The subject matter jurisdiction of recreation and Park Commission, you may speak under general Public Comment and that is item 4 and it is continued again on item 10. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment on items in order to allow equal time for all neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. Last, if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion using any exit, please note elevators will immediately return to the first floor and are not available for use. If you need assistance out of the building, please make your way to the closest area of refuge which is across the hall in the mens restroom inside the restroom is a speaker box, press it and city hall security will answer, let them know where you are a and they will assist you, with that, we are on item number 2, the president s report. Well, the vicepres
Center off 3rd and carol, so hope sf is a Community Transformation initiative in large, we are here to talk about potrero and sunnydale and the slide in front of you is small, you have it in detail, a sense of how we partner with local Affordable Housing development, in the case of potrero, Bridge Housing n the case of sunnydale, mercy and partnership, so the mayor has commitment not just with the highest levels of city departments including rec and park but with Affordable Housing developers. Hope sf, whats key to it is not just its real estate xhoent but itsz services, Trauma Informed Community building based on resident leadership, we partner with cbos with trusted relationships and were trying to transform our city systems to meet the needs of our families in a way weve never done before in the city. Ive already mentioned the symptoms of isolation of these neighborhoods and well get into it as quu look at the grid and how were connecting these Amazing Community tos the vibrancy, we
Dramatic rise in the use of heroin, which belongs to the same class as painkillers, opiods. In fact, four in five heroin users, new heroin users, started out by misusing Prescription Drugs. Then they switched to heroin, so, this really is a gateway drug, the Prescription Drugs, become a gateway to heroin. Between 2002 and 2013, the number of heroin related deaths in america nearly quadrupled, although the number of heroin overdoses is still far exceeded by the number of legal Prescription Drug overdoses. So, this crisis is taking lives. Its destroying families. Its shattering communities all across the country. Thats the thing about Substance Abuse. I doesnt discriminate. It touches everybody. From celebrities to College Students to soccer moms to inner city kids. White, black, hispanic, young, old, rich, poor. Urban, suburban, men and women. It can happen to a coal miner, a construction worker. A cop, whos taken a painkiller for a work related injury. It could happen to the doctor who
Panel speakers include Alliance President Colleen Mall as well as Cumberland County School education specialists Emalee Breeding, Michael Brady and Karri Hobby.
EASTON — Mid Shore Behavioral Health successfully concluded its 13th annual Across the Lifespan Conference, held at the Miles River Yacht Club in Easton on Friday, April 19.