We will be addressing some of the needs of the Public Health services. Then at the next meeting we will have a presentation which will be an overall of Behavioural Health programs in the department. In addition, i would like to on behalf of the commission, welcome commissioner suzanne gerardo. She has been the chair of the San Francisco Families First five commission and the founder and trustee of the demerlac academy which is serving underserved children and families. You certainly bring a lot of credentials to the commission, and were very happy to have you. Would you like to say a few words . Yes. Im very happy to be here, and i hope with my background in Mental Health, Behavioural Health, as a practising psychologist, im not just an administrator, i see families and adolescents daily. I look forward to being part of the planning, program, and solutions as the department of Public Health moves forward. So i welcome the opportunity to serve the city. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome, co
Is we would be running 41 beds in that facility and maintaining 29 lowbarrier hummingbird beds. In the interim, five people will be moved, provided its clinically indicated or they agree to move to other facilities, to open up a 14bed hummingbird that would last in april. People would be moved from that hummingbird to other hummingbird options and we would reopen to the state of 41 beds. Really pleased that we were able to come to some agreement. I think the staff input and the collective problemsolving let us move in the right direction. The governor just another key piece of news in our rapidly developing Behavioural Health field, the governor signed sb40 into law which helps strengthen our conservatorship and will help more people in what i consider lifesafing conservatorship. We will be able to help people for up to six months, provided they meet a number of criteria with regard to what these bills regarding we see the multiple offers of care. So we are working on this. A work grou
Doing this. Good afternoon, commissioners. First of all, i just wanted to say to commissioner gerardo, welcome to an interesting time. Its a new era and were focused a lot on Behavioural Health because thats why were listening today. I just want to say welcome to it because today is a good day. Thank you for the resolutions on the arf because it really got us agitated. You did come together. Thank you. Now we need to move from here and what i want to say is its wonderful. Usually i come with lots of challenges and criticisms and whatever. Today is a day that i want to say thank you to ms. Martinez, dr. Hammer, and the whole team who has been working on this whole person care for years. Ive met with you and asked lots of questions and whatever. A slide presentation is not everything, so i do have some questions. Im going to leave that for another pay perhaps to understand it better. Thank you very much because from our perspective, from taxpayers for public safety, this is not trying to
We will be addressing some of the needs of the Public Health services. Then at the next meeting we will have a presentation which will be an overall of Behavioural Health programs in the department. In addition, i would like to on behalf of the commission, welcome commissioner suzanne gerardo. She has been the chair of the San Francisco Families First five commission and the founder and trustee of the demerlac academy which is serving underserved children and families. You certainly bring a lot of credentials to the commission, and were very happy to have you. Would you like to say a few words . Yes. Im very happy to be here, and i hope with my background in Mental Health, Behavioural Health, as a practising psychologist, im not just an administrator, i see families and adolescents daily. I look forward to being part of the planning, program, and solutions as the department of Public Health moves forward. So i welcome the opportunity to serve the city. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome, co
The adult residential series. Today it is part of the three presentations laid out by president loyce. We will be addressing some of the needs of the Public Health services. Then at the next meeting we will have a presentation which will be an overall of Behavioural Health programs in the department. In addition, i would like to on behalf of the commission, welcome commissioner suzanne gerardo. She has been the chair of the San Francisco Families First five commission and the founder and trustee of the demerlac academy which is serving underserved children and families. You certainly bring a lot of credentials to the commission, and were very happy to have you. Would you like to say a few words . Yes. Im very happy to be here, and i hope with my background in Mental Health, Behavioural Health, as a practising psychologist, im not just an administrator, i see families and adolescents daily. I look forward to being part of the planning, program, and solutions as the department of Public