Bee hair youral health and equity. She served on the San Francisco Human Rights Commission for eight years including as president of that commission. Were so happy to have you on board. Ive had the privilege of knowing and working with you for many years so welcome. Would you like to say anything upon your first meeting . I just want to say thank you, dan, for that introduction. Its a privilege and a thrill to be here. Im very much looking forward to being able to join this work on behalf of the city and the people that live in our community. So thank you, its good to be here. Good, good. Thank you to mayor breed foray r appointing you. The approval of the minutes from the last meeting of june 23rd. Upon review of the minutes, commissioners, do you have any edits or if not, we can have a motion to approve and also check to see if we have any Public Comments. Move to adopt the minutes. Second. Im not opposed to adopting the minutes. Im just trying to understand for fourman purposes do w
Shes served with the San Francisco District Attorney since 2005 and bridges a wealth of knowledge and experience to the commission with regards to bee hair youral health and equity. She served on the San Francisco Human Rights Commission for eight years including as president of that commission. Were so happy to have you on board. Ive had the privilege of knowing and working with you for many years so welcome. Would you like to say anything upon your first meeting . I just want to say thank you, dan, for that introduction. Its a privilege and a thrill to be here. Im very much looking forward to being able to join this work on behalf of the city and the people that live in our community. So thank you, its good to be here. Good, good. Thank you to mayor breed foray r appointing you. The approval of the minutes from the last meeting of june 23rd. Upon review of the minutes, commissioners, do you have any edits or if not, we can have a motion to approve and also check to see if we have any
Been supportive of Mental Health sf. So lets just know that they have been supporting us from the getgo on this initiative, because they know what it means when Mental Illness goes un treated. So thank you to them and thank you to huey sf, 2121 and i said that the San Francisco labor council, the consumers and the families, most recently Zach Williams who made a beautiful video and tribute to his father, robin williams, who battled and struggled with Mental Illness in his lifetime and has been a huge supporter of Mental Health sf. Weve had so much incredible imput from all of our communitybased organizations from the getgo, Community Housing partnerships, tenderloin development, coalition on homelessness, senior and disability action, Mental Health association of San Francisco, taxpayers for public safety, st. Anthonys glide, the support of Housing Providers network, Human Services network, Progress Foundation, the National Alliance of Mental Illness, the direct policy alliance and so
Public comment. Please come forward feel free to line up and every speaker will have two minutes. Feel free to get us started. Im a me member of a volunter organization of psychiatrists, therapists, attorneys, family members and others on behalf the severely mentally ill. Demanding treatment before tragedy and i find it encouraging that attention is finally focused on improvement but both bills right now failed to tang int take into accounts y aspects of why our system is dysfunctional. Theres less visible severely mentally ill who live with family members and attempt to ward off disaster for their loved ones and bear the brunts of death threats, visible and physical abuse and disruption of their entire lives attempting to protect their family members. Yet, we have advised by representatives of the department of health to let our loved ones to be destitute to they qualify for services, that is evident. In the 1990s, there were over 100 beds in sanfrancisco and now there are 22. There w
And really make sure that people have the care that we need. I also want to mention that them being arrested was not ok. That was stupid. No warning about know chance and they arrested them and ive been here in a lot of protests and ive never seen that. Good afternoon, supervisors. The reality is clear that when you see on the street and theyre screaming and they need Health Treatment you get arrested and that is the response and if you are in city hall and you are treatmenting and chanting we need healthcare, you get arrested. Thats why its so important because we dont need changes because if the system is broken and you are telling the people who are effected by the system the most, that we just need a little tweak here and a little change there, then that is a slap in the face. And the only way that we can fix this system is through a vision where the system functioned for the people that it serves. And so i really just want to thank supervisor haney and supervisor ronen for having