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Health Commission hears expanded behavioral health plan: 100 hires, new office of coordinated care, SCRT and overdose interventions
Summary
DPH leaders told the Health Commission they have hired roughly 100 behavioral health workers under the Tenderloin emergency declaration, launched the Office of Coordinated Care and expanded the Street Crisis Response Team to six citywide teams, and are using SAMHSA funds and new pharmacy capacity to scale overdose prevention and treatment access.
Department of Public Health leaders presented a broad update on behavioral health programs and the city’s overdose prevention strategy, highlighting accelerated hiring, new care coordination structures and community‑facing crisis response teams.
Dr. Hillary Conins, director of Behavioral Health Services/Mental Health SF, said behavioral health services treated roughly 20,000 people in fiscal year 2021 and provided prevention and early‑intervention services to more than 20,000 people. She said the Tenderloin emergency declaration has permitted expedited hiring: the department has onboarded about 100 behavioral health staff and aims to hire 200 total under the emergency authorization that shortens some civil‑service constraints.
Conins described the…
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