age and disability resource connection. the federal government created the administration for community living. i don t 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 there s something that we re certified by the state or something that s not the word, but something to that effect where we ve said this is our plan for putting together some age and disability work. here it is. we ve 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 ar
together age and disability resource connections at the local level. so san francisco is one of the few cities that has that is there s something that we re certified by the state or something that s not the word, but something to that effect where we ve said this is our plan for putting together some age and disability work. here it is. we ve 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 information referral are available to them. our way of doing that in san francisco is to have age and disability i m sorry age and disability resource centers across the city, and we have 13 of them. one of them is through tour works it s focused on younger people with disabilities. so that s what we ve done there. then i guess lastly, we fund advocacy. it allows you to
they basically pulled together disparate programs and put them under one department and they ve them the charge of serving adults with disabilities and older people. one of the things that happened with that, there was money from the commission on the aging that became the aging focus programs and the department never got money to serve people with disabilities who were younger. it was kind of like, oh, you re going to do this, but we re not giving you any money. so it s been 19 years and one of the things that we ve done as a department is figure out how to do a better job, how to do a better job of funding some of those programs and really reaching out to communities, you know, the various disability communities. and then came the dignity fund in 2016. proposition i. which was overwhelmingly passed by the voters and which actually gave us a new vehicle to fund some programs. and so while we had done some work before then and while in-home supportive services, actually our b
in 2000, so it s now 19 years old and the time that the department was pulled together, they basically pulled together disparate programs and put them under one department and they ve them the charge of serving adults with disabilities and older people. one of the things that happened with that, there was money from the commission on the aging that became the aging focus programs and the department never got money to serve people with disabilities who were younger. it was kind of like, oh, you re going to do this, but we re not giving you any money. so it s been 19 years and one of the things that we ve done as a department is figure out how to do a better job, how to do a better job of funding some of those programs and really reaching out to communities, you know, the various disability communities. and then came the dignity fund in 2016. proposition i. which was overwhelmingly passed by the voters and which actually gave us a new vehicle to fund some programs. and so while
program actually, it s a federal approach really called age and disability resource connection. the federal government created the administration for community living. i don t 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 there s something that we re certified by the state or something that s not the word, but something to that effect where we ve said this is our plan for putting together some age and disability work. here it is. we ve 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 disabiliti