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Fire department combines street crisis and wellness teams, seeks 14 EMTs to replace clinicians on rigs
Summary
The San Francisco Fire Department announced it will merge Street Crisis Response and Street Wellness teams into a single Street Crisis Response Team (SCRT) staffed by a community paramedic, an EMT and a peer-support specialist; behavioral health clinicians will move to follow-up teams and the department is seeking funding for 14 EMTs in this year’s budget to replace clinicians on vehicles.
The San Francisco Fire Department on March 8 told the Fire Commission it is reorganizing its field crisis response to improve efficiency and follow-up care.
Assistant Deputy Chief Simon Pang said the department has merged the Street Crisis Response Team and the Street Wellness Team into a single Street Crisis Response Team that will staff each vehicle with a community paramedic, an EMT and a peer-support specialist. "We're really doing an expansion of the city's response for people in need on the street," Pang said, adding that the change is meant to reduce siloing of…
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