Human Services Commission - Special Meeting · Tuesday, October 29, 2019 · City Council Digest

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Human Services Commission About Staff Liaison Created in 2007, this commission advises the Monica Negrila, Mayor and City Council on matters concerning Human Services & Social human services planning and funding. The Sustainability Coordinator commission plays a vital role in studying emerging Email issues and concerns in the human services area to ensure that the basic survival needs of Issaquah Regular Members residents are met and that support systems are in 2020 – Derek Franklin place to help people through economic and 2021 – Ana Jimenez-Inman personal crisis. Each year, the commission focuses 2021 – Rebekah Smith on its workplan. 2022 – Loretta Jancoski 2022 – Senthil Chandran Membership 2023 – Jolie Kwan-Hart The Human Services Commission is comprised of 2023 – Sonia Sahay seven regular members, with four-year terms; and two alternates, with two-year terms. All members Alternate…

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0:02 ↗ friends the planning policy Commissioner

0:06 ↗ this is a special meeting the Human

0:09 ↗ Services Commission the purpose is joint

0:12 ↗ meeting between us the Human Services

0:13 ↗ Commission the planning policy

0:15 ↗ Commission words the purpose

0:16 ↗ specifically is to discussed a healthy

0:18 ↗ community strategy project but I'd like

0:21 ↗ to do please just go around do a quick

0:23 ↗ intro maybe name your Commission and one

0:26 ↗ select one sentence no longer factoid

0:30 ↗ about your connection to discipline

0:31 ↗ and/or your commission it could be

0:33 ↗ anything and then I'll turn it over to

0:37 ↗ staff and we can get on with the meeting

0:39 ↗ for those here for public comment if you

0:42 ↗ notice in the agenda that's scheduled

0:43 ↗ for towards the end of the meeting and

0:46 ↗ we very much would welcome that if

0:48 ↗ that's something you'd choose to give

0:49 ↗ and you will be sure to save time for

0:51 ↗ that I so again my name is Derek

0:53 ↗ Franklin factoid is I've got a couple

0:55 ↗ kids in the district and spent a lot of

0:57 ↗ my time parenting and fit on the

1:00 ↗ Commission for three to four years I'm

1:03 ↗ not quite sure sure I'm Susan Leonelli

1:08 ↗ on the Human Services Commission I've

1:10 ↗ been on the Commission for about a year

1:13 ↗ and a half and I've lived in Issaquah

1:15 ↗ Highlands for 13 years and for the very

1:18 ↗ first time I just started riding the bus

1:20 ↗ every day to a job in downtown Seattle

1:24 ↗ so that's been interesting for me hi I'm

1:27 ↗ David Fujimoto I'm the director of the

1:30 ↗ Office of Sustainability here at the

1:31 ↗ city and also staff person

1:34 ↗ mónica to the Human Services Commission

1:37 ↗ you all here to with us tonight

1:39 ↗ hi I'm professor I'm a junior here at

1:42 ↗ Asko high school that's what Youth

1:49 ↗ Advisory Board hi my name is Joe Lee

1:58 ↗ Kwan hard I'm on the Human Services

2:00 ↗ Commission this is my first year so I

2:02 ↗ believe maybe five months or so I've

2:06 ↗ lived in Issaquah with my husband and

2:08 ↗ year-old daughter for five years now

2:11 ↗ hello my name is Monica nagrel'a and I'm

2:14 ↗ the Human Services Coordinator with the

2:16 ↗ city here and I'm also staff for the

2:18 ↗ Human Services Commission and I've been

2:21 ↗ here with the city for almost a year

2:25 ↗ I'm Sonia hi also the Human Services

2:28 ↗ Commission similar to Jolie been a

2:30 ↗ commissioner only for about six months

2:32 ↗ lived in this graph for 13 years

2:47 ↗ I'm probably the chair of the Planning

2:49 ↗ Policy Commission I've been on the

2:51 ↗ Commission for Oh God 12 years so listen

2:55 ↗ to all of you newbies so I I've just

3:02 ↗ been part of the city for a long time in

3:04 ↗ different organizations in different

3:05 ↗ different ways all right art that's on

3:10 ↗ the planet policy commission for about a

3:12 ↗ year and a half my wife and two boys for

3:16 ↗ about ten years now

3:31 ↗ I'm Loretta Jenkins services commission

3:36 ↗ in Issaquah and been around Issaquah for

3:40 ↗ 30 years

3:43 ↗ [Music]

