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Health Department and SFPD report HSOC has logged thousands of street engagements and diverted hundreds into services

San Francisco Health Commission · May 7, 2019
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Summary

DPH and partners gave an update on the Healthy Streets Operations Center (HSOC), describing a citywide coordination hub at 1011 Turk, cross-agency training, roughly 7,900 engagements to date and hundreds of diversions to services via the Community Assessment and Service Center (CASC). Commissioners asked for more housing-placement data and outcome tracking.

The Health Commission received an update on the Healthy Streets Operations Center (HSOC), a multi-agency effort based at the Emergency Operations Center (1011 Turk) to coordinate responses to unsheltered homelessness and street behaviors.

Navina Bhabha, Deputy Director of Health, said HSOC "was created to really, unify, and help us coordinate, plan, and direct the response to people who are experiencing homelessness on our streets," and described four lead agencies (DPH, Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, DEM and SFPD) and nearly a dozen partner units that participate on any given day.

Diana Oliva Arroche (DPH), who described HSOC’s goals under the acronym DIME, said the operation focuses on…

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