get on the bus with both of them and my food. I have lost that. Sorry about that. With rent, too, hopefully you guys can help us out. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you both. Next speaker. Good morning. I lead policy an and advocacy fr the San Francisco Marin Food Bank. Thank you for calling this hearing today. This is deer to our house for 35 years. Thank you for elevating this with the board of supervisor. Thank you to paula for the incredible presentation. I am a member of the Food Security task force. The data is close to my heart. Thank you also to the previous speakers w
Instead of having your Diabetic Management Program happen through Insurance Company x, it is now happening through Venture Capital backed technology organizational wide. For hospitals and providers area and, i mean, an example of a disruptors telemedicine. Finding the opportunity, if you are a telemedicine organization to say we know individuals are not getting as much primary care, or at least lets say in that moment of need, it is 2 00 a. M. , child wakes up crying, you know, holding the ear. The telemedicine organization would say we are going to disrupt by not just assuming that persons should go person should go to the emergency room at 2 30 a. M. They can use their smart phone to patch into a physician who, with some information, can look through the phone, possibly prescribe an antibiotic to help the child because of a probable ear infection. Those are a couple of examples. I think it is disrupting in both ways. I understand the impact. I guess the word is weird to me. But anywa