August 10, 2005 Agenda for Community Outreach & Advocacy Committee Meeting

HIV Health Services Planning Council
www.sfcarecouncil.org
Community Outreach & Advocacy Committee
Transgender Community Meeting Agenda
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Walden House
1885 Mission St.
5:30-7:15 p.m.

Community Outreach & Advocacy Committee Mission Statement: To ensure that the voice of the community and consumers are part of the work of the Council. The committee will ensure that consumers and other community members have the opportunity to give input to the Council, be educated on the issues that affect the HIV/AIDS community, and are empowered to be a voice for the needs of the HIV/AIDS community that can affect positive change and ensure public policies that enhance the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS.


Item	Presenter	Time

1. Greeting & Refreshments	Council Members	5:30
2. Welcome & Introductions	Committee Co-chairs Wilfredo Ortiz & Kim Pickens	5:40
3. Open Discussion	Kim Pickens	5:45
An open discussion on HIV services, upcoming changes in services and client needs, particularly those of the Transgender community.
4. Explanation of Community Outreach & Advocacy Committee and the HIV Health Services Planning Council	Wilfredo Ortiz & Richard Bargetto	6:45
Basic explanation of purpose to this committee, our working groups and the Advocacy Project. Short explanation of the reasons why the Council exists and what we do.
5. Future HIV Services Funding	Lara Sallee	6:55
Explain CARE Act reauthorization process. Where we are.
6. Practical Tips for Advocacy: Let's Write our Congressional Representative	Kim Pickens & Jack Newby	7:05
7. Thank You- Evaluation	Kim Pickens	7:15
Thank members of the community for attending and encourage their future participation in our community processes (attending Council meetings, Council membership and/or other HIV advocacy).
Mission Statement: To ensure that the voice of the community and consumers are part of the work of the Council. The committee will ensure that consumers and other community members have the opportunity to give input to the Council, be educated on the issues that affect the HIV/AIDS community, and are empowered to be a voice for the needs of the HIV/AIDS community that can affect positive change and ensure public policies that enhance the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS. Note: Agenda items are subject to change, postponement, or removal. Meeting agendas are considered to be in DRAFT form until reviewed and approved by Committee attendees. HIV Health Services Planning Council 730 Polk Street San Francisco, CA 94109 ***************************** San Francisco Department of Public Health, AIDS Office 25 Van Ness Avenue, 5th floor, San Francisco, CA 94102 The Mayor's Conference Room is wheelchair accessible. The closest accessible BART Station is Civic Center, three blocks from City Hall. Accessible MUNI lines serving this location are: #47 Van Ness, and the #71 Haight/Noriega and the F Line to Market and Van Ness and the Metro stations at Van Ness and Market and at Civic Center. For more information about MUNI accessible services, call 923-6142. There is accessible parking in the vicinity of City Hall at Civic Center Plaza and adjacent to Davies Hall and the War Memorial Complex. The following services are available when requested by Noon of the Friday before the Council meeting: For American Sign Language interpreters, use of a reader during a meeting, or sound enhancement system, contact Leah Crask at (415) 674-4768. For a large print copy of agenda or minutes in alternative formats, contact Leah Crask at (415) 674-4768. In order to accommodate persons with severe allergies, environmental illness, multiple chemical sensitivity or related disabilities, attendees at public meetings are reminded that other attendees may be sensitive to various chemical based products. Know Your Rights Under the Sunshine Ordinance Government's duty is to serve the public, reaching its decisions in full view of the public. Commissions, boards, councils and other agencies of the City and County exist to conduct the people's business. The Sunshine Ordinance assures that deliberations are conducted before the people and that City operations are open to the people's review. For information on your rights under the Sunshine Ordinance (Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code) or to report a violation of the ordinance, contact Donna Hall; by mail to Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 409, by phone at (415) 554-7724, by fax at (415) 554-7854 or by email at Donna.Hall@sfgov.org Citizens may obtain a free copy of the Sunshine Ordinance by contacting Ms. Hall or by printing Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code on the Internet, at http://www.sfgov.org/bdsupvrs/sunshine.htm The Planning Council has several standing Committees where Council business and creation of motions for full-Council action occur, and members of the public are urged to attend. Council procedures do not permit: 1) persons in the audience at Council meeting to vocally express support or opposition to statements by Council members or by other persons testifying, outside of public comment; 2) ringing and use of cell phones, pagers, and similar sound-producing electronic devices; 3) signs to be brought into the meeting or displayed in the room; 4) standing in the meeting room. Citizens are encouraged to testify at Committee meetings and to write letters to the co-chairs of a Committee or to Council members, c/o HIV Health Services Planning Council, 730 Polk Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94109. Agendas are available on the Internet at http://www.dph.sf.ca.us/Meetings/meetings.htm. THE AGENDA PACKET IS AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW AT HIV Health Services Planning Council, 730 Polk Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94109 RECEPTION DESK.