Recommendation to Accept Alameda Family Services Presentation Summarizing Activities Performed Under its One-Year Contract for Student Mental Health Services.  (Community Development)
Were individual therapy students with a high level of need. I was just saying Mr. Jenks has a lot of experience with family and family therapy. He is a father of young children. Do whatever you need to do. Okay, 1/2. Maybe he can play with Malia's. This is real. You. We love children. You can bring them on camera. I appreciate everyone's patience, though. It was a minor legal issue that needed under the regulations. Can be it can be big. Yeah. Okay. So with individual therapy, as I said, we wanted this to be a gap, though our services are designated to provide those who have medical. And so this person would provide services to those with private insurance and who had barriers to accessing outside support. Examples of barriers might be related to their gender or gender or sexual identity, where telling their parents that they want to seek services may not be an option, or situations where a family culture may minimize the severity of mental health. This clinician also provided group therapy as well as case management, and the case management was a very important part of the services they provided. They helped connect the youth and their family to family, to providers in and around Alameda. As you can imagine, we have a number of youth seeking services and we have a finite resources. And so this person really made sure to work with the families to get them connected to outside resources when available and in many times advocated on behalf of the client and the family for those services with their insurance companies. Next slide. So these are the services that were provided up to the shelter in place. I tried to divide us between those times because the Covenant Shelter in place really did impact how we were able to provide services. So this therapist was holding a caseload of 15 clients. They also had a group that had five clients. The drop in crisis drop ins and the briefing interventions that I spoke about earlier, there are 43 unique students and families that were supported. Many of them were in multiple locations where she was continuing to connect with the family and make sure that they were connected. The top three reasons for services were anxiety or stress, depression and family or peer conflict. And then I listed these crises just to be able to show some of the issues that were coming up. There was a one year hospitalization that she was involved in, four CPS reports and three different incidences that required law enforcement. Just in case anyone doesn't know, can you tell us what else he stands for? Yes. Child Protective Services. So if there was any allegations of abuse against a minor, I think it is important to note that of the 15 clients that this clinician was seen. Five of them actually had been hospitalized before they came into our care. Next time. I want to be able to provide an example of, you know, one of the clients that we were able to serve. So there was a youth who came in on their own to the health center. This youth was really struggling with ongoing depression, suicidal ideation, self-harm and is an overall high levels of anxiety there, expressing feelings of hopelessness, difficulty imagining a future in which they were alive and thriving. Additionally, this youth was also concerned and struggled with their perception of how their parents would re-inject their gender and sexual identity. And so this youth engage in our services, undermined our consent at first, meaning without parental approval. But our goal was always to be able to support the youth in having support at home. And so we connected them not only with our our therapist, but our clinician connected them to some of the other events that are hosted and workshops by the health center that that client was able to connect with peers who are experiencing similar struggles and eventually got to the place where she was open and being able to have a conversation with their parents. And this connection was so great and being able to provide those parents with psychoeducation and guidance and really being able to increase that level of support at home. Next slide. So since Colbert in the shelter in place, I'm proud to say that Alameda Family Services did a wonderful job being able to pivot into telehealth and being able to continue to provide therapeutic services to our existing clients. There was obviously an increase in case management involvement with families. You know, families were experiencing losses of income and jobs and being able to figure out ways to work with our local food bank, working with family support centers, and really trying to to make sure that family were getting their basic needs met. Something that was awesome that this clinician did is we actually contacted every student that had come through our three health centers but did not have a confirmed source of support. So as I mentioned, you might have a student who comes in and does a check in and then they don't continue with a service or we don't personally connect them to someone. And so we went through and contacted all those youth just to do a quick check in and see how they were doing and see if anyone wanted to to start services. This clinician opened up six additional clients in the shelter in place, which was great. You know, there was a shift in the in how her services were being delivered because we didn't have as many students walking in. So we were able to shift that more towards individual services. And then we actually also increased the frequency of those sessions for those youth who are really struggling. Next slide. I just put up my contact information as well. And I wanted to end by just again voicing my appreciation on behalf of our agency and specifically my school based services program for the support from City Council and the continued collaboration that Alameda Family Services has with us to serve our Alameda community. When I open, I know there are any questions. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Jenks. That's a very moving and impressive presentation, and we're very grateful to have Alameda Family Services in our city council. Any comments, questions for Mr. Jenks? I. Vice Mayor, is that your hand going up? I was just going to say I just really appreciated the presentation. I'm really glad that our council chose to support this in our budget and it looks like it's been a great success and I really appreciate you taking the time to come. Tell us about it. And and I guess my quick question would be, so I know it's uncertain how a USG is going to open up in the fall. I guess there's a semester actually starts next month in August. What kinds of what kinds of considerations are is AFS making for how you will provide your services. Yeah, that's a great question. You know, Governor Newsom's announcement that we're going to be starting in distance learning really solidified for for us and specifically our program that's based out of the school, how to start approaching our services. We're so fortunate to have a really good relationship with AUC, personal relationships with the principals. They also have positions at their school called intervention leads that are kind of our liaison to the school. And so we're we're planning to tour on our services, you know, as normal, being able to get our referrals directly from the school and being able to provide individual services, group services, group services are a little bit more difficult in the wake of this. It's great that we're able to get everyone for city council, but rounding up a number of third graders to meet at a time is a little bit more challenging, you know, outside of their outside of their school and classroom time. But, you know, we've been fortunate to have HIPA compliant telehealth and being able to actually involve family members a lot more in the services. And so we're very confident in how we're going to be able to continue our support. That's good to hear. Anything further from council or do I have a motion to accept this report? Coulson. Thank you, madam. Do we have any public comment? Oh, thank you. Thank you. For that matter. Do we have a public comment? We have no one on Zoom raising their hand, and we have not received any written comments. Okay. All right. Well, I will thank you, Mr. Jenks, and think of other family services for this. This is one of the few opportunities, I think, as a council that we were able to spend money in our budget. You know, that you can directly correlate to helping an individual, you know, in possibly saving their lives where we didn't have that service provided before. So I'm really honored that our council was able to do that, and I'm glad that we were able to extend it. So I'd like to make the motion to I guess we accept the presentation, right? Mm hmm. Yes, I'll make that motion. Okay. Councilmember Vela, are you both raising your hand to second and to make a comment? Yes. Yes. Take this. So I'm going to second the motion. I also just want to highlight and Cale, thank you for presenting. I think that so much about about providing these services is preventing the need for additional, more costly services down the road in response to where we have not provided preventative care upfront. And so I think it's really critical, especially in light of all of the changes that are going on relative to the pandemic, that we find a way to work collaboratively with our community partners like AMI Family Services. And I just want to also thank Kathryn for the work that they're doing at the early childhood centers and things like that where we've really been able to make a difference. So thank you. And I'm happy to support this tonight. Thank you. So we've had a motion by councilmember already seconded by Councilmember Vela and discussion. I see. Councilmember Desai. It's funny when you point in a direction, Councilman Brody, he's actually below you on my screen. But I. Think. If you met Councilmember de SA. Yeah, yeah. Come on, guys, I'm already confused. Councilmember Desai Okay, well, just quickly, I want to also express my appreciation to the Alameda Unified School District School Board. I remember some I believe it was the trustees, Jennifer Williams, who had raised this issue at one of our meetings, I think it was regarding the Social Service Human Relations Board. So she was there as well. And so I just want to extend my appreciation for the school board for allowing us to partner with them in this important area. Very important area. All right. We've had the motion the second we have a roll call vote, please. Councilmember de SAG. Yes. Not quite my o.d. I vella. I may as the Ashcroft. I. That carries by five eyes. And just that once that I must complete. I just wanted you to know you'll be recessing this meeting to take item two D and just to keep everybody going in order. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much. Nice to see you, Mr. Jenks. Okay, so it's a recess, but don't go anywhere. It just means we're jumping from one agenda. To. The. I think this is toward the end of our agenda, isn't it? Yes. We are now going to move to. The 701 special meeting. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Item 2D. Correct. Correct. All right. So who do we have presenting on that? I believe the city attorney will start and I will then. Go into the record. Oh, do we need to note the roll call for? I guess we do for us. And roll call, Madam Clerk. Brokaw has been noted. Adam Clark has been notified. President Sorry, I was either. Okay. Thank you. Okay, so then would you introduce this next item, please? Adoption is the resolution calling for the holding of a consolidated municipal election in the city of Alameda on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020, for the submission of a proposed Charter and General Plan Amendment to repeal the prohibition against building multifamily housing in Alameda and the citywide density limitation of one housing unit per 2000 square feet of land and authorizing city council members to file written arguments for or against the measure. All right, so city attorney Mr. Chan, are you leading on this one? I am. I'll start and please clerk and the planning. Are you able to hear me? I am. I think you are. Okay, great. And the city clerk and the planning director are both present, as well as, I believe, Assistant. Attorney Selina Chen, who will all participate in the presentation and answer the. Council question. I'll make my presentation short. The Council made a policy decision at its last. Meeting to direct staff to return with this particular resolution to place on the ballot to repeal all of Article 26, which is, first of all, the prohibition on multi-family housing. And second of all, the limitation of 2000 square feet of. Land for housing units. Consistent with your correction, we brought you back to resolution. In our research, we've. Uncovered that the Article 26 not only is in the charter, but also. That it was inserted into the. General plan by the voters in 1991, which. Requires the same 2000 square. Feet of land for housing units in perpetuity. Unless the voters. Remove that. So as a result, what we are bringing. Back to you is a repeal of that provision in the. General plan as well. But to be clear, that does not change. Any of the general plan or zoning. Limitations that are presently in place. In the general plan or the zoning code. Those will remain in place, and this ballot measure does. Nothing to change it. It will be left to subsequent council action to do something or nothing to get these various provisions that currently exist in the general plan and the zoning ordinance. With that, I'm happy to turn it over to the City. Clerk to continue the presentation. So my person should be quick, quick and easy. And they at the last council meeting, the city council did two things about the arguments. They determined that the argument in favor would be authored by the mayor and vice mayor and they would determine who would sign. And the argument against would be authored by Councilmember de Song, and he would work on that with whoever he wanted. So and then the argument deadlines are going to be for the direct arguments. They will be due August 5th and the rebuttal arguments will be due August 17th. And since the Council will both be authoring arguments, if they get the highest priority in the elections code, anybody else submitting arguments, they would not be selected as long as the council does meet those deadlines and submit them. Thank you, Madam Clerk and Mr. Thomas. Ms.. Chan, anything to add? This is so. In addition, I have nothing to add. Thank you. Oh, but it's always nice to see you. Although we can't quite see you. Nice to have you here. And thanks for your good work on this item. Okay, Mr. Thomas, anything you want to add? No, thank you, madam. Okay. Okay. Everyone's taking my directives about. We've got to move things along. So then council. Any discussion? Madam Mayor. So, you know, we have nobody on Zoom who's raised their hand and no public comment submitted on this. Thank you. By the fifth item, I'm going to remember about public comment. It's not like this is new to me. Okay. So did we know there's council every day, so we've got everybody. Okay. So therefore, do I have a motion to adopt the resolution calling for the holding of a consolidated municipal election in the city of Alameda on Tuesday , November 3rd, for the submission of a proposed Charter and General Plan Amendment to repeal the prohibition against building multi-family housing in Alameda and the citywide density limit limitation of one housing unit per 2000 square feet of land and authorizing city council members to file written arguments for or against the measure to have a motion. So moved. It's been moved by the Vice Mayor Jovicic and it's been stolen by Council member. Any further discussion council seeing that? Mr.. DE So please. It's just a procedural question. So, so is embedded in the motion. Are we reaffirming? Well, let me put it this way. Just cut to the chase. I would prefer to vote no on this motion because I obviously don't want to see a measure changed. But is the language of this motion that that is the signers already set from last time? In other words, what I'm asking. Yes, the signers are. Yeah. If the signers are included in the resolution, it's one of the sections of the resolution that designates and it was included from the last meeting that those two sections and who would sign it. So it is in the resolution. Yes. I see. Okay. Okay. You have it. All right. Okay. And then just to clarify, we are simply voting to put this on the ballot. That's just to be put on the ballot in November. So just. Just what I said, not, you know, for or against, but putting it on the ballot. So any further questions or discussion? CNN. May we have a call cover, please? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Sorry. Of course. Sorry. My quick comment is this I appreciate being able to sign the no side, but as you all know, I would prefer that this not be put on the ballot. And so for that reason, I will be voting no, even though I will continue to sign it. So is that an option or do I have to vote? Yes. Okay, face.