3:45 ↗ I'm Randi Harrison I'm been on the

3:48 ↗ Planning Policy Commission for about 18

3:54 ↗ years

4:24 ↗ my name is Jason voice

4:28 ↗ for a little less than a year and a half

4:29 ↗ and I believe I've been in Issaquah for

4:32 ↗ 13 years and before that I used to come

4:35 ↗ out to the woods with my friends my name

4:41 ↗ is aina haina demon I'm bidding you

4:44 ↗ sucka for almost 18 years in the

4:47 ↗ commission for two kids in college

4:58 ↗ well thank everybody and agenda is

5:02 ↗ pretty clear tonight moving on to agenda

5:03 ↗ my tutu which is the bulk of the meeting

5:05 ↗ I'll just turn it over to staff at David

5:07 ↗ Fujimoto to welcome our guests and move

5:10 ↗ on with each other very good thank you

5:12 ↗ Derrick as I said before thank you all

5:14 ↗ for joining us here tonight it's really

5:16 ↗ helpful for us to have a joint meeting

5:18 ↗ of the Commission's to talk about the

5:20 ↗ healthy community strategy and we're at

5:23 ↗ a a checkpoint in the project some of

5:27 ↗ you go a little bit more background

5:29 ↗ about this project but this started as a

5:31 ↗ City Council goal to take a look at the

5:33 ↗ health and well-being in our community

5:35 ↗ and identify ways that we can help to

5:37 ↗ improve health and health equity in the

5:39 ↗ community some of the past work has been

5:42 ↗ looking at some of the data side of that

5:43 ↗ and this year we also recognized that

5:46 ↗ there was some related work in the

5:49 ↗ Housing Strategy the Housing Strategy

5:51 ↗ talks about affordable housing and

5:53 ↗ services that complement housing stock

5:56 ↗ in our community and ways to bolster

5:58 ↗ that and the other pieces is that the

6:00 ↗ city's also been taking an increasing

6:02 ↗ look at our seniors services both with

6:05 ↗ our Senior Center as well as others

6:07 ↗ needs for seniors in the community some

6:09 ↗ of those are housing related so we're

6:11 ↗ service related

6:12 ↗ we've taken those bodies of work and

6:14 ↗ integrated them all under the several of

6:16 ↗ the healthy communities strategy so as

6:18 ↗ many different kind of populations and

6:21 ↗ programs and elements that are connected

6:23 ↗ here so it's a really kind of that's an

6:25 ↗ opportunity to take a holistic look for

6:27 ↗ a variety of populations so your

6:29 ↗ perspectives are really helpful even

6:32 ↗ though they're different background

6:33 ↗ different things that these two

6:34 ↗ conditions have been looking at over the

6:36 ↗ years so we've been working with Bourke

6:38 ↗ consulting who's been helping us with

6:41 ↗ some of the data side of the equation

6:43 ↗ and is helping us to kind of move into

6:45 ↗ the strategy and so why didn't introduce

6:47 ↗ Erika Rhett is the project manager who's

6:50 ↗ been helping us on that side the

6:52 ↗ equation she's gonna spend a little bit

6:53 ↗ of time I can't even give us a

6:55 ↗ background getting us up to speed and

6:58 ↗ then we'll also have a time later on

6:59 ↗ today we'll break up into some groups

7:01 ↗ that will get some feedback from you

7:03 ↗ specifically just for some of you that

7:08 ↗ aren't used to being filmed because we

7:11 ↗ knew this was going to be such an

7:12 ↗ important melding of the minds

7:14 ↗ we're actually I'm hoping being taped

7:16 ↗ right now so that those of us that

7:18 ↗ aren't here we're not those of us that

7:19 ↗ aren't here those that aren't here

7:21 ↗ tonight will be able to watch what all

7:23 ↗ the fascinating discussions that we had

7:24 ↗ and I'd also warn you the whole room is

7:28 ↗ a microphone so I know sometimes you

7:31 ↗ you'll only watch what you say when you

7:33 ↗ actually have a microphone right in

7:34 ↗ front of you but the whole room is the

7:36 ↗ microphone so I just wanted to warn you

7:38 ↗ about that because sometimes it's really

7:41 ↗ funny what gets picked up so I just

7:43 ↗ wanted to thank you for that

7:52 ↗ I just didn't watch I wanted to pull

7:54 ↗ this closure hi I'm Erica Rhett from

7:58 ↗ Burke consulting and and we're going to

8:03 ↗ talk today about the healthy community

8:04 ↗ strategy so for this part of the meeting

8:07 ↗ I'm going to give a presentation that

8:09 ↗ gives you some background information

8:11 ↗ then we're gonna have a discussion then

8:13 ↗ we'll just quickly go over the next

8:15 ↗ steps so a community needs assessment is

8:19 ↗ about building a healthy community and

8:22 ↗ in 2016 the city began the journey

8:25 ↗ towards building a healthy and more

8:27 ↗ equitable community for its residents

8:30 ↗ and what it wanted to do was try and

8:32 ↗ define what a healthy community is and

8:35 ↗ what kind of a place what kind of a city

8:38 ↗ would you would have where all of the

8:41 ↗ systems work together to ensure that

8:43 ↗ residents have a really great life and

8:45 ↗ so it goes beyond the individual

8:48 ↗ decisions that we associate with health

8:50 ↗ such as eating right or exercise or

8:52 ↗ getting enough rest it actually goes

8:55 ↗ into what we call social determinants of

8:58 ↗ health and these are the social the

9:00 ↗ environmental and community factors that

9:03 ↗ influence whether people live their best

9:05 ↗ lives and if you can see here are some

9:08 ↗ of the things that in fact that

9:10 ↗ influence health in a community so

9:14 ↗ there's things like complete

9:16 ↗ neighborhoods whether or not healthy

9:18 ↗ food is available if there's affordable

9:20 ↗ quality housing fair justice system

9:23 ↗ public transit Universal Design there's

9:27 ↗ many many factors that go into whether

9:30 ↗ or not people live their healthiest and

9:33 ↗ best lives so the city conducted a

9:36 ↗ community needs assessment and during

9:38 ↗ this assessment they talked with lots of

9:41 ↗ different people

9:42 ↗ and found that there were four areas in

9:46 ↗ Issaquah that were keeping the community

9:49 ↗ from being as healthy as it could be so

9:52 ↗ the purpose of the healthy community

9:53 ↗ strategy is to take take up the cause

9:57 ↗ where that were left off and to identify

9:59 ↗ strategies that the city can pursue to

10:02 ↗ make a positive difference in health and

10:04 ↗ equity and it's it basically has this

10:08 ↗ underlying commitment and this believes

10:11 ↗ that all the members of the community

10:13 ↗ are important to the success of the

10:16 ↗ community and that meeting meeting the

10:19 ↗ needs of the community is a shared

10:21 ↗ responsibility between the members of

10:22 ↗ the community so to begin working with

10:25 ↗ strategy we verified the top four the

10:29 ↗ top four issues in the community needs

10:32 ↗ assessment and we did this by talking

10:35 ↗ with stakeholders which included some

10:38 ↗ nonprofits community organizations and

10:40 ↗ the like that are serving Issaquah

10:42 ↗ residents we also did a variety of

10:45 ↗ engagements with members of the

10:47 ↗ community particularly some that we

10:49 ↗ thought the other information that we

10:53 ↗ had gathered particularly pointed to

10:55 ↗ that those are people in the community

10:56 ↗ we should talk to we're people that

10:58 ↗ hadn't been talked to previously so in

11:01 ↗ the community needs assessment one of

11:03 ↗ the top items that was

11:06 ↗ that was mentioned as a need with stable

11:10 ↗ housing

11:10 ↗ so people across its across income

11:13 ↗ spectrum have hard time finding housing

11:16 ↗ that they can afford it's particularly

11:18 ↗ difficult for people who have low or

11:20 ↗ fixed incomes but it's a challenge for

11:23 ↗ people people of a variety of incomes

11:27 ↗ and it's also a challenge for people who

11:30 ↗ have special needs due to age or

11:33 ↗ disability and what we find is that the

11:35 ↗ lack of stability in housing has all

11:37 ↗ kinds of health consequences because

11:40 ↗ people start to make trade-offs when

11:42 ↗ you're spending more money than you can

11:43 ↗ afford on your housing then you don't

11:45 ↗ have as much money to invest in health

11:48 ↗ care child care you don't have as much

11:50 ↗ money to support transportation and

11:52 ↗ other needs of life so this type of

11:55 ↗ thing goes across many incomes the other

12:00 ↗ thing we found is that there is a number

12:03 ↗ of behavioral health issues these types

12:06 ↗ of behavioral health issues affect both

12:08 ↗ youth and adults in the community and

12:13 ↗ with with these issues what we see is

12:16 ↗ some higher levels of anxiety depression

12:19 ↗ and stress for Issaquah higher higher

12:24 ↗ incidences of substance abuse and also

12:28 ↗ we found from talking with people that

12:30 ↗ there's a number of cultural stigmas

12:32 ↗ around seeking health both cultural

12:35 ↗ stigmas that are part of just the common

12:39 ↗ culture of the city and also be for

12:42 ↗ people who are a multicultural back

12:49 ↗ the third thing that was identified in

12:52 ↗ the community needs assessment has to do

12:54 ↗ with disparities related to race and

12:56 ↗ ethnicity sexes so these are disparities

13:03 ↗ are essentially where people have

13:06 ↗ inequitable outcomes and it's

13:10 ↗ attributable to it's attributable to a

13:14 ↗ factor that they typically don't have a

13:16 ↗ lot of control of such as race or sex so

13:21 ↗ so this information was gathered mostly

13:25 ↗ from looking at Census Bureau records

13:29 ↗ state office of Superintendent of Public

13:32 ↗ Instruction and a citizen survey of

13:35 ↗ Issaquah and what they found is that

13:37 ↗ depending on your race and ethnicity you

13:40 ↗ may be more likely to have a lower

13:42 ↗ median income a higher poverty and

13:44 ↗ status and unemployment rate lower high

13:47 ↗ school graduation rates lower

13:50 ↗ educational attainment and a less

13:53 ↗ perception that you live in a safe and

13:56 ↗ welcoming neighborhood women were less

13:59 ↗ likely to have a lower median household

14:01 ↗ income higher poverty and higher

14:03 ↗ unemployment and low income households

14:07 ↗ in the community are more likely to have

14:09 ↗ lower high school graduation rates lower

14:12 ↗ enrollments in post-secondary education

14:15 ↗ and have have a lower perception of the

14:20 ↗ availability of affordable housing

14:24 ↗ and then the fourth thing that came out

14:27 ↗ of the community needs assessment work

14:28 ↗ from 2016 was an understanding that one

14:33 ↗ of the that barriers themselves were one

14:36 ↗ of the main areas that prevented the

14:38 ↗ community from being its healthiest self

14:41 ↗ we know that those barriers can often be

14:44 ↗ related and go hand in hand with some of

14:47 ↗ the disparities that we just talked

14:48 ↗ about but if you think about it if

14:51 ↗ you're trying to access services and

14:53 ↗ resources in the community and you don't

14:57 ↗ speak English or you have a hard time

15:00 ↗ getting around on the transportation

15:03 ↗ system or you don't have a car those are

15:05 ↗ the types of things they'll prevent you

15:07 ↗ from getting services that you need we

15:10 ↗ also found that it's the availability

15:12 ↗ and location of providers some services

15:15 ↗ just are not offered in Issaquah or if

15:18 ↗ they are that the available appointment

15:21 ↗ slots are so few that people have to go

15:23 ↗ outside the community for help there's

15:25 ↗ also a number of insurance limitations

15:28 ↗ particularly for people who have public

15:31 ↗ insurance and some there are a number of

15:35 ↗ resources that people just aren't aware

15:37 ↗ of or don't know how to access them and

15:39 ↗ there can also be some legal barriers so

15:43 ↗ these four things the barriers the

