Historians anymore meeting about the agencys origins and its current challenges. This is 1. 5 hours. Welcome to this session. We hope more and be coming in. I know you are giving up your cocktail hour. We are going to have a reception a black curtain. He were all cordially invited. I will make some introductions. We will proceed after the introductions i will talk a bit about the collaboration and about promised the report which was commissioned by the national by members ofone oah and issued a few years back. Right,nding here to my grew up in fort worth. He was recruited into a summer seasonal job while he was a college. T houston that began a long career now stretching out some 54 years. As a stalwart member of the National Park service. He started in grand teton National Park. He worked his way all the way to the top when bill clinton appointed in director of the National Park service from 19972001. Before that, he was superintendent of National Capital park in the washington dc are
The hot team now focuses on the highest users of emergency services. And the people who are the most vulnerable. This is only a subset of the Homeless Population as a whole. Important to keep on training shelters workers to help them make the distinction. James gump from white house and the blind and visually impaired talked about repeating out volunteer youth corp partnered with the red cross to develop a hand book for people who are blind or low vision. This is enhanced information for the visually impaired. What was lovely about this new handbook is that its printed in a format that has language print and brailled text. Tera connor from the department of Public Health together they shared a list of list who serve seniors and people with disabilities. The intent with this list is to use the limited number of key and current contacts who can disseminate or distribute information about emergencies and resources to their clients or e list similar to the old phone concept. These key cont
Supervisors, we have the mayor, senator mark leno, assemblyman, tom yann oh and administrator and we have 20 different disability advocacy representation and also things as widespread as our local independent Living Centers and the california cfilc. California foundation for independent Living Centers. So its very impressive. It changes as i say daily. So i encourage you to visit the site. It has some disability history and links to ada resources. The address is ada 25 bay area. Org. My Deputy Director joanna reminds me that we encourage everybody to tell us about events that you know about so we can list them on our website. Anything that has a connection to the ada and speaking of connections to the ada, early whier this week our entire office attended an ada conference in oakland. It was organized by the specific ada center which is a local ada Technical Assistance center of the Western Region of the u. S. The conference had distinguished speakers from the access board, the departme
The california cfilc. California foundation for independent living centers. So its very impressive. It changes as i say daily. So i encourage you to visit the site. It has some disability history and links to ada resources. The address is ada 25 bay area. Org. My Deputy Director joanna reminds me that we encourage everybody to tell us about events that you know about so we can list them on our website. Anything that has a connection to the ada and speaking of connections to the ada, early whier this week our entire office attended an ada conference in oakland. It was organized by the specific ada center which is a local ada Technical Assistance center of the Western Region of the u. S. The conference had distinguished speakers from the access board, the department of justice, civil rights commission, california equal and fair housing, equal Employment Division and yahoo and many more and we had Breakout Sessions on housing and technology and accessibility standards on the ada and calif
Talking about housing, a simple term to use to refer to both animals is assistance animals. So, if a person is applying to a unit that has a no pets building or living in a unit that has a no pets building and need to file accommodation request, the status for usually accommodation to be to contact the landlord of the Property Management and this can be done verbally and or in writing. Its a good idea to do it both and if you have it in writing its for yourself to remember how you initiate that request and the landlord my request a letter from the professional so to confirm that you have a disability. If that connection is an obvious connection between what it provides and the disability, there would not be any necessary further inquiries necessary. So you might not need to even provide that letter. There are in some cases reasons that a request could be denied. And one of that would be if there is a health or safety issue. And this is something that landlords should keep in mind as we