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sail area that medical, that the mental health services that are to be provided will be provided through the john hale Medical Society, which is the local branch of the National Medical Association. We received this grant for approximately, it's about $880,000. Uh, it was approved in Washington

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three years ago but was not funded. It was approved in Washington two years ago and was not funded. It was approved last year and was in funded. And at long, long last the money has come down from the National Institutes of Mental Health. And uh, we

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are about to start a comprehensive mental health program out there in the Bayview Hunters Point area. But the important thing about this is, and what makes it so unique. This is the first time that a health department has gone to a minority medical group and said

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to them, we want to contract with you to provide these services and to see that they're brought in there to the community people we have no breakdown would eventually