to my live, secretary to the governor. to her left, gareth rose who has been working with us through this crisis. dr. candace johnson, thank you for the hospitality. we talked about our trip to cuba and your greater accomplishment, it was fun. always a pleasure to be with my friending, my partners, the great mayor of the city of buffalo, byron brown, the great county executive of erie county, mark, thank you for everything you ve been doing to get us through this i m pleased to report they took a covid test yesterday and i am negative from that test. so that is good news. take one of those tests, very easy, i showed people ow easy it was yesterday. and when you find out you re negative it s a nice sense of relief. i didn t have any symptoms or anything but you know, you don t need to have symptoms and you can have the covid virus. so you take the test, they tell you you re negative, 24 to 48 hours, and it is peace of mind. there s no reason why people shouldn t be getting tes
just in case you ve been living der a rock, to my far right, , we reasure i, to my right thank her for what she s done. to my live, secretary to the governor. to her left, gareth rose who has been working with us through this crisis. dr. candace johnson, thank you for the hospitality. we talked about our trip to cuba and your greater accomplishment, it was fun. always a pleasure to be with my friending, my partners, the great mayor of the city of buffalo, byron brown, the great county executive of erie county, mark, thank you for everything you ve been doing to get us through this i m pleased to report they took a covid test yesterday and i am negative from that test. so that is good news. take one of those tests, very easy, i showed people ow easy it was yesterday. and when you find out you re negative it s a nice sense of relief. i didn t have any symptoms or anything but you know, you don t need to have symptoms and you can have the covid virus. so you take the test, they
in person and webinars in case it is a challenge for grantees to make it to the office at a given time, and then we have funded a series of allied ships and action trainings as well, which has more to do with service provisions for the lgbt q. community. great, thank you. it doesn t look like my colleagues have questions, so thank you for your presentation. i believe that that brings us last, but not least to the department of aging and adult services and the human services agency being represented by tom nolan and h.s.a. by suzy smith, i think. good afternoon, my name is suzy smith, and i m deputy director of policy and planning interment human agencies agency. my name is tom nolan, the manager of special projects. we are going to talk about four things today. one is sogi data compliance in the context of h.s.a. and our programs and our systems, second , training efforts, third is our compliance to date, and finally we are going to spotlight an equity analysis that
also try to be intentional about building the capacity of our grantee agencies to serve lgbt cute communities. we have partnered with community-based organizations, specifically lyric to build capacity of grantees to serve lgbt youth through a number of trainings recently, on this slide here, we have some examples of some of those trainings. couple of them are data-specific on how to collect sogi data both in person and webinars in case it is a challenge for grantees to make it to the office at a given time, and then we have funded a series of allied ships and action trainings as well, which has more to do with service provisions for the lgbt q. community. great, thank you. it doesn t look like my colleagues have questions, so thank you for your presentation. i believe that that brings us last, but not least to the department of aging and adult services and the human services agency being represented by tom nolan and h.s.a. by suzy smith, i think. good afternoon, my name
their sogi data would be collected in the system? the other thing is we ve got state mandates that require this. we ve put it into our medicare application, so the population that we re looking at is not the population of people that came through our doors, but our entire catchment of population that we were supposed to collect. so we are on a long process to get everyone, not just the people who ve come through our doors, so take that with that grain of salt when you see those numbers. thank you, supervisors, and thank you office of transgender initiatives. great. as dr. bennett was mentioning, there was sort of a culmination of good timing, a lot of policies in place, pay for performance dollars attached to collecting sogi data that really helped create a lot of structural support for rolling out this project throughout the whole d.p.h. i think dr. bennett also mentioned, you know, with on you hour patients are seen throughout the system, they could be seen in multiple lo