15:45 ↗ disparities affordable housing and

15:48 ↗ behavioral health in 2016 those were the

15:51 ↗ top four items that were preventing

15:53 ↗ Issaquah from being its healthiest

15:56 ↗ community but what we found when we went

16:00 ↗ out to the community to verify these

16:02 ↗ needs is that there were additional

16:04 ↗ community needs that were that we

16:08 ↗ thought merit that would merit inclusion

16:11 ↗ and

16:11 ↗ the community strategy why are the needs

16:14 ↗ of older adults so older adults have

16:19 ↗ particular needs for socialization for

16:23 ↗ mental and physical health care and for

16:25 ↗ a number of other supports we heard over

16:28 ↗ and over again talking to people that a

16:30 ↗ big gap in the community needs

16:32 ↗ assessment is that it didn't address the

16:34 ↗ needs of older adults to age in place in

16:37 ↗ the community so we went we went back

16:40 ↗ and just at our scope of work to include

16:44 ↗ that the Senior Center also had some

16:48 ↗ money to do a needs assessment for

16:52 ↗ senior for older adults and so we're

16:57 ↗ working in conjunction with the Senior

16:58 ↗ Center on that piece of the work as well

17:01 ↗ the other thing is that came up over and

17:04 ↗ over and over again was that people

17:08 ↗ experiencing homelessness in Issaquah

17:11 ↗ are are a very very high community in

17:17 ↗ our discussions we found that oftentimes

17:20 ↗ various aspects of homelessness are

17:22 ↗ quite invisible in the community and

17:25 ↗ also that while there's some needs for

17:29 ↗ immediate and urgent assistance there's

17:33 ↗ not as many supports for helping people

17:36 ↗ to transition into permanent housing or

17:39 ↗ to provide to provide some more

17:43 ↗ long-term supports for people

17:45 ↗ experiencing homelessness so

17:50 ↗ so that's basically in a nutshell I just

17:54 ↗ went over very quickly where we are in

17:58 ↗ terms of community needs in the in the

18:03 ↗ memo that we sent to Joint Commission's

18:06 ↗ I I went through in detailed all the

18:10 ↗ different parts of our scope of work

18:12 ↗ we've we're getting to the end of that

18:15 ↗ first part of the scope of work where we

18:17 ↗ are identifying needs and removed we're

18:21 ↗ transitioning into the part where we're

18:22 ↗ trying to define what is s across role

18:25 ↗ in looking at those needs so in terms of

18:29 ↗ looking in terms of looking at those

18:33 ↗ needs we thought it would be useful to

18:35 ↗ dive just a little bit deeper into the

18:38 ↗ information that we've collected so far

18:40 ↗ and one of the things that's really

18:45 ↗ clear to us as we started working on

18:49 ↗ these needs and talking to the community

18:51 ↗ is that all of the needs all of those

18:55 ↗ six needs are very interconnected so for

19:00 ↗ example housing affordability is very

19:03 ↗ stressful to many people in the

19:04 ↗ community but that affordability can be

19:07 ↗ amplified by various disparities so we

19:13 ↗ know that from the disparities

19:15 ↗ information there are some people who

19:18 ↗ have a harder time finding affordable

19:20 ↗ housing based on who have a harder time

19:24 ↗ finding housing that they can afford

19:27 ↗ based on their sex or their race for

19:30 ↗ example

19:31 ↗ but not being able to find housing that

19:34 ↗ you can for a Ford can really increase

19:36 ↗ stress which feeds into issues related

19:40 ↗ to behavioral health such as anxiety

19:42 ↗ depression and substance abuse and when

19:46 ↗ people are burdened with the cost of

19:48 ↗ housing they have fewer resources they

19:50 ↗ make those types of trade-offs that we

19:51 ↗ that I mentioned before and once they

19:55 ↗ start to make trade-offs so you have an

19:57 ↗ you're you're living in a house but you

20:00 ↗ can't quite afford childcare you don't

20:02 ↗ have quite as much money for healthcare

20:04 ↗ then some of those barriers about being

20:06 ↗ able to find quality after-school care

20:09 ↗ or being able to connect to a doctor

20:11 ↗ that's that's right in the community

20:13 ↗ become much bigger issues and so instead

20:17 ↗ of trying to tackle these issues one by

20:19 ↗ one by one because they're all

20:22 ↗ interrelated we thought that we would

20:24 ↗ look at some of these issues with by

20:27 ↗ using the human life cycle so one

20:31 ↗ disclaimer here is that a lot of the

20:34 ↗ underlying issues that we are talking

20:36 ↗ about here are major societal issues so

20:40 ↗ things like gender or racial

20:43 ↗ discrimination those are things that are

20:47 ↗ beyond the reach of a single

20:49 ↗ jurisdiction right and a single

20:53 ↗ community strategy there's also regional

20:56 ↗ issues that have to do with housing

21:00 ↗ affordability and transportation these

21:03 ↗ are things where the city is already

21:05 ↗ working and I'm sure the Planning Policy

21:07 ↗ Commission knows a lot about some of

21:09 ↗ these things but the city is already

21:11 ↗ working a lot with housing strategies

21:14 ↗ and all kinds of things to coordinate

21:17 ↗ with the region in order to in order to

21:21 ↗ try and make a difference

21:22 ↗ portability so the goal of a healthy

21:25 ↗ community strategy is not to repeat this

21:27 ↗ work that's being done regionally or to

21:31 ↗ tackle some of this work that is just

21:33 ↗ not possible for one community to tackle

21:36 ↗ but what we think is that what we can do

21:41 ↗ is look at ways that Issaquah can

21:44 ↗ specifically address some issues in the

21:46 ↗ community over the next three to five

21:48 ↗ year period and so we also think that

21:52 ↗ using the life cycle will help us to

21:54 ↗ target those things where we can move

21:57 ↗ the needle in the next three to five

21:59 ↗ years the other thing is is that one way

22:05 ↗ of thinking about needs is that all

22:07 ↗ people have needs for the aspects of a

22:11 ↗ healthy community throughout their

22:13 ↗ entire lifetime children need a secure

22:16 ↗ home and access to quality education so

22:19 ↗ they can build their foundation for

22:21 ↗ future success youth needs support for

22:25 ↗ healthy physical social and emotional

22:28 ↗ development as they start to transition

22:30 ↗ into adulthood adults need supports like

22:34 ↗ housing transportation and social

22:37 ↗ support systems to help them remain

22:40 ↗ resilient as all those life issues come

22:43 ↗ up and then older adults need all of

22:47 ↗ these things plus inclusion and

22:49 ↗ engagement to maintain connections and

22:52 ↗ well-being so people rely on their

22:56 ↗ community throughout their lifetime and

22:59 ↗ it's inheriting a lot of what we take

23:02 ↗ for granted usually unless something

23:05 ↗ isn't working right so when the

23:07 ↗ transportation system breaks down then

23:09 ↗ we really realize like oh it's not

23:11 ↗ working here and there's some people in

23:14 ↗ the community who have access to more

23:17 ↗ resources and named

23:19 ↗ have more access to those resources

23:21 ↗ because of wealth or social networks or

23:25 ↗ what kind of insurance they have or

23:27 ↗ things like that but a healthy community

23:31 ↗ is one that's going to support and build

23:34 ↗ safety nets for all people so that at

23:39 ↗ every stage of life there's a safety net

23:41 ↗ for people who don't have quite as

23:44 ↗ strong of a network in those things so

23:47 ↗ let's talk about a profile in we're

23:55 ↗ going to talk about four areas lifecycle

23:58 ↗ stages and the first one is children and

24:01 ↗ youth so the information that I have

24:05 ↗ here is not all of the information that

24:08 ↗ we have we have lots and lots of

24:11 ↗ information if you took a look at the

24:13 ↗ healthy community strategy there's lots

24:15 ↗ of statistical and demographic

24:18 ↗ information in there on all types of

24:21 ↗ things I specifically went through and

24:24 ↗ chose what I thought was the key

24:26 ↗ information for us to think about

24:29 ↗ tonight

24:30 ↗ so we'll start with children in youth so

24:35 ↗ about a quarter of its across population

24:38 ↗ is under 18 and we know from research

24:42 ↗ that children who are living in areas

24:45 ↗ with higher rates of unaffordable

24:48 ↗ housing are much more likely to suffer

24:51 ↗ from poor health increase behavioral

24:54 ↗ problems and lower school performance

24:56 ↗ some of those things come as a result of

25:00 ↗ some of those trade-offs that parents

25:02 ↗ are making to be able to afford the

25:03 ↗ housing

25:04 ↗ we know that a little less than a third

25:07 ↗ of the families in Issaquah school

25:10 ↗ district speak a language other than

25:12 ↗ English at home and we also know that

25:17 ↗ graduation rates for African American

25:20 ↗ and Latin F students are about 10 to 15

25:23 ↗ percent lower than for students overall

25:33 ↗ when it comes to some behavioral health

25:36 ↗ concerns we heard very clearly from

25:40 ↗ youth that they feel a lot of stress in

25:43 ↗ their day-to-day lives

25:46 ↗ it comes from pressure from achievement

25:49 ↗ bullying racial discrimination and

25:52 ↗ homophobia were things that youth

25:56 ↗ reported to us we know from the healthy

26:01 ↗ youth survey that about 40% of Issaquah

26:06 ↗ seniors and put high school seniors that

26:08 ↗ doesn't necessarily mean they all go to

26:10 ↗ Issaquah high school but just because

26:12 ↗ we'll talk about older adults later and

26:15 ↗ I didn't want to confuse high school

26:17 ↗ seniors from older adults seniors but

26:21 ↗ nearly 40% of 12th graders in Issaquah

26:26 ↗ engage in current alcohol use so the

26:29 ↗ question I believe is having having used

26:32 ↗ alcohol within the last 30 days of when

26:34 ↗ the surveys taken the surveys done every

26:37 ↗ two years by this the state in in all

26:40 ↗ the high schools in the state so also on

26:43 ↗ this survey more than 25% of Issaquah

26:46 ↗ 12th graders have seriously considered

26:49 ↗ suicide at some time in their young life

26:55 ↗ we also know that there's very few

26:58 ↗ mental health services available to

27:00 ↗ youth in the community and that youth

27:04 ↗ felt that there was some stigma related

27:07 ↗ to accessing services in this school

27:10 ↗ because not only do they have a pressure

27:12 ↗ that they may feel comes from their

27:14 ↗ families but they also have a peer

27:16 ↗ pressure to to maintain this idea that

27:19 ↗ everything's going along fine and and I

27:23 ↗ don't have any problems right so to show

27:26 ↗ up at the counselor's office or to be

27:28 ↗ seen going in and out

27:29 ↗ can sometimes have a stigma for you so a

27:37 ↗ few things that we know about people in

27:41 ↗ adulthood

27:43 ↗ so in general when we look at ISA qua

27:47 ↗ compared with rates of disease for

27:51 ↗ preventable disease in King County

27:54 ↗ health indicators show that Issaquah

27:57 ↗ about average or maybe a little

28:00 ↗ healthier an average in every measure

28:02 ↗ except for heart disease and the heart

28:06 ↗ disease is actually double the King

28:09 ↗ County rate which I thought was

28:11 ↗ interesting cancer and stroke and other

28:14 ↗ things were just about average but heart

28:17 ↗ disease is about double about 6 percent

28:22 ↗ of residents have no health insurance at

28:24 ↗ all and about 5% report that they have

28:30 ↗ unmet health needs that they can't they

28:34 ↗ can't afford to get treatment or care

28:38 ↗ for we know that behavioral health care

28:41 ↗ again is particularly difficult to find

28:44 ↗ in the community and almost impossible

28:47 ↗ if you have public insurance also

28:52 ↗ there's no treatment resources for

28:55 ↗ substance abuse in the community

29:03 ↗ so we had lots and lots of instances

29:08 ↗ where people reported that they needed

29:10 ↗ to leave the community to find providers

29:12 ↗ that either accepted their insurance or

29:15 ↗ were affordable and so and then I'm

29:23 ↗ going to jump down to the bottom one

29:24 ↗ decentralize services where people have

29:27 ↗ to leave the community and maybe go to

29:29 ↗ Bellevue or Seattle or other places are

29:32 ↗ very difficult to access especially if

29:35 ↗ you're taking public transportation we

29:39 ↗ also know that for parents there are

29:42 ↗ very few childcare or before

29:45 ↗ after-school programs available and more

29:48 ↗ than that if you are a family that can

29:53 ↗ get some assistance with childcare there

29:57 ↗ are no programs that take your there's

30:02 ↗ no programs that take a state assistance

30:05 ↗ coupon to help pay for childcare in his

30:08 ↗ o'clock there's one exception there are

30:11 ↗ a few spots available in the Bright

30:14 ↗ Horizons at the YWCA family village but

30:19 ↗ they're only available to families that

30:21 ↗ are in the family village if they have

30:25 ↗ childcare subsidy the other thing that

30:28 ↗ we heard in a couple of in a couple of

30:32 ↗ ways in a couple of from a couple of

30:34 ↗ sources is that where there are before

30:36 ↗ and after-school programs if they're

30:38 ↗ first-come first-serve program and so

30:41 ↗ those are very difficult for people who

30:44 ↗ you have to get on a waiting list if

30:47 ↗ you're not first in line and first-come

30:49 ↗ first-serve programs actually tend to

30:53 ↗ benefit people who understand how to use

30:55 ↗ bureaucracy and apply for resources and

30:57 ↗ get in line for things and also if you

31:02 ↗ have an urgent situation where you need

31:05 ↗ childcare you can't find it in the

31:08 ↗ community because those have long

31:09 ↗ waiting lists so culturally 20% of the

31:18 ↗ households speak a language other than

31:20 ↗ English at home this is a little bit of

31:22 ↗ a different statistic than the 30% of

31:26 ↗ people of families in the school

31:30 ↗ district and that's because not all of

31:34 ↗ the households in Issaquah have somebody

31:36 ↗ in the school district right but on a on

31:39 ↗ a whole one in five of the homes in your

31:44 ↗ community is not speaking English inside

31:47 ↗ of there we already saw that people of

31:51 ↗ color tend to feel that their

31:52 ↗ neighborhood neighborhoods are less safe

31:55 ↗ and we heard in many ways that it's very

32:00 ↗ difficult to find health and service

32:01 ↗ providers that are culturally

32:03 ↗ appropriate and speak that speak

32:07 ↗ different languages and meet the

32:08 ↗ community's cultural needs but it's not

32:11 ↗ just for people who come from cultures

32:14 ↗ that are far away we also heard that for

32:18 ↗ example African Americans

32:21 ↗ particularly african-american women had

32:24 ↗ a hard time finding providers in the

32:27 ↗ community that they could identify with

32:29 ↗ in terms of in terms of meeting their

32:34 ↗ cultural needs so we also heard loud

32:38 ↗ loud and clear that immigrants tend to

32:41 ↗ be experiencing higher levels of stress

32:43 ↗ and some behavioral health issues that

32:47 ↗ is that they attribute to some of the

32:50 ↗ unknown implications of the national

32:53 ↗ political climate now that comes from

32:56 ↗ the original community needs assessment

32:58 ↗ which was in 2016 and so we you know

33:03 ↗ there was that was after a big election

33:05 ↗ so we did hear some more about that but

33:11 ↗ particularly came through during that

33:13 ↗ year and also there's very few

33:15 ↗ opportunities for learning English in

33:18 ↗ the community so the opportunities that

33:20 ↗ exist don't always have the supports

33:23 ↗ that someone who's learning English

33:26 ↗ needs which may be some child care

33:29 ↗ support or the ability to get there

33:33 ↗ without transportation if you don't

33:36 ↗ speak English you can't get a driver's

33:38 ↗ license so you're reliant on public

33:40 ↗ transportation we also heard from some

33:44 ↗ women who live in the community that if

33:48 ↗ their husband speaks in English or

33:50 ↗ speaks English and they do not it's

33:52 ↗ extremely isolating for them to not be

33:56 ↗ able to get out and and move through the

33:58 ↗ community they would love to learn

34:00 ↗ English but it's very difficult for them

34:02 ↗ to find

34:04 ↗ I need their need so in terms of

34:08 ↗ households the median household income

34:12 ↗ is over $100,000 but the median in that

34:15 ↗ the income needed to afford the median

34:18 ↗ Homan in in Issaquah is a hundred ninety

34:21 ↗ six thousand dollars so this this helps

34:25 ↗ to underline the need that there's a lot

34:28 ↗ of cost Bergin have households in

34:31 ↗ Issaquah and it isn't necessarily people

34:35 ↗ who are below the median income who are

34:39 ↗ having issues with housing affordability

34:44 ↗ so about a third about a third 32% of

34:51 ↗ all households are spending 30% or more

34:54 ↗ of their income which is the test for

34:59 ↗ being cost burdened in the community and

35:02 ↗ 14% are spending more than 50% of their

35:06 ↗ income on on their on their mortgage and

35:10 ↗ rent the other thing is is that from a

35:14 ↗ housing perspective 30% of that the the

35:17 ↗ households in your community are just

35:20 ↗ one person households but there's only

35:24 ↗ thirteen percent of the housing stock

35:26 ↗ that is studio or one-bedroom apartments

35:30 ↗ now not every person who's a one-bedroom

35:32 ↗ who is a one-person household wants to

35:35 ↗ live in a one-bedroom apartment but many

35:38 ↗ people who are a one-person household

35:40 ↗ especially if they are facing some

35:43 ↗ issues with housing affordability would

35:45 ↗ love to live in a unit that was smaller

35:48 ↗ and more affordable for them and so

35:51 ↗ there's a big mismatch between

35:54 ↗ demand in the supply of those smaller

35:56 ↗ units in community

35:59 ↗ the cost of living is a significant

36:02 ↗ stress for almost all adults and

36:05 ↗ lower-income households feel stigmatized

36:09 ↗ we heard in some of our engagement with

36:13 ↗ lower-income folks that they were

36:17 ↗ particularly worried for their children

36:20 ↗ because when something goes wrong in the

36:23 ↗ community they feel like they're

36:26 ↗ targeted or they're blamed for small

36:28 ↗ crimes or things that go wrong and they

36:32 ↗ feel that their children don't get as

36:34 ↗ many opportunities because they're

36:36 ↗ tagged as being from a low-income

36:38 ↗ household so a lot to think about a lot

36:43 ↗ that adults are dealing with when we're

36:47 ↗ talking about people with disabilities

36:51 ↗ and that there's a wide range of

36:56 ↗ different abilities in the community

36:58 ↗ they can be physical abilities which can

37:01 ↗ include use of a wheelchair or other

37:04 ↗ physical impairments they can also be

37:10 ↗ developmental disabilities or mental

37:15 ↗ health disabilities and so there's very

37:21 ↗ few apartments in the community that are

37:24 ↗ accessible for wheelchairs or people who

37:28 ↗ need help with mobility and for people

37:33 ↗ who have mental developmental or

37:36 ↗ cognitive differences

37:37 ↗ what we found is that mostly those

37:41 ↗ adults live with parents or family

37:44 ↗ members for as long as they can but when

37:46 ↗ they must transition out of family care

37:49 ↗ there's almost no place in the community

37:53 ↗ for them to go there's very very few

37:55 ↗ places for them to go where it's both

38:01 ↗ affordable and well staffed I actually

38:05 ↗ talked to a woman at the health fair

38:08 ↗ where we were doing a pop-up who had a

38:10 ↗ really heart-wrenching story about her

38:13 ↗ friend trying to find care for her son

38:15 ↗ who had mental illness so the other

38:19 ↗ thing we find from the census is that if

38:23 ↗ you're a household and that has a person

38:26 ↗ with a cognitive impairment you're much

38:29 ↗ likely to have one of several housing

38:32 ↗ issues and these would be cost burden

38:36 ↗ housing or houses that don't have full

38:38 ↗ facilities like plumbing or let's say

38:43 ↗ plumbing or kitchen facilities things

38:46 ↗ like that and so for the majority of

38:52 ↗ those households are they people these

38:58 ↗ are the number of households that have a

39:00 ↗ person with a cognitive impairment and

39:03 ↗ one of those housing issues and this is

39:06 ↗ this number these numbers are just for

39:08 ↗ Issaquah so people households with

39:12 ↗ someone with a cognitive impairment who

39:14 ↗ are extremely low income are very likely

39:17 ↗ to have significant issues with their

39:19 ↗ housing including cost burden but you

39:22 ↗ can

39:23 ↗ that some of those issues range across

39:26 ↗ the income scale so aging adults for

39:35 ↗ aging adults all of the issues that we

39:38 ↗ just talked about for facing adulthood

39:42 ↗ those are all things that are faced by

39:45 ↗ aging adults but just to keep in mind

39:50 ↗ that there is a little bit of a

39:52 ↗ different emphasis and there is a bit of

39:56 ↗ a nuance when it comes to how these

39:58 ↗ things affect aging adults

40:01 ↗ first of all older adults are much more

40:03 ↗ likely to have either low or fixed

40:05 ↗ incomes so they cannot keep up with the

40:08 ↗ cost of living so even if they were had

40:12 ↗ a fairly prosperous and well-to-do life

40:14 ↗ until they became older or retired they

40:19 ↗ still may not be keeping up with the

40:21 ↗ cost of living and so there may be many

40:23 ↗ seniors who for the first time are

40:24 ↗ facing some of the barriers and burdens

40:28 ↗ that low income people in the community

40:30 ↗ feel have felt for for a long time

40:34 ↗ older adults can have less ability to

40:37 ↗ drive and so they're more reliant on a

40:40 ↗ strong strong alternate transportation

40:42 ↗ network they also are more likely to

40:46 ↗ have any of those types of physical

40:49 ↗ disabilities they also could have

40:51 ↗ sensory impairments like hearing or

40:53 ↗ vision loss that require some

40:56 ↗ specialized assistance transportation

40:58 ↗ housing or other services and for older

41:02 ↗ adults from other cultures we talked a

41:04 ↗ little bit about how

41:06 ↗ how some people from other cultures the

41:10 ↗ language barrier prevents them from

41:11 ↗ feeling connected with the community it

41:14 ↗ can be particularly difficult for older

41:16 ↗ adults who are not proficient in English

41:22 ↗ so health-wise older adults have about

41:28 ↗ the same level of health as as other

41:34 ↗ older adults in King County

41:36 ↗ but that isn't that great

41:39 ↗ so there's some for all of King County

41:43 ↗ but it's a kua included there are some

41:46 ↗ large gaps in preventive care for

41:48 ↗ example about a third of older adults

41:51 ↗ have not received a pneumonia or a flu

41:54 ↗ vaccine and we we heard from services

42:00 ↗ serving older adults and aging adults

42:02 ↗ themselves that sometimes they need some

42:05 ↗ assistance in managing the continuity of

42:07 ↗ their care there's a lot of things that

42:10 ↗ are changing and and having someone who

42:14 ↗ could help them navigate that would be

42:16 ↗ very useful also for older adults in

42:20 ↗ particular for everyone social

42:22 ↗ connections are very important to health

42:25 ↗ and well-being and it's one of the most

42:28 ↗ important things that community offers

42:30 ↗ us as human beings but for older adults

42:33 ↗ social connection is absolutely

42:36 ↗ essential for health and longevity so

42:39 ↗ where there are language transportation

42:42 ↗ financial disability or impairment

42:44 ↗ barriers those can sometimes be life or

42:48 ↗ death situations for older adults

42:56 ↗ we also know that the number of older

42:59 ↗ adults is increasing it increased from

43:03 ↗ 2010 to 2017 by about 27% it's expected

43:08 ↗ to grow the population is expected to

43:10 ↗ grow through 2040 about half of the

43:13 ↗ older adults in this community are

43:14 ↗ living alone five percent of them are

43:18 ↗ veterans and we know that they're

43:22 ↗ experiencing cost burdens if you look at

43:24 ↗ this chart here at all levels but

43:27 ↗ particularly those who are living on

43:29 ↗ those lower fixed low incomes and also

43:34 ↗ those who are living alone so the living

43:37 ↗ alone is the lighter color on the bar

43:40 ↗ chart and they're much more likely to be

43:43 ↗ cost burdened as you can see and then

43:48 ↗ our last life cycle section has to do

43:53 ↗ with homelessness and housing insecurity

43:55 ↗ and you may ask yourself or you may say

43:59 ↗ to me Erika homelessness is not a

44:02 ↗ separate part of life cycle which is

44:05 ↗ true however the issues related to

44:08 ↗ homelessness are so specific that we

44:12 ↗ didn't think that they could easily be

44:15 ↗ addressed by by looking at them

44:18 ↗ throughout the life cycle and so we

44:20 ↗ pulled them out to address them on their

44:22 ↗ own

44:24 ↗ when we talk about people experiencing

44:26 ↗ homelessness we're also talking about

44:29 ↗ people who are housing insecure those

44:32 ↗ who are living right on the bubble and

44:34 ↗ may go in and out of homelessness or may

44:37 ↗ be very close to homelessness some of

44:41 ↗ the contributing factors in this

44:43 ↗ community related to homelessness have

44:46 ↗ to do with mental health drug dependency

44:49 ↗ gender identity domestic violence and

44:52 ↗ housing affordability and in our in

44:57 ↗ talking with people who are experiencing

45:00 ↗ homelessness and in talking with people

45:02 ↗ who are dealing with people experiencing

45:06 ↗ homelessness a lot of the issues are

45:09 ↗ very invisible to the broader community

45:12 ↗ so you may see people who are

45:16 ↗ experiencing homelessness throughout the

45:18 ↗ community but the full extent is is

45:23 ↗ often hidden in places that you don't

45:25 ↗ see

45:26 ↗ we know there's over a hundred students

45:28 ↗ in the school district that are

45:30 ↗ experiencing homelessness that number

45:33 ↗ goes up and down a little bit but it's

45:35 ↗ been over a hundred for a while one of

45:38 ↗ the interesting things about

45:39 ↗ homelessness is that outreach of

45:41 ↗ homeless people is staffed regionally

45:44 ↗ what that means is that the person who

45:47 ↗ comes to do outreach only comes through

45:50 ↗ the community on a rotating basis if the

45:55 ↗ police or someone else in the city has

45:58 ↗ someone who wants has comes across a

46:02 ↗ person experiencing homelessness who

46:05 ↗ wants some services they have to call

46:07 ↗ them on the phone

46:08 ↗ hopefully that person is available and

46:10 ↗ get somebody out

46:13 ↗ they're as responsive as they can be but

46:16 ↗ they're there they serve a wide area one

46:20 ↗ of the things that we learned about

46:22 ↗ outreach to people experiencing

46:24 ↗ homelessness is that it takes lots of

46:26 ↗ contacts to build up trust for a variety

46:30 ↗ of reasons and so infrequent contact

46:33 ↗ makes it really hard to build up the

46:35 ↗ trust that's needed to help people get

46:38 ↗ into some programs for help also some of

46:43 ↗ the service that is available in the

46:45 ↗ communities such as the food bank those

46:47 ↗ are really good good services for urgent

46:50 ↗ needs for either homeless people are

46:54 ↗ people with housing insecurity but to

46:57 ↗ try and transition into more stability

47:01 ↗ where you don't have to rely on urgent

47:03 ↗ services those those paths of

47:07 ↗ self-sufficiency are not available in

47:09 ↗ the community you have to go elsewhere

47:11 ↗ to see

47:15 ↗ okay

47:17 ↗ so that's a quick introduction to what

47:21 ↗ we have learned about the needs of the

47:24 ↗ community what we're gonna do now is

47:27 ↗ have a bit of a discussion and we're

47:30 ↗ gonna break up into four groups which

47:32 ↗ someone set up the tables yes Monica I

47:36 ↗ was gonna suggest since we don't have as

47:39 ↗ many commissioners present today that we

47:41 ↗ might be able to just have three groups

47:43 ↗ okay also allow for representatives from

47:49 ↗ both Commission's to be at the same

47:51 ↗ table because we do have some tables

47:53 ↗ that have just one type of commissioners

47:56 ↗ but I have two questions before we start

48:00 ↗ the decision you said that 40% of high

48:06 ↗ school seniors had reported they used

48:08 ↗ alcohol over the last I believe with a

48:10 ↗ month drugs so there are some statistics

48:16 ↗ for drugs I didn't have those at hand

48:19 ↗ but I I can pull them my guess is is

48:26 ↗ that in the healthy so those come from

48:29 ↗ the needs-assessment those are 2016

48:31 ↗ numbers we should be able to see the

48:34 ↗ 2018 numbers now and my guess is is that

48:40 ↗ whatever the rate was in 2016 it didn't

48:44 ↗ stand out from from the rest of the

48:47 ↗ communities around it so it didn't make

48:49 ↗ it into the needs of

48:51 ↗ but it does measure drug use and and

48:55 ↗ also trying drugs the second question is

48:59 ↗ that when it comes to adults seniors

49:03 ↗ feeling stressed about the ability to

49:06 ↗ maintain two to age in place inflation

49:10 ↗ has been at historic lows since 2008 so

49:14 ↗ is it would it be correct to assume that

49:18 ↗ in king county in general its real

49:20 ↗ estate taxes that are the leading cause

49:23 ↗ of this in terms of rents going up

49:26 ↗ because the owners have to pay the taxes

49:28 ↗ or if you own a home and have been in it

49:30 ↗ for a long time one of the city

49:32 ↗ councilmen I believe last week noted in

49:35 ↗ his comments whether it was the budget

49:37 ↗ discussion that taxes on his home have

49:39 ↗ gone up 28% and I think he said the last

49:43 ↗ three or four years so do we know what

49:47 ↗ the primary cause of for Aging in Place

49:50 ↗ what the primary cause of angst is if

49:53 ↗ it's not inflation in general well so I

49:56 ↗ don't I don't have

49:59 ↗ we didn't ask people to comment on on

50:03 ↗ the source of the of the anxiety about

50:07 ↗ it and the stress we just know that the

50:11 ↗ housing and the income is not a match

50:14 ↗ and that makes people stressed there

50:17 ↗ would need to be an analysis to see like

50:20 ↗ of the increase in the cost of housing

50:23 ↗ what percentage of it is taxes are

50:25 ↗ attributable to other things but even

50:30 ↗ though inflation affects

50:33 ↗ cost the cost of living for other things

50:36 ↗ the price of housing has increased much

50:40 ↗ higher than the cost of living in

50:42 ↗ general homelessness in your housing

50:48 ↗ security there there one target you have

50:50 ↗ the breakdown on the homeless in terms

50:52 ↗ of the percentage versus housing

50:54 ↗ insecurity because housing and security

50:56 ↗ people that are insecure losing their

50:58 ↗ housing the drivers of that and

51:01 ↗ depression anxiety I would have to

51:03 ↗ imagine a lot of different that was

51:05 ↗ driving homelessness itself so yes to

51:10 ↗ some extent so and all and those things

51:14 ↗ are also considered in that section that

51:16 ↗ has to do with adulthood but we include

51:19 ↗ people we include people with the

51:23 ↗ housing insecure in that section with

51:27 ↗ homelessness because what we find is

51:30 ↗ that prevention strategies are often

51:34 ↗ very helpful in preventing homelessness

51:38 ↗ from occurring in the first place and

51:41 ↗ that's targeted toward that housing

51:44 ↗ insecure population as well but a lot of

51:49 ↗ the resources that go into prevention

51:51 ↗ strategies can also be used for people

51:54 ↗ who are already experiencing

51:57 ↗ so it's a little bit of a double

51:59 ↗ coverage and in our breakdown of things

52:02 ↗ here but if we're looking at the

52:06 ↗ percentage of people who are housing

52:08 ↗ insecure definitely the 14 percent of

52:12 ↗ people who have a 50% cost burden or

52:15 ↗ higher would be considered housing

52:18 ↗ insecure - that has the details but

52:23 ↗ there have been some studies that have

52:24 ↗ looked at correlations between rising

52:27 ↗ rents and homelessness and there is a

52:28 ↗ direct correlation yes the Department of

52:32 ↗ Commerce has good data on it and I also

52:36 ↗ found the information on drug use if

52:39 ↗ just as a summary and I'm just gonna

52:42 ↗ focus on 12th grade because how to youth

52:46 ↗ survey has a break in broken down into a

52:50 ↗ lot of details and so for substance use

52:53 ↗ for example marijuana use is one of them

52:56 ↗ however that was actually the the

53:00 ↗ positive

53:03 ↗ information because for 12 graders the

53:06 ↗ use of marijuana went down from about

53:09 ↗ 27% to about 16% of youth however

53:12 ↗ everything else looks

53:14 ↗ unfortunately worse vaping seemed to be

53:19 ↗ in 2018 the worst problem when 62

53:22 ↗ percent of high school students

53:24 ↗ reporting news of vaping so kind of like

53:28 ↗ as a quick summary those are you know

53:31 ↗ it's a possible district

53:34 ↗ okay so you would like so I have some

53:38 ↗ instructions here but we'll modify them

53:41 ↗ a bit so we're gonna have a small group

53:44 ↗ discussion to talk about these two

53:47 ↗ questions each part will be assigned one

53:50 ↗ of the lifecycle groups and we'll we'll

53:57 ↗ split into three groups here um each

54:00 ↗ group should have representatives from

54:02 ↗ both Commission's and we want you to

54:06 ↗ spend will probably spend around ten

54:08 ↗ minutes talking about these talking

54:13 ↗ about these questions and somebody

54:16 ↗ Monica or David or Trisha oh I will be

54:18 ↗ around to help take notes on some of

54:22 ↗ these big boards here and then what we'd

54:25 ↗ like you to do is pick a person who will

54:28 ↗ report back to the larger group some of

54:31 ↗ your top answers to these questions in

54:33 ↗ just like a one or two minute summary

54:35 ↗ and then we'll discuss them as a whole

54:38 ↗ so the first question is given the

54:43 ↗ information that we just discussed and

54:45 ↗ you all have in your packet you can

54:47 ↗ refer to the slides if you want to look

54:50 ↗ back at the slides for the life cycle

54:53 ↗ group so what do you think are the gaps

55:01 ↗ in health and served services so for

55:07 ↗ your life cycle group so what are the

55:10 ↗ things that are preventing them from

55:11 ↗ living their healthiest lives and where

55:13 ↗ do you see those gaps and then of the

55:16 ↗ things that you identify as gasps what

55:19 ↗ do you think are the

55:20 ↗ three most important issues and topics

55:22 ↗ to address

55:24 ↗ so should we how would you like to do it

55:30 ↗ Monica

55:31 ↗ I just realized this we have four life

55:32 ↗ cycles and that's what we are going to

55:34 ↗ do four tables exactly do you want to do

55:37 ↗ four table could be having somebody from

55:43 ↗ the homeless mess back there children in

56:01 ↗ youth that sounds fine adulthood and

56:04 ↗ older adults is everybody okay with that

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1:13:41 ↗ even if you didn't get to your

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1:13:44 ↗ okay why don't we go through and we'll

1:13:52 ↗ go through an order of the light cycle

1:13:54 ↗ and people give just a real brief one or

1:13:57 ↗ two minute recap of what you talked

1:13:59 ↗ about and then we'll spend a couple of

1:14:02 ↗ minutes after each briefing and other

1:14:07 ↗ people can add some comments as well

1:14:11 ↗ so let's start with children and user I

1:14:13 ↗ can't remember all right stigma and

1:14:34 ↗ resource the match of the resources and

1:14:38 ↗ whether a temple location or visibility

1:14:40 ↗ might be an issue but then we quickly

1:14:41 ↗ kind of went into discussion about the

1:14:44 ↗ demand for the resources for that are

1:14:47 ↗ available for youth far exceeding the

1:14:49 ↗ available supply and so what that causes

1:14:51 ↗ is an intervention response a kind of

1:14:53 ↗ crisis if you will response where

1:14:56 ↗ there's maybe like a big population of

1:14:58 ↗ need but only a small resource available

1:15:01 ↗ and so that becomes more of a triage

1:15:03 ↗ kind of a function and because of that

1:15:04 ↗ it may not actually match what their

1:15:07 ↗ actual needs are so you might have kind

1:15:09 ↗ of lighter forward needs that might not

1:15:13 ↗ be that might be addressed but then the

1:15:15 ↗ more serious issues might be met with

1:15:17 ↗ the lighter response if you will so

1:15:19 ↗ there there's causing a disparity there

1:15:23 ↗ that goes along with because there's so

1:15:26 ↗ much of a focus on intervention that

1:15:28 ↗ there's a lack of a focus on prevention

1:15:29 ↗ we're really trying to get at the

1:15:31 ↗ movement upstream is just like for

1:15:33 ↗ issues group also talked about similarly

1:15:37 ↗ there's lots of talk about awareness

1:15:39 ↗ building and education but it's not

1:15:41 ↗ always backed up with the resources to

1:15:43 ↗ be able to take

1:15:44 ↗ actions and then with the limited

1:15:48 ↗ resources that are available they don't

1:15:50 ↗ kind of go through this review of what's

1:15:52 ↗ one of the best practices and whether or

1:15:54 ↗ not they're evidence-based and whether

1:15:56 ↗ or not they are able to deliver on what

1:15:59 ↗ the objectives are being a little bit

1:16:02 ↗ more strategic about that we talked

1:16:04 ↗ about some ideas about having volunteer

1:16:06 ↗ resources in the schools or potentially

1:16:09 ↗ doing some work the BTSA but really

1:16:12 ↗ backing those up that kind of awareness

1:16:13 ↗ side and backing it up with resources a

1:16:16 ↗ need for more support for parents and

1:16:18 ↗ families and that when the other

1:16:20 ↗ priorities was having more of a youth

1:16:23 ↗ voice in the picture and those could

1:16:25 ↗ help drive school policies drive City

1:16:28 ↗ policies asking students rather than

1:16:31 ↗ kind of telling them here's your

1:16:32 ↗ information go take care of it on your

1:16:35 ↗ own how about the larger group or any

1:16:41 ↗ thoughts to add for that list

1:16:50 ↗ yeah that's all well it's okay I mean we

1:16:56 ↗ can we can move on to the next okay I

1:16:59 ↗ just I think your point about triage is

1:17:00 ↗ interesting because again if the

1:17:02 ↗ resources aren't there and you have a

1:17:05 ↗ higher need you're absolutely right

1:17:08 ↗ you're going to try and work with what

1:17:11 ↗ you have and try to take which ones in a

1:17:14 ↗ worse state first and that leaves a lot

1:17:16 ↗ of people that you might be able to

1:17:18 ↗ prevent unfortunately coming to the

1:17:21 ↗ floor now you like the idea like the

1:17:27 ↗ prevention and I know that like you know

1:17:29 ↗ that's very there's a lot more like

1:17:31 ↗ diversity inclusion like in the

1:17:33 ↗ workplace and stuff I don't know like

1:17:34 ↗ what kind of training we do or programs

1:17:36 ↗ we do for like diversity and inclusion

1:17:39 ↗ type of awareness word for kids and

1:17:42 ↗ youth I mean it's a big thing in the

1:17:45 ↗ workplace so it should be a big thing

1:17:47 ↗ starting when you're young right so it's

1:17:50 ↗ a good part of the anti-bullying

1:17:52 ↗ conversation

1:17:57 ↗ there is a dimension

1:18:04 ↗ okay you're up to adults already we

1:18:12 ↗ started out with the first thought was

1:18:15 ↗ that one of the big stress points for

1:18:18 ↗ adults especially those who are parents

1:18:20 ↗ is the inability to have affordable

1:18:23 ↗ childcare

1:18:24 ↗ it makes them miss work it increases

1:18:27 ↗ their stress it puts a lot of stress

1:18:29 ↗ onto children and we are one of the few

1:18:33 ↗ societies in the world that doesn't

1:18:35 ↗ provide childcare for young parents so

1:18:39 ↗ we have a long way to go there our

1:18:42 ↗ second point we had to do with language

1:18:45 ↗ all the things that we're talking about

1:18:47 ↗ from the moment that we start talking

1:18:50 ↗ about them have to be in languages that

1:18:52 ↗ people understand or we have to be

1:18:55 ↗ getting information from those

1:18:57 ↗ communities that are not speaking

1:18:58 ↗ English so the holding which question is

1:19:02 ↗ an extremely important one and basically

1:19:05 ↗ what if we moved into actually talking

1:19:10 ↗ about strategies and it was interesting

1:19:12 ↗ that okay Jason brought up what they do

1:19:16 ↗ in Israel upon where it's when you come

1:19:22 ↗ into the country

1:19:23 ↗ everybody is immediately put into an

1:19:26 ↗ immersion group and for three months

1:19:28 ↗ they're immersed in Hebrew language so

1:19:31 ↗ that there's a common language that even

1:19:34 ↗ though they may get brochures in their

1:19:36 ↗ own language and things like that

1:19:38 ↗ there's a common language that issue

1:19:40 ↗ and it's much easier to convey your

1:19:43 ↗ values and your principles and to make

1:19:46 ↗ people aware of the resources that are

1:19:48 ↗ available to them all of those things

1:19:50 ↗ can happen when there's a way to

1:19:53 ↗ communicate and everybody understands

1:19:59 ↗ Randee brought up that one of the big

1:20:03 ↗ things here is we have a lot of

1:20:05 ↗ resources for language we have free ESL

1:20:08 ↗ classes we have all kinds of things that

1:20:11 ↗ people can do to learn English so that

1:20:14 ↗ we would all share a common language but

1:20:17 ↗ so many people are not aware they don't

1:20:19 ↗ know where those languages are being

1:20:22 ↗ taught

1:20:22 ↗ they haven't been convinced that they

1:20:25 ↗ ought to try to make use of them so

1:20:28 ↗ there's a whole lot of work that still

1:20:30 ↗ needs to be done to get people to use

1:20:31 ↗ the resources that we have and then

1:20:35 ↗ thirdly we had quite a nice discussion

1:20:38 ↗ about the Seattle freeze now one of our

1:20:43 ↗ big stress espressos for adults here are

1:20:46 ↗ that we don't our neighbors we can't

1:20:49 ↗ rely on our neighbors because we don't

1:20:51 ↗ know them we don't spend time with them

1:20:54 ↗ we don't get to know them and therefore

1:20:57 ↗ we're not in support of one another so

1:21:00 ↗ we have all these people feeling

1:21:03 ↗ isolated and feeling as if they're gonna

1:21:06 ↗ they're strangers in their own community

1:21:08 ↗ they really don't know what's going on

1:21:12 ↗ that is also

1:21:19 ↗ and I think Jason brother you know we

1:21:21 ↗ have the highlands we have the people in

1:21:23 ↗ Providence point we have downtown

1:21:25 ↗ Seattle the old city I mean I guess

1:21:28 ↗ about the old city these people are

1:21:30 ↗ spread out all over with somewhat

1:21:33 ↗ different languages we're not the most

1:21:35 ↗ diverse community in the world but we're

1:21:37 ↗ pretty diverse and so we don't have that

1:21:41 ↗ concerted effort of people working

1:21:43 ↗ together to solve our problems and to

1:21:46 ↗ solve even the little local problems

1:21:48 ↗ because we each live in our own little

1:21:50 ↗ eyes we also talked about the fact that

1:22:00 ↗ Issaquah lost its medium for getting

1:22:05 ↗ people together for communicating to

1:22:08 ↗ people by losing the Asafa press and

1:22:10 ↗ because we don't have a local paper who

1:22:15 ↗ knows what's going on you might find out

1:22:18 ↗ but you might not

1:22:20 ↗ the whole notion that community needs a

1:22:24 ↗ local paper is getting to be foreign to

1:22:27 ↗ us we do most of the people that live in

1:22:31 ↗ my neighborhood do not get the Seattle

1:22:33 ↗ Times and my has been preaching all the

1:22:36 ↗ time that if you lose the Seattle Times

1:22:38 ↗ you're gonna lose the very heart of this

1:22:42 ↗ community you've got to have a local

1:22:44 ↗ newspaper to know what's going on in

1:22:46 ↗ your community so anyway we did some

1:22:48 ↗ discussion of that that the diversity

1:22:59 ↗ it's not just the distance from one side

1:23:02 ↗ of town to the other it's the fact that

1:23:04 ↗ it's hilly and so it live prevents

1:23:07 ↗ people from being able to walk around in

1:23:10 ↗ town unless you're young and active and

1:23:12 ↗ most of the young and active people seem

1:23:14 ↗ to look at the screens and they're home

1:23:16 ↗ these days instead of walking around but

1:23:17 ↗ that's a different subject but the

1:23:21 ↗ physical and/or the topographical

1:23:23 ↗ realities of Issaquah are also a factor

1:23:26 ↗ that keeps us from from communicating

1:23:29 ↗ and building the sense of true community

1:23:31 ↗ which is what we're all talking about

1:23:32 ↗ here one thing we didn't talk about that

1:23:35 ↗ that I think I don't know where they're

1:23:37 ↗ gonna have an opportunity to layer on

1:23:39 ↗ jobs are critical to the community and I

1:23:45 ↗ in the last City Council meeting I think

1:23:48 ↗ it was brought up that the city has lost

1:23:50 ↗ more more stores in the last year than

1:23:54 ↗ have opened and that is a problem we

1:23:59 ↗ don't talk about it very much that if

1:24:01 ↗ people can't get jobs at all levels

1:24:04 ↗ whether it's working at McDonald's or

1:24:07 ↗ doing a hedge fund but we're gonna be in

1:24:11 ↗ trouble when it comes to affordable

1:24:13 ↗ housing and things like that so I think

1:24:15 ↗ the city ought to do more to examine

1:24:19 ↗ that issue and come up with it and

1:24:20 ↗ that's that's a plan policy

1:24:22 ↗ Randi brought up that we have one wait

1:24:25 ↗ means of transportation in the city

1:24:27 ↗ that's free the little two hundred bus

1:24:29 ↗ that runs around if you don't have a car

1:24:40 ↗ [Applause]

1:24:42 ↗ anything else for the adulthood section

1:24:46 ↗ we traveled a lot of territory older

1:24:52 ↗ adult says that I think we had the

1:24:57 ↗ Commission or we had scheduled to 8

1:24:59 ↗ o'clock originally and so I wanted to

1:25:00 ↗ ask the group is okay if we could spend

1:25:02 ↗ another maybe 10 minutes to wrap up the

1:25:05 ↗ report out and then talk on that next

1:25:07 ↗ steps

1:25:19 ↗ you had aging adults and we talked a lot

1:25:24 ↗ about housing that's not available we

1:25:26 ↗ had really expensive housing here for

1:25:28 ↗ her aging adults but we don't really

1:25:30 ↗ have moderate cost housing affordable

1:25:34 ↗ housing purple Timber Ridge and

1:25:36 ↗ Providence are sort of super nice and a

1:25:41 ↗ little expensive but we don't have any

1:25:44 ↗ that's just for the regular fixed income

1:25:47 ↗ so we think that's an issue because they

1:25:50 ↗ don't get to have a community setting

1:25:52 ↗ they don't get to have all those

1:25:53 ↗ services right there there's just not

1:25:55 ↗ the opportunity for that it's just so

1:25:58 ↗ expensive the choices that we have here

1:26:00 ↗ but also on the other side of it there's

1:26:03 ↗ a gap in services to just agent place to

1:26:05 ↗ age in your house that you can all your

1:26:07 ↗ life with your community you know the

1:26:10 ↗ meals on wheels the medical services you

1:26:12 ↗ know it leads into access to

1:26:15 ↗ transportation if you don't have a car

1:26:16 ↗ and you're trying to age in place to

1:26:19 ↗ have things delivered to you or have a

1:26:21 ↗ system where your kids or family can

1:26:23 ↗ deliver things to you

1:26:25 ↗ transportation was another problem that

1:26:27 ↗ we talked about not only does it isolate

1:26:30 ↗ a person if they can't get out and get

1:26:32 ↗ to the Senior Center get to the doctor

1:26:34 ↗ get to wherever they need to get

1:26:36 ↗ transportation as one of us the second

1:26:39 ↗ issue that we hit and the third issue it

1:26:43 ↗ was sort of related to transportation

1:26:45 ↗ but it's just access to services some of

1:26:47 ↗ them aren't local which gets you to

1:26:50 ↗ transportation again some of them they

1:26:52 ↗ probably don't even know that there's

1:26:54 ↗ services available and so that we

1:26:56 ↗ started solving that you know how do you

1:26:57 ↗ get the folks at the Senior Center to be

1:26:59 ↗ ambassadors to other seniors to get them

1:27:01 ↗ to understand that there's all these

1:27:04 ↗ things out there that they could tap

1:27:05 ↗ into but we would have to find the

1:27:07 ↗ seniors that don't know that and are

1:27:09 ↗ isolated to help with that but so I

1:27:13 ↗ think these are access to services is

1:27:15 ↗ sort of a double prong the how do we get

1:27:18 ↗ them to know that the services are

1:27:20 ↗ available and then if the services

1:27:23 ↗ aren't local how do we find a way to get

1:27:25 ↗ them close to those services if they're

1:27:27 ↗ not easily accessible right here I know

1:27:30 ↗ we talked about we jumped right to

1:27:32 ↗ solutions as anybody else to add

1:27:42 ↗ something for aging adults

1:27:46 ↗ I well

1:27:50 ↗ Trisha it's just the question I had I

1:27:52 ↗ really like to know if people getting

1:27:56 ↗ stressed about Aging in Place or what

1:28:00 ↗ what what is it that's causing the

1:28:02 ↗ stress if you're on a fixed income if

1:28:05 ↗ you've done your job and you're on fixed

1:28:06 ↗ income is it the tax on your home that

1:28:11 ↗ is I just don't know well I don't know

1:28:18 ↗ how you address that unless we have not

1:28:21 ↗ you but how we address that unless we

1:28:23 ↗ have data and that's that's a survey I

1:28:29 ↗ mean a survey could be done for that but

1:28:32 ↗ to have it be a meaningful service

1:28:33 ↗ that's pretty expensive I mean different

1:28:40 ↗ communities because I'm you from Texas

1:28:42 ↗ in Texas property taxes are capped when

1:28:45 ↗ you turn 65 your property taxes do not

1:28:47 ↗ go up period and I just realized that

1:28:53 ↗ was not a common thing and there's not

1:28:55 ↗ that here so it should be you should be

1:29:00 ↗ able to probably find some sort of

1:29:04 ↗ comparative study of that that policy

1:29:07 ↗ and if where it does exist and where it

1:29:09 ↗ doesn't exist and how secure

1:29:14 ↗ we'll stay in there so I'm sure things

1:29:17 ↗ are different place to place but I know

1:29:19 ↗ for my own mother-in-law that perfect is

1:29:21 ↗ concerned is where health care costs

1:29:24 ↗ it's not her taxes I mean those are the

1:29:28 ↗ things that are breaking you know that

1:29:31 ↗ is hard to balance a budget and that's

1:29:32 ↗ when you can't predict what may happen

1:29:34 ↗ to you next month you know anxiety I'm

1:29:43 ↗ just gonna add also the there's talk

1:29:46 ↗ about behavioral health and mental

1:29:47 ↗ health think it's important to not

1:29:48 ↗ forget about the specific needs for

1:29:50 ↗ aging adults and seniors around mental

1:29:53 ↗ health around issues of complicated

1:29:55 ↗ grief and loss transitions end-of-life

1:29:57 ↗ issues I think sometimes get or can be

1:30:00 ↗ overlooked when you talk about broader

1:30:02 ↗ community needs for mental health

1:30:03 ↗ services I'm just kind of adding that in

1:30:08 ↗ yep I would like to just make one

1:30:12 ↗ comment that kind of underlies all of

1:30:14 ↗ this and it was in one of the comments

1:30:17 ↗ that you need presentation a healthy

1:30:23 ↗ community is the responsibility of

1:30:25 ↗ everybody in the community it's not the

1:30:27 ↗ City Council's job and it's not our

1:30:30 ↗ Commission's job and it's not any one

1:30:33 ↗ groups job but I don't see us as a city

1:30:37 ↗ ever adverting to the fact that most of

1:30:40 ↗ the people that we have in our

1:30:42 ↗ communities do not believe they believe

1:30:46 ↗ that if they can take care of their own

1:30:48 ↗ kids and their own family and they're

1:30:50 ↗ doing everything that they possibly can

1:30:52 ↗ and they're not obliged to do anything

1:30:54 ↗ more and I guess I just think the whole

1:30:56 ↗ education system and everything that we

1:31:00 ↗ do should have some aspect of helping

1:31:03 ↗ people become aware of the necessity for

1:31:06 ↗ this community responsibility

1:31:18 ↗ because of the screens because I look at

1:32:09 ↗ the city website

1:32:10 ↗ I get the you know I get it what's

1:32:12 ↗ happening look at the city define things

1:32:16 ↗ but I am unaware there something on the

1:32:20 ↗ city lists all of the free opportunities

1:32:28 ↗ for English as a Second Language

1:32:29 ↗ citizenship class opportunities to

1:32:33 ↗ volunteer not just to take the classes

1:32:35 ↗ but to volunteer I think that the one of

1:32:39 ↗ the easiest things to do to address many

1:32:42 ↗ of the problems we're discussing for

1:32:43 ↗ today would be to have a proactive very

1:32:48 ↗ easy to access site on the city that

1:32:51 ↗ lists free munication could take the

1:32:56 ↗ place of what is a court order do or try

1:32:59 ↗ to take the place you are notifying

1:33:01 ↗ mailing lists

1:33:04 ↗ on the city's website there could be one

1:33:07 ↗ for any of these so me would just once a

1:33:12 ↗ month remembered here's this website

1:33:15 ↗ where we have all of these things going

1:33:19 ↗ and the new website has a resource page

1:33:23 ↗ that will provide some of those push

1:33:26 ↗ around but yeah it's not yeah I don't

1:33:29 ↗ think that it's like it so on it and

1:33:31 ↗ then let's move on Thomas an addendum to

1:33:36 ↗ that comment of resources on the website

1:33:39 ↗ there's people that don't have computers

1:33:44 ↗ that be putting this idea to different

1:33:48 ↗ people maybe somebody will run with it

1:33:50 ↗ and yeah we need a spot in the city

1:33:55 ↗ where information can be posted and you

1:33:59 ↗ know people that can only get to there

1:34:02 ↗ at midnight or at 3:00 in the morning or

1:34:04 ↗ at 2:00 p.m. different hours of the

1:34:07 ↗ access to that information and you know

1:34:14 ↗ they can grab or they have pieces of

1:34:17 ↗ paper where they can write information

1:34:18 ↗ they mean without bead oh you're looking

1:34:21 ↗ at this information you need to help you

1:34:23 ↗ know something that people can have the

1:34:27 ↗ resources available whether if they

1:34:29 ↗ don't have a computer they don't know

1:34:31 ↗ how to use it or they have different

1:34:33 ↗ hours than 50% of the population we need

1:34:37 ↗ something because we lost a piece of

1:34:39 ↗ compressed we need something out there

1:34:41 ↗ because we're nimble I need the senior

1:34:44 ↗ what's happening

1:34:47 ↗ so people experiencing homelessness okay

1:34:54 ↗ so we didn't run meeting down the second

1:35:21 ↗ is access to services for mental health

1:35:24 ↗ and just general health care and the

1:35:29 ↗ third one is - yeah it's kind of Lord

1:35:36 ↗ has been alluded to already is just

1:35:38 ↗ creating more of a culture of awareness

1:35:40 ↗ and acknowledgment of homelessness as an

1:35:45 ↗ issue that's real in and changing the

1:35:51 ↗ vocabulary from advanced problem

1:36:02 ↗ they're like the dump the girl in your

1:36:04 ↗ daughter's classes middle school goes

1:36:07 ↗ home to a car so when we looked at those

1:36:12 ↗ three things we haven't really changed

1:36:16 ↗ the first one very easily we can't

1:36:18 ↗ change the second one very easily except

1:36:20 ↗ like maybe encouraging some more of that

1:36:23 ↗ infrastructure to come to a swap

1:36:25 ↗ we thought there was probably a good

1:36:28 ↗ opportunity to to make some inroads to

1:36:33 ↗ changing the vocabulary and by making it

1:36:36 ↗ more visible putting some nominal

1:36:38 ↗ dollars or community effort into

1:36:40 ↗ creating some community centers like at

1:36:43 ↗ the community center having open showers

1:36:46 ↗ once a week or twice a week and

1:36:52 ↗ coordinating with high school students

1:36:54 ↗ needing to do volunteer hours or

1:36:57 ↗ really

1:37:12 ↗ anything else any other comments one of

1:37:21 ↗ the great programs that Issaquah has is

1:37:24 ↗ the citizens Academy that's done by the

1:37:27 ↗ police department which I highly

1:37:29 ↗ recommend along with the cert class I

1:37:31 ↗ mean those are two amazing amazing

1:37:35 ↗ classes that that is it was departments

1:37:38 ↗ provide for citizens but in the

1:37:41 ↗ community Academy the citizens Academy

1:37:44 ↗ at the police department one of the

1:37:45 ↗ things that they noted that is congruent

1:37:48 ↗ with King County Sheriff's Department

1:37:50 ↗ and Seattle Police Department

1:37:53 ↗ is that it is policy when somebody a

1:37:56 ↗ homeless person especially if it's a

1:37:59 ↗ drug-related interaction between police

1:38:02 ↗ and the person in question they are

1:38:06 ↗ required to offer help on the first

1:38:09 ↗ contact this is you know I'm taking you

1:38:11 ↗ in you're gonna be arrested for someone

1:38:13 ↗ so and when they get in there the first

1:38:16 ↗ one of the first things they get is

1:38:18 ↗ counseling on help that is available

1:38:20 ↗ with your situation

1:38:23 ↗ whatever whatever that may be

1:38:25 ↗ and the officers told us and I have a

1:38:30 ↗ neighbor who is actually a Seattle

1:38:32 ↗ officer who is working on the navigation

1:38:34 ↗ teams in homes camps that the

1:38:36 ↗ overwhelming majority of the people that

1:38:39 ↗ are taken into custody that our homeless

1:38:43 ↗ refused the offers of health and that's

1:38:48 ↗ something that I think has to be

1:38:51 ↗ acknowledged and addressed on this level

1:38:54 ↗ because if you can have if they have all

1:38:56 ↗ the programs in the world and you're not

1:38:59 ↗ communicating the opportunity to the

1:39:01 ↗ individual in question it's there's no

1:39:04 ↗ there's no possibility of success so I

1:39:06 ↗ don't I don't know how we we got to do a

1:39:08 ↗ better job of getting people to use

1:39:11 ↗ resources that were available and one of

1:39:14 ↗ the things that we learned through that

1:39:15 ↗ outreach that I spoke to a little bit is

1:39:18 ↗ that one of the things that helps is

1:39:21 ↗ having consistent and reliable outreach

1:39:24 ↗ because it often takes multiple

1:39:26 ↗ connections to build the trust over

1:39:28 ↗ someone to accept the help

1:39:30 ↗ so something small that's reliably

1:39:34 ↗ available is better than a one time

1:39:36 ↗ flash is what we were saying and then

1:39:38 ↗ Rebecca I didn't mean to cut you off

1:39:41 ↗ every contact and building trust and

1:39:44 ↗ it's hard even if you love that habit in

1:39:47 ↗ unique trips every day whatever and like

1:39:50 ↗ that's so bad for you why don't you just

1:39:52 ↗ you know it's it's not that easy

1:39:54 ↗ it takes time and oh yeah and the other

1:40:04 ↗ thing too is identifying the different

1:40:05 ↗ types of homelessness there's certain

1:40:08 ↗ types of homelessness and are brought

1:40:09 ↗ upon by difficult circumstances there's

1:40:14 ↗ also a lot that it's done by addiction

1:40:16 ↗ I'm sure everyone's probably seen by now

1:40:17 ↗ that that documentary Seattle is dying

1:40:20 ↗ so again it's also goes to building

1:40:23 ↗ trust it also goes to not loosening up

1:40:26 ↗ the rule of law to the point where

1:40:28 ↗ people can hold three grams of dope and

1:40:31 ↗ not get in trouble I mean that basically

1:40:34 ↗ cost three grand and that's enough to

1:40:36 ↗ kill somebody three times over so

1:40:38 ↗ there's this interesting program they

1:40:40 ↗ had Rhode Island where someone who has

1:40:42 ↗ busted with illegal drugs for class one

1:40:45 ↗ felony drugs is not only would they be

1:40:48 ↗ in custody for a while but then they're

1:40:52 ↗ able to do things like there's a few

1:41:01 ↗ different type of drugs where if the

1:41:03 ↗ state will be work to be willing it

1:41:07 ↗ would allow them to slowly get off the

1:41:09 ↗ drugs and once they serve you know a

1:41:13 ↗ light sentence but it takes them off the

1:41:15 ↗ street because again you're the

1:41:16 ↗ tiny-house thing they don't want they

1:41:18 ↗ don't want the rules they don't want any

1:41:19 ↗ of

1:41:20 ↗ and that's part of it I mean I don't

1:41:21 ↗ think anybody in this room wants Seattle

1:41:23 ↗ coming to Issaquah I mean what's

1:41:26 ↗ happening in Seattle is just devastating

1:41:28 ↗ I have to drive through that city and

1:41:30 ↗ it's not the same city I remember three

1:41:32 ↗ years ago so identifying why certain

1:41:37 ↗ segments and what that percentage is of

1:41:39 ↗ homelessness what is drug-related what

1:41:42 ↗ are people that simply like you said the

1:41:45 ↗ middle schoolers are sleeping and with

1:41:47 ↗ her mom in their car I mean that's very

1:41:49 ↗ different than what's going on downtown

1:41:53 ↗ so next steps so the information that we

1:41:57 ↗ collected today and that we talked about

1:42:00 ↗ we're preparing a workshop with counsel

1:42:05 ↗ and what we like to do is present

1:42:08 ↗ similar information to counsel and we'd

1:42:12 ↗ like to get some direction from them

1:42:14 ↗ about some areas of focus within each of

1:42:18 ↗ these life cycles so we'll take the

1:42:21 ↗ conversations they have the benefit of

1:42:30 ↗ your discussion as well after the

1:42:33 ↗ council takes to look at it we're going

1:42:34 ↗ to put a we're going to do four half-day

1:42:37 ↗ staff and stakeholder workshops that's

1:42:40 ↗ where we take this information in the

1:42:43 ↗ direction from Council and we start

1:42:45 ↗ working on specific strategies that we

1:42:48 ↗ think there will have service providers

1:42:51 ↗ nonprofits members of the community

1:42:53 ↗ you're all invited to participate in

1:42:56 ↗ those workshops as well

1:42:59 ↗ so I'm sure you'll get additional

1:43:01 ↗ information from Monica or Trish about

1:43:03 ↗ that once we've done the staff and

1:43:07 ↗ stakeholder workshops we're going to

1:43:10 ↗ come back with some strategies that come

1:43:14 ↗ out of that and we're going to have

1:43:16 ↗ another workshop to help refine those

1:43:18 ↗ strategies and build the strategy of the

1:43:22 ↗ little strategies right and that's when

1:43:27 ↗ it will go to the public for review so a

1:43:31 ↗ lots going to happen as we enter this

1:43:33 ↗ part of really determining what is its

1:43:36 ↗ akua's role what can we do in the next

1:43:39 ↗ three to five years to make a difference

1:43:42 ↗ in these issues and so we started with

1:43:47 ↗ that tonight so thank you very much for

1:43:50 ↗ being a part of it and for all your

1:43:52 ↗ great conversation

1:44:00 ↗ sure but I I'm not sure close the

1:44:04 ↗ meeting time so we return

1:44:19 ↗ you

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Council / Members (4)

Brooke Fraser

Youth Representative Erika Rhett

BERK Consulting Senthil Chandran- absent, excused Torin Howard

Resident