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In November 2004, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced the appointment of the Long Term Care Coordinating Council to provide policy guidance to the Mayor's Office. 

The Long Term Care Coordinating Council (LTCCC) is charged to: (1) advise, implement, and monitor community-based long term care planning in San Francisco; and (2) facilitate the improved coordination of home, community-based, and institutional services for older adults and adults with disabilities. It is the single body in San Francisco that evaluates all issues related to improving community-based long term care and supportive services.

The LTCCC has 41 membership slots. Membership categories were created to ensure representation from a variety of consumers, advocates, and service providers (non-profit and public). The Mayor appoints people to fill 32 slots, which represent non-profit service provider organizations, and consumers and advocates. The additional 9 slots represent City and County departments including: Human Services, Aging and Adult Services, Public Health (two slots), Mayor’s Office on Disability, Mayor’s Office of Housing, San Francisco Housing Authority, and the Municipal Railway, plus one non-voting slot to enable representation of the Mayor’s Office, which was added in October 2010.

The LTCCC evaluates how service delivery systems interact to serve people, and recommends ways to improve service coordination and system interaction. Workgroups responsible for carrying out the activities in the plan provide periodic progress reports through presentations to the LTCCC.

Members of the Long Term Care Coordinating Council

Service Provider Organizations

Well Elder Service Providers

• Sandy Mori - Kimochi
• Valorie Villela - 30th Street Senior Services
• Robert Trevorrow - San Francisco Senior Center

Health Systems and Hospitals

• Eleanor Jacobs - San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium
• Abbie Yant - Saint Francis Hospital

Long-Term Care & Supportive Service Providers

• Margaret Baran - IHSS Consortium
• Donna Calame - IHSS Public Authority
• Cindy Kauffman - Institute on Aging
• Akiko Takeshita - API Legal Outreach
• Eileen Kunz - On Lok

HIV/AIDS Services/ Systems

• Bill Hirsh - AIDS Legal Referral Panel & CADA
• Steve Manley - HIV/AIDS Health Services Planning Council

Developmental Disabilities Services/Systems

• Sarah Burgett - Toolworks

Behavioral Health Services/Systems

• Steve Fields - Progress Foundation

Other Disability Services/Systems

• Margaret Miller - Hearing Society

Consumers and Advocates

Consumers & Advocates: Adults with Disabilities

• VACANT
• Jennifer Walsh
• Herb Levine - Independent Living Resource Center
• Patricia Webb
• Abby Kovalsky

Consumers & Caregivers: Older Adults

• VACANT
• Vera Haile
• Marcia Peterzell
• Alberto Abella
• Moli Steinert - Stepping Stone

Transitional Age Youth

• Juno Duenas - Support for Families of Children With Disabilities

At Large

• Susan Poor - Health Policy & Home and Community-Based Services Specialist

Labor

• Tom Ryan - San Francisco Labor Council
• Rebecca Malberg - SEIU - UHW

Consumer Advocates/Organizations

• Cathy Davis - Bayview Hunters Point Adult Day Health
• Benson Nadell - Family Service Agency of SF & Long Term Care Ombudsman
• Marie Jobling - Community Living Campaign

City and County Departments

• Department of Human Services - Phil Arnold
• Department of Aging and Adult Services - Anne Hinton
• Department of Public Health - Kelly Hiramoto & Mivic Hirose
• Mayor's Office on Disability - Ken Stein
• Mayor's Office of Housing - Anne Romero
• San Francisco Housing Authority - VACANT
• Municipal Railway - Kate Toran
• Mayor's Office - VACANT