Im the first to say that we have a problem that we have some services for those people who have the most severe, most complicated needs, that they dont want you know, as many people as we put on the streets say thats not how people want to engage, and thats what i hope we get to moving forward on in these main areas around that Mental Health s. F. Legislation. Supervisor mandelman but i would just point out and i think i have a couple more questions, and ill feed to the other members of the committee. You know, the meth Sobering Center was i mean, what is it many different people on the Meth Task Force had many different ideas what the Sobering Center would be and what services it would have, from a place to get out the streets to more of an altern e alternative to p. E. S. From what ive heard on the streets, there was a real need to reduce pressure on p. E. S. And how a Sobering Center does that i can see stories how it does a little bit on the margins, but unless it has more, unless
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This hearing to the call of the chair. But its my intention to have d. P. H. Back at one of our two july meetings, because i would like to have more of that detail and maybe some dollar figures attached. And i do have at least a couple of additional questions about the you know, the results of the bed study, for example, you know, how does that proposed increase in funding relate to the existing d. P. H. Budget for beds . Because my understanding is the existing budget for beds does not actually account for all of the beds we buy over the course of a year. So if were adding 10 million to a budget that already doesnt account for for the beds that we need to buy over the course of the year, im not sure thats guaranteed well be making progress toward the number of beds that we need. Anyway, maybe somebody can explain to me that aspect of the budgeting and maybe we can have craig wagner talk to us about that. And im wondering how the bed study relates to the beds we dont use. We know we ha
Activation . Its part of expanding our staff in the hotels, expanding our street presence, working with c. B. O. S to see if we can do contract modification so that we have more workforce to draw on so that we can get the successful programs that predated covid19. I dont have a cost on it right now. As i try to articulate, a lot of what we have quickly put into place, more quickly than anybody expected, during phase one of the activation, i think its given us sort of a foothold, a building and expanding into those areas that i talked about. Supervisor mandelman although that doesnt i hear that youre doing the work on the on the street response, but i guess im still missing the where folks in crisis would be taken, you know, over the next year if we dont have adequate capacity in p. E. S. Right. We we i mean, i think what we need to really focus on is with some slight reduction in capacity at urgent care. Weve been able to maintain most of our capacity in our diversion units and a. D. U
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