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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-03-13 | 10 | ITEM 3-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 6:30 PM generally responsible for that, and we know how strapped they are. But they shared with us how limited they are and the extensive challenges they have and where the schools are maxed out with dollars, where the city can or cannot kick in for that. And I don't know if that's like a city manager, someone from city finance or. do you know? Liz Acord: I don't know off the top of my head. We do have staff in Community Development that work with our police department as part of homeless outreach, so I would imagine that would be a good starting place. I can ask Laurie to follow up and provide some city points of contact for continuing that discussion. Jennifer Roloff: Okay, that would be great. Especially as far as the school district, I think, would be good. Again, if we can advise the city, "We need dollars for additional human resources," or something like that, just how that happens. I know, for example, with Parks and Recs, there is already an established relationship between the pools, right, with the city, it's a 50/50 or something like that with the city pools? But for schools, I don't know where that is and how much they're going to pay attention since the state district has its own resources. And that's something I could probably talk to school board about as well, being the liaison. Jenn Barrett: It'd be very interesting to hear. Susan Deutsch: When the people from the school district came to talk to us, they were saying that most of the mental health money is coming from the county. Because I had thought that the city of Berkeley had their own mental health, because they have Berkeley Mental Health, and that's where a lot of kids from the school district get counselors from Berkeley Mental Health, but the people presenting said that was county money also. So at some point, maybe we can contact Alameda County and see if we can get some funds that way. If they're giving funds to Berkeley, what funds are we getting? Maybe we can try to find that out. Jennifer Roloff: And I can take that on, being the school board liaison, if I can take that action item. Okay, that's a good idea, and I could even call the Berkeley program, too. Susan Deutsch: So I think this is bigger than just looking at the issue for schools, right? You're going to take it to the school board, but following the same lines that you're exploring, what is the availability of crisis services and not just for kids, but for adults, and what's the funding of those services? Jennifer Roloff: Yeah, I was just particularly focused on the kids issue, but of course it extends to the whole population. Susan Deutsch: Right. Jennifer Roloff: So is there an action item we want to take? I think maybe some additional resources that talk about mental health in general per Commissioner Brillinger. That's a good start there. 03/13/19 Page 10 of 28 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-03-13.pdf |