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DPH outlines coordinated street care model, cites tens of thousands of encounters and plans to scale data integration
Summary
San Francisco Department of Public Health told the Health Commission it logged more than 23,000 street-team encounters in 2023 and described an integrated approach linking outreach, street medicine, post-overdose engagement (POET) and BEST Neighborhoods to move people toward shelter, treatment and housing.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health on April 16 told the Health Commission that city'wide street care teams have expanded coordinated outreach and clinical services to people experiencing homelessness and behavioral-health crises, and that those teams logged more than 23,000 encounters in 2023.
Dara Patho, director of Whole Person Integrated Care, and Kathleen Johnson Silk, program manager for BEST Neighborhoods, described a multiagency response that includes the street crisis response team (SCRT), street overdose response, the post-overdose engagement team (POET), street medicine, HSOC and the Office of Coordinated Care. "We are part of a cross-city effort to really work instead of in silos and wrap around people as whole people," Johnson Silk said.
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