Dueling mental health reform plans emerge, as workers and patients claim victory at Behavioral Health Center
Political brawl between mayor’s ‘UrgentCareSF’ ballot measure and Supervisors Hillary...
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Dysfunctional, failing Behavioral Health Center feels like a microcosm of all San Francisco
Barring unforeseen lunacy, Tuesday’s Health Commission meeting will feature a discussion of the...
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Plan to transfer permanent housing at Behavioral Health Center into temporary shelter is ‘paused’
In a late Friday afternoon announcement, the Department of Public Health affirmed it has...
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Focusing on prevention: Zak Williams talks about supes’ mental health overhaul
At first glance, it’s hard to imagine what would bring two San Francisco supervisors and the son of the late Robin Williams onto the same stage on a chilly Wednesday night. But Supervisor Hillary Ronen, Supervisor Matt Haney, and Zak Williams stopped by Manny’s on 16th and Valencia to talk about something that touches many of our lives, and theirs more than most: mental health.
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Compromise reached to save Adult Residential Facility, which mayor and Health Department had moved to gut
The 55-bed Adult Residential Facility — which had been willfully kept largely empty for months,...
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Discord in SF City Hall over ambitious mental health system overhaul
Like the boulders of Clinton Park being rolled off the sidewalk, put back on, taken off again — and now perhaps replaced with bigger boulders — the political tug-of-war between a faction of the Board of Supervisors and Mayor London Breed over reforming San Francisco’s mental health system draws on, as people continue to suffer on the street.
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Breaking: SF Health Dept. allowed mental patient to skip waitlist for psych facility — solely to avoid legal scrutiny
Another troubling development at the city’s Behavioral Health Center Under oath, a...
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SF Health Department chose to deny services to the mentally ill. This was a management decision. Fixing it can be, too.
Lorraine, who is 80, was apparently given two choices: Leave the Bernal Heights board-and-care...
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Fiasco: Behind the mayor and Department of Public Health’s alarming decision to repurpose permanent housing into temporary shelter
Doing away with housing to increase Navigation Center shelter capacity is a move bordering on self-parody.
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SF General Hospital to House New Navigation Center For Mentally Ill, Substance Abusers
A fifth Navigation Center for the homeless, with a focus on helping those with mental illness and...
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Unaccompanied Minors Talk Trauma at the Mission Neighborhood Health Center
As a long time clinician at the Mission Neighborhood Health Center, Manuel Arredondo began to...
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Walden House Relocates as HealthRIGHT 360 Consolidates
The service center known as Walden House, which provides support to parolees, GED candidates, and...
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Fight Brewing Over Proposed Health Center Closure
In what is being described as the beginning of a long fight, members of Southeast Mission...
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Mental Health Battle On
“The more you get to know someone, the more you don’t look at them and think, ‘The police arrested you naked and defecating in the middle of the street.'” says Walter Glaser, an employment specialist at UC Citywide Community Case Management.”He pauses. “Really, do any of us want to be remembered at our worst moment?” En Español
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With yet another board-and-care facility facing imminent closure, rooms sit unused while homeless crisis rages
“That’s my husband there,” says Dellie Punla, with a subtle nod of her head. Eyes turn toward the...
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More than a dozen chronic mentally ill residents in limbo, as South Van Ness Manor facility set to close Nov. 30
A 21-room board-and-care facility housed in a gargantuan Victorian home on South Van Ness Avenue...
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Gray Area Grand Theater: Negativland with Live Cinema by SUE-C
September 17 @ 8:00 pm - 11:30 pm
