Yeah. Ill just add to that, and ill channel kristin marshall, maybe, from the d. O. P. E. Project, that its connected to income inequality, its connected to homelessness, its connected to racism, its connected to sort of our punitive system around substance use, so i think if we can make advancements in those areas, as well, that well see reductions in Overdose Deaths. Supervisor haney thank you. Again, i dont want to take this out all on you, but the frustration, i hope you can understand my frustration. These are people who i represent largely. Theyre dying, theyre dying at rates weve senever seen, and seems theyre going to continue to die at higher and higher rates, and we need to understand how we can save them. We cannot help them, we cannot do anything for anyone if theyre no longer with us. I appreciate and i understand your work, but as a policy maker who represents all of these folks and their friends and their families and their neighbors, i think that we need to have a more
We invited some producers and vendors to speak on a panel. So we had several people, a collective of people who promote selfsufficiency and zero waste, and people really got into it. You could also get a certificate of doing the training from environmental department. In terms of turnout, i mentioned we had 60 people, just a sample of people that came from different organizations, sunday streets, undiscovered night market, st. Patricks day, comfort and joy. And whats exciting, too, is we had several brick and mortar venue. Environmental department was really pleased with the collaboration. They said that this event had exposed their work and their mission to a broader audience of entertainment people than previously. So they were really, really pleased. They want to continue collaborating with us. We did survey the group, and some of the highlights from those survey results, we had 70 response rate. Majority of people said they heard about us from facebook or email blast. 76 said this
Chairwoman good morning, everyone, the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the march 2, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Seated to my right is captain stefanie, and well soon be joined by supervisor gordon marr. Mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Please silence your cell phones and all electronic equipment. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Chairwoman can you read item number one. Item one is appointing two members to the commission on aging and Advisory Council. Chairwoman than thank you so much. I believe were joined by juliette rothman. If juliette would like to come up and address the committee, thank you so much. If you just want to share with us your interest in the appointment. How are you . Good. Im here to seek reappointment to the Advisory Counc
Working compliance, whats working and has the least chance of recidivism. I think 95 of our high risk homeless and mental patients are alcohol, not necessarily drugs or maybe a combination, and also im wondering how that works in the system. Yeah, we can provide that because we work very close with healthright 360, and they have the Drug Management services. With their Drug Management is mostly alcohol, but then, we are expanding services in the pharmacy to provide medication, and also, the telebupe that we are providing. And also, healthright 360 is a close partner that we can collect some data. Also, this is a pilot that we are studying . Maybe in six months we can come back and give you some preliminary data that we have. I think also i know philip mentioned earlier dr. Barry zephen who manages the street Response Teams and prescribing the buprenorphine, and i think they would be able to share that story, really, about how people are showing up and how people are being really succes
Grant colfax, director of health. You have the report in front of you. Just a couple of things. One is we are continuing our covid19 preparations and actions. Ive asked dr. Aragon to provide more details after my report, so he will be doing that in just a minute. We are continuing with our ongoing daily work, and that includes Behavioral Health options for people in the city as part of our Behavioral Health reform as part of health s. F. We are currently establishing a health center, to be established at 180 jones, with a particular focus on methamphetamine users. This will have a 15bed capacity, take care of many more than that over a 24hour period. This is really the beginning of a larger expansion if this initial phase is successful at providing more lowbarrier opportunities for people to have a place that is safe, that provides Harm Reduction approaches and also not only helps them but also mitigates the effects of Behavioral Health issues in the surrounding community. Im proud to