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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-11-28 | 17 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 6:30 PM Jodi McCarthy: Right. Arnold Brillinger: But I was thinking, a lot of these things but no one asked us back in the 60s. I don't know, did they ask you in the 90s? Jodi McCarthy: Ask me what? Arnold Brillinger: About these different behaviors. Jodi McCarthy: I don't recall ever getting asked about it. I don't know if I was ever asked about it in high school, or if a report like this ever came out in the 90s. But then, I was a teenager and it was all about me, so I don't know what, right? What was really going on. I don't know. I don't remember participating in anything like the depth that we did with this survey last year. Arnold Brillinger: Yes. I mean, I would like to commend you for doing this. Jodi McCarthy: Thank you. Arnold Brillinger: But I've, I was going to high school and middle school in the 60s. And a lot of these things I thought, "Hey, we had those things too". We didn't have the cyber things of course, but the whole thing about "You don't understand me". And so forth. And I bet everybody here remembers that when they were growing up, no matter what, if they were 60s, it's good to get this out in the open. And we need to have the cooperation of the parents and the staff, the teachers, the administration, and all through the educational process. So I commend you for doing this. And I also wanted to know. Well, obviously there are other school districts that are doing something like this. How do your students seem to compare to them or is it pretty much the same way? As percentages and stuff like that? Jodi McCarthy: So when we were starting this process, we looked at New Haven Unified and we looked at Berkeley Unified, they both did. We looked to them, because I don't want to reinvent the wheel, you want to see what people have done and what worked and you want to use what they used. And our needs assessment showed. Our needs assessment showed a higher increase in the anxiety and the depression and the suicide ideation. I spoke to Karen, oh God Karen Orlashack. She runs the Intensive Outpatient Program at Kaiser. I spoke to her at the beginning of the year about a couple of our students, who were 5150'd and they go into either the partial hospitalization program or they go into the Intensive Outpatient Program. And she asked me, she's like, "What is going on in Alameda?" And I'm like, "What are you talking about?" She said, "Well, anywhere from 30 to 50% of the kids in the IOP or the PHP programs are from Alameda". That's huge, because they serve Berkley, Emeryville, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Hayward and Oakland. And for a program to have 30 to 50% of the participants in it from Alameda, is alarming. Jodi McCarthy: So alarming that I met with Kaiser this morning to find out how we can partner with them more. But of the comparable needs assessments that I've looked at, it's our depression, our anxiety, our stress, and our suicide ideation, as is more. And our drug use is a little bit more 03/13/19 Page 17 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-11-28.pdf |