training programming. they walk the library floors and share their story about how they recovered from homelessness and other issues and how they have utilized the services in san francisco. some were library patients who were outreach at the library and gone through a homeless program in san francisco and come back once they are stable and address their issues with homelessness and other issues often associated with homelessness and such as mental health and abuse and they say i would like to give back. when the program was first implemented the initial plan was for the outreach patients in the library bathroom who might be inappropriately using the bathrooms for bathing or drug use. they are not security staff. they are using those interactions to be able to talk to the patron and say, you know there are actual community places where you can take a bath. there are places where you can sleep today before the shelter opens up and i have been in your situation before and i can
in tndc. and the ambassador we have so many people who abuse people who volunteer and they get what they want and try to sell to you if you are not there in the nighttime. it s like constantly been asked for things and hit and we won t mention to telling people not to do these things and they put this on the first and third and we can be hampered on things that cut down on abuse. i m a member of i have been going there since 2011 to deal with violence. this you very much. thank you very much. hello, i m cw johnson with the organizing group. i just want to commend you on all your hard work and stuff. for 20 years i have lived in sro hotels in tenderloin and one of the thing i m looking at is maybe we can work together with the city collaborative programs to volunteer to go and get what we call wellness checks. i see who is disabled in the hotel and who is having problems and maybe have a city worker go with some of the tenant organizers to do a wellness check once or twi
ask le ah to come up and i will conclude when she s finished. good afternoon councilmembers. my name is leahes guerra the social worker for the sf public library and public health employee and member of the homeless outreach team. being the first full time social worker to be assigned in a library setting. the real challenge i had was this has never been done before for how to be a social worker at the library. my initial challenge was how to serve needs and meet the needs of the homeless ofand indigents at the library and it s a safe place when they don t have a place to go to and many find a place to sleep and rest even though people at the library the homeless are not really enjoyed and mostly the homeless enjoy the programs that are offered such as reading and borrowing movies. the library s goals is to connect the homeless and indigent and basic resources such as food, access to medical care and sometimes abuse can be addressed. the san francisco public library became
public comment? all right. thank you very much. next we are moving on to item no. 8. lava mae. this is denise sandoval. yes. thank you for the opportunity to present council this afternoon. lava mae is a mobile shower and toilet service that is meant to address the massive shortage in showers and sanitation available to the homeless. we are not out on the ground yet. we are a brand new organization. we are working on our first bus which we hoke hope to launch in may and provide up to 45 showers a day. i will give a little bit of background on the buses and what they look like and how we ll be working with those with disabilities but i wanted to show a quick video to frame the issue first. we need captioning for that video as well? [inaudible] hold on, please. denise can we pause for a second. the captioning doesn t seem to be working with the video. can we put the microphone closer? let s start again. [inaudible] that s okay. i don t want to log ja
yes. thank you for the opportunity to present council this afternoon. lava mae is a mobile shower and toilet service that is meant to address the massive shortage in showers and sanitation available to the homeless. we are not out on the ground yet. we are a brand new organization. we are working on our first bus which we hoke hope to launch in may and provide up to 45 showers a day. i will give a little bit of background on the buses and what they look like and how we ll be working with those with disabilities but i wanted to show a quick video to frame the issue first. we need captioning for that video as well? [inaudible] hold on, please. denise can we pause for a second. the captioning doesn t seem to be working with the video. can we put the microphone closer? let s start again. [inaudible] that s okay. i don t want to log jam the schedule. you can find our video on our website which is a lava may.org. basically it just frames the problem. the n