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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-07-11 | 24 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. pretty important, and it might be something that we can get an overview for the next meeting and maybe see if the City Council also wants to endorse it, as are city councils like in San Francisco and Oakland are going to endorse, and in other places in California. Arnold Brillinger: So, what I'll do is I'll send the information on what that bill is to Laurie and she can send it out to everybody, so that if you're interested you can see how it's working. And also, maybe then we can discuss endorsing it to our City Council to say, "Yes, we want to sponsor this also." Chair Beth Kenny: Yes, get that to Laurie and we can have it on the agenda for next time if we can all review that and we will have a discussion about that. That would be great. I'd love to hear about things that are coming down the pipeline. Arnold Brillinger: Yes. Chair Beth Kenny: Great. Commissioner Roloff? Jennifer Rolloff: So, let's see for School Board. I didn't get a chance to attend the meeting where they talked extensively about the merging of schools, but I will do some investigating on that. I think that puts a lot of the population that we're advocating for at risk. A lot of these services are going to fall through the cracks, so I'll follow up on that. But what I did want to talk about was, there was a committee put together that did a needs assessment for mental and emotional wellness needs. So Kirsten Zazo, do you know Kirsten? She's the Chief Student Support Officer in Alameda [Unified School District], and she presented the needs to the Board. The purpose of the needs assessment is to identify student behavioral needs, inventory existing school and community-based services and identify gaps in services. Jennifer Rolloff: The goal is to develop recommendations, create a more coordinated and integrated behavioral health service system and make services more accessible to all students. Which I felt was very thematic with what our board is doing, with what Commission is doing with focusing on mental health needs. Essentially just to net out, she presented the findings but I think one of the takeaways was per Sean McPhetridge [Superintendent at AUSD]. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of money to address these. We can work on addressing the zero-cost solutions that they had. So one of the thoughts I had was that Kirsten or a delegate could possibly come and present her report to us. We could do a little Q&A and see how possibly us, on behalf of the City could make recommendations for supplementing some of those gaps that don't have proper funding since it is for Alameda residents as well. So if maybe we could get that on an agenda for a future date. I could even contact Kirsten. Chair Beth Kenny: Yes, if you could contact Kirsten and include Laurie and myself on the email, that would be great. And so I would love to have her on the agenda to present that report. Jennifer Rolloff: Okay. Okay, great. Thank you. That's all I have for today. Chair Beth Kenny: Vice-Chair Barrett. 09/12/18 Page 24 of 29 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf |