Find seats and we will try to get started here. My name is ed howard. I am with the alliance for Health Reform. I want to welcome you on behalf of the board of directors. I want to welcome you to the program on health and housing with an emphasis on the relationship between medicaid policy at the Community Level at the state level and the federal level as well. This is actually a first in a threepart series and we will explore the intersection of social policy over the next couple months. In october, i believe its october 9, you will be looking at how well Health Services correlate with nonmedical home and unity based services. Then in december we will examine some of the emerging issues in connection between health and incarceration, which is is a growing area of concern and activity. There is a connection between health and various determinants and we will look at the strength of that connection during this briefing and the subsequent ones in the theory. You may have seen yesterday t
Hard to get clean when you are living on the streets. The Supportive Housing with that model. Any of us can go home tonight and have a drink and is perfectly all right to do in our homes. Its an opportunity as well. We need to work with people where they are in the stabilizing and for housing so we have got that stability so people have a place for medication they have a place to put an appointment cards and keep track of time and a stable place where we can visit them. Our outreach workers cant find them when they should drown on the streets and in camas change a lot. We need to think about our recent porting housing in this way . A wide range of teambased services, when you combine the stability of housing with Health Care Services a wide range of the things listed here we can really help people be stable in their housing. This is mainstream right now for seniors and people with disabilities. My grandmother gets meals delivered to her and she can having have them come here to help he
Enough people active out there saying we want this. Saying no or asking why or why not . And i am suggesting you could help yourself and all of us by being much more visible, involved. Even phone calls to your district supervisor. As i will tell you if you do that enough you will find out they dont respond. I have papered the supervisors, not just the official email but the staff by name, and as you will see maybe next week again they dont respond. Theres another story i am involved in about the disabled and the supervisors do not respond. Until more of you do it they will continue in that neglectful pattern. Thank you. Thank you. Walter paulson. Good afternoon mayors disability council. I want to thank ken stein for his great work. Its too bad he is stepping down. When will we be loved . We have been pushed down. When will the disability be loved . When a find a new city job they want. It always breaks my heart into two. Happens every time. I have made we have been made blue. We have
Living independently within the community and spending your life in an institution, so our next agenda team is the last one in this series of this meeting on Supportive Housing and opportunity for peoples with disabilities among others. We are happy to welcome bevan dufty who is the director of the Mayors Office on hope which stands for housing opportunity, partnerships, and engagement. Thank you and mr. Dufty is here. Yes. Hes passing out some information but he will be right up to the mic. Thank you very much. Its a pleasure. Hey. Hi everyone. Thank you for welcome being me. I am bevan dufty and i am in charge of the housing opportunity, partnerships, and engagement and when i sat with mayor lee and maybe a week ago i said at 57 soon to be 58 i was too young to be the director of losing so i asked him for something more inspirational. When you say that its not portraying winning the hearts in the task. I think that all of you are familiar with individuals who have been helped but mos
Remembered Mayors Office on disability and ken, where can i get one . He said you know i have an old one in my desk. You can borrow it. And i did that it made a difference in getting that guy situated and keep in mind this is one guy at a city job and had an old tty and loaned me. This was a major for profit place that wouldnt kick down the 150 to buy one. You should at least have one. I will keep i in my desk. Its things like that lead to a lot of big changes. Its a loss to me for someone like me to call and get information and the history of the struggle that people have been through and won so many ways and ken has been there on the front line scpis want to honor him and youre going to be missed ken and hes one of a kind and a Community Hero and thats all i wanted to say. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Yes he is. Nancy cross. I am here to kind of give some idea of where i think we can make a difference in how things are implemented that come from this sector of the govern