PRC"s Behavioral Health Treatment Continuum serves vulnerable adults in San Francisco struggling with cyclical poverty and health conditions including HIV/AIDS, substance use, and mental health disorders. PRC offers crisis-level, medium-term, and long-term support for populations that are the hardest to engage in care, including individuals experiencing or at-risk for homelessness, LGBTQ+ individuals, and people of color.
PRC is committed to social and racial equity and reaches five times as many African Americans and nearly twice as many Latinos as represented in the general population. The agency reaches 25% African American/Black (compared to 6% of the city), 23% LGBTQ+, and 3% transgender/gender non-conforming individuals.
PRC"s Behavioral Health Treatment Continuum of Care offers:
- Crisis-Level Services: 2 enhanced shelter psychiatric respite facilities that transition chronically homeless clients to treatment; 1 short-term, medically-managed detoxification program, 1 60-day mental health stabilization facility
- Medium-Term Recovery: 2 90-day, substance use treatment facilities with LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS competencies, 4 90-day mental health treatment facilities
- Long-Term Support: 2 case-managed supportive living programs; 1 permanent housing facility with mental health treatment
- Wraparound support including emergency financial assistance, legal advocacy, and workforce development
The goals of PRC's Behavioral Health Treatment Continuum of Care are to reduce untreated behavioral health disorders among poverty-level San Franciscans, reduce homelessness, and increase public health. Between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023, PRC's objective is that 60% of behavioral health treatment clients will complete their treatment plans or transfer to another level of care. PRC will serve 800 individuals with behavioral health services during the one-year grant period.