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First its always the hardest and when they look back they really wont see you, but its the path that youre paving forward for the next one behind you that counts. Hi, my name is jajaida durden and im the acting superintendent for the bureau of forestry and i work for public works operations. And im over the landscaping, the shop and also the arborist crew. And some tree inspectors as well. I have been with the city and county of San Francisco for 17 years. And i was a cement mason, that was my first job. When i got here i thought that it was too easy. So i said one day ill be a supervisor. And when i run this place it will be ran different. And i i didnt think that it wod happen as fast as it did, but it did. And i came in 2002 and became a supervisor in 2006. And six months later i became the permanent supervisor over the shop. With all of those responsibilities and the staff youre also dealing with different attitudes and you have to take off one hat and put on another hat and put on
And i know that during times of isolation, it can get a little bit worse. These times in particular are both unprecedented and incredibly challenging. I want to let you know it is okay to not be okay. We all need to come together to cope with the stress and to prevent a second epidemic of what can happen if we dont address the stress and trauma. We can overcome it. Weve got what it takes to get through this. Clouds cant last forever. They cant and they wont. Thats not how the atmosphere works and thats not how life works. Abc7 presents your Mental Health. A bay area conversation. Im so glad you made it to us today. This special edition of abc7 news. Im reggie aqui along with kate larsen. Instead of our regular 4 00 p. M. Newscast, were going spend an hour engaging experts and you in this abc7 listens vtu tn ha the issue, our Mental Health. And kate, were asking today how you, because even if the answer isnt great, thats what were diving into. Thats what were here to talk about, reggie,
Plea for the federal gornment to do more to control this pandemic it comes as United States reports the countrys highest singleday death toll from coronavirus good evening. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and im pam moore more than states are now under stay at home or shelterinplace orders but. The president says a National Stay at home is unlikely. We continue to do our part to kron 4 with social dtancing here in the studio and Health Officials want us all to do the same in the last 24 hours more than 900 people in the u. S. Have died from coronavirus the death toll for americans. Is now more than 5100. And if the Coronavirus Task force projections are correct that number will multiply at least 20 fall there are more than 213,000 cases in the u. S. With more than 9800 here in california. Around the world more than 935,000 people have been infected and more than 47,000 people have died. Th is all according to Johns Hopkins universitys coronavirus tracker map the ongoing out
And to learn about effective evidencebased Suicide Prevention strategies. To have a panel of experts director for Mental Health programs for overset office at department of defense, the director of defense of Suicide Prevention office for the office of the department of defense and acting director at the department of Veterans Affairs the Suicide Prevention chief of Substance Abuse and Mental Health at the department of Mental Health and Human Services healthcare policy department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School thank you for being here and our topic today is a heavy one that is difficult to discuss but we must address it that the readiness and wellbeing of troops and families and veterans suicide tragically rates of suicide with veteran populations have increased from the reports affecting young men under 30. Veteran suicide as a member of the Veterans Affairs committee of those who die by suicide is one of my Top Priorities the department of defense improved capacity