Group as we have gone and right now i think [inaudible] we have you know, we have engaged the folks from the hiv Providers Network so they have been participating. We have several folks from the department of Public Health, from ucsf, San Francisco aids foundation. The fabulous folks from [inaudible] joining us. Thanks ted and matt. Ms. Chung is participating, the Health Commissioner. We also brought in kaiser. What is important is that 2 3 of the patients are seen in the private sector for hiv and most by kaiser in San Francisco. Having brad here the director of hiv services at kaiser has been critical. We have genie to bring in the private docks. We had their voices at the table but its been bringing people in. We had adam taylor from scotts office, laura lane from your office has been participating and its very open, and just everybody has been very enthusiastic about moving forward. We meet about every two months and focus on working collaboratively to come up with some ideas to ac
We are concerned that the budget as anticipated will impact about a Million Dollars in cuts for the next fiscal year, and we need to make sure that the city includes all of those cuts when we say that there will be no cuts. We are also committed to working with the partners in the community to ensure there is an expansion of capacity and we prevent homelessness in every instance in our community and were very dedicated to working in collaboration with our sister agencies to make that happen, so were excited about the opportunity to talk about expanding services. Before we can talk about that we have to make sure that we dont experience any cuts, and this plan is exciting and once again positions San Francisco to show the world how things should get done, but this is a plan that involves stages. We know there are great unmet needs in the area of housing, Mental Health and Substance Use and will take cares to ramp up to meet the unmet need so thank you and we look forward to the conversa
Program is looking at the aids housing list which is a very outdated program which needs updating and there was very little in terms of identifying new resources either for building new Affordable Housing or as i would argue equally important in preventing homelessness so keeping people in their current housing. It is unlikely that someone in a rent control unit is going to be hard to find Something Like their rent control unit. One issue that we see very quickly is an issue where many people lived with hiv and aids have had private longterm Disability Insurance policies. Those policies have given them a higher income than people received ssdi or ssi. Those insurance policies will term out when they reach retirement age. It maybe 62 and 65, some 70. But many people, i will talk in a minute about how many, will see a very dramatic drop in their income such as they are no longer able to afford housing. Where we want to put them in a program where there is housing subsidy where they will
Access to the housing programs and you can only be referred through the department of public health. So all of that is really an important part of the process, all the Residential Care, facilities that are really part of the whole fabric of housing. So just want to stress that. Thanks. I have a comment coming from the bridge line. Hello. Hi, this is jessica layman from senior and disability action. Can you hear me . Yes. Wonderful. Im sorry i couldnt be here with you but thank you for this important discussion on this important issue. Im sorry. The issues that i wanted to raise was about training and on going assistance with using the data portal. I think making sure things are fully accessible is a really important step but even when they are as accessible as they can be we are going to have a lot of people who arent familiar with computers and going online and people who dont speak the language at all and are going to need some assistance. Im trying to figure out where people can go
Center to try to get some help and most ways they have a snap program which is the San Francisco Assistance Program and it is set up for the people who already have jobs and networks already here. There is really nothing like that for lgbtq people and so they end up out on the streets and the latest Homeless Count is that there is a large percentage of our Homeless People are lgbtq. And i had some really interesting, experiences when i was in the shelters, and i had a difficult time, trying to get a six month bed at next door. And i finally was able to get it, and you know, some of the things that i noticed was there was a menu of breakfast, and i think and lunch, or a breakfast and dinner that was put up, for the month that next door, but, we never received anything that was on that menu and my question was always, that if somebody was able to make a menu for a month, that means that they must have known, what their inventory was, but if they were not receiving that food and what happ