neighbors most in need. thank you for your time and consideration and thank you for your thoughtful questions and you try to grapple and wrap your head around to this will help and how it will help them. it has been an educational experience wash in this hearing. thank you so much. hello. my brother was diagnosing he was 16. in his early twenties, he ended up in the streets of san francisco. he was on the streets at sixth and market and pulling food at a stranger his hands, grabbing cigarette butts on the street, he was only in his mid-twenties and he was in his late forties. he had housing. he lived in an s.r.o. he also had money because he, s.s.i. at the time. he had family who loved him, and we had no way to help him. i thought the last time i saw him in that condition was the last time i was going to see him ever because he was quite agitated and a bit violent. was shortly after our last visit , he ended up in the criminal justice system. today, because of that interven
users. i know that supervisor men treated a task force and it s met one time. i m wondering why we re creating an intervention for meth users, why we re not letting this task force do a very important job, which i really appreciate it and maybe this is a question for supervisor mandelman of coming up with interventions that might work with this population before jumping to this intervention. whicwell. well, we have a crisis. there is an emergency. i ve done an tour of our system and talked to folks in our public health system and providers with our community based nonprofit partners, and it felt to me i was having one-on-one with them, that it would be useful to have them in a room talking to each other about ways to streamline processes, work together, ensure they re the right hand-off when people are leaving psychiatric emergency services, that there was a lot that could be done. this is a task force that s going to meet four or five times over the next couple of months
have, the cultural institutions, the public spaces, the scenic beauty, and it appears as though we re neglecting those who need help the most. we know this legislation won t only help a small number of people, but we strongly believe that all options should be used to make a lasting, positive, long-term impact on our neighbors most in need. thank you for your time and consideration and thank you for your thoughtful questions and you try to grapple and wrap your head around to this will help and how it will help them. it has been an educational experience wash in this hearing. thank you so much. hello. my brother was diagnosing he was 16. in his early twenties, he ended up in the streets of san francisco. he was on the streets at sixth and market and pulling food at a stranger his hands, grabbing cigarette butts on the street, he was only in his mid-twenties and he was in his late forties. he had housing. he lived in an s.r.o. he also had money because he, s.s.i. at the time
time has elapsed. next speaker, please. thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is carolyn kennedy. i live in the dolores park area and chair of our neighbourhood association. for the past few years, i have seen the deteriorating condition of the homeless people in my community. now we have an opportunity to offer an alternative to are most severely mentally ill and homeless people. i have heard and spoken to people who oppose this program and i ask, why oppose a pilot? pilot programs that offer an alternative to the extreme and recurring bout of violence violent psychosis that these people are experiencing. besides being a pilot of the conservatorship, it ends on a date certain, in the whole program of sunset in january, 2025. finally, there is an appeal for individuals were placed under conservatorship. this to me just make sense for very, very few people. it is a chance to get our worst off mentally hill bill to get better. right now they are not getting be
housing conservatorship provides an opportunity to bring stability into the lives of those who are unable to make decisions for themselves and put them on a path of healing. when people come to visit san francisco, they are shocked that we let people struggle on our streets. they see this incredible city we have, the cultural institutions, the public spaces, the scenic beauty, and it appears as though we re neglecting those who need help the most. we know this legislation won t only help a small number of people, but we strongly believe that all options should be used to make a lasting, positive, long-term impact on our neighbors most in need. thank you for your time and consideration and thank you for your thoughtful questions and you try to grapple and wrap your head around to this will help and how it will help them. it has been an educational experience wash in this hearing. thank you so much. hello. my brother was diagnosing he was 16. in his early twenties, he ended u