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Transcripts For SFGTV 20140326

Protective services. The truth is they are adults and they have the right to make bad decisions. When would you lose that right and when would an Involuntary Service happen. Its not a clear cut line, but we would consider a conservatorship for an individual in the event that the individual clearly lacks capacity. And additionally when i say lacks capacity what im saying is they lack capacity to make medical decision or Financial Decisions for themselves and thats because of dementia or a Severe Mental Health diagnosis. We might look at Involuntary Services if the capacity issue is there and if there are significant safety risk to the client. With the clients that are being abused sometimes the safety issue is more apparent. Where they have alrea ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV 20140331

Program director of Adult Protective Services. We have a program that is housed within the department of aging and adult services. We are a part of the Human Services agency. Thank you very much councilmembers for the invitation. My understanding is that Adult Protective Services has not addressed the council in some time, although other dos programs have been here. So i was planning on doing a brief overview of Adult Protective Services just to make sure we had a foundation of what the program our framework of basic services are before i delve into the self neglect piece. I know you have questions, please interrupt me and ask questions. I want to be able to provide you with real targeted information. Before i start i want to make su ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV 20140321

Director of Adult Protective Services. We have a program that is housed within the department of aging and adult services. We are a part of the Human Services agency. Thank you very much councilmembers for the invitation. My understanding is that Adult Protective Services has not addressed the council in some time, although other dos programs have been here. So i was planning on doing a brief overview of Adult Protective Services just to make sure we had a foundation of what the program our framework of basic services are before i delve into the self neglect piece. I know you have questions, please interrupt me and ask questions. I want to be able to provide you with real targeted information. Before i start i want to make sure that ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV 20140324

Vital for the investigation that we need to carry out. We dont need to notify an abuser that we are about to show up and make that attempt to investigating a case. More often than not our clients dont have the capacity to pull it together anyway for us. We show up unannounced and as you can imagine sometimes people arent real representative receptive to our uninvited unscheduled announcements. However, i have really skilled social workers and its a rare exception that we are not able to actually carry out a psycho social assessment with a client oncer able to find them and locate them. Sometimes that can be an obstacle and getting the correct information about where that individual is located. That actually is what makes it very challenging for us to serve Homeless Individuals unless they are in a stable shelter situation where we can actually followup with them. So, in the best
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Transcripts For SFGTV 20140407

For the invitation. My understanding is that Adult Protective Services has not addressed the council in some time, although other dos programs have been here. So i was planning on doing a brief overview of Adult Protective Services just to make sure we had a foundation of what the program our framework of basic services are before i delve into the self neglect piece. I know you have questions, please interrupt me and ask questions. I want to be able to provide you with real targeted information. Before i start i want to make sure that the council and the public was aware that the Homeless Population in San Francisco is not the target population for Adult Protective Services ....

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