SF News SF Debuts New Initiative That Connects People With Mental Health Disorders to Available Services The Office of Coordinated Care (OCC) — a brand-new program launched Friday by the City — will expand SF's mental health resources and help connect people with available services before they enter into an otherwise avoidable crisis.
SF News Second Street Crisis Response Team Will Start Responding to Non-Violent Emergency Calls in SF Next Month Following the launch of San Francisco's first non-police crisis response team in November, another unit of health care clinicians and medical professionals are expected to start addressing mental health and addiction emergency calls in the city come February 1.
SF News Non-Police ‘Street Crisis Response Team’ Launches Today in Tenderloin It’s sort of like “Care Not Cops,” as the hopefully less escalatory Street Crisis Response Team starts its Mental Health SF pilot program today for non-violent incident response.
SF Politics Scaled-Down Mental Health SF Plan Finalized, Set for Supervisors’ Approval The formerly universal mental health plan will still treat as many as 4,000 people in need, and the mayor and supervisors’ compromise version looks likely to cruise through City Hall by next week.