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File #: 2025-5297   
Type: Regular Agenda Item
Body: Social Service Human Relations Board
On agenda: 8/27/2025
Title: Discuss and Review Social Service Human Relations Board Workgroup Report Outs

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Discuss and Review Social Service Human Relations Board Workgroup Report Outs

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To: Honorable President Scott Means and Members of the Social Service Human Relations Board

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The purpose of the Social Service Human Relations Board (SSHRB) is to assess and report to the City Council the social service needs of the people of Alameda and to encourage the formation of private social welfare organizations to serve those unmet needs.

 

BACKGROUND

SSHRB continues to oversee and comment on City programs, sponsor community events and engagement initiatives to raise awareness and strategize to bring community members together. This item is a regularly occurring agenda item to discuss Workgroup Report Outs for SSHRB.

 

DISCUSSION

Currently, SSHRB has three workgroups:

 

1.                     The Road Home/People Experiencing Homelessness (Means/Green/Buchholz)

                     Updates on the Road Home progress and age-friendly cities initiative.

 

2.                     Human Relations/Alamedans United Against Hate (Yamashiro-Omi/Bryant)

                     Updates on future initiatives, communication with organizations, and City-wide collaboration.

 

3.                     Domestic Violence Task Force (Wolf)

                     Updates on domestic violence initiatives and progress on the biannual task force meeting.

 

RECOMMENDATION

Staff recommends that the Board share and discuss SSHRB Workgroup Report Outs.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Andre Fairley, HHS Management Analyst