During ongoing downpour, half of rainy day emergency homeless shelter spaces are going unused
Though just 26, R.K. Johnson has seen a lot. When we queried what “R.K.” stands for, she...
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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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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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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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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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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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Everybody must get stoned: Clinton Park boulders are San Francisco’s clumsiest metaphor
Little-known fact: Stonehenge was actually installed when a group of Neolithic Briton homeowners...
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Housed and unhoused agree: Anti-homeless boulders won’t work
The arrival of twp dozen anti-homeless boulders on Clinton Park, a quaint residential street near Market and Dolores at the cusp of the Mission, has been met with varying degrees of outrage and acceptance in recent days. Yet the question remains: Do these rocks actually deter homeless encampments? Or are they simply a symbol of anti-homeless meanness?
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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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The Mission’s ‘Sunset Idea House’ is now a squatters’ palace
‘Homeless Johnny Depp’ and a ‘six-star admiral’ highlight the strange and...
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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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‘Those Who Wander’ explores the world of ‘Lost Street Kids’
‘Those Who Wander’ begins with a grisly murder, but expands into the lives of...
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Nurses, mental health workers storm Health Commission meeting, shut it down
You can say this about the nurses staffing the imperiled Adult Rehabilitation Facility on the...
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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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SF officials willfully kept 45 beds to house mentally ill empty — but falsely told staff it was because they were ‘on probation’
Licensing body confirms SFGH housing facilities for the mentally ill — with 45 beds left empty and...
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