to go to and nobody to really hear our stories. i think instead of just floundering around, we really have to sit down and ask the community to step forward and be participants and not to be controlling. that s the same thing that patients feel, that they are controlled. you can t do that to human beings. that s true. i agree. so to step away from that, i would love to be a part of that. i m hopeful. i feel the winds of change are blowing where they will take us, anyone knows but i agree. as a nurse, i think that was the problem that essentially what we are dealing is the history of when behavioral health was created years ago nobody had ever done it. all they did was unbundle the state health services. we are still dealing with the effect of that because in the state hospital services nobody talked about vocational rehab. nobody talked about this. all they talked about high level emergency care and the case management. it never got beyond that. the other part of that
wheel and lose track. services wide, there is a lot we can do but more we can do to make it easier. thank you. tactful honesty. thank you. council member at that time kostanian has a question. thank you, we were facing issues not only from people offering services but the community. they were totally floored that there was no place to go to and nobody to really hear our stories. i think instead of just floundering around, we really have to sit down and ask the community to step forward and be participants and not to be controlling. that s the same thing that patients feel, that they are controlled. you can t do that to human beings. that s true. i agree. so to step away from that, i would love to be a part of that. i m hopeful. i feel the winds of change are blowing where they will take us, anyone knows but i agree. as a nurse, i think that was the problem that essentially what we are dealing is the history of when behavioral health was created years ago nobody
never be clean again. since then she s had one of the best programs that exist in the city. i know for a fact having worked for the city and county, if it had been a county agency which crossed so many areas, we d still be talking about it. my belief, my hope is that in this community we have a grand desire to do better particularly with the homeless situation with people who are mentally ill, with all of this. what would support law enforcement would be if they had more recourse. if there was in every community in the city, a place during the day where someone can walk in and sit down and without filling out a mountain of paperwork and just talk to someone. it would have an enormous benefit. it would be cheap, it could be well managed and incredibly effective. that kind of solution, i feel like on the side of where i come from which is the over here with we have to bill medi-cal and we are becoming more and more convoluted with all of our it systems. an emergency room dr. at
state organizing agency. everybody is coming together to throw a really big parade and party. the plan is to kickoff the celebration on the steps of 50 plaza of the federal building with the 504 demonstration and occupation took place back in 1977. along with that parade and celebration there is also going to be a conference held throughout that weekend. you will be hearing more about it. it will be taking place at hastings college and will be able to provide some material as well to participate. that concludes my directors report and i look forward to seeing everybody again wednesday july 1, 1130, to 1:30 in san francisco for our 8825 celebration. thank you. thank you, i wanted to check in. is our presenter here? jennifer frieden bach. thank you. thank you very much. i apologize for being late. that s okay. thank you for being here today. i had a little issue getting through security, but i m here. i m jennifer frieden bach and the executive director on coalition on
hsa, by the police department, it wasn t run by anybody. we were all in it together. there was no entity like that in the city. that s the beauty of cit. i wish there was more. what we need is a container a framework where people like myself, like jenny, the mental health association, like michael who is gone now, if we can all get together and say before the city makes anymore policy decisions about where this money is going to go, let s look at this and have this input. because sometimes we don t share too well together. we don t work too well together. it s an over stressed system and the problem is that often people are working in their own wheel and lose track. services wide, there is a lot we can do but more we can do to make it easier. thank you. tactful honesty. thank you. council member at that time kostanian has a question. thank you, we were facing issues not only from people offering services but the community. they were totally floored that there was no p