Designated facility is because and children are often sent to psyche Emergency Services or to hospital Emergency Rooms you can imagine how difficult this is for children and their families to be sitting there while already in a crisis situation and often not equipped to deal with crisis where that is a great facility its really hard for children and families to be in an adult setting. Were hoping to relief the San Francisco Police Department by being a facility that will accept children efficiently and safely and hoping to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and were hoping that by keeping children to San Francisco they will be closer to their Current Mental Health provide ers, schools and support systems. How will this improve the care for children. Like i mentioned when children are in psychiatric crisis they need to go to psyche emergency or ers and most of our youth are hospitalized out of county. We have limited referral sources if were trying to get providers to go out of county
Staff especially our director of Environmental Health but also other staff on a vision that looks at reducing speed limits as improving the Public Health and our department of Public Health continues along with the mta to lead on making our city safer especially with our vision zero processes but San Francisco i fear is falling behind new york portland and other cities in america according to the report and in places like bristol and london and paris that are taking boulder and faster actions than we are in our city and we can really learn from these practices from other cities and apply them to our unique conditions here in San Francisco id like to acknowledge with us today are fred ro u. S. Seo and from the mta we have a director of sustainable streets mr. Tom maguire from the department of transportation in new york where he worked for years improving safer streets in new york and our sustainable Streets Division and from the department of Public Health we have our cochair of our Sa
Mar supervisor campos and supervisor christensen im fred r from from the budget and analysts office. Im just getting this prepared. Today im going to summarize the report that we completed at the request of supervisor mar on reduction options in San Francisco. Ill start with a quick profile of collision statistics and speeding information in the city. First of all from 2011 the number of vehicle collisions was 3111 of those 844 involved pedestrians and 630 involved bicyclists. Of the another statistic is the number of collisions with fatal ities and that number has gone up respect respect ively and 622 collisions in in 2011 and over 21 percent of the drivers in the city exceed the speed limit by five Miles Per Hour or more. This map shows where those streets are and when i say over 21 percent, this was some information com piled by the department of public health, that range is from 21 percent to a hundred so we could have significant numbers of drivers exceeding the speed limit. Let m
Marys but that only takes children 12 and older we have no facilities for children in the city for children 12 and under so they have to go to Contra Costa County john muir thats the closest one. So you can imagine how difficult that is for families. Including traumatized children families trying to keep their children safe and we have so far served approximately 200 individuals. Why were asking for the facility to become a 5151 designated facility is because and children are often sent to psyche Emergency Services or to hospital Emergency Rooms you can imagine how difficult this is for children and their families to be sitting there while already in a crisis situation and often not equipped to deal with crisis where that is a great facility its really hard for children and families to be in an adult setting. Were hoping to relief the San Francisco Police Department by being a facility that will accept children efficiently and safely and hoping to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations an
To request the board of supervisor to designate a facility for children and youth in San Francisco who are in psychiatric crisis. At 5151 designation for the crisis unit will allow youth in psychiatric crisis to be taken to a specialized youth oriented facility. You are probably wondering what this unit does. It provides care in a family setting and Psychiatric Care providing linkage and Case Management for follow up services and behavioral stabilization to avoid psyche Emergency Services. This is a 23hour facility and most of our psychiatric hospitals for children and youth are out of county we have one facility in San Francisco thats saint marys but that only takes children 12 and older we have no facilities for children in the city for children 12 and under so they have to go to Contra Costa County john muir thats the closest one. So you can imagine how difficult that is for families. Including traumatized children families trying to keep their children safe and we have so far serve