SF News SoMa Residents Demand More Housing, Redistribution of Shelters to Other Neighborhoods Residents filed a civil rights complaint, alleging the city treats western SoMa as a “containment zone” for poverty despite recent legislation, and they’re asking the state to decertify Lurie's upzoning plan.
SF News Jackie Fielder to Take Leave of Absence, Citing Mental Health, Doesn’t Intend to Resign Before deciding her next steps, District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder announced Sunday she’s taking time off as she manages her mental health, but she aims to stay in office. Her staff will handle operations in her absence, and her fellow supervisors said they’ll lend their support.
SF News Oakland Nonprofit Debuts Mobile Clinic for Exploited Youth, Hosts Town Hall With Local Leaders Dream Youth Clinic in Oakland launched a mobile clinic offering free reproductive health services to teens and young women who've experienced sex trafficking, and it also recently hosted a first-ever town hall providing a forum for girls to speak directly to local leaders.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Seeks New State Legislation for Court-Ordered Mental Health Medication San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and Assemblymember Catherine Stefani announced a new state bill Monday, authored by Stefani, that would allow judges to order involuntary mental-health medication in some circumstances.
SF News Saturday Links: Garbage Strike Ends With Tentative Deal, Pickup Set to Resume Saturday SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto denied DOJ's request to hand over a list of noncitizen inmates; a driver in LA crashed into a crowd early Saturday, injuring over 30 people; and trash pickup will resume this weekend as the strike has ended with a tentative deal.
SF News Newsom to Set Strict Staffing Rules at For-Profit Mental Hospitals After Reporters Exposed Conditions A series of recent press exposés showed California’s for-profit mental health hospitals have way lower staffing than their nonprofit counterparts, so now Governor Newsom is pushing an emergency order forcing the for-profits to beef up their staffs.
SF News New Investigation Into Teen Found Dead In SF Driveway Paints Damning Picture of For-Profit Mental Health System Before Jázmin Pellegrini was found dead in an Oceanview driveway last year, she’d been through the ringer of dozens of hospitalizations, discharges, and drug regimens at for-profit health facilities that made a litany of highly questionable decisions.
SF News Gavin Newsom Throwing Around That $6 Billion Mental Health Bond Money Early After his $6.4 billion mental health bond measure just barely squeaked by with voters in March, Governor Newsom will begin disbursing half of it on July 1, and has combative words to the effect that counties better jump on it fast.
SF News North Bay School Gymnasium Evacuated After Naked, Bloodied Woman Walks In A woman experiencing a mental health crisis who wandered into a high school gymnasium in Petaluma on Tuesday had apparently suffered self-inflicted wounds after exiting her house through a window.
SF News Berkeley Mother Allegedly Stabbed and Killed by Her Own Daughter While Daughter Was Having Mental Health Episode A 60-year-old Berkeley woman was stabbed and killed Sunday afternoon in her University Avenue apartment, and her 23-year old daughter who reportedly has mental health issues is in custody on murder charges.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom on a Blitz Pushing Prop 1, a Statewide $6.4B Mental Health Bond Remember Gavin’s Newsom’s old “Care Not Cash” phrase? He’s dusting off that rhetoric with the new phrase “Treatment Not Tents,” in hopes of pushing California voters to pass his $6.38 billion mental health bond.
SF News Marin Woman Allegedly Kills Mother, Broadcasts Murder on Facebook Live A 28-year-old woman in San Rafael was arrested Monday after allegedly stabbing her mother to death while on Facebook Live, in the midst of what appears to have been a mental health crisis.
SF Politics San Francisco to Begin Compelling More People Into Mental Health Treatment January 1; Newsom Slams Counties That Are Delaying California's new conservatorship law, which expands the pool of potential candidates who can be involuntarily compelled into mental-health or substance-abuse treatment, takes effect January 1, and San Francisco is one of the counties opting to implement it right away.
SF News Newsom’s CARE Court Deadline Looms October 1, But SF Lacks the Beds And Staff to Enforce It Gavin Newsom’s state-mandated CARE Court system is supposed to take effect October 1, but San Francisco doesn’t have the facilities or the staff to make it work, if it works in the first place anyway.
SF News Newsom Unveils $4.7 Billion ‘Master Plan’ to Treat Mental Health Among Young People With a statewide youth suicide rate that’s spiked by 20% during the pandemic, Newsom a announced a new plan Thursday to double the number of school counselors in the state, and add 40,000 more behavioral health professionals.
SF News Oakland Man Causes Panic at Las Vegas Airport Amid Apparent Mental Health Episode A 33-year-old Oakland man who reportedly really wanted to go home and get the eff out of Vegas was arrested twice last weekend at Harry Reid International Airport for causing disturbances that police compared to terrorism.
SF News Oakland Pivots Certain 911 Calls to Mental Health Crews, Helping Better Address Non-Violent Emergencies Launched this month, Oakland's MACRO program has responded to specific 911 calls related to non-violent emergencies — like mental health issues, wellness checks, and panhandling — helping to de-escalate particular crises without the need for police.
SF News City Scoops Up More Houses for Use as Residential Mental Health Treatment Centers Two homes on Florida Street and Dore Street are the latest pieces to Mayor Breed’s plan to add 400 treatment beds, in the form of “cooperative housing.”
Business & Tech Prince Harry Takes Job With SF-Based Mental Health Startup In addition to their Netflix and Spotify money, Harry and Meghan will have another income source in the form of a job that the self-exiled Duke of Sussex has just taken with the San Francisco-based startup BetterUp.
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 Supervisors and Mayor at Odds Over Dueling Mental Health Plans After Supervisors Haney and Ronen introduced their sweeping Mental Health SF initiative, Mayor Breed counters with her own Urgent Care SF plan, which is ironically the less urgent of the two.
SF Politics Supes Haney And Ronen Unveil Sweeping Mental Health Bill, Mayor Is Quick To Oppose It Mayor Breed comes out swinging against the scaled-down compromise bill, because people with health insurance could qualify for taxpayer-funded care.
SF News SF's Largest Mental Health Facility? It's The County Jail, Claims Report "Most of the patients I see as a psychiatry resident at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital are very ill," Alison Hwong, a psychiatrist in her residency at UCSF, writes in an op-ed
SF News Inspired By Spate Of Palo Alto Deaths, Facebook Makes Suicide Prevention Tools Available To All Users Some cries for help are clearer than others, and sometimes there are no cries to be heard at all, but even when a so-called "red flag" is (metaphorically) held aloft by someone contemplating
SF News San Francisco Sues Nevada For Being A Horrible Neighbor After news broke earlier this year that a psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas was loading mental patients on Greyhound buses and shipping them out of the state to San Francisco and L.A.
