About the incredible effect that has it and the ability to add rooms for homeless mothers with newborns. We have a deep bench of workers, and with continued federal funding and leadership, meet the goal. 216 families on the San Francisco centralized wait list for shelter, the last count showed an increase in the number of Homeless Individuals and families and a decrease in the percentage of those living on the street, 15 percent of homeless families in 2011 were on the street and 5 percent in 2013. Families experiencing homelessness are as a whole, similar to other low income family and face a range of obstacles, they face things. In San Francisco, it is most frequently cited cause of homelessness, followed by job loss, my colleagues at hsa and the department of Public Health will describe our Service Model in more detail but i would like to share the highlights to the Services Offered to the families. Coordinated entry, and wait list, and compass connecting points and transitional hou
A few procedural items we have a long agenda, we will take a break from 12 30 to 1 20 wherever we are at that point in time, and given that it is a 90 degree day, we dont see that very often and so we are without coats over here at the board of supervisors and with that madam clerk, could you call item one . Hearing on services and solutions for women and families who are experiencing homelessness. Okay, thank you. Colleagues, and members of the public this is a hearing that i requested, and the third of hearings that we have had over the last few weeks and this hearing kicks off the focus of the subpopulations of the over all Homeless Population here in San Francisco. Todays hearing is on services and solutions for women and families who are experiencing homelessness. And we have again, met with the Department Heads and the city staff and the Different Service providers and advocates and Community Leaders in the area, and we do know that these very subpopulations have unique needs and
I would appreciate maybe you could share with me the information you have in terms of who has the signage and who doesnt . That would be great. I appreciate it. Sure. Thank you supervisor. Supervisor tang. Thank you and thank you supervisor campos for your questions. I wanted to build upon something he asked about and Language Services and access and i know for the shelters you have things worry about and health and hygiene issues and standards of care and perhaps language may not be as pressing of a need and i am wondering if you have or going to do an assessment on the demands in terms of the folks requesting certain things so we have data showing what the potential needs are. I think yeah, it looks for three years you have been advocating for funding for Language Services through i guess the Language Line, but it would be good i think to be able to see what the needs and demands are. So a Needs Assessment again not to not answer the question but i think the contractor might be be ab
Complaint antd has an opportunity to read the response and decide whether they agree or not. With this category and the majority of the complaintings were not seeing if they feel the issue was addressed so what the committee started doing last fiscal year and this fiscal year is any area addressed in a complaint within this category the committee divides these issues up and conducts their own investigation or site inspection to see if the fact that the issues that were brought up that there is reason to file a complaint on behalf of the committee or if the issues have been addressed and this has been a pretty successful way for us to see whats happening with this large portion of client complaints. The break down at the end of the report is that appendix and it gives you shelter by shelter look at the type of complaints that were seen and who filed the complaints and if there were complaints around specific staff, individuals, if there were a large number of complaints about one, two,
Shelters, st. Josephs, United Council and compass received no complaints for the fiscal year. St. Josephs received no complaints and every time the committee went out they felt it was to the standards of care and the others were generated from the committee and its important to point out lark kin and Mission Neighborhood resources center, hamilton had a very low number of complaints and mission and larkin had one complaint for the whole fiscal year. Supervisor. In the report supervisor campos. Its okay. I will go over you. So thank you very much and i do love the hat as well. Looking at the report and looking at the types of complaints filed with some of the shelters for many of them a recurring issue seems to be facilities and access. Can you tell me a little more about what that would include, the issues that come up, Something Like that . For the rules Committee Members if you turn to page four of the report there say break down that supervisor campos is referring to and it gives a