Francisco. I am excited about this Incredible Opportunity to open up a 200 bed Navigation Center in San Francisco. We all know what the statistics say. We have a real problem around homelessness, and the fact is last year we helped 2146 people exit homelessness. Since we have opened Navigation Centers in San Francisco, they have helped over 5,000 people. Despite what we know the challenges are, the fact is i am grateful and proud of so many of the incredible people behind me today. The people who workday in and day out to help make these Navigation Centers a reality, but more importantly to help the people that we know are struggling on the streets exit homelessness. We have seven Navigation Centers in San Francisco with a few more on the way. I am really excited what we are going to be doing. At the end of the day, lets be chair clear. It clear. It is that we need permanent housing for people who are exiting homelessness. Today we are well on our way to meeting the goal that i set of
When the house gavels back in, watch live coverage here on cspan. Back now to the white house summit on Mental Health. What i would like to do for a few minutes. Lets start with you. In terms of the imd exclusion that they express concerns if we live the imd exclusion we open the door to institutionalization of thousands of people. Do you have comments about that . It will not open the Door Community treatment will always be cheaper and government will always will be a cheaper option if it is effective. But then go back to snakepit conditions of the past of one flew over the cuckoos nest but it is the lack of money for hospitals that created substandard conditions allowing them more money that is truly therapeutic. And to have the panelist speak about the continuum of services that are needed to support the seriously mental ill. What do you see as a continuum of care what happens if you dont have those kinds of services . But these fights over scraps so now we are worried about inpatie
Why is in crisis half of the description clicks because 11 million americans upwards of 4 million are receiving no treatment to their lives lost to psychosis untreated serious Mental Illness represents a huge and unnecessary loss of human potential. It also makes our more dire social mission such as random acts of violence and sheltered homelessness Substance Abuse, and the disturbing rise of the rate of suicide i want to emphasize these problems are exacerbated not by serious Mental Illness but exacerbated by serious Mental Illness. Todays historic conversation draws broadly on the expertise of people from many disciplines and experiences and perspectives our goal is to put on the table a robust set of reforms how we go about delivering treatment to persons with serious Mental Illness. The Trump Administration has already begun the process of rebuilding our treatment system this very week the president will sign fiscal year 2020 appropriations bill that makes important in the improvem
Tells me this is a complex case and that more work needs to be done. The five men arrested last week in connection with the deadly shooting at a party on halloween night at an airbnb home in orinda will not be facing criminal charges at this time. The Contra Costa District Attorneys Office announce its decision late monday afternoon. Our team of prosecutors met today with the office of the sheriff and their team of detectives to review the case and see what evidence we had and where we can proceed. Ultimately, we were not able to file any criminal charges today. That ultimately means the suspects are being really the men were arrested thursday when the lawn rest served search warrants. Four of them were facing murder charges. Shem ryan mitchell, jason d iles and lebron kylie wallace. The fifth man devon Isaiah Williamson was arrested for being an accessory. Five people died in the halloween night shooting. We need witnesses ultimately we need the evidence. The contract cosco Sheriffs O
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, july 18th meeting. My name is supervisor gordan mar and im the chair of this committee. Im joined by supervisor aaron peskin, brown is running late and shell be with us in a few minutes. Thank you to this committees clerk, john carole and id like to thank kerwin cooley at sf gov tv for staffing this meeting. Yes, please ensure you silence your cellphones and speakers cards are part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the july 30th, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you mr. Clerk. For item number one, since supervisor brown is a co sponsor, im going to hold off on that. Well call the items out of order. Mr. Clerk, can you please call item number 2. Clerk agenda item number 2 is a resolution regarding non renew of a historical property contract the owner of 960 market. Under chapter 71 of the administrative code notifying the assess Recordings Office and aut