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Mayor urges Board to move on conservatorship and backs more behavioral health beds
Summary
Mayor London Breed urged the Board of Supervisors to adopt proposed conservatorship legislation and highlighted recent city investments in behavioral health beds and services, saying new laws and more residential beds are needed to help people with serious mental illness and substance use disorder.
Mayor London Breed used her five‑minute appearance at the Board of Supervisors on May 14 to press supervisors to advance legislation to expand conservatorship for people with severe mental illness and substance use disorder.
“We have to make changes now if we want to change what we're dealing with in San Francisco,” Breed told the Board. She said the city, working with Supervisor Rafael Mandelmann and other cosponsors, had proposed legislation that followed state action and would “bring care to those our current…
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