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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 10 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thanks, Commissioner Brillinger. Let me know if it comes back to you. Commissioner Roloff? Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: I did talk to Kirsten Zazo who is the Chief Student Advocacy Officer for the District. She's going to come, I think I might have cc'd you, Beth and Laurie, to the meeting on the 28th. So she spent a lot of time, she got a steering committee together with a lot of stakeholders in Alameda, and did a needs assessment for mental and emotional health needs for the District. And she presented it to the District. And I might have mentioned this earlier and of course, the District doesn't have funding, so they're trying to focus on the no-cost ways that they can help with the findings that she had. But there are a lot of areas that do need funding, and they don't have any staff grant writers, and they really need all kinds of social services folks, they need mental health clinicians. So she's starting a roadshow. She was really glad that we had reached out and she's going to incorporate us as part of her roadshow to see what we can do and how we can possibly advocate. [ random BEEP] Oh, is my time up? Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: And how we can possibly advocate to the City or on behalf of our commission on how we can help. So if it's okay with everyone or tell me the protocol. She was going to send me the report ahead of the meeting, I thought I might have it today, so we can distribute to everyone if we take the opportunity to read it before she comes so we can be more interactive. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: So just for everybody's information, when somebody is going to present, like Doug Biggs tonight, they have to submit their information like 10 days ahead of time, so that it can be hyperlinked on the agenda. We can certainly send out that report earlier, but if anyone's presenting and not just public comment, you will have their materials beforehand. So everybody should be taking a look at that. And I think if it's the one that she presented at the school board, the same report she presented at the school board. It's quite detailed. It might be good to have it more than a week out. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: Well, I think there's the actual report that is probably a binder or something I don't know. But then there's her PowerPoint that you might have seen at school board, that's her presentation. So she said, you know, I thought I might have it already but she'd send me both. So whatever we want to attach. The PowerPoint would probably be the procedural attachment. If we wanted to have the report, so we could actually get a little deeper if we wanted to, we could send that out earlier. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Great, I think that all sounds great, and I appreciate that you set that up and looking forward to hearing more about it at our November meeting. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: I asked her also if she saw the correlation between high school students and school students that ended up homeless in Alameda and she said, "You know, absolutely," so maybe that's an area we can focus on for projects like Doug's. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Yeah, and I am excited about Doug's project to have a mental health service drop-in clinic on the island. Even if it's limited to housing, at this point, I believe it's the first drop-in clinic that offers mental health services. 09/12/18 Page 10 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |