Along with the director and Melissa Mcgee from daas about the leadership Going Forward of the Service Provider work group. Ashley and annie, who had been serving as cochairs well past their term and are looking for some relief, if you will, head ventured had ventured earlier this year and reached out to talk about this and we were finally able to coordinate and come together. Resulted in the idea of the Dignity Fund Coalition and case sharing leadership responsibilities and both of our agencies cohosting the four annual Service Provider work group meetings, so we will both, sue and i, and fiona and marie, will be taking back to their organization this concept and seeing what our memberships we prefer. Whether we each take two or we truly cohosts all four together and we will be reporting back to ramona with that final determination. We also talked about the scheduling and what would be the best strategic schedule for these meetings to give some consistency so people that wish to partic
To answer any questions you have about anything else that i dont mention. Rose is going to help me field those questions. So, um, you can see that we have five overarching Strategic Plan goals to maintain a Robust Network of communitybuster communitybd services, provide consumercentred programming, and to ensure best use of resources, and maximize client outcomes, and support and develop and engage professional workforce that is prepared to work with other people and adults with disabilities. So from goal one, i really just wanted to highlight strategy b, which is to explore alternative models to best serve younger adults with disabilities. As you may remember, the 2018 Dignity Fund Needs Assessment highlighted that people with disabilities in San Francisco experienced discrimination, and there is a lack and utilization of available resources. Were trying to work with Community Members to address this. Service organizations, advocates, and other city departments to develop a center tha
One strategy from each goal. And then but i am happy to answer any questions you have about anything else that i dont mention. Rose is going to help me field those questions. So, um, you can see that we have five overarching Strategic Plan goals to maintain a Robust Network of communitybuster communitybd services, provide consumercentred programming, and to ensure best use of resources, and maximize client outcomes, and support and develop and engage professional workforce that is prepared to work with other people and adults with disabilities. So from goal one, i really just wanted to highlight strategy b, which is to explore alternative models to best serve younger adults with disabilities. As you may remember, the 2018 Dignity Fund Needs Assessment highlighted that people with disabilities in San Francisco experienced discrimination, and there is a lack and utilization of available resources. Were trying to work with Community Members to address this. Service organizations, advocate
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Age and disability resource connection. The federal government created the administration for Community Living. I dont know. Maybe it was five or six years ago. What that did is it brought together the aging world with some of the disability federal offices and put them all into one place called administration for Community Living. Then they really encouraged area agencies on aging to put together age and disability resource connections at the local level. So San Francisco is one of the few cities that has that is theres something that were certified by the state or something thats not the word, but something to that effect where weve said this is our plan for putting together some age and disability work. Here it is. Weve been certified by the state to do that. What that means is our office has a partnership with independent Living Resource Center to really Work Together to make sure people with disabilities and older people know about resources and that those are resources and inform